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Zha, Daojiong. "Debating China’s Energy Security." China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 02, no. 02 (January 2016): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s237774001650010x.
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In China, debates on energy security are diverse and far beyond geopolitical analysis. Findings from the ever-expanding literature indicate two major schools of thought, namely the nationalist and globalist ones, while a pragmatic approach has been prevailing that integrates exploring domestic sources and engaging external actors when needed. The challenges of having to do whatever feasible to meet energy demands and at the same time, pursuing alternatives that reduce its negative impact on human health and environment, have led to growing pluralism in policy advocacy in China. While the two schools of thought on energy security will continue to compete against each other, the argumentative strength of each school shall be conditioned by many factors influencing China’s macro-economic fluctuations in general and energy economies in particular. The Chinese government’s energy policy-making is expected to reflect a dynamic balance between both schools.
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Budzyńska-Daca, Agnieszka, and Kinga Joanna Rogowska. "Retoryczny model nauczania debaty – perspektywa gatunkowa." Edukacja Międzykulturowa 20, no. 1 (2023): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/em.2023.01.12.
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Debate is a genre that has gained popularity due to its educational value on different levels of the education system. The essential advantage of using debate as an educational tool is that it prepares students to participate in public debate outside the classroom environment. The available models of teaching how to debate are rules-oriented (showing students the rules of conduct valid in the debate) or argument-oriented (teaching the balance between affirmative argumentation and refutation and proper ways of building arguments). This article offers a new, genre-oriented model of debate teaching based on showing the relationships between genres that compose the debate. Exemplified by the Karl Popper debate format, popular in Central and Eastern Europe, four genres ingrained in a debate are depicted: affirmative speech, refutation speech, summarizing speech, and cross-examination. What has been also described is the intricate web of relationships and influences between those genres which build the educational debate’s ecosystem. Using the genre-oriented model in teaching debates and showing the relationships between the four genres will enable students to increase their understanding of the debating process and help them visualize how big impact their actions have on the course of the debate.
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Vijge, Marjanneke J. "The (Dis)empowering Effects of Transparency Beyond Information Disclosure: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Myanmar." Global Environmental Politics 18, no. 1 (February 2018): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00442.
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This article provides theoretical and empirical insights into the effects of transparency on civil society empowerment by analyzing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Myanmar. It identifies three processes through which the EITI (dis)empowers civil society: constituting, using, and debating transparency. Whereas most transparency literature focuses on the effects of information disclosure—( using transparency)–the empowering effects of constituting and debating transparency are, for the EITI in Myanmar, much greater. While civil society organizations (CSOs) hardly use the EITI report as it lacks actionable information, the EITI has given CSOs a previously unimaginable role through their involvement in designing and implementing the EITI—i.e., in constituting transparency—and in EITI-related awareness-raising activities and debates, or debating transparency. Though in unequal ways, the processes of constituting and debating transparency empower CSOs to request, collect, and use more actionable information than through the EITI alone. This article argues that transparency initiatives could benefit from focusing attention on not only what information to disclose but also through which processes.
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Terry, Vita, James Rees, and Carol Jacklin-Jarvis. "The difference leadership makes? Debating and conceptualising leadership in the UK voluntary sector." Voluntary Sector Review 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204080519x15634331938320.
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This paper sets out to assess the state of the academic, and policy and practice, debate around leadership in the UK voluntary sector context. There has been a lack of sustained academic interest in the notion of leadership in the UK, and equally a lack of dialogue between academia, policy and practice. As a result, it is often far from clear whether there is any agreement about what leadership consists of, and the difference that ‘improved’ leadership might make. The paper considers what is meant by leadership in the voluntary sector, and considers three dominant approaches that have been used to frame leadership in debates within the sector. The three themes we identify in existing literature are person-centred approaches, process approaches, and debates that are concerned with issues of representativeness. In particular, it draws attention to the over-reliance on individual or person-centred accounts of leadership in the sector. The paper posits instead the promise of accounts that draw attention to collective notions of leadership, and the implications of a more widespread adoption of such frames for leadership development practice and research.
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Segovia-Cuéllar, Andrés, and Lorenzo Del Savio. "On the use of evolutionary mismatch theories in debating human prosociality." Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24, no. 3 (May 12, 2021): 305–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10025-4.
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AbstractAccording to some evolutionary theorists human prosocial dispositions emerged in a context of inter-group competition and violence that made our psychology parochially prosocial, ie. cooperative towards in-groups and competitive towards strangers. This evolutionary hypothesis is sometimes employed in bioethical debates to argue that human nature and contemporary environments, and especially large-scale societies, are mismatched. In this article we caution against the use of mismatch theories in moral philosophy in general and discuss empirical evidence that puts into question mismatch theories based on parochial prosociality. Evolutionary mismatch theories play at best a rhetorical role in these moral debates and may misrepresent the status of relevant evolutionary research. We finally recommend that moral philosophers interested in the evolutionary literature also engage with dispositions such as xenophilia and social tolerance to counterbalance the focus on psychological mismatches adopted so far.
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Hoop, Evelien de, Anne Loeber, and Dirk Essink. "Exploring, Diversifying and Debating Sustainable Health (Care) Approaches." Sustainability 14, no. 3 (February 1, 2022): 1698. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031698.
