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The ideal and the real: some thoughts on theoretical developments in British nursing (1991)
Journal Article
Draper, P. (1991). The ideal and the real: some thoughts on theoretical developments in British nursing. Nurse education today, 11(4), 292-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/0260-6917%2891%2990092-o

Two types of nursing theory are described: the realistic, whose purpose is to account for the complex reality of nursing; and the idealistic, whose purpose is to describe an idealised world of nursing as it ‘ought to be’. It is argued that British... Read More about The ideal and the real: some thoughts on theoretical developments in British nursing.

Cartographic Algorithms: Problems of Implementation and Evaluation and the Impact of Digitising Errors (1991)
Journal Article
Whyatt, J. D., & Visvalingam, M. (1991). Cartographic Algorithms: Problems of Implementation and Evaluation and the Impact of Digitising Errors. Computer graphics forum : journal of the European Association for Computer Graphics, 10(3), 225-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.1030225

Cartographic generalisation remains one of the outstanding challenges in digital cartography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). It is generally assumed that computerisation will lead to the removal of spurious variability introduced by the s... Read More about Cartographic Algorithms: Problems of Implementation and Evaluation and the Impact of Digitising Errors.