There is a contemporary fascination with the way in which modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) may facilitate the emergence of innovative new forms of organising. In this paper we attempt to contribute to this debate by focusing on recent attempts to introduce Project Webs in the construction sector as a means of streamlining and improving the way projects are traditionally ...

Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are manifested in architecture and spatial organizations that configure relationships on the basis of economic status, ethnicity, occupation, age grade, and gender within the city. Outer landscapes are composed of the h...

Abstract This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin analyses strategies both throughout 40 years Cold War. It reveals goal full energy independence propagated by proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained...

As a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. A CDA approach, based on Fairclough (1989), Van Dijk (2004) and Farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

OBJECTIVES To identify whether parliamentary scrutiny, in the form of Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs), has any significant impact on the UK government's stated aid priorities and whether, by refining the approach that MPs with an interest in TB take to scrutinising the government on its aid priorities, more resources could be secured for TB. METHODS We downloaded 19,234 Written Parliam...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach, based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...