Abstract Over the past decade, academic social networking sites, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, have become a common tool in academia for accessing publications displaying metrics research evaluation self-monitoring. In this conceptual article, we discuss how these devices of that build on both traditional values, objects, publishing media logics algorithmic metrics, come to fulfil need...

This paper explores the emergence of direct linkages between the international economy and the state government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the early 1990s BadenWürttemberg embarked on a plan in which the laender government took the lead in organizing a large-scale, high technology project for the development of interactive television. Creating a `network' between itself and major economi...

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

BACKGROUND Physical manipulation and manual therapies are thousands of years old. The most popular western world iteration of these therapies is delivered by chiropractors. It can be argued that the collective public health benefit from chiropractic for spinal pain has been very substantial, however as chiropractic has transitioned from craft to profession it has encountered many internally and...

 This article, analyzes three basic concepts (power, knowledge and legitimacy) of Tusi's viewpoint. Also analyze that what are each of these concepts position in Islamic political thought and finally investigate the dignity of each one. In this research exploreTusi's components political thought, in fact explore the relationship between politics government and in relation with the basic concept...

When Stephen Strittmatter discovered an unexpected link between key proteins in two devastating brain maladies — Alzheimer’s disease and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) — researchers in the field agreed that he was on to something big. But a year on, conflicting results, including findings published in Nature this month, have clouded that rosy picture and highlight the challenge faced by resear...

TOTAL is the fourth largest multinational oil company in the world after Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Exxon Mobil. It has been strictly under the scrutiny of the public in regards to its operation in Burma where the governments significantly violate human rights. Its investment is considered by many international human rights groups to be supporting the military regime and thus supporting the junt...