BACKGROUND There is a global need to expand palliative care services to reach the increasing number requiring end of life care. In developing countries where the incidences of cancer are rising there is an urgent need to develop the palliative care workforce. This paper reports on a UK Department for international development (DFID) initiative funded through the Tropical Health Education Trust ...

This paper develops a semiotic operand, the hypersign. The hyperlink is structurally amenable to semiotic analysis. Anchor and destination function as signifier and signified. Especially significant are digital surrogates, such as Amazon catalogue entries, and Google gists, which are systematically produced hypertextual signifier-signified pairings. Hyperlinked surrogates constitute the hypersi...

The results of researches by G. M. Breslau, O. Zaporozhets, Ya. Z. Neverovich, Kulchytska, E. Nosenko, A. Olshannikova, Khomsky, Yakovlevoy and others. aimed at revealing certain regularities the formation emotional sphere; in studies K. Abulkhanova-Slavsk, L. Antsiferova, Bozhovich, B. Bratus, Maslow, V. Morgun, Yadov, Mitin, Yu. Povarenkova, Zier, Ponomarenko, N. Pryazhnikov, J. Vernoy disclo...