Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction

Social Multimedia and Storytelling [Guest editors' introduction]

T he pervasive use of media-capturing devices and the increasing adoption of online social networking platforms have led to the proliferation of digital content that documents the real world—everything from landmarks and points of interest to live concerts and demonstrations. Such content holds great potential for creating richer representations of real-world entities and helping tell engaging ...

Digital Libraries: Technological Advances and Social Impacts (Guest Editors' Introduction)

Mobile social networks and urban public space

The development and proliferation of mobile social networks have the potential to transform ways that people come together and interact in public space. These services allow new kinds of information to flow into public spaces and, as such, can rearrange social and spatial practices. Dodgeball is used as a case study of mobile social networks. Based on a year-long qualitative field study, this a...

Editors’ Introduction: Schizophrenia and Toxoplasmosis

This issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin includes articles on a possible infectious cause of schizophrenia. This approach follows a lead suggested by Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler a century ago. In the 1896 edition of his textbook, Kraepelin speculated that dementia praecox might be caused by a focal infection of bodily organs that then affected the brain as an autointoxication. Fifteen years la...

the relationship between efl learners linguistic and logical intelligence and the frequency and types of informal fallacies and evidence in argumentative writing

مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی وجود رابطه ی ممکن میان هوشهای زبانی و منطقی زبان آموزان انگلیسی و تعداد و انواع مغلطه های زبانی و شواهد در متنهای استدلالی آنان انجام پذیرفته است.بدین منظور، 70 زبان آموز با سطح زبانی متوسط به بالا از دو موسسه زبان انگلیسی در ایران انتخاب شده و پرسشنامه های مزبوطه را تکمیل نموده و متنی استدلالی نوشتند. متون نوشته شده مورد بررسی قرار گرفته و نمرات پرسشنامه ها محاسبه شده ...