background: in many sub-saharan african countries the rate of antenatal care (anc) has been increased but skilled birth attendance rate is still low. the objective of this study was to evaluate the reasons why women prefer home delivery when facility based delivery is available at minimal cost. methods: this study was conducted in northwest nigeria using a qualitative method (phenomenology) amo...

Medicalised maternity systems do not address spirituality as an aspect of childbirth and its practices care. Neglecting the spiritual nature may negatively affect psychological, emotional physical wellbeing. While there is growing interest in side a paucity literature on topic, hence lack understanding generally about how to attend women’s needs for support childbirth. To collaboratively throug...

In many parallel applications, network latency causes a dramatic loss in processor utilization. This paper examines software controlled access pipelining (SCAP) as a technique for hiding network latency. An analytic model of SCAP brieey describes basic operation techniques and performance improvements. Results are quantiied with benchmarks on the Cray-T3E. The benchmarks used are Jacobi-iterati...

Psychology-grounded research on heuristics and biases in decision making has become increasingly influential the field of management studies. However, although this line inquiry is recognized as a valuable perspective for advancing understanding processes upper echelons firms, extant remains unbalanced, bulk previous endeavours having been focused managerial overconfidence, with insights from m...

What does it mean to teach in higher education (HE) from vantage points that do not privilege human self-interest, but include nonhuman animals as significant subjects of educational practice? This paper addresses human-animal relations a nascent area HE pedagogy. It explores premises of, and approaches post-anthropocentric pedagogies through an examination wide range teacher experiences expres...

Sharing personal teaching stories provides opportunities for enhanced wellbeing and learning both experienced pre-service teachers. This paper shares the results of a qualitative pilot study that used narrative inquiry to collect share teacher stories. The research was conducted in two phases. first phase collected humorous from teachers recalled years their career. Thematic data analysis inves...

This article applies a narrative victimological lens of inquiry to the memoirs those wrongfully convicted high profile politically violent offences arising from conflict in North Ireland. Using these life stories wrongful conviction, critically examines how nuanced and complex understandings victimhood blame emerge within victims’ own testimony. While on one hand, victims can ‘story’ simplistic...

This study aimed to examine key factors affecting rural female facilitators’ role in participatory rural development in Tehran Province. Since the researchers intended to have a better insight into the facilitators’ role and employ inquiry as a learning forum for bringing about changes for all participants, they preferred to use a case study based upon an appreciative inquiry method. The study ...

Logic is usually presented as a tool of rational inquiry; however, many logicians in fact treat logic so that it does not serve us, but rather governs us – beings we are subordinated to the logical laws aspire disclose. We denote view primarily serves logica serviens, while denoting thesis our reasoning dominans. argue treating dominans misguided, for leads idea “genuine” within language. Inste...

This paper examines how staff at a Finnish hospital develop new medical identity amidst other already-established professions. study was conducted during the merger of two surgical departments public university hospital, and concerned development process hospitalist which was, time, an entirely role hospital. Drawing on extensive videos authentic team meetings entries in various actors’ reflect...