The lexicon of information warfare (IW), or cyberwar, to use a common variant, has been around for more than two decades (Adams, 1998), but for most of that time it has remained the preserve of the defense community. Within the cloistered world of the Pentagon and its satellite communities, a radically new concept of postindustrial warfare has crystallized, one that is designed to ensure contin...

under the table or informal payments in several middle and low income countries is a serious impediment to health care reform. these payments are effectively a form of systemic corruption. this report shows the efforts of a patient who seek health care for his ankle while being requested to pay under the table in hospital and private clinic. the data were collected by interview and surveying pa...

in order to respond to the problem of urban decline, different approaches have been defined in sucha way that urban regeneration approach became current in the 1980s (and more wildly after 1995) as a replacement for urban renewal. urban regeneration is the holistic process of reversing economic, social and physical decay in areas where it has reached a stage when market forces alone will not su...

This paper presents some central findings of an exploratory qualitative study of New Zealand families with children conceived by donor insemination (DI). Drawing on social anthropological and sociological theorising about kinship and contemporary Western families, the paper explores the ways in which parents and their kin actively construct parent-child relationships and kin connections through...

In this article we explore how anti-feminist and cisgenderist media logics are intertwined, particularly in the context of sports media. We examine these issues through focused analysis a recent case reported 2018–2019 predominantly British The sequential unfolding events surrounding Martina Navratilova’s intervention into debate about trans inclusion female sporting category is explored with r...

up to three decades ago, economic statistics could systematically meet the statistical needs and economic views quantitative analyses requirements (known as growth – centered views) in the framework of national accounts and input-output tables. however, owing to the insensitivity of these views to simultaneous survey of socio-economic issues, no attention has been paid to systematizing social s...