Academic Articles & Research Papers

Social justice and social media: How medical schools display critical consciousness online

Secondary research use of personal medical data: patient attitudes towards data donation

Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted once more the great need for comprehensive access to, and uncomplicated use of, pre-existing patient data for medical research. Enabling secondary research-use of patient-data is a...

Circular RNA expression profiles and functional predication after restraint stress in the amygdala of rats

Prolonged or repeated exposure to stress elevates the risk of various psychological diseases, many of which are characterized by central nervous system dysfunction. Recent studies have demonstrated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are highly a...

Social Justice Mathematics and Public Health Equity: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literacy in Health Decision-Making

Background: Public health decision-making increasingly requires individuals to interpret numerical information such as risks, probabilities, treatment benefits, and epidemiological trends. However, disparities in quantitative literacy may c...

Religion and International Relations theory

Until the end of the Cold War, it is not an exaggeration to say that only a few theorists of International Relations (IR) or policy-makers engaged in either substantial investigation or articulation of the links between cultural variables l...

Justice in International Relations

The question with which we are concerned is how far the state is necessary or sufficient or even relevant as a constituency of human justice. If answers to this question are considered as forming a continuum, at one end all questions of jus...

Order and Justice in International Relations

Abstract The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. This book sets current interest in that relationship within a broad historical and theoretical con...

Good Faith in the Judgments of the International Court of Justice

Good faith, as one of the fundamental principles of international law, indicates the need for fairness, honesty and reasonableness in international relations. And the International Court of Justice and other international judicial authoriti...

Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines

This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republ...

Theories of International Relations

Universities and professional associations usually are organized in ways that tend to separate scholars in adjoining disciplines and perhaps even to promote stereotypes of each other and their scholarly endeavors. The seemingly natural area...

Terrorism, Security and Democracy: 20 Years after 9/11

This article situates itself in the context of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which launched the ‘Global War on Terror’—coming shortly after the debacle of the Taliban’s triumphant return to power in Afghanistan. The article conte...

Protecting Autonomy of Rohingya Women in Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions

Photo by Sébastien Goldberg on Unsplash ABSTRACT Rohingya women face challenges that ought to be acknowledged and addressed to ensure that when they seek health care, they can act autonomously and decide freely among available options. ...

Symposium on Muslims in Europe

The question of a Muslim minority in the Western context has become an important one in view of some h-and-hysteria literatu~th at continues to depict this minority as a threat to Western liberal values and sociopolitical systems. The confe...

Justice in International Relations

International Relations: The Basics

International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to the major issues and areas of debate and: explains key issues in...

Political Theory and International Relations

Preface vii Introduction 3 Part One. International Relations as a State of Nature 11 1. The Skepticism of the Realists 15 2. The Hobbesian Situation 27 3. International Relations as a State of Nature 35 4. The Basis of International Moralit...

JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Enhancing VAT compliance in the retail industry: The role of socio-economic determinants and tax knowledge moderation

Despite tax being a fundamental method to redistribute wealth and achieve a sustainable economic and social system, tax agencies and institutions in most countries are struggling with low tax collections. This issue is often attributed to t...

The Concept and Model of Learning Society in Iran

Introduction The growth of science and technology tend to convert society to a learning society and enjoy its profits and also cope with its challenges (Edwards, 2002; Jarvis, 2008; Unesco, 2005). In response to questions such as "what is a...

Squeaky wheels: Missing data, disability, and power in the smart city

Data about the accessibility of United States municipalities is infrastructure in the smart city. What is counted and how, reflects the sociotechnical imaginary (norms and values) of a time or place. In this paper we focus on features ident...