BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult-child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutabil...

The practice of ‘writing to learn’ has been propounded as fast-tracking the dynamic process of noticing problems in L2 writing. However, a marked melioration in learners’ attempted output requires a form of corrective feedback, among which modeling has proven to bear vigorous input enhancement effects. The present study attempted to inspect what EFL learners notice throughout their own output a...

Building on Robinson’s (2001, 2003) Cognition Hypothesis, Skehan’s (1998) Limited Attentional Capacity Model, and Kellog’s (1986) model of writing, this study examined the effect of task planning on the fluency, accuracy, and complexity of 60 Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative and narrative writings under different planning conditions. A quasi-experimental design with three levels of planning ...

We present SCHEHERAZADE, a foundational platform for narrative intelligence that formally represents stories. The system draws upon prior theoretical work on the morphology of narrative without imposing a particular narrative domain or task a priori. Instead, while keeping narrative semantics separate and immutable, it provides a framework for the tools that build upon it to define world knowle...

Despite the implicit belief that IT innovations brings beneficial change, medical practitioners and healthcare professionals constantly struggle to realize the innovation potential of electronic medical records (EMR) system in revolutionizing clinical practices. To understand this conundrum, this paper uses an in-depth case study of an EMR implementation to develop a grounded theory of why, whe...

A series of seven computing and online games was reviewed following a criterion based selection process. The games were reviewed relative to their capacity to incorporate elements of gaming comparable to content or themes evident in children’s literature including, type of game, genre, elements of violence, disturbing scenes, gender of key protagonists or heroes, location and relative time fram...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of a familiar communication partner on the production of narrative after traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD Ten participants with TBI were matched with 10 control participants for sex, age, and education. Participants independently retold a story from a picture sequence and also retold a video segment with a friend to a researcher. The resulting ...

When English is regarded as the lingual franca in global world, learners’ communicative competence emphasized. In China, however, most of L2 willingness to communicate and relatively low. This article focus on how improve Chinese IELTS poor classroom. I mainly use guided strategic planning narrative tasks enhance fluency complexity.