The commentaries reinforce my belief that research evidence alone is not sufficient for organizations to consider new methods. I suggest procedures to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based findings. Comments Postprint version. Published in Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, Volume 5, 2006, pages 14-15. This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: ht...

Dr Klein‟s assertions about the origins of registers on drug-related death are inaccurate, probably due to misunderstanding some of the fundamental epidemiological indicators of drug misuse, including mortality. Whilst it is true that there were many deaths involving the misuse of opium, typically as laudanum, in the nineteenth century, the need for civil registration of deaths in the UK introd...

My first reply in this symposium is to Reis regarding his elaborations of Mitchell’s ideas that lend to comparisons of the Relationalists and the Intersubjectivists. I concur with Reis that differences between the two have less to do with language use per se than their views about analytic authority, to which I add the issue of analytic attitude. In replying to Clement, I underscore her importa...

In most cases, authors feel privileged to receive even one set of careful comments on a research article. To receive so many responses from such a distinguished group of researchers is an extraordinarily rare event. Obviously, those responses are quite varied, expressing a wide range of views on the contribution of the Berkovec, Canner, Gabriel, and Hannan (BCGH) article. In part, the diversity...

Online discussion forum, which plays an important role in online criticism, provides useful information such as online commentaries generated by other users. The paper uses regulatory focus theory to explain how online commentaries are processed differently depending on the user’s information processing style and how each self-regulatory mode moderates the impact of online commentaries on one’s...

given analyses on shakila in quranic commentaries lead us to philosopher`s statement on human species form. so viewed, perceptions are regarded as the main element for making and transforming shakila and partial cause for its function. this paper, relying on quranic commentaries and philosophical works, has studied allameh tabataba’i and fakhr razi`s views in the field comparatively. in this wa...