We sought to analyze, from the perspective of professors and students, the reasons and consequences of the expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing, discussing the dilemmas and the contradictions confronting the labor market. It was a qualitative study with data obtained from focus groups, conducted in 18 undergraduate nursing courses in the state of Minas Gerais, during the period of Febr...

Sustainable communities are promoted as a desirable policy goal and, in particular, local authorities are encouraged to contribute to climate change mitigation through urban planning. Furthermore, recent research takes a broad perspective on the environmental sustainability of urban areas and considers the environmental impact of all consumption. A focus group study was conducted in Finland for...

In this paper we describe a framework for the construction of entities that can serve as interpretations of arbitrary contiguous chunks of text An important part of the paper is devoted to describing stacking cells the proposed meanings for bracket structures

We examined whether the attentional focus induced by a suprapostural task has an influence on the learning of a dynamic balance task. Participants balanced on a stabilometer and were required to hold a tube horizontal with both hands. In Experiment 1, the tube contained a table tennis ball, whereas it was empty in Experiment 2. Participants were instructed to focus on either their hands (intern...

The paper describes a study conducted in Rwanda involving 12 participants selected from a larger cohort of 24 final-year university students who were part of a group based training programme. The programme was about how to search, retrieve and use webbased literature. Empirical data were collected through interviews and focus group discussions. The purpose was to explore ways of using Informati...

This paper compares three factors affecting prosodic phrasing in Korean: syntax, focus and speech rate. The Syntax and Focus constraints have been claimed to be stronger than the Speech Rate constraint, but it is not known which of these -the syntactic constraint (SYNTAX) or the focus constraint (FOCUS) – is stronger. Based on production and perception data, it is found that SYNTAX is stronger ...