BACKGROUND Implementing new practices, such as health information technology (HIT), is often difficult due to the disruption of the highly coordinated, interdependent processes (e.g., information exchange, communication, relationships) of providing care in hospitals. Thus, HIT implementation may occur slowly as staff members observe and make sense of unexpected disruptions in care. As a critica...

What is it for a sound or gesture to have a meaning, and how does it come to have one? In this paper, a range of simulations are used to extend the tradition of theories of meaning as use. The authors work throughout with large spatialized arrays of sessile individuals in an environment of wandering food sources and predators. Individuals gain points by feeding and lose points when they are hit...

BACKGROUND Health information technology (HIT) is utilized by people with different chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. However, there has been no comparison of HIT use between persons without a chronic condition, with one chronic condition, and multiple (≥2) chronic conditions (MCCs). OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the difference in HIT use between persons wit...

0474 In Oxfam’s experience, disasters are profoundly discriminatory, even those that are “natural” rather than man-made. Factors that were present before a disaster, such as poor social conditions, mean that some people in the disaster zone will be more affected than others. People living in poverty are much more vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters. As women account for 70% of the 1....

This paper uses detailed stroke-by-stroke data from seven tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2006 and 2007 to assess whether men women respond differently competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. At crucial junctures of the match, both adopt less aggressive playing strategy, meaning that probability hitting winning shots making unforced errors decreases. The conc...

I spend my days working on the brain, specifically on how it makes mind and behavior possible. Most everyone believes that mind and behavior depend on the brain. But just how it all works is still mysterious. We have learned a lot, but we have got a long way to go. My particular area of research is about the relation between emotion and memory. For the past 25 years or so I have been using a si...

The objective of this study was to compare the findings of the bedside head-impulse test (HIT), passive head rotation gain, and caloric irrigation in patients with cerebellar ataxia (CA). In 16 patients with CA and bilaterally pathological bedside HIT, vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) gains were measured during HIT and passive head rotation by scleral search coil technique. Eight of the patients ha...

The aim of the research is to recognize role mental spaces in meaning construction nickname flądra Polish [English: slut; literally: a flounder], received on ground real discourse extracts retrieved from Corpus. obtained by examining metaphors underlying it, which are motivated various contextual factors, e.g. speaker’s gender and registers. results study reveal that based five metaphorical dyn...