Suppose that you are sitting at the writing table. In front of you there are books, text-books, pens, pencils, pieces of paper with some short notes, and a lot of other things. You need to do something, you have to organize your working place, and for this you will start moving the things around the table. There are no restrictions on moving all these things and there are no regulations on how ...

A long standing question in radio astronomy has been why some elliptical galaxies host strong radio sources and others not. The reason may have something to do with the physical conditions near the (active) nucleus from which the radio source emanates. The resolution of HST images is such that dust features close to the nucleus can be detected, and these may often be in the form of circumnuclea...

In this paper I show a variety of ways to represent and think about statistical aspects of CHI and its sister conferences. In particular, I look at author counts, gender analysis, and representations of repeat authors. I use these visualizations to motivate questions about what the preferred state of CHI should be. For example, should we strive for gender equality at CHI, and if so, why, and if...

How often these days do you read that genes cause cancer? Probably nothing in biomedical science deserves more attention. In my view, it even needs attention in nutrition newsletters. Why? Because there's a peculiar line of reasoning going around that goes something like this: If genes are primarily responsible for determining when and what kinds of cancer we get, then what difference does it m...

this article deals with some social aspects of scientometry. although scientometry and isi -one of the scientometry evaluative standards- are something necessary for scientific measurement, they are not without defects. in this regard, the author argues that there are two significant points among criticism. these points are supposed to be external and internal. the external point is highly affe...

We cannot think about something if that something does not exist. If something exists, we can understand or imagine about it no matter what it may be. Understanding and imagination in this way fully depend on recognition. A human being’s object recognition is executed in real-time by identification intelligence, which is developed from experience, learning, and presumption. On the other hand, a...

Abstract This article reflects on violence committed against travestis, examining a series of murders together with narratives regarding violence, to see where these events and stories lead, formulate related questions. Through this movement, the research develops such questions as: what are motives behind travesties, do tell us? If is expressive - in other words, if it tells us something sayin...