CONTEXT Clinics that receive Title X funding have a mandate to encourage parent-child communication for minors seeking family planning services. Little is known about the programs and practices that clinics have adopted to achieve this goal, or whether clinics not receiving Title X funds encourage family participation. METHODS As part of a larger project examining parental engagement among ad...

The present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers’ practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. The study benefitted from conversation analytic perspective to qualitatively and interpretively examine the classroom discourse of the teacher-learner interaction. The classroom talk was analyzed th...

BACKGROUND Few studies have assessed the importance of a broad range of verbal and non-verbal consultation behaviours. AIM To explore the relationship of observer ratings of behaviours of videotaped consultations with patients' perceptions. DESIGN AND SETTING Observational study in general practices close to Southampton, Southern England. METHOD Verbal and non-verbal behaviour was rated b...

This technical report describes an exploratory analysis of a community of innovators who indirectly contributed to the design of del.icio.us, a system for social tagging. Participants in this community, which is mediated primarily by an e-mail listserv and guided by a de-facto moderator, envision and reflect upon systems for social tagging. The analysis of a sample of messages shows that partic...

While modern search engines perform well on easy navigational queries, every search engine user knows that there exist queries for which few or none of the top-ranked results are relevant. Such queries are commonly referred to as difficult. There are several major reasons for poor search results. In some cases, users do not have a clear information need and would simply like to explore a partic...

This study set out to check the addressing behavior within men’s and women’s talk in the written conversations in English language textbook series titled ‘New Interchange book’ by Richards, Hull and Proctor, (1998) from Cambridge University Press. In line with this aim, the present researchers initially prepared descriptive tables for both formal and informal contexts in three theme categories ...

Ontology and the Foundations of Mathematics" consists of three papers concerned with ontological issues in the foundations of mathematics. Chapter 1, "Numbers and Persons," confronts the problem of the inscrutability of numerical reference and argues that, even if inscrutable, the reference of the numerals, as we ordinarily use them, is determined much more, precisely than up to isomorphism. We...

OBJECTIVE to identify the perceptions of professionals working in a facility connected with the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS in regard to what they know, think and talk about public health policy. METHOD this exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative nature was conducted with 28 professionals working in a facility connected with the SUS. Data were collected through interviews ...

Men commit violence against Native American women at higher rates than other racial or ethnic groups. When Indigenous is discussed and written about, it often in passive voice. Several scholars note the problem of using voice to talk about women, but there little research on how themselves understand as connected perpetrated them, we found no literature This asks urban language relationship vio...

Tattling, defined as the reporting to a second party of norm violations committed by a third party, is a frequent but little-studied activity among young children. Participant observation and quantitative sampling are used to provide a detailed characterization of tattling in 2 preschools (initial mean age = 4.08 years, N = 40). In these populations, tattling represents the majority of talk abo...