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Today’s sustainability challenges have major implications for human health and health care. At the same time, the way health care is organized and conducted has major sustainability implications. Sustainable health and sustainable health care approaches in research, which engage with health and sustainability as intertwined phenomena, feature increasingly prominently in various literatures, i.e., (i) literature based on the premise of ‘(un)healthy environments result in (un)healthy people’ (e.g., planetary health); (ii) literature on the implications of ecological change for the sustainability of healthcare systems; and (iii) literature on healthcare systems’ sustainability in view of a range of socio-economic factors. However, an integrative elaboration of the manifold relationships between health and sustainability challenges in these literatures is currently lacking. This review paper therefore maps how these three literatures represent intertwinements between health and sustainability challenges, as well as their suggestions to address these challenges. In addition, we explore which themes and questions are pertinent, meaning they have remained largely unaddressed. By performing a qualitative mapping review, we find that calls for structural attention to inequality, to in-and exclusion, and to stakeholder needs and perspectives cut across these three literatures. Furthermore, we identify three cross-cutting key questions that require future research attention. First, how do divergent ideas on what is and divergent ideas on how can that be known give rise to different health- and sustainability visions and pathways? Second, what do abstract problem statements and solutions presented in agenda-setting work look like in practice in specific and diverse empirical contexts across the globe? And third, how are diverse health and sustainability dynamics historically and spatially interconnected? Moreover, we observe that some voices have so far remained largely silent in scientific debates on health and sustainability intertwinements, namely non-expert voices such as patients and citizens, voices from a variety of social scientific and humanities disciplines, voices from relevant domains beyond (environmental) health, and voices from the global South (from non-experts, social scientific and humanities researchers and domains beyond health). We conclude that a focus on inclusive and equitable engagement with intertwined health- and sustainability challenges is imperative. This requires moving away from developing universal knowledge to address generic problems, to foregrounding plurality in terms of problem statements, knowledge, solutions, and the values embedded therein.
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Wright, Peter. "“Are there Racists in Yugoslavia?” Debating Racism and Anti-blackness in Socialist Yugoslavia." Slavic Review 81, no. 2 (2022): 418–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.150.
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This article examines debates, scholarly studies, and literary representations of the phenomenon of racism in socialist Yugoslavia and Yugoslavs’ relationship to whiteness in the 1960s and 70s. I argue that the persistent activism of black African students helped provoke official, scholarly, and public discussions about the thorny question of racism in Yugoslav society during this time. The salience of black students’ accusations eventually made something that was taboo in the 1950s and early 1960s—namely, entertaining the prospect that anti-black racial prejudice existed in non-aligned, socialist, and anti-racist Yugoslavia—into an active subject of debate by the end of the decade. Importantly, the relative candidness with which academic studies and popular literature addressed racism indicates a reflexivity about “racial” questions on the part of socialist Yugoslav society, something that scholarship has largely neglected in favor of focusing on the suppression or elision of race and the inadequacy of state socialist responses to the problem of domestic expressions of prejudice.
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Annas Rolli Muchlisin. "Al-Jahiz (D. 868/9) on the Virtues of ‘Ali ibn Abi Thalib (D. 661) and the Limit of Ijma’." DINIKA : Academic Journal of Islamic Studies 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/dinika.v7i1.5194.
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The study of al-Jahiz among researchers and historians of the classical Islam has shed more light not only on the man and his intellectual engagement but also on the general Islamic intellectual history, especially in the ninth century Bagdad, the capital city of the ‘Abbasid kingdom. This article examines how al-Jahiz, as an enthusiast debater, dialectician, and polemicist, engaged himself in debates concerning the virtues of ‘Ali ibn Abi Thalib and his caliphate status. This is a literature study of al-Jahiz’s works, complemented by secondary relevant sources. This study reveals that in debating this particular issue which had been highly controversial by his time, al-Jahiz differed from both his fellow Mu‘tazila thinkers and hadith transmitters, and even argued against ijma’,the consensus argument, which was and is still regarded as undisputed argument by many Islamic law scholars. His intellectual bravery then allowed him to freely articulate his ideas and stand as an independent and original thinker.
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Al Jufri, Muhammad Arman. "The Art of Debating by the Prophet Ibrāhīm: Analysis of Ma'nā cum maghzā's Approach to Q. 2: 258." Al Qalam 39, no. 1 (June 18, 2022): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.32678/alqalam.v39i1.5591.
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This article delves more deeply into the prophet Ibrāhīm's art of debating: an analysis of ma'nā maghzā's approach to Q. 2: 258. The difference of views is a fact that cannot be denied. The debates that occur often lead to the presence of further conflicts, both at the regional, national, and international levels. Two points are outlined, first, how to use Q. 2: 258 in its language and socio-historical manner; Second, what is the significance of Q. 2: 258. This article is a type of qualitative research in the form of library research. The primary data source in this study is Q. 2: 258. While secondary data sources include literature that is directly or indirectly related, both in physical and online libraries. To see it, this article uses the ma'nā cum maghzā approach offered by Sahiron Shamsuddin. As a result, in language, Q. 2: 258 is a verse that specifically speaks to a debate that took place between the Prophet Ibrāhīm and King Namruż. Q. 2: 258 hints at a system of "debate" in the context of "inclusive dialogue". The argument used by the Prophet Ibrāhīm is a type of argument a fortiori, which is an argument that has an analogical affirmation value between two different things but is closely related in a logical corridor.
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Ullah, Naqeeb, and Sajjad Ahmed. "منهج الجدل عند الشيخ أحمد ديدات في مؤلفاته." Journal of Islamic and Religious Studies 6, no. 1 (June 5, 2021): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.36476/jirs.6:1.06.2021.02.
