global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. to arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. but there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Social media is changing the balance of power as well as the dynamics of communication between manufacturers and retailers, their brands, and consumers. In this research we examine the effects of companies’ responses to consumer criticism in social media. Our findings indicate that a vulnerable response leads to more positive behavioral consequences without damaging product quality perceptions ...

this study aims to examine how iranian efl learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from iranian informants (male vs. female). the results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

It is known that the classic Korn inequality is not valid for Hölder α domains. In this paper we prove a family of weaker inequalities for this kind of domains, replacing the standard L-norms by weighted norms where the weights are powers of the distance to the boundary. In order to obtain these results we prove first some weighted Poincaré inequalities and then, generalizing an argument of Kon...

There is growing interest in the influence of individuals’ usage of virtual social networks (VSNs) for professional and personal communication in a country on the levels of its human development, and how this effect differs across various cultures namely, power distance, individualism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the r...