On the face of it, the idea of formal re-inquiry has clear roots in positivism, in the idea that social science is a progressive enterprise of rejecting falsehood and building truth. Either qualitative or quantitative methodology can be part of the positivist project. Taking a position of pluralism in the militant middle, I argue that both positivism and humanism have a great deal to offer cons...

Series Editor's Note: Medical necessity, a concept that is hard to define and frequently misunderstood, has become critical to how health care is financed and delivered. Like most physicians, I believe that I have reasonable judgment as to what is medically necessary for my patients. I also understand that at times some of my patients have different ideas regarding what is necessary for their m...

the purpose of this study is to redesigning and reengineering of human resource of the central library and documentation center of the university of tehran in leisure times. this research is based on survey method and is done by use of questionnaire. results show that the number of user of the central library and documentation center of the university of tehran is decreased in leisure times. th...

Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. First and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

Original paper: John C. Dencker, Sophie Bacq, Marc Gruber, and Melvin Haas, Reconceptualizing necessity entrepreneurship: A contextualized framework of entrepreneurial processes under the condition...

Until now, antirealists have offered sketches of a theory of truth, at best. In this paper, we present an antirealist theory of truth in some formal detail. We show that the theory is able to deal satisfactorily with the problems that are standardly taken to beset antirealism. According to antirealists, there is an intimate connection between truth and human cognitive capacities which holds by ...

A 5-year-old boy with monocular vertical nystagmus, initially believed to have spasmus nutans, subsequently developed optic atrophy and visual loss. Neuroradiologic investigation indicated probable chiasmal glioma. The case of this patient re-emphasizes the necessity of careful clinical and radiologic assessment before assuming acquired monocular nystagmus to be a benign and self-limited disorder.