Depression-era audiences were treated not only to such voyeuristic vignettes as a has-been movie star committing suicide, but also to some of the most lavish sets (by Livingston Platt) ever mounted on Broadway, presented in swift sequence courtesy of a newfangled revolving stage.
As far back as 1964, Mr. Barzyk and his colleagues at the station had put together a piece called "Jazz Images" in which music was accompanied by such quirky vignettes as a view through a 50-cent child's kaleidoscope and a potato reassembling itself out of bits of peel.
We assessed health worker scores on clinical vignettes as a measure of the knowledge and competence of facility staff [ 22].
"Which Came First?" To make students think about cause-and-effect chains of interactions and force them to describe such a sequence, show them a brief excerpt or vignette, as from a nature documentary (many are available on the Internet).
We introduced patient vignettes as an approach for medication competence evaluation.
Some investigators have raised concern to the value and validity of vignettes as an outcome measure in assessing practitioner behaviour [ 100- 103].
15 18 Despite the potential advantages of using healthcare vignettes as an alternative technique to analyse healthcare-seeking behaviour, this approach has not been widely used in the context of low-income and middle-income countries where presumably variations in the perceived need for healthcare are much greater than in high-income countries.
Utility techniques mainly vary in that the values can be obtained by individuals currently experiencing the state of interest versus indirectly via a description of that state, called a vignette, as was performed in this study.
In the uncorrected proof of "Autumn of the Moguls," Tina Brown, former editor in chief of Talk, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is depicted in a seen-on-the-street vignette as a kind of nearsighted Mr. Magoo "with a refugee-like scarf around her head, weaving toward me".
During the first phase, from 1913 to 1920, he attributed the work to Vicente Guedes, whom he describes in an introductory vignette as "a man in his thirties, thin, fairly tall, very hunched when sitting though less so when standing, and dressed with a not entirely unself-conscious negligence".
Garber, then company CEO and now chairman, repositioned Vignette as a customization and production tool for dynamic web sites of all kinds, refocusing its marketing efforts on the lucrative corporate market.