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Sheikh Aḥmad Dīdāt, the awardee of King Faisal award in 1986, was a enthusiastic, self-educated Muslim preacher from South Africa, most prominent for engaging Christian missionaries in open debates. Although he was famous for his sharp and impassioned debating style, he also published more than 20 books and wrote numerous articles and pamphlets, many of them were translated into different languages. He settled a specific discourse on the nature of relations between Muslims and followers of other religions through dialogues, public debates and written literature. This research aims to identify Dīdāt’s approaches in his literature, the impact of his methodolgy on Islamic-Christian dialogue, the methods used by him in this regard and the guidelines from his approches to improve Islamic-Christian dialogue in future. The study concludes that dialogue is one of the basic means to achieve peace and peaceful coexistence in the modern era. Moreover, Dīdāt adheres to the original and authentic sources of the Christians, and promotes the calm dialogue based on the principles of sober scientific research, in order to achieve security and peaceful coexistence. The researchers recommend establishment of an active international Islamic body for dialogue, far from political influences and directives, to prepare scientific and intellectual cadres of Muslim interlocutors at all levels.
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Zala, Benjamin. "Interpreting great power rights in international society: Debating China’s right to a sphere of influence." Journal of International Political Theory 16, no. 2 (February 17, 2020): 210–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1755088220905607.
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The special rights and responsibilities of the great powers have traditionally been treated as a key component – even a primary institution – of international society in the English School literature. Recent interpretivist work has focused on the meanings of special responsibilities in contemporary international society with far less scholarly attention being given to the corollary of this – special rights. This article uses an interpretivist approach to attempt to uncover what recent debates over China’s right or otherwise to a sphere of influence in East Asia tells us about understandings of great power rights in contemporary international society. The argument advanced is that if Beijing’s right to a sphere of influence is successfully rejected by the rest of international society without repudiating its status as a great power more broadly, China will indeed be a great power without historical precedent.
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Olszowski, Rafał, and Marcin Chmielowski. "Collective Intelligence in Polish-Ukrainian Internet Projects. Debate Models and Research Methods." Future Internet 12, no. 6 (June 20, 2020): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi12060106.
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In this study, we focus on models of civic debate suitable for use in Polish-Ukrainian internet projects, as well as methods of researching collective intelligence that can help to monitor particular aspects of such debates and consequently create social bridging capital between these groups. The dynamic socio-political situation of recent years, both in Ukraine and in Poland, has created new conditions. Anti-government protests and social turmoil related to the war in Crimea and Donbas, as well as a high level of migration in the region in a short period led to the creation of a multi-ethnic society. This brings opportunities for the development of a new type of social capital: A new participative model of social life based on internet projects, with a relatively low entry barrier, space for creativity, and the widespread use of ICT technologies, can provide the new ways of debating, civic engagement, and collective action. Our research, based on a multidisciplinary literature review, as well as a series of qualitative in-depth interviews (IDIs), proved that the selected collective intelligence (CI) research methods and debate models can help to develop internet communities that will contribute to building bridging capital between Poles and Ukrainians.
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Ortar, Nathalie, and Marianne Ryghaug. "Should All Cars Be Electric by 2025? The Electric Car Debate in Europe." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (March 28, 2019): 1868. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11071868.
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The car is still the most common mode of transport in Western countries, particularly so across the European Union, as it accounts for about two-thirds of daily commuting. So far, measures aiming to reduce automobile traffic and incentives for the modal shift to public transport and non-polluting methods of travel (walking, cycling, etc.) have had little effect. Moreover, the car lies at the core of a very complex system that has proven to be difficult to unlock. In light of these challenges, using new types of engine power may appear to be a solution. Electric vehicles have the potential to improve the efficiency, affordability, and sustainability of the transport system. However, there remains much uncertainty as to how such a transition from one type of engine to another may unfold, and where it could take place within the European context. In June 2017, the H2020 project SHAPE-ENERGY launched an online debate on the Debating Europe platform with the question: “Should all cars be electric by 2025?”. The aim of the debate was to elicit citizens views on whether the goal could be reached, how and with which consequences. The diversity of the vantage points that have appeared in the subsequent discussion generated by the strands of debate allows us to bring into discussion the viewpoints and arguments that are not often addressed in the literature on the adoption of electric cars in a comprehensive way. The article sheds light on those debates across Europe, in order to bring new insights to European policymakers that are seeking to promote the market for electric vehicles. It also broadens the scope and offers important contributions to scholarly debates on the diffusion and adoption of such vehicles.
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Hyun, Jaehwan. "Tracing National Origins, Debating Ethnic Homogeneity." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 49, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 351–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2019.49.4.351.
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This article examines the interaction between human population genetics and the reconstruction of national identities and histories. Since the first use of mitochondrial DNA analysis of human origins in 1987, scientific research on population history using genetic technologies, or genetic history studies, has flourished, engaging with diverse politics of social identity and national belonging across the globe. Previous scholars have stated that a distinct feature of genetic history studies is the globalized research and commercial network enabled by technological innovations and social transformations during the 1990s. This paper contributes further to this literature by analyzing how local geneticists became part of the global research network and how globalization at large—e.g., economic liberalization and the rise of multiculturalism—functioned in the development of genetic history studies in South Korea. By focusing on a leading population geneticist, Kim Wook and his genetic origin research on Koreans, I will show the role that Korean geneticists had in reconfiguring Korean national identity—from an ethnically homogeneous group to an ethnically diverse one—while their research practices, questions, and methods were inspired and supported by domestic globalization policies and discourses and a transnational network of genetic history studies. I will also reveal the essential, albeit equivocal, part genetic knowledge played in the debate on national belonging in this county.
