Issues and Perspectives in Railway Management from a Sustainability Standpoint

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Knowledge Management from the ontological Standpoint

What is an adequate philosophy for knowledge management for an ontologist working in information science? I will contend that the relevant part of knowledge management, namely the theory of knowledge representation, lacks proper foundations. In particular, I will criticize the traditional philosophical approach to knowledge representation, which I call pragmatist conceptualism. I argue on the o...

Open Sustainability Innovation - A Pragmatic Standpoint of Sustainable HCI

The importance of sustainability in design became a major topic of interest in HCI research. Past research has shown how classical HCI design principles could be used to create values of the design through the open innovation concept. The scope of this paper follows from an earlier work of open innovation design principles that established the basis of open sustainability innovation since contr...

Molecular Diagnostics of Mycoplasmas: Perspectives from the Microbiology Standpoint

Geriatric issues from the standpoint of human evolution

Mankind is thought to have separated from a common ancestor shared with chimpanzees approximately 7 million years ago. At the time, among our ancestors was a group that decided to come down from the trees to live in the savanna as desertification of Africa’s forests progressed. Although the term “ape-man” was used for early mankind who walked on two feet, improvements in the precision of dating...