Aiming to explore how the ecosocial is imagined within social work research, this article engages with understandings of relationship between and ecological realms when responding call for sustainability. A theoretical framework offering five possible imaginations was developed: holistic; anthropocentric conflictual; compatible; ‘ecocentric’ compatible. The material consists international peer-...

Word learning is one of the core components of language acquisition. In this article, we provide an overview of the theme issue on word learning, describing some of the ways in which research in the area has progressed and diverged. In recent years, word learning has become central in a wider range of research areas, and is important to research on adult, as well as child and infant language. W...

the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of infrastructure and strategy of knowledge management on acquisition of core competencies through knowledge management process in ‘iran khodro company’. research method was descriptive-correlation. statistical population encompassed 400 members of supervisors, middle managers, and senior managers in iran’s ikco. the opinions of 198 members w...

the research argues that the ending divine attributes of the quranic verses are related semantically to the verses’ theme. according to the content of the quranic verses, supported by some commentators, the ending divine attributes of the verses have such a deep semantic relationship with the verse content that if we abandon the ending attributes, some disorder is made in the verse theme. this ...

Since the end of World War II, outer space has been an arena in which both high and low politics have played out, US Europe heavily invested. This article examines case study exploration as a window into evolving nature transatlantic relationship. With government regularly deprioritizing its foreign policy at times taking relationship for granted, author argues that transnational non-state acto...

OBJECTIVE Although patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) present positive responses to family therapy, the key features of therapeutic changes still require identification. This study explores the role of conflictual communication and affiliative nonverbal behaviour in therapeutic change in brief strategic family therapy (BSFT) for AN patients. METHODS Ten female AN patients and their parents w...

Important others' perceptions influence self-perceptions. This presents a challenge for the critical developmental task of integrating all aspects of identity, as identities that are devalued or stigmatized by society are harder to own than valued ones. Across 3 studies, we tested the idea that conflictual or stigmatized identities are harder to own, or integrate into the self, than are nonconf...

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has played a pivotal role in developing and nurturing a metadata domain. DCMI’s conference has become an international venue for metadata researchers and professionals. The purpose of this study was to discover the epistemological consensus and social semantics, if any, of a metadata domain based in DCMI conferences. Specifically, we identified the pat...

Increasingly HIV-positive refugee women are becoming pregnant. The objective of this qualitative study was to describe and explore the meaning and experience of pregnancy from the perspective of HIV-positive refugee women. The phenomenological analysis revealed 4 core themes. "Making up stories" for privacy and protection emerged as the first theme. The second theme illuminates 2 types of isola...

This document describes an ongoing commercial project that aims to model the cultural heritage domain in an ontology, containing data from eleven types of heritages, from bibliographic items, to industrial patrimony, or to prehistoric excavations for a Spanish region, Cantabria. Besides, the project will develop a series of applications that get the most out of the ontology, beginning by a sema...