Although there is an abundance of literature about how to conduct qualitative research and some consideration of possible threats to researchers' psychological well-being, there is little mention of the personal safety issues that researchers face while in the field. Few researchers have attempted to address the issue of researcher safety as a methodological concern. Consequently, there are min...

Many anti-cancer drugs are chemically reactive and cause DNA modifcations, which result in toxic lesions when the cell attempts to replicate the damaged DNA. There are also many anti-cancer drugs that directly target DNA replication, such as anti-metabolites or inhibitors of enzymes that participate in the replication machinery. Thus, targeting DNA replication is a highly successful current str...

In this article I discuss Burawoy’s (2005) argument for public sociology in the context of the sociologist as both citizen and as social scientist; that is, as simultaneously a member of any ‘society’ being researched and as researcher claiming validity for the knowledge produced by research. I shall suggest that the relation between citizenship and social science necessarily places a limit on ...

in cinema, the relationship between art and society is questioned more than other kinds of art. among all diverse approaches studying cinema, the reflection approach- believing cinema is impressed by the society. this approach is a theoretical framework of this research. the main question is how cinema reflected political demands of iranian society from 1995 to 2006. this period is noticeable c...

Blogosphere plays an increasingly important role as a forum for public debate. In this paper, given a mixed set of blogs debating a set of political issues from opposing camps, we use signed bipartite graphs for modeling debates, and we propose an algorithm for partitioning both the blogs, and the issues (i.e. topics, leaders, etc.) comprising the debate into binary opposing camps. Simultaneous...

Qualitative research in political science and sociology commonly explores intersectionality, but practical methodological guides for the quantitative researcher are few. I examine methodological challenges in testing intersectionality theory by comparing and contrasting two most frequently used statistical approaches to the quantitative analysis of intersectional demographics: the unitary, or a...