I am a junior doctor. I went through medical school, foundation, and specialty programmes with relative ease and several accolades. I married a guitar-playing, Aston Villa-supporting historian I met at university who entered policy work. I would scoff at his insistence that politics was important — I honestly believed that I was doing the only true and noble job in the world. Politics was benea...

The question, reported in the title of this editorial, has the purpose of being intentionally a little provocative. It is obvious the Ethical Committees (CE), founded and established to approve clinical trials of new drugs that the pharmaceutical industry intends to market and, in general, biomedical research such as pharmaceutical no profit controlled clinical trials and observational studies,...

Having published extensively on technology during the Romantic era and matters scientific in writings of Edgar Allan Poe, John Tresch turns his attention to author’s life this book. The Reason for Darkness Night: Poe Forging American Science is, however, a biography special order. Throughout text, weaves into account Poe’s another story—the professionalization study United States. This narrativ...

The aim of this paper is to show the full range of possible participant-function mappings available for the classes of verbs in Polish which denote predicates entailing an ‘intermediary agent’. An intermediary agent is a semantic participant that can be conceptualised as an instrument or means with which the event is accomplished, or alternatively as the causer or instigator of this event. The ...

This auto-ethnographical narrative traces the history of an educational computing professional. Christina Preston describes her experience of computers began in the 1950s as her father was a computer professional. After graduating, she developed her skills as a journalist and short story writer for women’s magazines at the same time as teaching English, Drama and Media studies in London seconda...

This research aims at analyzing the concept of iltifāt “twist” and its main function in the Qur’an. The Qur’anic style uses iltifāt for making a suddenness through which the entire grammatical perspective is changed. This suddenness makes concentration on another concept or meaning without forgetting the other. However, this twist makes the two meanings on core. This concept has been applied to...

Abstract Digital technologies have fundamentally changed organizations, industries, and even the society. Although institutional theory provides rich array of perspectives to both content dynamics such changes, research at intersection scholarship digitalization has remained scarce. In this essay, I draw on logics perspective elaborate as involving a new set interconnected managerial beliefs no...

The moral neurosciences are an emerging area of research that has the potential to improve our understanding of the biological basis of morality. Thus far, however, research on moral neuroscience and moral judgment development has proceeded independently and with little interconnection. The current article discusses how morality has been defined and assessed in several new and prominent lines o...

Cross-national comparisons of relational work styles suggest that the United States is an anomaly in its low relational focus. This article describes Protestant Relational Ideology (PRI), a cultural construct that explains the origins and nature of this anomaly. This construct refers to a deepseated belief that affective and relational concerns are considered inappropriate in work settings and,...

Background: In the early part of the twentieth century, planning theory and practice always voiced strong opposition to density. The error of this insistence was persuasively argued by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s. Subsequently, planning theory and practice came to recognise the importance of density, but this return to favour requires remaining constantly alert to the possible dangers and pitfalls...