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Casale, Giancarlo. "Did Alexander the Great Discover America? Debating Space and Time in Renaissance Istanbul." Renaissance Quarterly 72, no. 3 (2019): 863–909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.252.
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Following the first European voyages of exploration to the New World, several Ottoman authors debated whether Alexander the Great may have already known of the American continent in classical antiquity. By exploring the contours of this previously unstudied intra-Ottoman debate, the present article challenges the prevailing scholarly view that sixteenth-century Ottoman writings about the Americas were at best frivolous and at worst incoherent. Instead, these texts engaged with many of the same questions provoked by the discoveries in contemporary Europe, while at the same time intersecting with the most profound and contested concerns of Ottoman statecraft.
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Tham, Aaron, and Marianna Sigala. "Road block(chain): bit(coin)s for tourism sustainable development goals?" Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology 11, no. 2 (January 13, 2020): 203–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhtt-05-2019-0069.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the disrupting usage and impacts of blockchains and cryptocurrencies and advocate their role as enablers of sustainable tourism development goals. Design/methodology/approach Literature on blockchains and cryptocurrencies is critically synthesized, debated and expanded to identify and discuss their implications toward sustainable tourism futures. Findings As a distributive digital ledger, blockchains have the potential to create a more inclusive tourism future to address debates around tourism as a vehicle for sustainable development that alludes to value accruing to only certain providers and consumers. Blockchains and their cryptocurrencies (as a financial transaction capability) elevate trust and relational capabilities in an expedited and holistic manner, democratize participation in economic systems and re-distribute power and economic relations amongst actors by influencing the way data (the currency of the digital economy and the lifeblood of tourism) is collected, stored, exchange, owned and traded for co-creating value. Research limitations/implications The paper is conceptual and speculative by identifying ways in which blockchain and cryptocurrencies can support sustainable tourism development goals. Directions for future research are provided for further elaborating and collecting primary evidence on whether the premise and applications of these technologies can deliver the acclaimed sustainable impacts. Originality/value The paper contributes to the emerging but controversial literature about the trajectories between technology and sustainability by critically debating on how blockchains, through cryptocurrency economies, can be positioned to facilitate sustainable tourism futures.
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Pendleton, Linwood H., Gabby N. Ahmadia, Howard I. Browman, Ruth H. Thurstan, David M. Kaplan, and Valerio Bartolino. "Debating the effectiveness of marine protected areas." ICES Journal of Marine Science 75, no. 3 (August 31, 2017): 1156–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx154.
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Abstract Increasing the size and number of marine protected areas (MPAs) is widely seen as a way to meet ambitious biodiversity and sustainable development goals. Yet, debate still exists on the effectiveness of MPAs in achieving ecological and societal objectives. Although the literature provides significant evidence of the ecological effects of MPAs within their boundaries, much remains to be learned about the ecological and social effects of MPAs on regional and seascape scales. Key to improving the effectiveness of MPAs, and ensuring that they achieve desired outcomes, will be better monitoring that includes ecological and social data collected inside and outside of MPAs. This can lead to more conclusive evidence about what is working, what is not, and why. Eight authors were asked to write about their experiences with MPA effectiveness. The authors were instructed to clearly define “effectiveness” and discuss the degree to which they felt MPAs had achieved or failed to be effective. Essays were exchanged among authors and each was invited to write a shorter “counterpoint.” The exercise shows that, while experiences are diverse, many authors found common ground regarding the role of MPAs in achieving conservation targets. This exchange of perspectives is intended to promote reflection, analysis, and dialogue as a means for improving MPA design, assessment, and integration with other conservation tools.
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King, Ronald F., and Thomas S. Langston. "Narratives of American Politics." Perspectives on Politics 6, no. 2 (June 2008): 235–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592708080584.
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This article is an extended review essay that classifies the main literatures on American politics, somewhat unconventionally, in terms of four distinct narrative modes: comedy, romance, tragedy, and irony. The four modes are differentiated by their internal construction and external social message. The central assertion is that there are standardized trajectories inherent to many of the empirical analyses we advance, which can be used to understand ongoing debates in the field. Perceiving inherent harmony or discord, emphasizing the exalted or the mundane, projecting achievement or frustration, the various narratives of American politics present contrasting interpretations regarding regime tensions and prospects. The more that political scientists become conscious of the forms and limits of the models employed, the more sophisticated we can be at developing and debating them.
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Luyt, Brendan. "Debating reliable sources: writing the history of the Vietnam War on Wikipedia." Journal of Documentation 71, no. 3 (May 11, 2015): 440–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-11-2013-0147.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use selected discussions appearing on the talk pages of the Wikipedia entry on the Vietnam War to shed light on how the wider epistemological context of this online encyclopaedia affects the nature of debate about sources and subsequently how this knowledge could be used to improve information literacy instruction. Design/methodology/approach – My broad approach to the study of the Wikipedia talk pages on the Vietnam War is qualitative in nature and explores the debate over sources through a textual analysis. Findings – Although much of the debate over sources is conducted without acrimony, the level of analysis one finds in the talk pages is rather shallow while the attention of individual contributors is not overly concentrated. Originality/value – There have been few studies of individual Wikipedia entries and their talk pages, rather the focus of most of the literature has been on a broad overview of the entire encyclopaedia or a concentration on a set of entries for a particular topic area.
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Palenga‐Möllenbeck, Ewa. "Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness From a Multilevel Perspective." Social Inclusion 10, no. 1 (March 22, 2022): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4789.
