Designing hypercitizenship methodologically

A Methodologically Oriented Review

Recent SLA theory development, supported by related developments in cognitive psychology, has made the study of SL speech production, hitherto neglected, a promising area of work. Recent developments in L1 production studies have provided a gradually strengthening foundation for investigations of L2 production with both use and acquisitional concerns. This article briefly sketches the current f...

Methodologically Designing a Hierarchically Organized Concept-Based Terminology Database to Improve Access to Biomedical Documentation

Relational databases have been used to represent lexical knowledge since the days of machine-readable dictionaries. However, although software engineering provides a methodological framework for the construction of databases, most developing efforts focus on content, implementation and timesaving issues, and forget about the software engineering aspects of database construction. We have defined...

Redefining Psychology Methodologically, Metatheoretically, Pedagogically and Ethically

Taxonomic Chauvinism and the Methodologically Challenged

R concern has been raised over the existence of obvious taxonomic biases in contemporary literature on ecology, evolution, and conservation biology (Bonnet et al. 2002, Stein et al. 2002, Clark and May 2002a, 2002b). For example, Bonnet and colleagues (2002) show that that an apparent, albeit subliminal, bias toward homeothermic (endothermic) fauna affords research on these groups greater publi...

Psychological Autopsy Studies as Diagnostic Tools: Are they Methodologically Flawed?

One of the most established "truths" in suicidology is that almost all (90% or more) of those who kill themselves suffer from one or more mental disorders, and a causal link between the two is implied. Psychological autopsy (PA) studies constitute one main evidence base for this conclusion. However, there has been little reflection on the reliability and validity of this method. For example, ps...