sex determination is the first step in identification of dead body and hip bone or its components are reliable in sex discrimination. the present study was done to determine the applicability of some osteometric parameters of human hip bone in sex identification. sixteen different variables for the anterior border of 50 human hip bones from a skeletal collection were studied. statistically sign...

Virtual consumption, or consumption of virtual goods and property, has become a major economic activity in social virtual worlds such as Second Life. Given that virtual consumption has become an important part of everyday virtual life in social virtual worlds, understanding virtual consumption can be an essential aspect to understanding user behavior in those worlds. Despite its significance, l...

Virtual Worlds are receiving increased global attention in a wide range of applications in education, business, government and social contexts. Kock (2008) defines virtual worlds as “technology-created virtual environments that incorporate representations of real world elements such as human beings, landscapes and other objects.” A key element is interaction via avatars. For example, SecondLife...

Neoliberalism is an anti-utopian and kind of patron–client theory that threatens not only the human utopian thought, therefore praxis, but also ‘ conditio humana ’. Therefore, this threat challenges current visions praxis in contextual theologies. From a dialogue between traditions present Latin American liberation theology black theology, particularly from renewed understanding relationships t...