By using integrated knowledge from natural sciences with insights from population sciences and the humanities and social sciences, qualitative research has been gaining a greater influence both in the development of epidemiology (Daly et al., 2007; Lloyd, 2000; Long & Eskin, 1995) and in the organization and delivery of healthcare (Shuval et al., 2011). In spite of the growing acceptance of qua...

School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daehak-ro 80, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea *Corresponding author: School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daehak-ro 80, Buk-ku, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea. Tel: 82-53-950-5373; Fax: 82-53-955-5522. E-mail: dglee22...

Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and Its Implications for the Social Sciences Amos Golan (American University and Info-Metrics) The study of information, the philosophy of information and entropy as a method of inference provides a unified approach to inference and learning across the disciplines. The Info-Metrics Institute promotes the study of information, information processing and optim...

Metaphors pervade discussions of sociopolitical issues and influence the way we think. One challenge facing researchers, however, is that it can be difficult to make principled predictions about exactly how metaphors will influence thought. Here, we use an explicit comparison task to quantify the persuasive capacity of metaphors. In Experiment 1, people were given two metaphors and two policy r...

alister mcgrath criticizes atheistically evolutionary view of richard dawkins in natural sciences; and believes that the evidence that is put forward by dawkins for explanation of his hypothesis, is not compatible with the result of his argument. dawkins attacks against christianity in four arguments, and believes that science has removed god and religion is against every kind of demonstration ...

wild and commercial bees and pesticide use Adam Kleczkowski∗ Computing Science and Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK Ciaran Ellis Biological and Environmental Studies, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK Dave Goulson School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK Nick Hanley Dept. of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St ...