Objective To elicit patient stakeholders' experience and perspectives about patient-centred care. Design Qualitative. Setting A large urban healthcare system. Participants Four patient stakeholders who are prostate cancer survivors. Main outcome measures Experience and perspectives of patient stakeholders regarding patient-centred care and treatment decisions. Results Our patient stak...

We appropriate Rogoff’s (Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context, 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) Sociocultural studies of mind, 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided participation implies facilitating access to shared...

let ( r,m ) be a noetherian local ring, a an ideal of r and m a finitely generated r- module. we investigate some properties of formal local cohomology modules with respect to a serre subcategory. we provide a common language to indicate some properties of formal local cohomology modules. let ( r,m ) be a noetherian local ring, a an ideal of r and m a finitely generated r- module. we investigat...

This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients i...

Background Social accountability or citizen-led accountability has been promoted in many low- and middle-income countries to improve the quality, access to and use of maternal health services. Experiences with social accountability in maternal health services in Nepal have not yet been documented. This study identifies existing social accountability structures and activities in maternal h...

This paper summarizes our participation in the CLEF-NEWSREEL 2014 Challenge. The challenge focused on the recommendation of news articles. UNED’s participation is in the “Recommend news articles in real-time” task. To address the recommendation tasks, a Formal Concept Analysis framework is proposed to first create the recommendation models and second to compute the recommendations. Our results ...

The Web 2.0 is often characterized by an informal participation, which means a free cooperation of as many as possible without any restraints from organizations, processes, or technical platforms. In contrast to public communities, an official organization like a company consists of rather formal structures which define what a member should do and how to fulfill a task by assigning a role. If s...

Title of Dissertation: IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP ON CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE GROUPS Steven Lawrence Johnson, Doctor of Philosophy in Information System Directed by: Associate Professor Samer Faraj, McGill University; Professor Hank Lucas, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies Online groups formed by volunteer members are increasingly recognized as sources of innovati...

Results The adolescents' experiences of coercion show a wide variation that didn't correspond very well with the formal situation. Coercion was experienced in many ways and was also valued quite differently with respect to the impact of the treatment in their lives. The adolescents' experience of participation in the planning of the treatment was very sparse. The requirements for participation ...