Previous research has examined biomedical metaphors in discourses on military intervention, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism. Starting from the observation that such also occur contemporary conflict prevention discourse, this article inquires into their intellectual origins implications for understanding of war prevention. Drawing archival analysis, it finds they manifest two ways disco...

AIM To elicit the languages of legitimation of senior nursing academics and national leaders and to investigate the extent to which distinctive disciplinary identities and discourses are embedded in them. BACKGROUND Over six years after Irish nursing education became established in the higher education sector, an investigation into the disciplinary maturity of the field is overdue. DESIGN A...

Among the forms of knowledge that express and at the same time shape world views and social standards, scientific discourse, like religious discourse, has played a key part in producing an appearance of truth, appealing to ‘‘nature’’ as incontrovertible evidence. Throughout history, medicine has helped to theorize and justify gender differences and inequalities by naturalizing them, that is, by...

Contemporary Chinese society provides several socially pre-constructed models of representations and practices that interact to produce tensions that must be managed, and values, behaviour and actions are subject to renegotiation: the first system arises from pluralist and dynamic Chinese tradition (local traditional discourse), the second is twofolded—one was inherited from the 1919 intellectu...

There is a long history of research conducted on memory systems and processes of persons with mental retardation. In fact, the relation between memory ability and general intellectual ability was part of many of the earliest intelligence tests (see Estes, 1982). In terms of basic memory systems, researchers have evaluated the performance of persons with mental retardation relative to persons wi...

This paper discusses aspects of economic analysis law developed because the status quo existing on Internet and evolution legal theory copyright. It also explores massive increase interest in economics intellectual property during first decade twenty-first century. The argues that discourse copyright foregrounds policymaking with a focus copyright’s ramifications. examines Coase’s theorem its i...

D arwin’s elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolutionary force was one of the monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing thought across the biological sciences but also fundamentally impacting much discourse in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion. No longer were explanations for the origin and marvelous adaptations of organism...

It was not until the late 1980s that the term ‘Artificial Life’ arose as a descriptor of a range of (mostly) computer based research practices which sought alternatives to conventional Artificial Intelligence methods as a source of (quasi-) intelligent behavior in technological systems and artifacts. These practices included reactive and bottom-up robotics, computational systems which simulated...

When using scientific literature to model scholarly discourse, a research specialty can be operationalized as an evolving set of related documents. Each publication can be expected to contribute to the further development of the specialty at the research front. The specific combinations of title words and cited references in a paper can then be considered as a signature of the knowledge claim i...