Singapore Corporations Go Transnational

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lim Mah Hui ◽  
Teoh Kit Fong
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The title of this paper is influenced by that of Lee Soo Ann's book, Singapore Goes Transnational. However, the subject matter of this paper though related, is quite different. By Singapore “going transnational”, Lee was referring to how Singapore's economy became dominated by foreign transnational corporations (TNCs). During that process and period, local Singaporean companies declined in importance. This paper deals with the resurgence of Singaporean companies to the extent that some have spread their operations to other countries and have attained the status of TNCs.

Kantiana of “Voprosy filosofii”

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Ondrej Marchevsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Thematic Units ◽  
The Status ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Creative Environment

The paper can be seen as a response to the 1994 challenge formulated by A.I. Abramov in his work Kant in Russian Spiritual-Academic Philosophy, where he emphasizes the need to examine reflections on Immanuel Kant’s legacy in var­ious Russian academic and intellectual environments. This study thus joins the existing ones that have covered the dominant tendencies of Russian Kantian studies in such important environments as, for example, academies or journals as Kant Studien, Problems of Philosophy and Psychology and their editorial boards. The paper focuses on one of the journal environments – Problems of Phi­losophy – and it responds to the status quo, i.e., to the fact that this important and still living creative environment has not been the subject of a systematic review in the context of the study of Kant’s creative legacy. The paper is not an overview or chronological summary of works but it uses the approach of subject-thematic analysis to reveal the main pillars of the interest in Kant. The author identifies thematic units, areas, and contexts that become the subject matter of critical and creative interest of the authors in this philosophical journal and within them he tries to bring a closer look at particular works that deserve further evaluation.

1. The status of sociology

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Fundamental Limits ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Regular Patterns

‘The status of sociology’ asks whether sociology can be scientific. Some forms of sociological research follow the models of the physical sciences, but there are some fundamental limits to such imitation. We need to appreciate the differences between the subject matter of the natural and the human sciences. People think and feel. They act as they do, not because they are bound to follow unvarying rules but because they have beliefs, values, interests, and intentions. For the sociologist there is always a further step to take. Our notion of explanation does not stop at identifying regular patterns in social action.

PATENTS ON WARHEADS OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Maciej Miszczak
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Foreign Patent ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The paper presents results of scrutinising through foreign patent publications on warheads integrated in wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) concerning especially the types and designs of warheads and their location against the onboard systems of recognition and target guidance and also against the systems controlling the status and operation of warheads. The review and analysis of patent publications was completed by a selection of patent descriptions [2-11] of 10 inventions on the subject matter committed in Israel, Germany, USA and UK between 1979 and 2011.

scholarly journals “Aeneid” by Anatolii Bazylevych: Picturesque Mythologization of Poem by Ivan Kotliarevskyi

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
Valentyna Narivska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Transformation Techniques ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stage Development ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Literary Methods ◽  
Literary Classics ◽  
Original Reading

The article analyzes 120 drawings by A. Bazylevych, the outstanding Ukrainian artist of the 20th century, created for the editions of “Aeneid” by I. Kotliarevskyi in 1969 and 1970. The subject matter is a look at the drawings in the status of a picturesque author’s myth. The skill of ‘visual intelligence’ of the artist is demonstrated in the picturesque original reading of the poem by  Kotliarevskyi as a phenomenon of the Baroque with expressive literary methods of ‘image turning’ that contributed to this process and acquired the significance of historical and literary classics. The assumption as for the artist’s mastering of the Baroque concept of Chyzhevskyi that was popular in the 1960s as well as the single-stage development of the Italian-Ukrainian culture of laughter (according to M. Bakhtin) and appreciation of picture poesis (poetry as painting, according to L. B. Alberti) are suggested. This interaction lined up the picturesque myth of Bazylevych through the artistic transformation techniques of ‘image turning’, burlesque travesty of ‘booklore’. This produced the formation of the mythological image of Aeneas as a ‘black knight’ (in the edition of 1969) in the traditions of Western European literature. The view of life through mythological red colour founded by the legendary book cover reveals the content of the ‘red Aeneas’, being signified with red clothing items, shoes, and above all the red Cossack heraldry on the flag, combining Aeneas with Trojan-Cossacks, representing the ‘red world’. Aenei-myth is considered as a Cossack Sorcerer due to the suffix specificity of H. Cohen and physical plastic with folk content that unite the Trojans-Cossacks with the gods.

