Constitutional framework for the development of self-regulatory organizations as a way of protection against corruption

The article reveals the reasons for the occurrence of various types of corruption and the classification of anti-corruption measures. The object of research is a complex of legal and non-legal relations that arise at the initial stages of the appearance of various forms and varieties of corruption. The purpose of this paper is to study the external and internal factors of the emergence of systemic corruption and to develop proactive methods for its weakening and disappearance at all levels of government and self-government. Ways are proposed to weaken corruption by developing self-regulatory organizations of entrepreneurs and delegating them to certain state functions. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that corruption is a universal property of any state, a property that, potentially, under certain conditions of social life, can lead to the emergence of problems that call into question the very existence of the state. The author also believes that it is necessary to take concrete practical measures in the direction of changing imperfect legal norms in the form of stricter control over departmental regulation and conducting permanent expertise of “anti-corruption”legislation.

Quasi-decompositions and quasidirect products of Hilbert algebras

A quasi-decomposition of a Hilbert algebra A is a pair (C, D) of its subalgebras such that (i) every element a ∈ A is a meet c ∧ d with c ∈ C, d ∈ D, where c and d are compatible (i.e., c → d = c → (c ∧ d)), and (ii) d → c = c (then c is uniquely defined). Quasi-decompositions are intimately related to the so-called triple construction of Hilbert algebras, which we reinterpret as a construction of quasidirect products. We show that it can be viewed as a generalization of the semidirect product construction, that quasidirect products has a certain universal property and that they can be characterised in terms of short exact sequences. We also discuss four classes of Hilbert algebras and give for each of them conditions on a quasi-decomposition of an arbitrary Hilbert algebra A under which A belongs to this class.

A Pragmatic Study of Sarcasm in Selected TV Shows

Sarcasm as a linguistic strategy is a universal property of all languages which means it can be found in any language. However, this research proposes a pragmatic study of sarcasm in the English Language, American TV shows. Sarcasm could also be pragmatically defined by linking it to Grice's Maxims which means that the utterance is violating one of Grice's maxims to communicate something indirectly. This approach suggests that sarcasm is a vital notion in spoken and written language. It shows that the utterance is used to achieve another purpose that is not literal. The research paper contains five sections. Section one deals with the definition of sarcasm pragmatically. Section two shows sarcasm as a pragmatic notion or phenomenon. Section three discusses Grice's Maxims and how they are considered a model that speakers should follow for successful communication. Section four talks about the types of violations of the maxims. Section five tackles how the utterances from a TV show under investigation are violating the maxims to carry out the indirect meaning. The research closes off with the conclusion reached which is followed by the bibliography.

Tensor products of finitely presented functors

We provide explicit constructions for various ingredients of right exact monoidal structures on the category of finitely presented functors. As our main tool, we prove a multilinear version of the universal property of so-called Freyd categories, which in turn is used in the proof of correctness of our constructions. Furthermore, we compare our construction with the Day convolution of arbitrary additive functors. Day convolution always yields a closed monoidal structure on the category of all additive functors. In contrast, right exact monoidal structures for finitely presented functor categories are not necessarily closed. We provide a necessary criterion for being closed that relies on the underlying category having weak kernels and a so-called finitely presented prointernal hom structure. Our results are stated in a constructive way and thus serve as a unified approach for the implementation of tensor products in various contexts.

Los Qualia y la Experiencia de la Consciencia en el Arte

Our life would be surrounded by a universal property called qualia that would constitute the everyday qualities of existence that would encompass among other things our sensations, perceptions, feelings and intuitions so that we would experience the world in the form of qualia such as light, sound, color, the shape or texture. These qualities would give cohesion to our senses and would have an important role in the art world to be closely linked to our subjective world.In this article we will see how our consciousness would create reality manifesting itself in art through various perceptual experiences related to a qualia network where introspection, intuition, imagination, and creativity would also enter into a more subtle plane. The qualia would help the artist to project himself into everything he would experience, not only in the act of observing but also in the same artistic processes where emotions would be translated into symbols that would enhance our evolution, as the next leap we would make would have to do with our consciousness.

Why phonetically-motivated constraints do not lead to phonetic determinism: The relevance of aspiration in cueing NC sequences in Tumbuka

This paper examines the role of phonetic cues to postnasal laryngeal contrasts, language-specific differences in the use of these cues, and the phonetic naturalness of the different cues. While many studies have shown that long stop closure duration is a well-established cue to voicelessness in the postnasal context (see, e.g., Cohn & Riehl 2012, who claim this to be a universal property), the present study focusses on the role of aspiration noise in maintaining a voicing contrast in the postnasal environment. It provides experimental data from the Bantu language Tumbuka to illustrate that aspiration noise can preserve a postnasal laryngeal contrast even when stop closure duration is short. Though typologically less common, we show that the use of aspiration as a cue is also phonetically motivated. Furthermore, we show that such phonetic motivation should not be directly incorporated into phonology (e.g., as markedness constraints in OT). Instead, we employ the BiPhon model (Boersma 2007), which allows for a strict distinction between the modules of phonetics and phonology, and which formalizes the mapping of phonetic cues onto phonological representations via cue constraints, avoiding the problem of phonetic determinism.

The great escape: tunneling out of microstate geometries

We compute the quasi-normal frequencies of scalars in asymptotically-flat microstate geometries that have the same charge as a D1-D5-P black hole, but whose long BTZ-like throat ends in a smooth cap. In general the wave equation is not separable, but we find a class of geometries in which the non-separable term is negligible and we can compute the quasi-normal frequencies using WKB methods. We argue that our results are a universal property of all microstate geometries with deeply-capped BTZ throats. These throats generate large redshifts, which lead to exceptionally-low-energy states with extremely long decay times, set by the central charge of the dual CFT to the power of twice the dimension of the operator dual to the mode. While these decay times are extremely long, we also argue that the energy decay is bounded, at large t, by (log(t))−2 and is comparable with the behavior of ultracompact stars, as one should expect for microstate geometries.

Timucua Hand Use: Dispelling the Myth of Left-Hand Preference

At the time of Spanish contact, the Timucua were the original people of northern central Florida. Granberry (1996) claimed in a provocative article that Timucua constitutes an exception to the universal or near-universal property of preference for the right hand, and showed a preference for the left hand instead. This article critically examines Granberry's argument, and shows that there is no good linguistic evidence to support left-hand preference in Timucua