BACKGROUND Mental disorders (MDs) affect almost 1 in 4 adults at some point during their lifetime, and coupled with substance use disorders are the fifth leading cause of disability adjusted life years worldwide. People with these disorders often use the Web as an informational resource, platform for convenient self-directed treatment, and a means for many other kinds of support. However, some ...

this study investigates the why of information technology in the field of education according to the ontological inquiry. the methodology applied involves hermeneutic phenomenology. this study concerns the ontological changes that it brings about in experiencing the universe and, following that, the field of education including changing the role of body in the process of education, fading the t...

Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed use in context, where it an ecologically effective but not commonly applied tool, requires comprehensive understanding of barriers that limit fire, especially working rangelands the North American Great Plains. While there emerging body work on perceptions...

Social media sites are considered one of the most important sources data in many fields, such as health, education, and politics. While surveys provide explicit answers to specific questions, posts social have same implicitly occurring text. This research aims develop a method for extracting implicit from large tweet collections, demonstrate this an concern: problem heart attacks. The approach ...

Many climate-relevant behaviours are habitual. Habits memory-based propensities to respond automatically specific cues, acquired by repetition of in stable contexts. Socio-cognitive models widely used predict behaviours, but positing behaviour as intentional, provide a poor account habitual behaviours. While unsustainable habits barriers change, their very features (frequent, automatic and resi...

What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable by using the methodology of the levels of abstractions. It follows that OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendl...

Short abstract In environmental ethics, the precautionary principle states that parties should refrain from actions in the face of scientific uncertainties about serious or irreversible harm to public health or the environment. A similar principle is lacking when judging effects of information technology. Such a principle would be helpful in guiding discussions, and that is why we try to develo...