One potential tool in improving this kind of understanding is the Internet, where religious views flourish. In particular, social networks have expanded rapidly in the last few years, playing an increasingly important role in spreading opinions and information in areas as diverse as politics, sport, science, and so on. However, the role that social networks play in religion has been relatively ...

This paper presents an immersive geo-spatial social media system for virtual and augmented reality environments. With the rapid growth of photo-sharing social media sites such as Flickr, Pinterest, and Instagram, geo-tagged photographs are now ubiquitous. However, the current systems for their navigation are unsatisfyingly oneor two-dimensional. In this paper, we present our prototype system, S...

i WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, Venice. Corresponding author ([email protected]). The views expressed in this paper are exclusively those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of their affiliated organizations. ii University of Mainz and CESifo. iii Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen. iv Research Institute for ...

We introduce a collective action model of institutional innovation. This model, based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements literature, views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors espousing conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions. The model repre...

a response to the problem of irans backwardness preoccupied the minds of intellectual and political forces. since irans failure from russia while different domestic and external factors caused to defeat, differend and even contending views concerning irans backwardness played a key role in these failures. these diverse and contending views which arised at first in compilation of laws and establ...

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August 14, 1980, marks the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. Across the country, we have held town meetings where people have discussed the past 45 years of social security and assessed the implications for the future. Now I would like to take the opportunity to convey my personal views of the past and future of social security, both as Commissioner and as an individua...

Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Helpful comments were provided by Paul Bauer, Kathy Bradbury, Sally Green, Diana Hancock, David Humphrey, John Kimball, Jeff Lacker, Will Roberds, Louise Roseman, Ed Stevens, James Thomson, and Florence Young. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston or the ...

This article is a study of how gay men and lesbian individuals perceive the aging process. The findings indicate that gay men have more negative views of how gay society views growing older and how they view their own growing older than do lesbian respondents. Gay men were also found to be more ageist, have a greater fear of negative evaluation by others, and give more importance to their own p...

maqama has been introduced to the islamic east by badi' al-zaman al-hamadani and hariri. this type of prose gain popularity among andalusian writers, and some of them, such as sarakosti, al-wahrani, and al-azodi, created maqamat. literature is a mirror that reflects the economic and social characteristics of an era. however, the above-mentioned maqamat did not reflect the real role and of ...