Patriarchal power as a conceptual tool for gender history

Building a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework for Power Systems Resilience Metrics

Recently, the frequency and severity of natural and man-made disasters (extreme events), which have a high-impact low-frequency (HILF) property, are increased. These disasters can lead to extensive outages, damages, and costs in electric power systems. A power system must be built with “resilience” against disasters, which means its ability to withstand disasters efficiently while ensuring the ...

The Future of Bitcoin as a Tool for Financial Development

The purpose of research is focused on the insight into the future of Bitcoin on the financial situation, its implications and challenges. The problem of study is to investigate how to deal with a new type of digital currencies (such Bitcoin) that does not have a physical presence and there is no specific body to issue. Thus, this study aims to identify the nature of Bitcoin currency and what ar...

Collaborative Conceptual Exploration as a Tool for Crowdsourcing Domain Ontologies

Domain ontologies are essential in disciplines as diverse as software engineering, medicine, or political science to name just a few. This paper describes an ongoing effort to develop a methodology for collaborative ontology construction by geographically spread communities of experts and implement a web-based prototype supporting this methodology. A distinctive feature of the proposed approach...

French History Textbooks as a Tool for Teaching Civilization

Schizophrenia: A Conceptual History

The current concept of schizophrenia is regarded as the consequence of a linear progress from different definitions concluding in the present. According to the “continuity hypothesis” schizophrenia has always existed and 19 th and 20 th centuries alienists have polished away its blemishes and impurities, culminating in the DSM-IV definition which can therefore be considered as a paragon of a re...