A few thousand patients die of asthma each year in the United States, and Dr. Sears fears that an explanation may be found in his discovery that some patients with relatively mild asthma appear to suffer deterioration when they use 3-adrenergic aerosols routinely. Nevertheless, it is evident that many millions of patients use routine @-adrenergicaerosol therapy, and there is good reason to beli...

The widespread adoption of information and communications technologies (ICT) in higher education (HE) since the mid 1990s has failed to produce the radical changes in learning and teaching than many anticipated. Activity theory and Rogers’ model of the adoption of innovations provide analytic frameworks that help develop our understanding of the actual impact of ICT upon teaching practices. Thi...

The importance of advancing women’s rights is closely intertwined with the development of civil society and the institutionalization of democracy in Middle Eastern countries. There is indeed an intimate relationship between the process of democratization and promoting gender equality, since democracy necessitates equality between men and women. In order to advance the issue of gender equality, ...

The widespread adoption of information and communications technologies (ICT) in higher education (HE) since the mid 1990s has failed to produce the radical changes in learning and teaching than many anticipated. Activity theory and Rogers’ model of the adoption of innovations provide analytic frameworks that help develop our understanding of the actual impact of ICT upon teaching practices. Thi...

The authors use social science methodology to determine whether a doctrinal shift-from an objectivist view of criminality in the common law to a subjectivist view in modern criminal codes-is consistent with lay intuitions of the principles of justice. Commentators have suggested that lay perceptions of criminality have shifted in a way reflected in the doctrinal change, but the study results su...

the development of technology and modern industrial foundations has faced new matters to contemporary human societies. technology is rapidly changing lifestyles, social interactions and even modern human worldview about him (her)self and existence. technology-the unavoidable reality of modern world- represented itself as a phenomenon of expanding. the modern techniques have become quite differe...

The period 51Telehing from Columbus's fin;1 VOYlge in 149210 lhe mid-seventeenth cen­ tury was a fonna\lve period in the development of medicine, especially botllnicallhe:l1l' peutics. This brief paper oUllines the evolulion of 1mowledge of medicinal planlS during Ihis period, which also SllW Ihe exploration of the New WOl1d. Old World Therapeutics Therapeutics in the Old World underwent a deep...

In this article, I analyse the “publish or perish” enterprise and in particular the origins of editorial power/knowledge. My actor-network analysis shows how tenure, promotion, and salary decisions apparently unrelated to editorial decisions are important elements that accrue power/knowledge to editors of particular journals. What my actor-network analysis does not show, and which I therefore a...

In a much-quoted viral Gawker article, writer Dan Brooks (2021) describes NFTs—short for nonfungible tokens and used primarily to denote digital pop-art that operates as cryptocurrency financial instruments—as combining “the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy hedge fund managers. It is art people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured by new kind ...

This critical essay aims to assess the linguistic ideologies regarding Chinese writing system by locating them in historical and diasporic contexts new digital communication space. Drawing data from a long-term ongoing ethnography of online creative Sinographs global diaspora, it analyses how multilingual language users manipulate affordances combination with new, platforms challenge dominant p...