This article is an introductory essay to the Special Issue “A Comparative Study of Media in Contemporary Visual Art”. It starts with a short overview terminological discussion about intermediality as concept and its relationship medialities other prefixes—such mixed, intra-, multi-, transmedialities. So far, has been discussed less by art historians than literary scholars. argues that critical ...

Significant sociopolitical changes in recent decades have not only influenced the nursing profession, but also the entire Iranian healthcare system. This study describes the historical evolution of the nursing profession within a sociopolitical context. This historical review of unpublished and published literature endorsed personal accounts of historic events by 14 of the oldest nurses in Iran...

Online user comments contain valuable user opinions. Comments vary greatly in quality and detecting high quality comments is a subtask of opinion mining and summarization research. Finding attentive comments that provide some reasoning is highly valuable in understanding the user’s opinion particularly in sociopolitical opinion mining and aids policy makers, social organizations or government s...

Longstanding interest has been directed toward the etiology of sociopolitical attitudes. Personality traits have been posited as antecedents; however, most work addressing such links has been limited to cross-sectional study designs. The current study used data from two large (both Ns > 8,700), longitudinal cohorts of individuals from the United Kingdom who were parent-assessed on a measure of ...

The multinational firm possesses certain kinds of advantages that set it apart from purely domestic firms. This article establishes the economic advantages of the multinational firm, describes the various strategies and organizational structures that can be used to maximize its advantages relative to local firms in the foreign countries in which it operates, and outlines the various sociopoliti...