Purpose – The paper seeks to analyze the discourse of meaning and interpretation in the social sciences. It aims to provide a historical overview of the hermeneutics and the need for scientific as well as general understanding, and to emphasize the importance of the interpretive approach in...

This paper describes the function and utilisation of the Design Decision Trail as a reflective, visual narrative and qualitative audit trail for the teaching of design and related subjects. The initial inspiration came from nursing research. Using this initial impetus I significantly developed...

Today’s enterprise networks and data centers have become very complex and havecompletely integrated themselves into every facet of their represented organization.Organizations require Internet facing services and applications to be available at anypart of the day or night. These organizations...

Nursing education is faced with addressing the challenge of educational reform as a result of the rapid changes in the complexity of health care delivery systems, increased technology and biomedical knowledge, a shortage in nursing faculty, and increased enrollment in schools of nursing....