Microblogging websites, especially Twitter have become an important means of communication, in todays time. Often these services have been found to be faster than conventional news services. With millions of users, a need was felt to classify users based on ambient metadata associated with their user accounts. We particularly look at the effectiveness of the ‘profile description’ field in order...

The Solemn League and Covenant, having first been subscribed in 1643, was commanded to be again 1648 by the Commission of General Assembly Church Scotland Committee Estates Scottish Parliament. As part this nationwide resubscription process, which managed lower church courts, ministers read aloud an explanatory document, A Acknowledgment Publick Sins breaches before their congregations. By asse...

I examine the role of explaining variance in the construction of explanatory theory. Explaining variance can be an insufficient basis for evaluating a theory (Lieberson, 1985). Starting with this insight, I suggest that models that provide explanations of variance do not necessarily provide good explanations of causal mechanisms. I then explore the utility of process models and theories (Mohr, ...

The sociological research literature on intergenerational educational attainment has highlighted three types of theoretical frameworks in explaining to what extent social origins influences people’s educational choices and possibilities. The three explanatory frameworks are 1) the socio-economic situation in the upbringing, 2) the “cultural capital” of the home (e.g. the level of education of t...

islam is a comprehensive school and covering some doctrine out of time and placefocusing on the issue of foreign policy as a matter of fundamental importanceattention. explaining the behavioral norms of islam in general subject of foreignpolicy, in particular in the most perfect expression in the teachings of the quran andis manifested in the tradition of the household. accordingly, by descript...