The Institutionalization of Fair Trade: More than Just a Degraded Form of Social Action

Full Circle: More than Just Social Implications of GIS

Over the past few years, a number of geographers, inspired by social theory of various derivations, attempted to recenter the focus of research about GIS. In place of a technical agenda, they sought to make space for studies of the implications of GIS for society at many scales and through many processes. While much of their critique serves useful purposes, the focus on implications adopts a mo...

More than just vanilla.

the effect of consciousness raising (c-r) on the reduction of translational errors: a case study

در دوره های آموزش ترجمه استادان بیشتر سعی دارند دانشجویان را با انواع متون آشنا سازند، درحالی که کمتر به خطاهای مکرر آنان در متن ترجمه شده می پردازند. اهمیت تحقیق حاضر مبنی بر ارتکاب مکرر خطاهای ترجمانی حتی بعد از گذراندن دوره های تخصصی ترجمه از سوی دانشجویان است. هدف از آن تاکید بر خطاهای رایج میان دانشجویان مترجمی و کاهش این خطاها با افزایش آگاهی و هوشیاری دانشجویان از بروز آنها است.از آنجا ک...

Psycho-Social-Medicine - More than just another journal

Medicine has from its beginnings been an interpersonal experience. As George Engel [1] reminds us, the physician-patient relationship usually starts with the patient's disclosure of his or her perception of impaired health. This perception may or may not reflect major bodily changes, but it almost always reflects the intrapsychic appraisal of what is perceived as an altered physical or mental s...

Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends?

Social sites have become extremely popular among users but have they attracted equal attention from the research community? Are they good only for simple tasks, such as tagging and poking friends? Do they present any new or interesting research challenges? In this paper, we describe the insights we have obtained implementing CourseRank, a course evaluation and planning social system. We argue t...