Academic Articles & Research Papers

Decolonization and Globalization in Communication Studies

Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...

Estructuración de la microempresa establecida en el sector comercial de la Ciudad de Milagro, Ecuador

In seeking to analyse the current structure of small businesses in the town of Milagro we considered those that have a maximum of 10 people, whose activities are performed mostly in an empirical manner, in view of the low levels of academi...

Implementation of non-pharmacological recommendations and its associated factors among hypertensive patients on follow-up in hospitals of South Omo and Gofa zones, Southern Ethiopia: A facility based cross sectional study.

Hypertension is a major public health issue and inadequately controlled in a large proportion of patients globally. It can be adequately managed both pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically. This study aimed to assess the implementation...

Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics are used to summarize data in an organized manner by describing the relationship between variables in a sample or population. Calculating descriptive statistics represents a vital first step when conducting research a...

The Relationship of Youth Family Values with Hedonism and Eudemonia

Introduction. A notable trend in modern society is the transformation of family institution, which has long been considered the most important social and personal value. The change of attitudes of young people towards marriage in Russia is ...

Bridging Indigenous and science-based knowledge in coastal-marine research, monitoring, and management in Canada: a systematic map protocol

Abstract Background The incorporation of multiple types of knowledge (e.g., science, Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge) is an important undertaking, which can strengthen the evidence-base for policy advice, decision mak...

SveDem, the Swedish Dementia Registry - a tool for improving the quality of diagnostics, treatment and care of dementia patients in clinical practice.

BackgroundThe Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem) was developed with the aim to improve the quality of diagnostic work-up, treatment and care of patients with dementia disorders in Sweden.MethodsSveDem is an internet based quality registry w...

From the Statistics of Data to the Statistics of Knowledge

Increasingly, datasets are so large they must be summarized in some fashion so that the resulting summary dataset is of a more manageable size, while still retaining as much knowledge inherent to the entire dataset as possible. One conseque...

Introduction to Probability and Statistics from a Bayesian Viewpoint

The two parts of this book treat probability and statistics as mathematical disciplines and with the same degree of rigour as is adopted for other branches of applied mathematics at the level of a British honours degree. They contain the mi...

Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge

Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Abstract Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch – and the manner in which these work alone, o...

Cultural Turns/Geographical Turns: Perspectives on Cultural Geography

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Dead or Alive? PART I - CULTURAL TURNS, GEOGRAPHICAL TURNS Introduction The Twistings and Turnings of Geography and Anthropology in winds of Millennium Transition ...

Imaginative geographies

Reanalyzing the work of Eward Said the essay illuminates the complexity and fractured formation of Orientalism as a constellation of power, knowledge and geography. In doing so the author reconstructs Said's geographical imagination and its...

Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom

Preface Prologue Part One: Universal Values 1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography 2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism 4. The New Cosmopolitans 5. The Banality of Geographical Evi...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

Visual Programming per l'interfaccia utente di GEOPOI 2.0 in Sogei

Da qualche tempo è  stato  coniato  il  termine  mass customization (personalizzazione di massa) che vuo-le indicare la strategia per la produzione di beni e servizi orientata a soddisfare i bisogni individuali dei Clienti e  contemporaneam...

Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia

‘Area studies' use a geographical metaphor to visualise and naturalise particular social spaces as well as a particular scale of analysis. They produce specific geographies of knowing but also create geographies of ignorance. Taking Southea...

Urban Geography

For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: even those living beyond the administrative or fu...

HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY

The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the ...