Academic Articles & Research Papers

Theoretically Speaking – An Autoethnographic Journey in Crossing Disciplines to Being-Becoming a Practical Scholar

Becoming a PhD scholar requires a change in identity and new ways of thinking. This is difficult for those from practical backgrounds who struggle to merge the theoretical/scholarly with the creative/practical. Moving towards the scholarly ...

Conversational Multi-Agentic Network-Driven Disease Module Identification and Drug Repurposing Prediction With ChatDRex: Platform Development Study.

Practice Makes Human: AI Conversation and Simulation as Deliberate Practice for Human Connection in CPD.

Access before literacy: reframing conversational AI in health self-management for low-resource contexts.

The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography

VOLUME ONE Part I: Imagining Human Geographies Place - Tim Cresswell Mobilities - Johanna Waters Spatialities - Jacques Levy Difference - Katharyne Mitchell More-than-Human Geographies - Beth Greenough Society-Nature - Andrea Nightingale Tr...

Space‐Time, ‘Science’ and the Relationship between Physical Geography and Human Geography

This paper explores the possibility that there may be commonalities between physical geography and human geography in emerging ways of conceptualizing space, time and space‐time. It argues that one of the things holding physical and human g...

GERP: A Personality-Based Emotional Response Generation Model

It is important for chatbots to emotionally communicate with users. However, most emotional response generation models generate responses simply based on a specified emotion, neglecting the impacts of speaker’s personality on emotional expr...

Comparison in Anthropology

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

Linguistic Anthropology

In this textbook, first published in 1997, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of li...

Towards Sensorial Approaches to Visual Research with Racially Diverse Young Men

This is a collaborative ethnographic research project that highlights the artistic, literary contributions of racially diverse young men. It uses Critical Race Theory to question conventional, Eurocentric educational approaches that histori...

From ELIZA to Conversational AI: Can a Chatbot Develop Emotions? Her as a Case Study

The rapid evolution of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked an ongoing debate regarding its ability to replicate, or even experience, human emotions. While early conversational chatbots such as Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA (...

Ei saa me läbi “Pragmaatika” korpuseta. Korpuspragmaatika ja pragmaatikakorpus

Within the project “Pragmatics above grammar: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in Estonian registers and text types” (PRG341) we are studying the expression of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in different written and spoken registers o...

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science

The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distincti...

حِماية الحق في حُرمة الحياة الخاصة في الشريعة الإسلامية

لا ريب أن لكل شخص أسراره الخاصة ومن حقه كتمانها عن الآخرين تحقيقا لمصالحه الشخصية، وقد كان للشريعة الإسلامية فضل السبق في تقرير حق المرء في حفظ أسراره وعدم إفشائها من قبل الغير انطلاقا من حرصها علي صيانة خصوصيات الإنسان تحقيقاً للألفة والمو...

The Roles of Foreign Language in Business Administration

This paper explores the roles of foreign language in business administration, investigates the manager perspectives, studies the problems of foreign language usages in communication, to discover modes of developing employee’s foreign langua...

Slow Archaeology, Punk Archaeology, and the ‘Archaeology of Care’

This article considers the impact of both historical and digital transhuman practices in archaeology with an eye towards recent conversations concerning punk archaeology, slow archaeology, and an ‘archaeology of care’. Drawing on Ivan Illic...

Social and biological pathways linking relationships with companion animals to human well-being

IntroductionCompanion animals are widely recognized for their potential to support human mental health and well-being. These benefits may arise through changes in social relationships and physiological processes. This study examined whether...

Dissenting Design

As part of the discipline and practice of design (understood in its broadest sense of «strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation, builds business success, and leads to a better quality of life through innovative products, sys...