The team approach is not unique or new to the discipline of human communication sciences and disorders. Models for teaming and the dimensions for team effectiveness have been in place for many years; they derive from the human relations model of management. This article presents two perspectives on team approaches; one from health care, the other from education. Team approaches are defined, ben...

BACKGROUND Working and learning go hand in hand during interprofessional collaborative practice. Patients' nursing records are designed to record patient care and health status. It is not known whether these records are also used to keep track of interprofessional contacts or interprofessional learning between team members. This study explored the usefulness of patients' nursing records in opti...

The software development team is a key factor in software projects, however, achieving and maintaining positive team dynamics in software development project especially when the software companies have fewer resources in term of people, money and time is a remarkable challenge. This paper explores the dynamics of software development teams (structure, process, communication, learning and sharin...

We address the problem of classifying multiword expression tokens in running text. We focus our study on Verb-Noun Constructions (VNC) that vary in their idiomaticity depending on context. VNC tokens are classified as either idiomatic or literal. We present a supervised learning approach to the problem. We experiment with different features. Our approach yields the best results to date on MWE c...

BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary team working could facilitate the efficient provision and coordination of increasingly diverse health services, thereby improving the quality of patient care. The purpose of this study was to describe knowledge of interdisciplinary team working among obstetricians and gynecologists in two teaching hospitals in South East Nigeria and to determine their attitude towar...