Canadian nurse and educator Beth Perry portrays inspiring stories of exemplary nursing that are based on her study of the beliefs, actions and interactions of a group of oncology nurses. Perry interweaves stories, her field notes and poetry in a way that many nurses in the UK will recognise and find familiar. She shares her own stories and is open about her feelings.

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...

The Internet contains many HIV/AIDS data visualizations, and many sites where users can post personal stories about HIV/AIDS, but features no resources that display stories in the context of data. In an effort to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and decrease stigma, this visualization provides an integrated view of HIV/AIDS data and stories from the individuals behind the numbers. Author

Assuming that the system documentation produced by the Extreme Programming (XP) process is the actual code, we propose to enrich this documentation by aggregating the user stories (system requirements) to the final product, the code. In XP system requirements are elicited from clients using a template named user story cards that are further discarded. By simply annexing the user stories as they...

selecting the pathway include a measure of the adherence to the user-specified part of the document space and the mutual information between adjacent documents calculated from their annotations.

While navigation instructions in terms of turn instructions and distances are suitable for guiding drivers on roads, a different context of use like pedestrian navigation requires extended routing data and algorithms as well as adapted presentation forms to be effective. In our work we study alternative forms of navigation instructions for pedestrians in city environments. In this paper we expl...

Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1, 56–63 doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.1; published online 9 February 2010 Reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds y Rocks and winds, germs and words, are...

Stories, and especially their resolutions are sedimented within a web of belief and value specific to a particular culture. The traditions or shared understandings of a culture are communicated intergenerationally through shared social practice, and especially through language. They suggest paradigmatic dilemmas, and offer solutions drawing upon the prevailing cultural beliefs and meanings. One...