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For some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance between the output of the German welfare state to migrants and the input it receives from migrant domestic workers. In this article I discuss how this input is being rendered invisible or at least underappreciated by sexist, racist, and classist practices of othering. To illustrate the point, I will use examples from two empirical research projects that looked into how families in Germany outsource various forms of reproductive work to both female and male migrants from Eastern Europe. Drawing on the concept of othering developed in feminist and postcolonial literature and their ideas of how privileges and disadvantages are interconnected, I will put this example into the context of literature on racism, gender, and care work migration. I show how migrant workers fail to live up to the normative standards of work, family life, and gender relations and norms set by a sedentary society. A complex interaction of supposedly “natural” and “objective” differences between “us” and “them” are at work to justify everyday discrimination against migrants and their institutional exclusion. These processes are also reflected in current political and public debates on the commodification and transnationalisation of care.
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SINGH SYAN, HARDIP. "Debating Revolution: Early eighteenth century Sikh public philosophy on the formation of the Khalsa." Modern Asian Studies 48, no. 4 (December 5, 2013): 1096–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000632.
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AbstractThis paper examines the public debate that happened among Delhi's Sikh community following the formation of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh. The detail of this debate was expressed in the early eighteenth century Sikh text, Sri Gur Sobha. The Sri Gur Sobha explains how Delhi's Sikhs became divided into pro-Khalsa and anti-Khalsa factions, and how this conflict resulted in a campaign of persecution against Delhi's Khalsa Sikhs. In this paper I endeavour to analyse exactly why this dispute occurred and how it reflects wider political and socio-economic processes in early modern India and Sikh society. In addition, the paper will explore how the elite Khatri community consequently became an object of hatred in eighteenth century Khalsa Sikh literature.
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Romão, Filipe, Ana L. Quaresma, Joana Simão, Francisco J. Bravo-Córdoba, Teresa Viseu, José M. Santos, Francisco J. Sanz-Ronda, and António N. Pinheiro. "Debating the Rules: An Experimental Approach to Assess Cyprinid Passage Performance Thresholds in Vertical Slot Fishways." Water 16, no. 3 (January 29, 2024): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w16030439.
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Throughout the world, emerging barriers in river systems block longitudinal connectivity for migrating fish, causing significant impacts by precluding them from carrying out vital life cycle activities. Fishways are still the main mitigation solution implemented, where barrier removal is not feasible. Within the multiple technical fish passage devices, the vertical slot fishway (VSF) is considered the most reliable. Early design guidelines, established for cyprinids, indicate that the volumetric dissipation power (Pv) in the pools should be Pv < 150 Wm−3, while most frequent slope values range from 10 to 12%. In this study, an experimental approach was conducted to question and debate the validity of these recommendations. For this, the Iberian barbel (Luciobarbus bocagei, Steindachner, 1864) passage performance was assessed in a full-scale fishway that exceeded Pv design guidelines, under different configurations. These varied in discharge (Q) and mean pool water depth (hm): VSF1 (Q = 81 Ls−1; hm = 0.55 m); VSF2 (Q = 110 Ls−1; hm = 0.80 m); and the same design was equipped with a deep notch: DN1 (Q = 71 Ls−1; hm = 0.55 m); DN2 (Q = 99 Ls−1; hm = 0.80 m). The slope was set to 15.2% while the head drop per pool was Δh = 0.28 m, which generated a Pv that ranged from 222 in VSF1 to 187 Wm−3 in DN2. Passage behaviour was assessed using PIT telemetry and time-to-event analysis to evaluate the barbel upstream passage using standardized metrics: (i) motivation (ii) ascend success, and (iii) transit time. The hydrodynamic scenarios experienced by fish were characterized through a numerical model using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The results, contrary to what was expected, showed a higher performance in VSF1 confirmed by the ascent analysis and transit time. Although no differences were found in fish motivation, the results indicate that larger fish displayed lower times to perform the first passage attempt. The CFD results show that, although maximum velocities and turbulence (turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and Reynolds shear stress (RSS)) do not change significantly between configurations, their distribution in the pools is quite different. Regarding TKE, larger volumes with magnitudes higher than 0.05 m2s−2 were notorious in both DN1 and DN2 configurations compared to VSF1, influencing passage efficiency which is in line with the ascent and transit time metrics results. Overall, the present research undeniably debates the literature design guidelines and reinforces the need to jointly assess species-specific fish passage criteria and fishway hydrodynamics, whereas precaution should be taken when using very general recommendations.
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Oushakine, Serguei. "A tale? A lie? A lesson? On some quasi-literary debates about the (lack of) usefulness of a genre." Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature 19, no. 1 (2021): 8–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2021-1-19-8-43.
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During the last two decades, a series of publications drew scholars’ attention to the institutional and ideological context in which the politicization of the fantastic, animistic, and magical took place in the USSR in the late 1920s. In these narratives, «the fight against chukovshchina» is often used as an epitome for the «fight against skazka», which was orchestrated in 1928 by ignorant officials from the Narkompros and aimed at a small group of authors lead by Kornei Chukovsky. Important as it was, «the fight against chukovshchina» was a small and, perhaps, the least intellectually interesting aspect of the ongoing discussions. Debates about skazka did not start in 1928. Nor were they purely Soviet. Similar themes, arguments, and concerns could be easily found in the polemical exchanges in literary and pedagogical periodicals from the 1860s onwards. Key ideas and approaches that were articulated in the 1920s-1930s by and large repeated and repurposed the ideas that took shape long before the Bolshevik revolution. Expanding on the existing scholarship, this introduction to the archival collection «Debating Fairy-Tales» takes the scholarship on skazka beyond the institutional and ideological analysis in order to look closer at the intellectual context that shaped early soviet debates on the limits and function of the fantastic imagination. As the introduction suggests, when read this way, the debates on skazka show how this particular genre was deployed as a platform that enabled a series of fascinating paradigmatic shifts in understanding the links between national literature, on one hand, and education and imagination, on the other. By locating the early soviet debates on skazka within a much larger temporal frame, we could destabilize the monopoly of «the literary studies of politics» in order to see how skazka was conceptualized and problematized within radically different intellectual traditions — from the genetic and the functionalist to the morphological and the rhetorical. Such a diachronic approach makes visible how the original concern of the critics with the problem of skazka’s own origin was replaced by their attempts to figure out skazka’s functional purpose, it’s own internal structure, and, finally, the forms and types of skazka’s impact on it’s readers.
