Nursing judgements are complex, often involving the need to process a large number of information cues. Key issues include how accurate they are and how we can improve levels of accuracy. Traditional approaches to the study of nursing judgement, characterised by qualitative and descriptive research, have provided valuable insights into the nature of expert nursing practice and the complexity of...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of conservative treatment of trigger thumb in children, in order to discuss the real need for surgical release in these patients. METHODS This was a retrospective study on a group of children with trigger thumb who were treated conservatively by the same orthopedic surgeon with gentle manipulation at the time of the consultation and ...

In a cross-sectional retrospective study of 2087 Ghanaian school girls in various educational institutions in the Kumasi district, Ashanti region, Ghana, the mean menarcheal age was found to be 13.98 +/- 1.42 years. Differences in the menarcheal age of the girls was found to be significantly correlated to social class, parents ethnic origin, educational institution and home living area (P = 0.0...

"In this paper the author applies the framework of multiregional population analysis to marital status changes as revealed by longitudinal retrospective data on marital histories collected as part of the June 1975 [U.S.] Current Population Survey supplement. Four marital statuses are used: never married, presently married, divorced, and widowed. Marital status life tables are computed for th...

this article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. the article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...

There is an apparent contradiction concerning configurational effects in visual information processing. Some studies have shown that when an array is organized into a "good" or unitary Gestalt, analysis of a single part of it is facilitated, while others have shown "good" arrays to impede search for a part. The three experiments reported here support the proposition that goodness of form can fa...

According to the attentional control theory, worry, a crucial component of anxiety, impairs task performance through its direct effect on working memory capacity (WMC) by using up the limited resources available for performance thus reducing attentional control. We tested this hypothesis in the current study by examining the causal influence of active worrying on WMC in a sample of undergraduat...

Engineering judgement has an important role in safety or reliability assessment. This paper focuses on the use of engineering judgement for integrating diverse evidence into an assessment of the safety or reliability of a product. In many cases of stringent safety requirements, this form of engineering (or "expert") judgement, i.e., "informal inference from complex evidence", is the crucial res...

Local shape is an important attribute that can be sensed by exploratory movements of the finger. Normally this involves a blend of tactile and proprioceptive cues. A curved surface will deform the pad of a single finger and so tactile cues can indicate whether a surface is convex or concave or whether it slopes one way or another. When more subtle discriminations must be made between different ...