Involvement of medical technologies in healthcare encounters calls for a critical analysis of the communicative expertise of healthcare personnel dealing with the technology while communicating with patients. This paper explores how a discourse analytic approach, activity analysis, is fruitful when identifying what characterizes human interaction involving medical technologies. The paper sugges...

Prunus armeniaca L., apricot, is a member of family Rosaceae bears deciduous tree [1]. Still its origin is unclear among the researchers. In olden times it was known in America, then started to cultivate [2]. It is assumed that it may have originated in Northeastern China close to the Russian border. According to Morikian ES [3] it was known to Armenians which is supported by the discovery of i...

“Mindfulness meditation,” often recommended as an antidote to the stress and pain of chronic disease, is a practice designed to focus one’s attention intensely on the moment, noting thoughts and feelings as they occur but refraining from judging or acting on those thoughts and feelings. The intent is to deepen awareness of the present, develop skills of focused attention, and cultivate positive...

Responding to Michael Porter’s claim that “Japanese companies rarely have a strategy”, this paper argues that the competitive advantage of Japanese enterprises is not to be found in traditional practices. Rather it is due to the way these practices are upgraded and reinforced by ideological factors such as the “community of fate”, as well as the formation of governance structures that cultivate...

In this paper, we study how to improve the innovative ability of students based on the teaching practice of the Analytic Geometry and Functional Analysis, how to permeate its important ideas, cultivate and improve students' self-learning ability, the ability of independent thinking and problem-solving ability through the teaching of the Analytic Geometry and Functional Analysis, and put forward...

This teaching module project is designed to cultivate and strengthen global competencies of first year undergraduate students in WPI's Great Problem Seminar, "Food Sustainability," by integrating China material into course content. Through studying the food security landscape in China, students necessarily engage the Chinese cultural and socio-political context. This in turn, provides an altern...

Introduction Prior work links empathy and positive physician-patient relationships to improved healthcare outcomes. The objective of this study was to analyze a patient experience simulation for emergency medicine (EM) interns as a way to teach empathy and conscientious patient care. Methods We conducted a qualitative descriptive study on an in situ, patient experience simulation held during ...

A b s t r a c t . The ongoing debate in GIS regarding the relative merits of vector versus raster representations of spatial information is usually couched in technical terms. Yet the technical question of the most appropriate data structure begs the philosophical question of the most appropriate conceptualization of geographic space. The paper confronts this latter question in the context of t...

Successful graduate training benefits from committed mentors and motivated students. Because scientific research involves investigating unexplored territory, however, each student's experience will necessarily be unique, making it rarely possible to conform to an idealized training sequence. To approach this inherently uncontrolled situation constructively, students are encouraged, first, to be...

As part of the amendment, the state was required to construct legal, regulatory, and tax frameworks that would allow businesses to cultivate, process, and sell marijuana not simply to medical patients—as had been happening in Colorado for over a decade—but to anyone 21 and older. This change came despite existing federal prohibition of marijuana and opposition from the governor, state attorney ...