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Edwards, Robert G. T. "Proverbs 8, Christological Controversies, and the Pre-existence of the Son and Torah in the Third and Fourth Centuries." Journal for the Study of Judaism 51, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 67–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511274.
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Abstract This article argues that the opening of Genesis Rabbah 1 can be read productively in conversation with Christian controversies which raged from the middle of the third century to the fourth century. In rabbinic literature, it is not until the Amoraic period, in Palestine, that Proverbs 8 began to be employed as a proof of Torah’s pre-existence. This is precisely the same time that Christians engaged in heated debate as to the pre-existence of the Son, also based on Proverbs 8, not least in Palestine. By way of a broad reading of the christological controversies of this era, and a close reading of the exegesis of Proverbs 8 in Genesis Rabbah 1, the obscure debate partners of Genesis Rabbah 1 come to light: Christians who were debating the pre-existence of Wisdom.
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Barclay, Craig W., and Emma Foster-Thomas. "Peri-implantitis: an Unusual Presentation." Dental Update 47, no. 2 (February 2, 2020): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/denu.2020.47.2.115.
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Rehabilitation with dental implants is not without post-placement complications, one of which is peri-implantitis. Peri-implantitis is a progressive inflammatory disease which affects the hard and soft tissues around a dental implant. The consequent bone resorption and reduced osseointegration significantly affects the long-term viability of the implant fixture. Without treatment, peri-implantitis can progress in an accelerating, non-linear pattern. The aetiology of peri-implantitis is debated in the literature. Consequently, over the last ten years there have been numerous consensus meetings debating this topic and various guidelines have been written and updated by experts in the field. There is extensive, sometimes conflicting, literature on the subject in the scientific journals. The aetiological factors involved and the management of the condition remains up for debate… In 2011, a new patient attended the University Dental Hospital of Manchester with nine Xive implants (Dentsply Sirona), four maxillary and five mandibular. For various reasons the maxillary implants were all restored, however, only three of the mandibular implants were restored and two were left buried. In 2016, the patient returned with signs and symptoms of peri-implantitis around the most mesial buried implant (LL6 region). The potential reasons why this may have occurred were investigated and forms this case report. CPD/Clinical Relevance: Peri-implantitis may be associated with apparently buried implants.
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Moriconi, Marcelo. "From Transgression to Decriminalization: A Path to Promote Legitimacy, Inclusion, and Democracy in Latin America." Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 8, no. 1 (June 29, 2024): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.23870/marlas.424.
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Despite the extensive literature developed and published in recent decades on the causes of crime in Latin America and its solutions, data show that crime is consolidating and growing in the region. This essay warns that one of the crucial errors in much of that literature is the confusion between means and ends. Crime, like democracy,means to an end, and rather than good or bad, means are either effective or ineffective. Researchers have shown that in many Latin American countries, legality, as a categorical imperative and model of life, has lost legitimacy, truthfulness, and effectiveness, and transgression has become an admired value. Crime is closely related to this environment. Instead of debating the quality of democracies, this essay explains the importance of discussing the concept of worthwhile lives and reviewing the scope of legality in Latin America. We suggest that the premise of governing to include is crucially related to the need to redefine the scope of what is legal. And in that debate, the decriminalization of drugs is a central chapter. A pesar de la extensa literatura desarrollada y publicada en las últimas décadas sobre las causas del crimen en América Latina y sus soluciones, los datos muestran que el crimen se consolida y aumenta en la región. Este ensayo advierte que uno de los graves errores en gran parte de esa literatura es la confusión entre los medios y los fines. El crimen, como la democracia, es un medio para llegar a un fin, y más que buenos o malos, los medios son eficaces o ineficaces. Los investigadores han mostrado que en muchos países latinoamericanos, la legalidad, como imperativo categórico y modelo de vida, ha perdido legitimidad, veracidad y efectividad, y la transgresión se ha convertido en un valor admirado. El aumento del crimen está estrechamente relacionado con este entorno. En lugar de debatir sobre la calidad de las democracias, este ensayo explica la importancia de discutir el concepto de vidas dignas y revisar el alcance de la legalidad en América Latina. Sugerimos que la premisa de gobernar para incluir se relaciona crucialmente con la necesidad de redefinir el alcance de lo que es legal. Y en ese debate, la despenalización de las drogas es un capítulo central.
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Di Mauro, Danilo, and Irena Fiket. "Debating Europe, transforming identities: assessing the impact of deliberative poll treatment on identity." Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 47, no. 3 (January 16, 2017): 267–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2016.26.
