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View article: Outcomes of Spinal Manipulation and Neurological Rehabilitation for a Patient With Chronic Tension-Type Headaches and a Prior History of Head Trauma
Outcomes of Spinal Manipulation and Neurological Rehabilitation for a Patient With Chronic Tension-Type Headaches and a Prior History of Head Trauma Open
Chronic tension-type headaches (TTH) can be a debilitating condition that may include peripheral vestibular system involvement. This case report describes the response to spinal manipulation (SM) and neurologic rehabilitation for a 44-year…
View article: A qualitative study exploring the perceptions and understandings of advance care planning by people with treatable but not curable cancer
A qualitative study exploring the perceptions and understandings of advance care planning by people with treatable but not curable cancer Open
Background: Advance care planning for those with treatable but not curable cancer is considered good practice because innovations in treatment options make prognostication much more uncertain. Little is known about how such patients approa…
View article: Assessing Student Attitudes and Understanding of Interdisciplinarity: Introducing the SATIS Survey
Assessing Student Attitudes and Understanding of Interdisciplinarity: Introducing the SATIS Survey Open
View article: Exploring Philosophically Driven Research in Nursing: An Exploration of Research Driven by Jamesian Pragmatism
Exploring Philosophically Driven Research in Nursing: An Exploration of Research Driven by Jamesian Pragmatism Open
Nursing research has commonly taken a problem‐based approach to research design seeking to ground research endeavour within the phenomena with which nursing is occupied. The aim of this paper is to explore an alternative of using philosoph…
View article: Correction: Oncologists’ palliative care referral behaviour: testing utility of social exchange theory as an explanatory framework
Correction: Oncologists’ palliative care referral behaviour: testing utility of social exchange theory as an explanatory framework Open
View article: Oncologists’ palliative care referral behaviour: testing utility of social exchange theory as an explanatory framework
Oncologists’ palliative care referral behaviour: testing utility of social exchange theory as an explanatory framework Open
View article: Correction: Paediatric oncologists’ perspectives on Strategic solutions to develop Integrated Cancer Palliative Care: feedback intervention theory as an explanatory Framework
Correction: Paediatric oncologists’ perspectives on Strategic solutions to develop Integrated Cancer Palliative Care: feedback intervention theory as an explanatory Framework Open
View article: Paediatric oncologists’ perspectives on Strategic solutions to develop Integrated Cancer Palliative Care: feedback intervention theory as an explanatory Framework
Paediatric oncologists’ perspectives on Strategic solutions to develop Integrated Cancer Palliative Care: feedback intervention theory as an explanatory Framework Open
View article: The BigCode Project Governance Card
The BigCode Project Governance Card Open
This document serves as an overview of the different mechanisms and areas of governance in the BigCode project. It aims to support transparency by providing relevant information about choices that were made during the project to the broade…
View article: A Community of Practice to Bridge Research and Practice in Science Education
A Community of Practice to Bridge Research and Practice in Science Education Open
Communities of practice (CoPs) have been used to support practitioners' efforts to adopt new teaching methods.In this paper, we summarize how our team facilitated knowledge transfer by forming and leveraging several CoPs that shared the co…
View article: Designing Inquiry Based Labs for College-Level Biology Students
Designing Inquiry Based Labs for College-Level Biology Students Open
We report on a practitioner-researcher crafted semester-long biology inquiry-based lab approach which implemented a new script based on conceptual progression.Students were required to make decisions in well-scaffolded contexts relating to…
View article: Oncologists' Palliative Care Referral Behaviour: Testing Utility of Social Exchange Theory as an Explanatory Framework
Oncologists' Palliative Care Referral Behaviour: Testing Utility of Social Exchange Theory as an Explanatory Framework Open
Background Adults and children with cancer are referred to palliative care infrequently or late. Oncologists often gatekeep these referrals. Social exchange theory is used to explain physician referral behaviour in various clinical setting…
View article: StarCoder: may the source be with you!
