background : research on sensitive topics, such as sexuality, could raise technical, methodological, ethical, political, and legal challenges. the aim of this paper was to draw the methodological challenges which the authors confronted during sexuality research with young population in the iranian culture. methods : this study was an exploratory mixed method one conducted in 2013-14. we intervi...

Fifteen years after the term ‘ecohydrology’ came into use to describe integrative research spanning the two parent disciplines, we discuss methodological traditions of the parent disciplines and assess trends in the methodologies utilized in the young hybrid field of ecohydrology. In particular, we explore whether the marriage between the disciplines is built on a marriage of methodological str...

anthony giddens, a prominent social theoretician of contemporary sociology, has done extensive theoretical efforts in the last three decades. central to his debates is the theory of structuration, which was first introduced in his book constitution of society (1984). the theory, aimed at giving an end to dominance of hermeneutic theories on the one hand and structuralism and functionalism on th...

To understand change in global biodiversity patterns requires large-scale, long-term monitoring. The ability to draw meaningful comparison across studies is severely hampered by extensive variation in the design of the sampling equipment and how it is used. Here, we present a meta-analysis and description highlighting this variation in a common, widely used entomological survey technique. We re...

INTRODUCTION Cancer is increasingly being viewed as a chronic illness requiring long-term management, and there is a growing need for evidence-based rehabilitation interventions for cancer survivors. Previous reviews have evaluated the benefits of exercise interventions for patients undergoing cancer treatment and long-term survivors, but none have investigated the role of exercise during cance...

In this paper, we discuss practical and methodological issues of the creation of reference term lists (RTLs) for the evaluation of monolingual and bilingual term candidate extraction from comparable corpora in the domains of wind energy and mobile technology. These reference term lists are intended to serve as a ”gold standard” for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of automatic term e...