RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Chronic disorders of consciousness (CDoC) pose significant problems of understanding for both medical professionals and the relatives and friends of the patient. This paper explores the tensions between the different interpretative resources that are drawn upon by lay people and professionals in their response to CDoC. METHODS A philosophical analysis of data fr...

Use of interpretative structural modeling (ISM) is inspired by the versatility displayed by this method, as reported by researchers, across a wide spectrum of economic and competitive complexities affecting businesses. The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze the relationship among the identified various functional /technical objectives (criteria's) of assembly line balancing proble...

This work relates how semiotics improves the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Within this context, we are particularly interested in the user-centered design of environments, where the resources and the processes are built based on the users' interpretative abilities. User-centered design does not follow a theoretical approach, but rather faces the reality of everyday workspaces usag...

1 Hansen JE, Sun X-G, Wasserman K. Should forced expiratory volume in six seconds replace forced vital capacity to detect airway obstruction? Eur Respir J 2006; 27: 1244–1250. 2 Hansen JE, Sun XG, Wasserman K. Discriminating measures and normal values for expiratory obstruction. Chest 2006; 129: 369–377. 3 Enright P. Does screening for COPD by primary care physicians have potential to cause mor...

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In psychology projective tests are interpretative and subjective obtaining results based on the eye of the beholder, they are widely used because they yield rich and unique data and are very useful. Because measurement of drawing attributes have a degree of uncertainty it is possible to explore a fuzzy model approach to better assess interpretative results. This paper presents a study of the tr...

Archival interfaces are critical nodes in archival systems where archivists negotiate and exercise power over the constitution and representation of archives. Drawing on notions of interfaces from physical, technological, and computer systems, archival interfaces are both a metaphor for archivists’ roles as intermediaries between documentary evidence and its readers and a tangible set of struct...

This paper responds to the great interest to humanities researchers who are concerned with the study of the Romanian language in its diachronic evolution: developing a set of tools allowing (semi-)automatic interpretative transcription of scanned Romanian documents written in Cyrillic, in print as well as manuscript forms. The corpus contains old data, belonging to the 19th20th centuries, in or...

BACKGROUND Admission of a child to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be one of the most stressful events for parents because the outcome is often uncertain. So how do parents cope, and how can we as nurses help them? AIM To explore the lived experiences of parents whose children have been admitted to a PICU. METHODS Using Heidegger's school of interpretative phenomenology, six u...