In recent decades, "Public Sphere" is one of the most important concepts in political science. Jurgen Habermas the famous thinker in this approach is the first to use this concept in critical thinking, where he demonstrates how networking is used for communicative actions. Habermas has not included the Internet as an important part of his thought process in the "public sphere", however, I think...

Social identity is a constant and permanent process that changes social situations based on individual experiences in these situations. Religious and ethnic identities are two dimensions of social identity that are of great importance in Iranian society. Due to the ethnic diversity in Iran and the proximity of ethnic cultures through migration, ethnic identity is noticeable. Religious identity ...

This paper addresses the problem of finding rising stars in academic social networks. Rising stars are the authors which have low research profile in the beginning of their career but may become prominent contributors in the future. An effort for finding rising stars named PubRank is proposed, which considers mutual influence and static ranking of conferences or journals. In this work an improv...

Denmark underwent major changes in the 1800s and first part of 1900s, which affected role education lives women. Until then, women had primarily worked as homemakers with few academic opportunities; but from early home economics developed a field knowledge, several schools appeared across country. Several factors contributed to influenced this development. Focusing on period 1890–1940, was part...

The use of sperm donation by single women has provoked public, professional and political debate. Newspapers serve as a critical means of both broadcasting this debate and effecting a representation of this user group within the public sphere. This study uses the theory of social representations to examine how single motherhood by sperm donation has been represented in the UK news over time. Th...

This paper analyzes the contact area of the contact between a deformable rough surface (smooth and rough) and a hard smooth sphere indenter using finite element method. A method was introduced to generate a three dimensional rough surfaces using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. The rough surface model was developed based on the surface measurement data, while the smooth surface model was g...