BACKGROUND Medical students and doctors are becoming better prepared to care for patients with palliative care needs and support patients at the end of life. This preparation needs to start at medical school. OBJECTIVE To assess how medical students learn about death, dying and palliative care during a clinical placement using reflective essays and to provide insights to improve medical educa...

BACKGROUND In order to meet the challenges of caring for an injured person, caregivers need access to health information. However, caregivers often feel that they lack adequate information. Previous studies of caregivers have primarily focused on either their time and emotional burdens or their health outcomes, but the information needs of caregivers have not been thoroughly investigated. OBJ...

Background Nepal is representative of Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) with limited availability of mental health services in rural areas, in which the majority of the population resides. Methods This formative qualitative study explores resources, challenges, and potential barriers to the development and implementation of evidence-based Comprehensive Community-based Mental Health Servi...

During the past decades, construction and demolition (C&D) waste issues have received increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers around the world. A plethora of research relating to C&D waste management (WM) has been published in scholarly journals. However, a comprehensive understanding of the C&D WM research is somehow absent in spite of its proliferation. The aim of this pa...

Amultitude of calculi for qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR) has been proposed during the last two decades. The number of practical applications that make use of QSR techniques is, however, comparatively small. One reason for this may be seen in the difficulty for people from outside the field to incorporate the required reasoning techniques into their software. Sometimes, proposed calculi are...

One of the central motivations for developing qualitative reasoning was the investigation of a “naïve physics“, with the aim to describe the physical world with human “everyday” concepts. This implies the idea that a formal description alone is not sufficient – it should take into account relevant findings from Cognitive Science about human concepts. In this article we (i) present main findings...

Qualitative spatial relations have been argued to play an important role in the interpretation and analysis of sketch maps as typically only rough qualitative categories are preserved in these kinds of externalized spatial representations. In this paper, we look at processing sketch maps from a qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR) perspective. In particular in focus is the matching problem of fi...

We evaluated a new simplified quantitative method (Tandem Icon QSR; Hybritech) for choriogonadotropin (hCG), which could theoretically be performed in a ward or with outpatients. The method was compared with immunoradiometric (Bioclone Australia), chemiluminescent (Amerlite; Amersham), and immunoenzymometric assays (Stratus; Dade). We analyzed by each of the methods 104 serum samples from pregn...