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Although there is a considerable amount of talk about transformative power of deliberation on identity, the debate in literature remains highly theoretical in underlying the benefits of deliberative model for EU Integration. So far, little empirical evidence is available on the actual impact of deliberation.Can deliberation enhance European identity?We specifically address this question by using deliberative polling quasi-experiment that involved random sample of 348 European citizens in 2 days deliberationon issuesof Europeanconcern.The comparison of citizens’ sense of belonging to both EU and nation states before and after deliberation, allowed us to explore the effects of deliberation on identity and further test it against the control group. The analyses show that when European citizens are enabled to deliberate on European issues beyond national borders their exclusive national identity decreases and they become more community minded. The observed transformation of identities is further analyzed in order to explore the relationship between European and national identity. The analyses indicate that even after deliberative treatment in which European identity has been activated the relationship between multiple identities remains compatible.
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Bloemraad, Irene, and Matthew Wright. "“Utter Failure” or Unity out of Diversity? Debating and Evaluating Policies of Multiculturalism." International Migration Review 48, no. 1_suppl (September 2014): 292–334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imre.12135.
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Across immigrant-receiving democracies, “multiculturalism” has come under assault by political decision-makers and commentators. The academic debate, while less fiery, is also heated. We start by outlining the multiple meanings of “multiculturalism”: a term for demographic diversity; a political philosophy of equality or justice; a set of policies to recognize and accommodate ethno-racial and religious diversity; or a public discourse recognizing and valorizing pluralism. We then review the existing empirical literature and offer some new statistical analyses to assess what we know about the harm or benefits of multicultural policies, focusing on sociopolitical outcomes. We conclude that multicultural policies appear to have some modest positive effects on sociopolitical integration for first-generation immigrants and likely little direct effect, positive or negative, on those in the second generation. On the question of majority backlash, the limited scholarship is mixed; we speculate that multiculturalism works best in places where both minorities and majority residents see it as part of a common national project. We end by considering the conditions under which this happens and whether there are distinctions between “Anglo-settler” and other countries.
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Lauri, Marco. "Tradition, Modernity and Utopia in Muṣṭafà Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī’s Madīnat al-Saʿādah." Oriente Moderno 99, no. 1-2 (June 17, 2019): 116–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22138617-12340210.
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Abstract Utopian and dystopian writing does not generally belong to the established canon of Modern Arabic prose, which is largely founded upon realism. However, utopian elements appear with relative frequency in the Nahḍawī literary output, as testified by early texts such as Faransīs Marāš’ Ġābat al-Ḥaqq, Faraḥ Anṭūn’s al-Dīn wa-l-ʿilm wa-l-māl and Muṣṭafà Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī’s Madīnat al-Saʿādah. Utopian concepts in these and other similar works are deployed to introduce ideas and debates of modernity to their Arab readers, in a context where entrenched views on how social life should be organized were under deep scrutiny. Utopian writing is concerned with debating and challenging social organizations. While it is sometimes regarded as typical of a Western Modern “critical” tradition of thought, in which it came to be codified into a specific literary genre, most of its features appear in pre-modern literatures as well. This is particularly unsurprising in Islamicate contexts, whose literature and philosophy have been in continuous mutual exchange with the “West” and share with it both Classical (Hellenic) and Abrahamic foundations. I argue that, in the Nahḍah context, utopian writing could have provided an instrument to convey selected “modern” ideas and writing styles while consciously melding them with the local Arabic traditions. This paper analyzes Manfalūṭī’s short story Madīnat al-Saʿādah (The City of Happiness), one of the earliest examples of Nahḍawī utopian writing by a Muslim writer. I show that in displaying, as already known, marked references to the Classical Arabic literary tradition, while incorporating, engaging, and selectively suggesting several ideas central to Western discussions on modernity, this short story exemplifies the richness of Nahḍawī reflection.
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Boell, Sebastian K., and Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic. "Debating Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) and their Ramifications for IS: A rejoinder to Mike Chiasson, Briony Oates, Ulrike Schultze, and Richard Watson." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 2 (June 2015): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2015.15.
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Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are making their inroads into the IS discipline. By responding to the commentaries this rejoinder contributes to a debate about potential merits, limitations and wider ramifications of SLR for the IS discipline. More specifically we engage with the questions: What is an SLR and can it be conducted partially? How can literature reviews and SLR be improved? What is the view of ‘evidence’ in SLRs and the evidence-based practice movement and what are potential implications for ‘research informing IS practice'? How can the efficiency and effectiveness of literature reviews be improved? Overall we argue for a practice of critique that scrutinizes methodologies such as SLR in the light of values and ends we seek to achieve in the IS discipline.
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Singh, Alka, and Bhavya Arora. "Sulabha-Janaka Samvada in Vyasa’s Mahabharata: Debating Meaning and Language Structures." IJLHE: International Journal of Language, Humanities, and Education 5, no. 2 (December 14, 2022): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.52217/ijlhe.v5i2.1027.
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The present paper offers an analytical study on the Sulabha-Janaka Samvada as one of the significant pieces of philosophical and religious instructions in the Shanti Parva of Vyasa’s Mahabharata. The dialogue that takes place between a male emperor and female recluse stands tall not only because it serves as an exploration of key feminine voices incessantly debating the ideas of Samkhya Philosophy and means to salvation(moksa) but also because it establishes Sulabha’s discourses as a rare occasion in the ambit of Sanskrit Literature. In this discourse, we find the idea of what constitutes a well-knit argument, proponents of a debate that defines meaning-making in the process of closely scrutinized and investigated language structure. This discourse between two polar personalities becomes a short philosophical dialogic treatise, amid hefty monologues such as the incessant instructions by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita and Bheeshma in the Shanti Parva interspaced by many teachings of Vidura. Sulabha’s counter-arguments to Janaka are significant for it redefines the meaning and path to moksa, and in the process, expounds on what is proper speech, the correct usage of language and vocabulary and the purpose of doing so irrespective of the biases of class, gender, caste and educational elitism. The Sulabha-Janaka conversation has not received its due credit either in the Western or Eastern academic scholarship and scholarly attention has only been invested in the teachings of theGita, the ideas of dharma and many similar aspects. This short textual study provides a fresh perspective on philosophizing human need of meaning making and understanding the art of negotiating the engagement process of meaning associated with its structure.
