The environmental sciences/studies movement, with more than 1000 programs at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, is unified by a common interest-ameliorating environmental problems through empirical enquiry and analytic judgment. Unfortunately, environmental programs have struggled in their efforts to integrate knowledge across disciplines and educate students to become s...

Community health centers (Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat - Puskesmas) must provide fast and appropriate services. Regarding this role, Puskesmas Bringkoning Madura has developed a web-based outpatient coding indexing system to the immediate service patients need. The application was created using waterfall model method with PHP MySQL programming languages. This study aimed describe implementation o...

This essay claims that Stiegler’s sense of metaphor gives his work an overlooked rigour. Part one argues La Faute d’Epiméthée’s key claim (that technics is philosophy’s “unthought”) opens excess potential threatens to overwhelm work. two looks at metaphors (the pharmakon and organ). three a focus on technique mitigates suspicions trivial or jargonistic, allows it emerge as counterbalance positi...

“Qualitative GIS – isn’t that kind of an oxymoron?” This comment from a colleague with years of experience working with GIS echoes the title of an editorial from an edition of Environment and Planning dedicated to the topic (Kwan and Knigge: 2006), and voices lingering concerns about the limitations of GIS. Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach serves as an invitation to scholars in fields ...

An endless debate in social science research focuses on whether or not there is a philosophical basis for justifying the application of scientific methods to social inquiry. A review of the philosophies of various scholars in the field indicates that there is no single procedure for arriving at a valid statement in a scientific inquiry. Natural scientists employ a plethora of procedures for val...

Most studies within the area of genre analysis, particularly those conducted in Iran, have exclusively used text analysis. While such investigations have led to important understandings of generic features of texts, it can be argued that incorporating interview data for triangulation can lead to better understanding of generic features of texts. Along this line, this paper reports the results o...

This paper examines the diverse nature of user reactions to information technology (IT) within the social-historical context of its organizational use. Employing activity theory as a conceptual framework, we conduct an interpretive analysis of physicians work, perceptions, and IT usage experience at a large community hospital to understand why some of these physicians were favorably disposed to...