BACKGROUND Reflective practices have been advocated as a method to bridge the gap between nursing theory and practice, and as a tool to develop knowledge embedded in practice. AIM The aim of this study was to examine the perceptions of student nurses towards reflective practice in their clinical practice. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive survey was carried out to examine the perception...

This research aims to study celebrity endorsement in the context of social media when done by sports celebrities and its influence on purchase intention. Four dimensions have been studied: word mouth, brand image, trust, attitude. By relating these variables, we seek answer following questions: Will consumers be influenced a that they admire buy product/service from support? brand’s components ...

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University is a five-year medical school where the major emphasis is to train physician investigators. In this article we describe our experience with reflective writing in our competency-based medical school, which has reflective practice as one of the nine core competencies. We outline how we use reflective writing as a w...

Identifying the effects of political endorsements has historically been difficult. Before the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, Barack Obama was endorsed by talk show host Oprah Winfrey. In this article, we assess the impact of this endorsement using, as measures of Winfrey s influence, subscriptions to her magazine and sales of books she recommends. We find that her endorsement increased O...

Some social networks, such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate, allow user endorsements for specific skills. In this way, for each skill we get a directed graph where the nodes correspond to users’ profiles and the arcs represent endorsement relations. From the number and quality of the endorsements received, an authority score can be assigned to each profile. In this paper we propose an authority sco...

This paper describes a plan-recognition program built to explore the theory of endorsements (Cohen, 1983). The program evaluates alternative interpretations of user actions and reasons about which are the most likely explanation of the user's intentions. Uncertainty about the various alternatives was encoded in data structures called endorsements. The paper describes the workings of this progra...

In the early 1990’s, it was challenging to fit designs onto the small FPGAs of the day, and several research groups [(Bhat 1993), (DeHon 1995), (Tau 1995)] were exploring rapid reconfiguration capability. The reconfigurable mesh model, which was proposed in the 1980’s offered a theoretical view, but no architectural mechanisms to support it. While the community was debating dynamic reconfigurat...

From voting fraud to Russian interference, electoral conspiracy theories have circulated on social media since the 2016 United States presidential election with alarming magnitude. Previous studies primarily focused psychological causes that contribute mentality, and discussion political antecedents of endorsement remains lacking. This study selects popular conspiracies reflecting various ideol...