StarCoder: may the source be with you! Open
The BigCode community, an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length, infilling …
View article: The experiences of family members witnessing the diminishing drinking of a dying relative in hospital: A narrative inquiry
The experiences of family members witnessing the diminishing drinking of a dying relative in hospital: A narrative inquiry Open
Background: The optimal management of diminishing drinking at the end of life is contentious. Clinicians and family members may understand the phenomenon differently and hold divergent priorities regarding care. Family members can be distr…
View article: SantaCoder: don't reach for the stars!
SantaCoder: don't reach for the stars! Open
The BigCode project is an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of large language models for code. This tech report describes the progress of the collaboration until December 2022, outlining the current state…
View article: Presuppositions, cost–benefit, collaboration, and competency impacts palliative care referral in paediatric oncology: a qualitative study
Presuppositions, cost–benefit, collaboration, and competency impacts palliative care referral in paediatric oncology: a qualitative study Open
Background Although a significant proportion of children with cancer need palliative care, few are referred or referred late, with oncologists and haematologists gatekeeping the referral process. We aimed to explore the facilitators and ba…
View article: The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code
The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code Open
Large Language Models (LLMs) play an ever-increasing role in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)--not only for natural language processing but also for code understanding and generation. To stimulate open and responsible research on …
View article: Successfully implementing inquiry-based labs: a case study for a college waves and modern physics course
Successfully implementing inquiry-based labs: a case study for a college waves and modern physics course Open
Inquiry-based instruction is a form of active learning that scaffolds investigation of authentic problems. It relies on collaborative activities that engage students in discipline-specific practices that promote the use of high-level cogni…
View article: The Mu3e Experiment
The Mu3e Experiment Open
The Mu3e experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut will search for the lepton-number-violating decay \mueee, extending the sensitivity by four orders of magnitude compared to existing limits. This probe of new physics is complementary to th…
View article: Palliative Care in Paediatric Oncology: an Update
Palliative Care in Paediatric Oncology: an Update Open
View article: A good death in the child with life shortening illness: A qualitative multiple-case study
A good death in the child with life shortening illness: A qualitative multiple-case study Open
Background: Understanding what makes a ‘good death’ in the child with life shortening illness is important, as it informs appropriate and effective end-of-life care. Above play, peer contact and opportunities for assent, prior literature r…
View article: Women’s experiences of advanced breast cancer in a resource‐limited Arab context: A Stakian multi‐case study
Women’s experiences of advanced breast cancer in a resource‐limited Arab context: A Stakian multi‐case study Open
Objective Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women, globally. Women are more likely to present with more advanced cancer and palliative care needs in low‐resource contexts. There is limited research on Arab, Muslim and African wom…
View article: Constructing a new role for family carers and volunteers providing care towards the end of life: an action research approach exploring a new model of hospice care
Constructing a new role for family carers and volunteers providing care towards the end of life: an action research approach exploring a new model of hospice care Open
The objective of this study was to understand the conceptualisation and development of a novel way of providing end-of-life care in a Cottage Hospice setting, with a focus on the role of family carers and volunteers within this care model.…
View article: Constructivist Stakian Multicase Study: Methodological Issues Encountered in Cross-Cultural Palliative Care Research
Constructivist Stakian Multicase Study: Methodological Issues Encountered in Cross-Cultural Palliative Care Research Open
Case study research facilitates the in-depth, real-life exploration of complex phenomena from multiple perspectives. It is a well-established approach to deal with the complexities involved in palliative care research. Case studies are not…
View article: How views of oncologists and haematologists impacts palliative care referral: a systematic review
How views of oncologists and haematologists impacts palliative care referral: a systematic review Open
View article: Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review
Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review Open
View article: Overview of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to hasten death
Overview of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking to hasten death Open
Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is a means of hastening death.Unlike euthanasia or medical aid in dying, which are available only in certain jurisdictions and with assistance from health care professionals, the ability to die by v…
View article: Disseminating research findings using a massive online open course for maximising impact and developing recommendations for practice
Disseminating research findings using a massive online open course for maximising impact and developing recommendations for practice Open
View article: Digitisation and the patient–professional relationship in palliative care
Digitisation and the patient–professional relationship in palliative care Open
View article: Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies
Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies Open
Background: Research requires high-quality ethical and governance scrutiny and approval. However, when research is conducted across different countries, this can cause challenges due to the differing ethico-legal framework requirements of …