Twitter has frequently served as a platform for political and social discussion, playing a notable role in organizing protests, serving as a form of civil disobedience, and being used as a means of expressing outrage over social events. We seek to further research aspects of Twitter conversations (specifically their use of Twitter hashtags), which allow them to remain connected and bring togeth...

1. Titular professor of cardiovascular surgery, São Paulo Medical School, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2. Head of the cardiac surgery at Hospital Modelo. A Coruña. España. The results between coronary artery bypass grafting and myocardial coronary angioplasty has been the subject of controversy since the year 1979, when percutaneous technique was intriduced by Andreas Grüntzig [1]. ...

The writings of a sixteenth century French teenager may seem a stretch for a public health readership, but Etienne de la Boétie's treatise on Voluntary Servitude explains why unjust systems prevail and how they can be changed. They prevail, he shows, because we let them (the losers always vastly outnumber the winners); and they change when we retract our permission (as Ghandi demonstrated). The...

Child disobedience and noncompliance is a recurring problem frequently brought to the attention of pediatricians and others working with children and their parents. This article reviews empirical studies concerning childhood noncompliance. Definitions of noncompliance (also called disobedience) are presented, and observational studies that have measured noncompliance in the laboratory and at ho...

This article studies the problem faced by activists who want to maximize firms’ compliance with high environmental standards. Our focus is on radical activism which relies non-violent civil disobedience. The threat of disruptive actions used force firms concede, i.e., engage in self-regulation. We adopt a mechanism design approach characterize an optimal campaign. analysis indicates that least ...

Abstract Since the 1980s, archaeology has been further embedded in a reinforced and accelerating capitalist ideology, namely neo-liberalism. Most archaeologists had no alternative but to adapt it through concessions free-market economy so-called mitigations taking place within development. However, is now apparent that ongoing global socio-ecological disaster we are facing cannot be reversed wi...

Introduction. We investigate the conditions under which posting software known as "DeCSS" on the Internet is ethical. DeCSS circumvents the access and copy control protection measures on commercial DVDs. Through our investigation, we point to limitations in current frameworks used to assess ethical computer based civil disobedience. Method. The paper draws on empirical findings of actual DeCSS ...