A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics in Which Is Included the Question Whether Metaphysics Is a Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-143
Author(s):  
Giacomino Malafossa from Barge ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Scientific Object ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

Giacomino Malafossa’s A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics, in Which Is Included the Question Whether Metaphysics Is a Science, from 1551 (first printed 1553) consists of two parts. In the first part, the author discusses various positions regarding the subject matter of metaphysics. In particular, he debates which conditions any scientific object must fulfill, the most important one being that an object of a science virtually contains all of its truths. Since being as being virtually contains whatever is considered in metaphysics, this is the adequate object of metaphysics. In the second part, the author addresses the problem that the transcendental properties of being are not truly demonstrable. This endangers the status of metaphysics as a science in the strict Aristotelian sense. The author discusses various Scotist solutions to this problem. His own solution is that metaphysics indeed is a science in the strict sense, but only when it considers God, not when it considers being as being, thus unwittingly challenging Duns Scotus’s own idea that metaphysics is a “transcending science” because of its consideration of being and its transcendental properties. Malafossa’s Quaestio is an important example of the metaphysical discourse at the University of Padua in the sixteenth century.

scholarly journals Den olympiske sport er ikke blot et spejl af samfundet

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Kryger Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
A Performance

En beskrivelse af olympisk sport fortolket som løsningsmodel for sociale og kulturelle problemstillinger i moderne samfund bl.a. set i et kønsmæssigt perspektiv.Olympic Sport: A unique modern institutThe viewpoint presented here is that the order of modern sport can be said to constitute a negation of the chaos that can obtain in everyday social life. It is argued that modern sport, as it developed after the turn of the last century, has come to provide not only a refuge for men from the struggle for political and class position but also a refuge from the struggle for gender position. Moreover, the realm of sport can be seen not only as providing a refuge from existing cultural conceptions and norms, but also as a formative realm. Sport as a formative realm refers to sport as a spectacle. The notion of spectacle belongs to the newer genre of sporting events and was not a dimension of the Olympic idea that was looked upon with approval by the initiator of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin. The function of the spectacle, to entertain and to satisfy the eye rather than the spirit, tends to draw the attention of participants away from the festival, the ritual and the game. With sportswomen’s access to public arenas, women became a feature of the spectacle. Their status as “natural” beings was converted to that of incumbents of a performance role in a public, historical occasion and the femininity of women became the subject matter of reflexive thought. In constituting a spectacle, sporting events can be a challenge to existing cultural conceptions and norms – regarding the status of women, for example, – in addition to providing a refuge from the chaos of social life.

scholarly journals On some International Regulations in Gaius’s Institutes

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Izabela Leraczyk
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Private Law ◽  
International Level ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The subject matter of the article concerns international regulations mentioned by Gaius in his Institutes. The work under discussion, which is also a textbook for students of law, refers in several fragments to the institutions respected at the international level – the status of the Latins, peregrini dediticii and sponsio, contracted at the international arena. The references made by Gaius to the above institutions was aimed at comparing them to private-law solutions, which was intended to facilitate understanding of the norms relating to individuals that were comprised in his work.

UNIVERSALS, GENERAL TERMS AND THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION

Numen ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Comparative Study

AbstractA comparative study of religion rests on comparison and generalization. Both require that the object of study, the subject matters of various religions have something in common - certain properties that warrant their juxtaposition in analyses. If they had nothing in common, "the study" of religion would not make any sense. But it seemingly does, thus "religions" presumably form a subject matter with certain regularities. Such regularities may be "emic universals" on the level of socio-cultural formations and they may be "etic universals" on the levels of the analysts' stock of general terms - and the two levels are connected. This article focuses mainly on the role of universals as general concepts in method and theory, i.e., on the status and use of etic level generalizations such as models, maps, metaphors that are constructed in order to explain and make sense, as general terms, of emic level entities, properties, functions, structures etc. The last part concerns the use of universals in four modes of comparison of material, cognitive and symbolic matters.

Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and he world; linguists document speakers’ knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject-matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. Taking as its starting-point Lepore and Stone’s 2014 book Imagination and Convention, this volume aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience.

On the Unwritten Constitution

1974 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Diplock
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Issue ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Personal Reflections

The subject matter of our discussion today is entitled “Written or Unwritten Constitutions”—but the real issue before us is the supremacy of the legislature. A written constitution is normally thought and spoken of as a curb upon the supremacy of the legislature; and a constitution under which the legislature is supreme, is normally called “unwritten”. I shall not presume to advise you in Israel as to whether you should give yourselves a written constitution: all I can venture to do is to give you some personal reflections from my own experience, as one who has lived his life and administered the law under an unwritten constitution.So far as constitutional law deals with the structure of government—how laws are to be made, how they are to be put into effect, how disputes as to rights and obligations under the law are to be decided—it may or may not, in a unicameral legislature, be advisable to require that amendments of what I may call the structure of the constitution should be by a particular majority. Opinions on this may be divided, and I am not going to take any stand. What I should like to give some reflections upon is the proposal that there should be a “basic law” setting out the fundamental human rights and liberties, and what the status of that law should be.

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