Concepts People and Power in Russian and Spanish Electoral Discourse

Political communication becomes particularly intense in the pre-election period. Democracy receives criticism aimed to protect the interests of citizens. It is political parties that are responsible for a constructive discussion of their positions and motivating citizens to participate in the election campaign. Te electoral language is usually an emotional, connotative language, which resonates with citizens. Political electoral discourse is characterized by certain basic concepts, such as “politics”, “election”, “electoral programs”, “electorate”, “people”, “power” and others. “People” and “power” are the key ones, since they reflect the features of political process and are inextricably linked to each other during all electoral period. Tis article focuses on the study of the people / power opposition in the Russian and Spanish electoral discourse and identifes conceptual structures and signs of these concepts.

Introduction of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts into Early Embryos: From Confusion to Constructive Discussion. Comment on Savatier, P. Introduction of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts into Early Embryos Causes Reprogramming and (Con)fusion. Cells 2021, 10, 772

We would like to address the issues raised by Pierre Savatier in “Introduction of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts into Early Embryos Causes Reprogramming and (Con)Fusion” [...]

Tribochemistry, Mechanical Alloying, Mechanochemistry: What is in a Name?

Over the decades, the application of mechanical force to influence chemical reactions has been called by various names: mechanochemistry, tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, to name but a few. The evolution of these terms has largely mirrored the understanding of the field. But what is meant by these terms, why have they evolved, and does it really matter how a process is called? Which parameters should be defined to describe unambiguously the experimental conditions such that others can reproduce the results, or to allow a meaningful comparison between processes explored under different conditions? Can the information on the process be encoded in a clear, concise, and self-explanatory way? We address these questions in this Opinion contribution, which we hope will spark timely and constructive discussion across the international mechanochemical community.

Eschatology and the Munus Triplex

The traditional Reformed understanding of Jesus Christ as prophet, priest, and king, and of Christian participation in this munus triplex, can be refined, complemented, and extended through viewing this theologumenon eschatologically. Applying the methodology of Third Article Theology to the doctrine of eschatology enables the full breadth of Christ’s pneumatological interaction with humanity to be explored. Recent attempts to partially employ the munus triplex in the service of eschatology reveal considerable advances with regards to Christ’s prophetic and priestly offices. These efforts are categorized and then extended with a constructive discussion of Christ’s kingly eschatological office, which reveals how through the Spirit the kingdom realities that define our future are drawn back to become (in part) characteristics of our present ecclesial existence.

CULTIVATING CRITICAL READERS THROUGH LITERARY-BASED STRUCTURED PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION

The love for reading (philanagnosia) is established from the early years of a child and contributes to his cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social development. The contact of a child with books is of crucial significance if we want to cultivate a critical reader and a future active citizen. This study examines the results of implementation of literary- based structured program and instruction in a sample of 450 students. The teacher's contribution is significant as s/he is the one who mediates between students and text, selecting each time the appropriate technique / strategy to lead the students into a critical approach of it and a constructive discussion. This paper presents a survey that was carried out in schools in the prefecture of Chania (Crete) in Greece and aimed at investigating the effects of structured literary-based program and its impact on children’s response as critical readers. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0626/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

A Reply to the Discussion of “What Turns the Taxman On? Tax Aggressiveness, Financial Statement Audits, and Tax Return Adjustments in Small Private Companies”

Radhakrishnan and Janakiraman (hereafter RJ) provide an insightful and constructive discussion on our paper. In what follows, we briefly comment on some of the main points they take up in their discussion.

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Summary <p content-type="flush left">This collection of essays uncovers apparent tensions between the biblical notions of justice, love, law and mercy. This task is undertaken with the suggestion that biblical theology will benefit from exploring its own relationship to these tensions. The volume displays thoughtful and rigorous scholarship. Shedding light across New and Old Testament research, it promises enough material for constructive discussion among other theological disciplines.

Near-infrared hyperspectral image at a glance: Some personal thoughts

First of all, I want to transmit my most humble thanks to all people who believe that I deserve the “2019 Thomas Hirschfeld” award (kindly supported by FOSS) for my work on near-infrared spectroscopy and, especially, applied on hyperspectral images. I must confess that this award caught me by surprise and that I felt a bit overwhelmed when I received it. It is an honour full of respect and responsibility. I have been given the opportunity of writing this article, and I will profit it to express different personal thoughts about general but relevant aspects of near infrared applied to hyperspectral imaging. Also, since I am more a practitioner in chemometrics (or machine learning or data mining, or …) than a developer, I will also include some insights about the beautiful combination of near-infrared hyperspectral image with chemometrics. This article is just a glimpse of constructive criticism with personal thoughts that comes from my little experience in this field. Therefore, and of course, all opinions here are open for constructive discussion with the only purpose of learning (like the machines do nowadays).

A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation

Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached. Hence, democratic theorists have turned their attention to deliberative democracy, according to which “outcomes are democratically legitimate if and only if they could be the object of a free and reasoned agreement among equals” (Cohen 1997a, 73). However, relatively little work has been done to offer a formal theory of democratic deliberation. This article helps fill that gap by offering a formal theory of three different modes of democratic deliberation: myopic discussion, constructive discussion, and debate. We show that myopic discussion suffers from indeterminacy of long run outcomes, while constructive discussion and debate are conclusive. Finally, unlike the other two modes of deliberation, debate is path independent and converges to a unique compromise position, irrespective of the initial status quo.

Taisīr Ta‘līm Mahārat al-Kalām

<p class="ABSTRACT">Speech is the most important means of social communication in humans, and therefore is the most important part in the practice and use of language and the most dangerous skill of the four skills, which makes the teaching of speech, conversation, and oral communication is essential should be paid attention within the curriculum of language teaching, in order to enable learners to acquire the skills of speech and speech Constructive discussion and the ability to express and display information and the possibility of introducing himself and his intellectual activity to colleagues, family and teachers and express himself when he communicates with others and others. Given the importance of this skill and the seriousness of its place in the framework of language teaching on the one hand, and poor care in the reality of teaching Arabic language, especially Indonesia, on the other hand, this little research seeks to introduce the idea in facilitating the teaching of speech skill and its introductory attempts, which include theoretical and practical aspects to achieve this goal, By evaluating the reality of speech skill in the methods of language teaching and the attention it receives from all these methods and bring the steps of teaching this skill in an appropriate manner taking into account the communicative applications in its education and address the weakness of learners.</p>