The sociology of the body developed as a reaction against Cartesian conceptions homo clausus that haunted disciplinary thought in late 20th century but exhibited anthropocentric tendencies neglecting non-human animals. Building upon recent attempts to address this situation, I develop transactional approach towards pedagogics explores how shifting borders governing human–animal relations influe...

This study has reviewed the lived experience of social and cultural active Kurdish women using qualitative methods and the Grounded Theory. The purpose of this study is identifying their attitude and practical responses to "gender inequality". Due to comparing two different aspects of these women's lived experience, at the end of the study, two paradigmatic models are obtained. The analysis of ...

Can a model constructed using data mining (DM) programs be trusted? It is known that a decision-tree model can contain relations that are statistically significant, but, in reality, meaningless to a human. When the task is domain analysis, meaningless relations are problematic, since they can lead to wrong conclusions and can consequently undermine a human’s trust in DM programs. To eliminate p...

In 1949 Pauling and his associates showed that sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) belonged to an abnormal molecular species. In 1958 Ingram, who used a two-dimensional system of electrophoresis and chromatography to break down the hemoglobin molecule into a mixture of smaller peptides, defined the molecular defect in HbS by showing that it differed from normal adult hemoglobin by only a single peptid...

This paper introduces a new approach to classifying the way in which data visualizations mediate our experience of the world. In doing so we will use the concept of human-technology relations as developed by Don Ihde, a phenomenological philosopher of technology. Following a synopsis of Ihde’s four humantechnology relations, each is then developed in the context of specific data visualization t...

cover the wide fields of psychology and psychiatry, of the industrial environment and plans for a course of training for those who are responsible for human relations in industry. The views expressed avoid the common tendency that all the problems of management can be solved by any single method of approach. It is essentially a book for senior management and the authors have avoided the only to...

The things people do in their daily lives can provide valuable insights into their personality, values, and interests. Unstructured text data on social media platforms are rich in behavioral content, and automated systems can be deployed to learn about human activity on a broad scale if these systems are able to reason about the content of interest. In order to aid in the evaluation of such sys...

Conference, Josiah Macey Foundation. New York. Obtainable free from World Federation for Mental Health. 19 Manchester Street, London, W.l. This report on the second conference on health and human relations in Germany held at Williamsburg, Virginia, in December 1950, is a short and concise account which should be read by all with any interest in international affairs. The Conference was planned ...