This article aims to provide more insight into advantages and challenges of conducting action research with the intention to improve health care. Action research is distinctive in the sense that the researcher has a dual role as both researcher and implementer of the program studied. The article is based on two Norwegian action-oriented studies that aimed to explore the potential role of online...

This contribution stems from the personal experience of the author regarding how he became acquainted with embryology and how he finally entered the field of developmental biology. It reports his feelings as a student of the Histology and Embryology course as it was taught in the late 1970s, and his present efforts in teaching developmental biology to university students. In the Developmental B...

This article presents examples of the monumental contributions of Bill McCune to mathematics, logic, computer science, and especially automated reasoning. The examples are presented in the form of short stories and recollections of the author during his long association with Bill. In addition to Bill’s accomplishments as a researcher, the author provides personal memories giving glimpses into B...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

The accelerating progress in science with the active role of the communication media – mainly the web – make person in front of a difficult task, in finding appropriate information during a brief time. In a narrower context, many researches were created in the expertise retrieval domain, as an interesting and complicated task for the scientific community, in face of this huge amount of data sca...