Not so ‘new’? Looking critically at childhood studies

Looking Critically at ICT4Dev: The Case of Lincos

The following article is based on thesis research for the Communication for Development program at Malmö University, Sweden (Granqvist, 2003). It represents a study carried out through the NGO Funredes in the Dominican Republic, as a part of its Olistica project – an internet-based research “observatory” devoted to the assessment of the social impact of information and communication technology ...

Looking for a New Order in Urban Energy Efficient Strategies in Urban Studies

Workshop Report: The New and the Not So New

Not so new: overblown claims for 'new' approaches to emotion

Motivation • During the past decade, some philosophers and psychologists have argued that the conceptual resources of classical cognitive science cannot adequately account for certain important features of emotion. They have further argued that these features can be captured by nonclassical forms of cognitive science. This may be termed the non-classical thesis of emotion (NCE). • Many statemen...

New ways of looking at experimental phasing.

In the original work by Blow and Crick, experimental phasing was formulated as a least-squares problem. For good data on good derivatives this approach works reasonably well, but we now attempt to extract more information from poorer data than in the past. As in many other crystallographic problems, the assumptions underlying the use of least squares for phasing are not satisfied, particularly ...