We establish the algebraic reflexivity of three isometry groups of operator structures: The group of all surjective isometries on the unitary group, the group of all surjective isometries on the set of all positive invertible operators equipped with the Thompson metric, and the group of all surjective isometries on the general linear group of B(H), the operator algebra over a complex infinite d...

Qualitative research methods could help us to improve our understanding of medicine. Rather than thinking of qualitative and quantitative strategies as incompatible, they should be seen as complementary. Although procedures for textual interpretation differ from those of statistical analysis, because of the different type of data used and questions to be answered, the underlying principles are ...

Pierre Bourdieu’s “epistemic reflexivity” is the cornerstone of his intellectual enterprise, underpinning his claims to provide distinctive and scientific knowledge of the social world. This article considers what this notion offers for research and how it needs to be developed further to underpin progress in social science. Many reflexive research practices are sociological, individualistic, a...

Pre-development activities, such as new product idea screening, are considered to play an important role in innovation success. At the screening stage, a management team evaluates new product and service ideas and makes a first go/no-go decision under high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity. The present study proposes and tests a model of team-level antecedents and consequences of reflexivity ...

This article offers an approach that combines, on the one hand, the philosophical notion of reflexivity, which is related to the ideas of self-reference and paradox, and, on the other hand, the sociological discussion of epistemic reflexivity as a problem of coherence, which was mainly initiated by certain branches of ethnomethodology and social constructionism. This combinatory approach argues...

This paper presents data from Kannada that resist either type of analysis ( 2). The grammar of reflexivity in Kannada reveals that resultatives must be syntactically distinguished both from ECM constructions and from simple transitives. Simple transitives and ECM constructions allow verbal reflexive marking when reflexive, but resultatives do not. To explain this, we assign Kannada resultatives...

The analyses of Pollard and Sag (1992, 1994) and Reinhart and Reuland (1993) answer why certain reflexive pronouns – so-called picture-NP-reflexives – behave anomalously in allowing co-reference with nonbinding antecedents. These reflexives are exempt from Binding Theory’s Principle A because Principle A only requires binding if a potential antecedent is available in a given local domain. The r...

this exploratory study attempts to shed some light on the ethnocentric behaviours of young iranians in relation to the global consumer culture. it demonstrates why and how these individuals adhere to their own cultural resources and refrain from consuming the products or daily life practices of other cultures. the analysis of interpretive interviews with twelve participants in tehran and karaj ...