BACKGROUND Hearing impairment is one of the most frequent chronic conditions. Persons with a hearing impairment (PHI) have various experiences during their 'journey' through hearing loss. In our previous studies we have developed a 'patient journey' model of PHI and their communication partners (CPs). We suggest this model could be useful in internet-based pre-fitting counseling of a person wit...

In the 6th Century BCE the Chinese philosopher Laozi (Lao Tzu) wrote in the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The first step of the journey upon which Pulmonary Circulation is now embarked was taken this past March, with the publication of Volume 1, Number 1, and the present issue is our second step. Where will this journey lead? Inevitably, as...

An offer of an executive-level promotion is not without risk. The transition to an effective executive is a continual journey, not a destination. Designing a roadmap with effective skills and strategies will help make your professional and personal life journey more rewarding and successful.

Neurons in the rat hippocampus signal current location by firing in restricted areas called place fields. During goal-directed tasks in mazes, place fields can also encode past and future positions through journey-dependent activity, which could guide hippocampus-dependent behavior and underlie other temporally extended memories, such as autobiographical recollections. The relevance of journey-...

OBJECTIVE To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use Violence and Journey metaphors when writing online; and to investigate the use of these metaphors by patients with cancer, in view of critiques of war-related metaphors for cancer and the adoption of the notion of the 'cancer journey' in UK policy documents. DESIGN Computer-assisted quantitative ...