Ud fra en kritik af den empiriske forskning som tager eksperimentet sin foretrukne dataindsamlingsteknik skitseres modsætning mellem ordet analyseenhed og betydningsstrukturer de opstår i verbal interaktion situationen analysens objekt. Modstillingen, hos V.N. Volosjinoff (1929 (1973)) knyttes til et romantisk paradigme abstraherende objektiviserende ditto, kan genfindes sprogforskningen pragma...

Dengue has now emerged as one of the major public health problems in Malaysia. It was first reported in 1901 in Penang and since then the disease has become endemic throughout the country. The first case of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) was reported in 1962. Subsequent to this, a major outbreak of DHF occurred in 1973 when almost the whole nation was involved. In 1974, a plan of action for pr...

1 SUMMARY  A total of 9 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was reported in the week to 10 May: the lowest weekly total this year. Guinea reported a total of 7 cases, Sierra Leone reported 2. For the first time since the beginning of the outbreak in Sierra Leone, the country reported zero confirmed cases for more than 2 consecutive days in the week to 10 May. As at 12 May, Sierra Leon...

A conventional wisdom in personality and social psychology and organizational behavior is that personality matters most in weak situations and least in strong situations. The authors trace the origins of this claim and examine the evidence for the personality-dampening effect of strong situations. The authors identify the gap between claim and evidence and suggest an agenda for future research.

In many domains high-level descriptions to represent the status of an environment is desirable. Describing a situation requires to conceptualize the knowledge about the possible actions of the actors involved in the environment and their possible interactions. Conceptual descriptions of different application domains like traffic analysis[1], parking lot security [2,3], human behaviour recogniti...