the aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between generation gap and democracy in iran in the last fifty years. to do so, the writers have used the results of the national polls conducted in 1974, 1995 and 2002 in their attempt to clarify the activeness or inactiveness of the generation gap by analyzing the differences between the attitudes, values and behaviors of the young and adul...

This, first issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE) for 2015 is a lively, diverse and stimulating, if occasionally contentious, read. Undoubtedly the same will be said of the next two issues for this year; April and June: special themed issues on recent advances in the fields of epigenetic epidemiology and Mendelian randomization respectively. Although these issues are closed f...

This paper will focus on Global Positioning System (GPS) and it’s applied use as technological assistance for dynamic wayfinding. Through an overview of the cognitive strategies utilized in wayfinding i t identifies some of the affordances offered by mobile GPS devices. As background it discusses map use and the acquisition of spatial knowledge, and additionally outlines the nature of spatial d...

Pengsheng Ji and Jiashun Jin have collected and analyzed a fun and fascinating dataset that we are eager to use as an example in a course on Statistical Network Analysis. In this comment, we partition the core of the paper citation graph and interpret the clusters by analyzing the paper abstracts using bag-of-words. Under the Stochastic Blockmodel (SBM), the eigengap reveals the number of clust...

Suggestion, both within and outside of hypnosis, can influence many psychological processes, including cognition and emotion. Moreover, suggestion may account for many individual differences and promote the investigation of such mainstream fields as attention and memory. To be sure, exploring the power of suggestion will likely pave the road to a more scientific understanding of such psychologi...

There was a time when academics were reluctant to work on anything that could be commercialized. Applied research had its place, but not in the university laboratory. One reason for the unwillingness to follow up on basic research was a widespread conviction that it is less of an intellectual challenge to turn a promising discovery into a new therapeutic than, say, defining a signal transductio...

In order to be secure, modules that provide cryptographic function must do more than simply implement a secure cryptographic algorithm. They must resist system-level attacks, whether by software or hardware, and whether the attack is intended to produce incorrect results or to expose information that should be protected. The details of these requirements change over time. Both attack and defens...