PURPOSE To identify symptoms/distress among patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy, from the viewpoint of the next of kin, and to establish whether there are any barriers to reporting these problems. METHODS Individual face-to-face interviews with fourteen next of kin were conducted. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the transcripts. RESULTS Three areas were ...

Some real-world authorship analysis applications require techniques that scale to thousands of documents with little or no a priori information about the number of candidate authors. While there is extensive research on identifying authors given a small set of candidates and ample training data, almost none is based on real-world applications of clustering documents by authorship, independent o...

IF YOU ARE READING THIS COMMENTARY, the title probably irked your professional sensibilities. That’s good. During 32 years of publishing, I’ve experienced two authorship disputes. Both of these problems have demonstrated to me that there is a disturbing and pervasive lack of understanding of what authorship on scientific papers means, of the responsibilities that it conveys, and of how it is de...

On the basis of an empirical investigation of archaeological information work, this paper discusses the interplay of authorship of documents and documentary boundary objects, and the practical authorship of social situations and identities and how a closer look at the authorship (as understood in the contemporary authorship literature) can be helpful in elaborating our understanding of the maki...

Plants often compete with closely related individuals due to limited dispersal, leading to two commonly invoked predictions on competitive outcomes. Kin selection, from evolutionary theory, predicts that competition between relatives will likely be weaker. The niche partitioning hypothesis, from ecological theory, predicts that competition between close relatives will likely be stronger. We tes...

Thanks to next generation sequencing (NGS), we can now access ancient biological relationships, including ancestry and parentage, with a startling level of clarity. This has led recentering kinship within archaeological discourse. In this paper, argue that blood biology are key elements kin-making only in so far as they contextualized made sense through social relations. We the conceptions unde...

1. Sharing recent ancestry (kinship) increases the degree of genetic similarity between individuals, where genetic similarity could mean anything from sharing a particular allele to sharing an entire genome. 2. Genetic similarity can influence behavioural and other responses between individuals in a number of ways, discriminatory and non-discriminatory. All are likely to result in kin bias, bec...

This article examines the diversity of methods in authorship attribution through a lens which focuses attention on a single common element. The current state of authorship attribution study is spread throughout so many academic and non -academic disciplines that it is nigh impossible to describe all of the various assumptions about language and authorship. The disciplines involved in authorship...

It has been proposed that inferring personal authorship for an event gives rise to intentional binding, a perceptual illusion in which one's action and inferred effect seem closer in time than they otherwise would (Haggard, Clark, & Kalogeras, 2002). Using a novel, naturalistic paradigm, we conducted two experiments to test this hypothesis and examine the relationship between binding and self-r...