Existing models for understanding suicide fail to account for the distinctiveness of Internet group suicide, a recent phenomenon in Japan. Drawing from an ethnography of Internet suicide websites, two social commentaries in Japanese popular culture, and the work of developmental psychologist Philippe Rochat, I argue that participation in Internet suicide forums and even the act of Internet grou...

In the past twenty years, new optimism about the relevance of Buddhism to cognitive science has been expressed by a number of established researchers. In this article I ask what are the conceptual roots of this optimism, and which forms of development it inspired, with particular focus on selfhood, embodiment and meditation. The latter contains three distinct points of contact that are also rev...

This article offers a prolegomenon for an African feminist philosophy. The prompt this as interrogation of Oluwele’s claim that philosophy cannot develop until identifiable worldviews guide the relationship between men and women have been established. She argues there is general agreement about nature itself, will remain impoverished. I critique claim, unpacking argument, examine contested both...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has become a test case of the effects of globalisation, in that it demonstrates how international processes may affect regional life situations and how 'the local' can simultaneously develop in its own way, through the processes of appropriating, modifying, and resisting global influences. Drawing on fieldwork in Tanzania, I show how the Luo in the Mara region de...

A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able fulfil the promise socio-economic, political techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that predominantly outlook past century or so marked a move away from former views on human Rather than commenting humanity’s inability build better society, current dystopi...

What’s the best way to assess the performance of a semantic component in an NLP system? Tradition in NLP evaluation tells us that comparing output against a gold standard is a good idea. To define a gold standard, one first needs to decide on the representation language, and in many cases a first-order language seems a good compromise between expressive power and efficiency. Secondly, one needs...

BACKGROUND Dengue virus causes one of the most significant infectious diseases in tropical and subtropical regions, notable number of which is imported into China every year. RESULTS In this study, the molecular epidemiologic and phylogenetic analyses of dengue cases imported into Guangzhou in South China during 2009-2013 were conducted. During that period, 46 imported dengue cases were ident...