Since its inception and until now, oil palm plantations have been controversial in Indonesia. Although there is ample evidence presented by proponents proving that expansion has made an important contribution to the Indonesian economy, from ecological point of view, it claimed critics negative impacts on environment, one which cause natural disasters. The link between disasters debated supporte...

This article investigates negotiations of librarians’ expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitaitve empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians’ expertise emer...

In Volume 3, #1 of the Journal of Technology Education, Pannabecker (1991) identified shortcomings in the language that has shaped perspectives within technology education, and raised an issue for dialogue. This essay is intended to extend Pannabecker's critique to include the metaphors of autonomous and advancing technology, and their supporting ideology of technological progress. Reasons for ...

The proposed research aims to investigate the concept of creative urban sustainability. We asked, what are factors conditioning creativity in spaces where cultures meet cities and how do they stimulate sustainable development. empirical material analysed results interviews conducted with cultural managers. introduce philosophical sociological approaches based mainly on criticism writing analyti...

Literary works are often used as a medium to criticize and explain social problems experienced by society. One of these literary is the drama script West Side Story Arthur Laurenst. This study focuses on criticism several described in play Story. uses method content analysis texts which then interpreted researchers. Research data sourced from was collected using library research method. Through...

This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...

Challenging an attitude toward fallibility in medical practice which they see as outdated and detrimental to patient care, the authors suggest a new approach to self-evaluation and peer review by physicians. Arguing that knowledge grows from recognition of error, they submit ten proposals aimed at the development of a new professional ethics that would encourage physicians to admit and analyze...