PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explain the role transition process to nurse case managers (NCMs) for Medical-aid beneficiaries in Korea. METHODS Fourteen NCMs were interviewed regarding their experiences of becoming proficient in the new role of case manger. Data were analyzed through the application of grounded theory. RESULTS 'Taking root in a barren land' was the core category ...

This paper is written with two main aims: first, to justify the use of grounded theory (GT) as a data analysis method in a manner compatible with the case study strategy, by using Straussian GT in this integration. The need for this integration is vital, as no conceptual research specifies how grounded theory can be used as a method within an interpretive case study strategy in order to define ...

Novice qualitative researchers are often unsure regarding the analysis of their data and, where grounded theory is chosen, they may be uncertain regarding the differences that now exist between the approaches of Glaser and Strauss, who together first described the method. These two approaches are compared in relation to roots and divergences, role of induction, deduction and verification, ways ...

The aim of this study is to generate a grounded theory explaining patterns of behavior among health care professionals (HCPs) during interactions with patients in outpatient respiratory medical clinics. The findings suggest that the HCPs managed contradictory expectations to the interaction by maintaining a distinction between possible and impossible topics to counseling. Three subcategories ex...

Using Sentence Context and Implicit Contrast to Learn Sensor-Grounded Meanings for Relational and Deictic Words: The TWIG System

nowadays, environment-sensitive smart drug delivery systems have found diverse applications in pharmaceutical science and technology. these systems can respond to the environment stimuli such as temperature, pressure, ph, light, electrical and magnetical fields and etc. they can release the proper amount of drug in human body. among these systems, special attention and much research works have ...

In this paper we present a cognitively inspired system for the representation of conceptual information in an ontology-based environment. It builds on the heterogeneous notion of concepts in Cognitive Science and on the so-called dual process theories of reasoning and rationality, and it provides a twofold view on the same artificial concept, combining a classical symbolic component (grounded o...

We present a trainable, visually-grounded, spoken language understanding system. The system acquires a grammar and vocabulary from a “show-and-tell” procedure in which visual scenes are paired with verbal descriptions. The system is embodied in a table-top mounted active vision platform. During training, a set of objects is placed in front of the vision system. Using a laser pointer, the system...