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...

Topicalization and focalization are syntactic issues studied in a variety of languages. is defined as the proposing constituent to beginning sentence. It has old information rest sentence about it. Focalization, on other hand, process which may stay put its canonical position represented by relativizer or be preposed, but bearing new information. To study these issues, we Zanjani dialect, an of...

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...

In this paper, we use Girard’s Ludics to analyze focalization, a fundamental property of linear logic. In particular, we show how this can be realized interactively thanks to section-retraction pairs (uαβ, fαβ) between behaviours α〈ˆ(β〈~ Y〉), ~ X〉 and αβ〈~ Y, ~ X〉.

This paper describes recent developments in the use of the "absent but implicit" in narrative therapy. Michael White used the term "absent but implicit" to convey the understanding that in the expression of any experience of life, there is a discernment we make between the expressed experience and other experiences that have already been given meaning and provide a contrasting backdrop, which "...

When attention is involuntarily drawn in a direction different to that of the target, slower motor response times are observed (i.e. the meridian effect). Previous data suggested that the thalamus might participate in the generation of visual salience. What may be the role of the thalamus in the capture by luminance transients when attentional control is in action? A single experiment was admin...