This paper argues that visual elements are becoming an increasingly important component of identity performance on social networking sites. Working from a narrative approach to identity, this paper explores how images on SNS are used both as part of an impression management strategy to present identity, and as signs that others on the site can read and interpret as they develop an understanding...

This paper argues that the current stock of anti-personnel cluster bombs are temporally indiscriminate, and, therefore, unjust weapons. The paper introduces and explains the idea of temporal indiscriminateness. It argues that to honor non-combatant immunity-in addition to not targeting civilians-one must adequately target combatants. Due to their high dud rate, cluster submunitions fail to targ...

This paper argues that any successful project in economics will need to adopt a philosophical orientation that is rather different to that of the current mathematical mainstream. In particular, it argues that explicit, systematic and sustained ontological analysis is required. The possibilities and limits of ontology are elaborated. The paper also sets out the explicit ontological conception th...

Affective computing is a multidisciplinary field that integrates theories, methods, and technologies from a variety of different disciplines, including affective science, machine learning, signal processing, and philosophy. This paper argues that affective computing would be well-served to embrace yet another discipline – crowdsourcing. Likewise, this paper argues that crowdsourcing, itself a m...

this study investigates the effect of women's employment on family and social relations in the city of aran & bidgol. the theoretical framework of research is role conflict theory. survey methods is used in this study and the statistical population included all women working in the city of aran & bidgol. using cochran's formula and simple random sampling, 250 married women were select...

This paper argues against the view that Japanese indirect passives are restricted with respect to the base verb that they take. Specifically, it argues that, despite its initial plausibility, the oft-proposed generalization that unaccusatives cannot appear in indirect passives is too strong and the alleged distribution is a tendency at most, albeit a strong one. After closely examining the rest...