In 2007, a young woman, Annabel Catt, died after consuming a capsule sold as "ecstasy" that contained para-methoxyamphetamine. In this paper, we describe how this death was depicted in online drug-user communities and illustrate how the meanings of drug use are negotiated in online settings. News articles, public online discussions, and online fieldwork formed the data. This paper demonstrates ...

BACKGROUND High rates of sexual risk behaviours are being reported among HIV-positive MSM which raises the question about the ideas of sexual responsibility that exist in this population to prevent the transmission and/or re-infection of HIV and other STIs. This study sought to understand the discourses on sexual care and responsibility in men living with HIV who have sex with men. METHODS A ...

1/12 1 New cod war of words: ‘cod is God’ versus ‘sod the cod’ two opposed discourses on the North 1 Sea Cod Recovery Programme 2 3 Tim Gray (a), Jenny Hatchard (b), Tim Daw (c) and Selina Stead (d) 4 5 (a) School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU 6 (b) JH Fishery Management Services, PO Box 17336, Edinburgh, EH12 1BZ 7 (c) School of Development Stud...

In this article we analyze the notion of violence using Johan Galtung’s theory direct, structural, and cultural as a conceptual framework. This lens, triangulated enriched with concepts from other authors, by also emphasizing historical geopolitical characteristics Mexican context, will help overcome some limitations said theory. By complexity phenomenon, reinterpret it an interdisciplinary app...

This work focuses on the demonstration of previously achieved results in the automatic detection of laughter from natural discourses. In the previous work features of two different modalities, namely audio and video from unobtrusive sources, were used to build a system of recurrent neural networks called Echo State networks to model the dynamics of laughter. This model was then again utilized t...