179 research outputs found
A QUANTITATIVE MAPPING OF ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE IN THE BRAIN OF THE RHESUS MONKEY *
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Collaborative action research through technologically mediated agoras.
ABSTRACT: The study presented in this article forms part of a wider project promoting collaboration between junior researchers from different universities with the objective of rethinking and improving teaching practice in relation to the use of technology. The article describes research carried out during the 2012/13 academic year aimed at developing collaborative action research through technologically mediated agoras involving students from three Spanish universities. The main results of this study show that junior researchers improved their teaching practice through technologically mediated inside and outside agoras. In addition, the transformation of university classrooms into agoras enabled the negotiated reconstruction of knowledge for the analysis of good practice in the use of technology. Likewise, these agoras helped reduce limitations by breaking down the barriers of time, distance and resources for sharing findings and limitations between junior researchers. Furthermore, they pave the way for improvements and their implementation in learning processes during initial teacher training
Controlled clinical trials in cancer pain. How controlled should they be? A qualitative systematic review
This qualitative systematic review of the clinical methodology used in randomised, controlled trials of oral opioids (morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone) for cancer pain underlines the difficulties of good pain research in palliative care. The current literature lacks placebo-controlled superiority trials. Recommendations for future research are discussed
Narrative and Interpretation on Twitter: Reading tweets by telling stories
Existing research on communication on Twitter has largely ignored the question of how users make sense of the fragmentary tweets with which they are presented. Focusing on the use of Twitter for political reporting in post-revolutionary Egypt, this article argues that the production of mental stories provides readers with a mechanism for interpreting the meaning of individual tweets in terms of their relationships to other material. Drawing on contemporary narratology, it argues that Twitter exhibits key elements of narrativity, but that a creative reading process is nonetheless required to transform this incipient narrativity into coherent, sense-making mental narratives. This foregrounding of the readerâs creative role makes stories on Twitter highly fluid and dynamic. Through reference to classic critical theory, I propose that this nonetheless represents an evolution rather than a radical break from earlier forms of narrative reception, which in many cases demanded similarly creative reading practices
Denotative and Connotative Semantics in Hypermedia: Proposal for a Semiotic-Aware Architecture
In this article we claim that the linguistic-centered view within hypermedia systems needs refinement through a semiotic-based approach before real interoperation between media can be achieved. We discuss the problems of visual signification for images and video in dynamic systems, in which users can access visual material in a non-linear fashion. We describe how semiotics can help overcome such problems, by allowing descriptions of the material on both denotative and connotative levels. Finally we propose an architecture for a dynamic semiotic-aware hypermedia system
Toward a Multifaceted Heuristic of Digital Reading to Inform Assessment, Research, Practice, and Policy
In this commentary, the author explores the tension between almost 30 years of work that has embraced increasingly complex conceptions of digital reading and recent studies that risk oversimplifying digital reading as a singular entity analogous with reading text on a screen. The author begins by tracing a line of theoretical and empirical work that both informs and complicates our understanding of digital literacy and, more specifically, digital reading. Then, a heuristic is proposed to systematically organize, label, and define a multifaceted set of increasingly complex terms, concepts, and practices that characterize the spectrum of digital reading experiences. Research that informs this heuristic is used to illustrate how more precision in defining digital reading can promote greater clarity across research methods and advance a more systematic study of promising digital reading practices. Finally, the author discusses implications for assessment, research, practice, and policy
Variations in gastric compliance induced by acute blood volume changes in anesthetized rats
Pesquisa na web e produção textual: reflexĂ”es sobre o ensino do gĂȘnero dissertativo na escola
âWriting Nowâ
This chapter considers the themes and forms that characterise womenâs writing in the new millennium. Post-9/11, self-representation has become a particularly urgent task for Muslim writers such as Monica Ali and Leila Aboulela. A concern with refugees, asylum seekers, and modern forms of slavery becomes increasingly prominent, not only in fiction â for example, Fadia Faqirâs My Name is Salma (2007) and Monica Aliâs In the Kitchen (2009) â but also in the theatre: Kay Adsheadâs The Bogus Woman (2000), Sonja Lindenâs Crocodile Seeking Refuge (2005), Christine Baconâs Rendition Monologues (2008), Rukhsana Ahmad and Oladipo Agboluajeâs Footprints in the Sand (2008), Natasha Walter's Motherland (2008), and Gbemisola Ikumeloâs Next Door (2010). The impact of global capitalism, consumerism, and branding are explored in novels such as Scarlett Thomasâ Popco (2004), Ali Smithâs Girl Meets Boy (2007), and Wintersonâs The Stone Gods (2007). Ageing is another major theme. Long a pre-occupation of Doris Lessing, it features also in Liz Jensenâs War Crimes for the Home (2002) and Alison Fellâs Tricks of the Light (2003). Anxieties about climate change and environmental apocalypse are addressed through dystopia in Maggie Geeâs The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004), Jeanette Wintersonâs The Stone Gods (2007), Sarah Hallâs The Carhullen Army (2007), and Liz Jensenâs The Rapture (2009). Following Suniti Namjoshiâs pioneeringly collaborative Building Babel (1996), the use of multimedia in Maya Chowdhryâs digital poetry, Kate Pullingerâs ânetworkedâ wikinovel Flight Paths (2005-), and the âvisual novelâ (an interactive fiction game), gives literature an entirely new shape
Two Decades of Teledermatology: Current Status and Integration in National Healthcare Systems
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