During the last six years the RoboComp robotics framework has been steadily growing in the number of software components, the variety of robots supported and in new solutions to the maintenance of large robotics software repositories. In this paper we…

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This article is a report on a descriptive study of nursing identity as constructed in the Web 2.0 site YouTube.
BACKGROUND:
Public images of the nurse carry stereotypes that rely on the taken for granted gender category of the…

Whiteness is often detached from the notion of diaspora in the recent flurry of interest in the phenomenon, yet it is a key feature of some of the largest and oldest displacements. This paper explores the specific contexts of white…

Undergraduate physiotherapy programmes aim to equip graduates with basic skills, knowledge and behaviours to allow them to
enter the profession. The aim of this study was to explore employers’ perceptions of key factors in work place preparedness of novice
physiotherapists.…

Six new species of Leptoglossus Guerin from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela are described. Diagnostic taxonomic characters of antennal segments, legs, male genital capsules, and dorsal views of some species are illustrated. Most of the species are placed…

The type species of Acolhua is discussed. The specimens considered to represent the type species Acolhua championi Distant by Slater & Brailovsky (1986) are shown to represent a previously undescribed species described as A. barrerai new species. The actual type…

Background: In the UK there is a policy initiative to encourage volunteering to promote community participation and engagement in society. ‘Volunteers in Child Protection’ is a scheme promoting volunteers to work alongside statutory child care workers in complex child protection…

Six new species of Bernardia from Mexico are described and illustrated. Species are distinguished by a combination of characters such as habit, leaf shape and size, indumentum, venation pattern, gland position, length of staminate inflorescence, number of bracts, number of…

The taxonomy of the New World species of the genus Trichadenotecnum is revised. A total of 44 species, including 29 new species, were treated. These species are classified into 12 monophyletic species groups, eight of them newly proposed here. Two…