Most scientists take ethical arguments for conservation as given and focus on scientific or economic questions. Although nature conservation is often considered a just cause, it is given little further consideration. A lack of attention to ethical theory raises serious concerns for how conservation scientists conceive and practice ethics. I contrast two common ways scientists approach ethics, a...

Randomized controlled trials and critical social theory are known not to be happy bedfellows. Such trials are embedded in a positivist view of the world, seeking definitive answers to testable questions; critical social theory questions the methods by which we deem the world knowable and may consider experiments in the biomedical sciences as social artifacts. Yet both of these epistemologically...

Most existing work uses dual decomposition and first-order methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of convergence properties. This paper develops an alternative distributed Newton-type fast converging algorithm for solving NUM problems with self-concordant utility functions. By using novel matrix splitting techniques, bot...

Acknowledging the consolidation of citizen science, this paper aims to foster a collective debate on two visible gaps field. First, how overcome limited participation social sciences and humanities in broader field still dominated by natural sciences. Second, develop science that allows for an active citizens critical engagement with contemporary societies. The authors coordinate state-sponsore...

background: despite the advantages of dual peer mentoring, there are a few reports of implementing and evaluating such programs for medical students. this study aimed at exploring the perceptions of mentors and mentees about the dual peer mentoring program for the first year undergraduate medical students of tehran university of medical sciences.    methods: this qualitative study was conducted...