From "Swanny's Ways"

Ways to break loose from OR holds.

Ways of Reasoning and Ways of Inferencing

This paper reports on research in intercultural psychology to argue the case for the role that different ways of knowing might have on education. Evidence is summarised that suggests that Asian students make subtlety different inferences than their western counterparts, and that this has not been given serious consideration in the educational literature, despite its importance for the enterpris...

Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling

The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic inter...

Community-based participatory research in Iran: its challenges and ways to control from the stakeholders view

     According to World Health Organization reports, the root of applied researches problems in developing countries are running the researches based on academic researchers ’ interests as well as decision-making in executive systems based on their managers ’ experiences. The problems will be eliminated by stakeholders ’ participation. In 2001, the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBP...

From form to function: the ways to know a neuron.

The shape of a neuron, its morphological signature, dictates the neuron's function by establishing its synaptic partnerships. Here, we review various anatomical methods used to reveal neuron shape and the contributions these have made to our current understanding of neural function in the Drosophila brain, especially the optic lobe. These methods, including Golgi impregnation, genetic reporters...