Keywords: Sulabha-JanakaSamvaad, female aesthetics, Samkhya Philosophy, language, meaning, structure, Vyasa’s Mahabharata,
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Afonso, Whitney B. "The effect of a state income tax on migration: the example of Connecticut." Journal of Public Policy 38, no. 1 (December 12, 2016): 113–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x16000234.
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AbstractState-level income tax policy is a hotly debated topic in both academic and political spheres. Although economic theory and some empirical analyses suggest that larger income tax burdens affect migration decisions, there is also a good deal of empirical evidence showing that tax policy has little to no effect. This lack of consensus in the academic literature is echoed in the political world, where many states are debating whether to eliminate income taxes or reduce rates as a means of spurring economic growth. Connecticut’s adoption of an income tax policy in 1991 provides a unique opportunity to analyse the impact of a sizable income tax policy change on migration. The results suggest that Connecticut’s income tax deterred movement into the state but had no impact on exit from the state, resulting in a net loss in migration.
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Lei, Chen. "Debating Personality Rights Protection in China: A Comparative Outlook." European Review of Private Law 26, Issue 1 (February 1, 2018): 31–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/erpl2018003.
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Abstract: China is making its own Civil Code. In the last six years, one of the most controversial issues in Chinese civil law is that of how to legislate personality rights. While there are shelve-straining literature within China on this debate, outside of China, comparatively little is known about recent development in the legal protection of personality rights. What is the proposed scope of protection of personality rights? What does the legislative model on the protection of personality rights look like in the future Chinese Civil Code? Specifically, whether there should be a stand-alone book on personality rights into a future Chinese Civil Code and more intriguingly, how to deal with the interplay between the proposed personality rights law and the Tort Liability Law which came into effect in 2010? With reference to the experienced European jurisdictions, this article addresses all these questions and attempts to explore a wellbalanced solution on the legal protection of personality rights in China. Résumé: La Chine est en train d’élaborer son propre Code civil. L’une des questions les plus controversées en droit civil chinois au cours des six dernières années est celle de savoir comment légiférer sur les droits de la personnalité. Alors qu’enChine il existe une abondante littérature sur ce débat, on connaît, en dehors de la Chine, relativement peu de choses au sujet des récents développements en matière de protection juridique des droits de la personnalité. Quel cadre de protection des droits de la personnalité propose-t-on? Comment se présente le modèle législatif de protection des droits de la personnalité dans le futur Code civil chinois? En particulier, devrait-il y avoir un livre distinct sur les droits de la personnalité dans le futur Code civil chinois et, plus spécifiquement, comment traiter l’interaction entre la loi proposée sur les droits de la personnalité et la loi sur la responsabilité délictuelle qui est entrée en vigueur en 2010? En se référant à l’expérience des tribunaux européens, le présent article aborde toutes ces questions et tente de rechercher une solution équilibrée sur la protection juridique des droits de la personnalité en Chine. Zusammenfassung: China ist dabei, ein neues Zivilgesetzbuch zu schaffen. In den letzten sechs Jahren bezog sich eine der kontroversesten Diskussionen im chinesischen Zivilrecht darauf, wie Persönlichkeitsrechte geregelt werden sollten. Während es in China regalfüllende Literatur zu dieser Debatte gibt, ist außerhalb Chinas vergleichsweise wenig über die jüngsten Entwicklungen des rechtlichen Schutzes von Persönlichkeitsrechten bekannt. Was ist der vorgeschlagene Umfang des Persönlichkeitsrechtsschutzes? Wie sieht das Rechtsmodell des Persönlichkeitsrechtsschutzes im zukünftigen chinesischen Zivilgesetzbuch aus? Im Speziellen: Sollte es einen eigenständigen Teil zu Persönlichkeitsrechten im zukünftigen chinesischen Zivilgesetzbuch geben und, noch spannender, wie sollte das Zusammenspiel zwischen den vorgeschlagenen Regeln zum Persönlichkeitsrecht und dem 2010 in Kraft getretenen deliktischen Haftungsrecht aussehen? Unter Bezugnahme auf die Erfahrungen europäischer Jurisdiktionen adressiert der vorliegende Beitrag diese Fragen und versucht, eine ausbalancierte Lösung für den Persönlichkeitsrechtsschutz in China aufzuzeigen.
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Seyr, Sarah, and Albert Vollmer. "Socio-moral climate, debate, and decision comprehensiveness interplay for team innovation." International Journal of Conflict Management 25, no. 2 (April 8, 2014): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcma-08-2012-0060.
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to address both the socio-moral climate and how teams process debate and decision comprehensiveness as pre-conditions for team innovation. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 67 teams comprising 413 participants were surveyed. Data were analyzed with a multiple-step multiple-mediation procedure. Findings – The socio-moral climate was positively related to innovation. The positive relation between the socio-moral climate and innovation was mediated stepwise through debate and decision comprehensiveness. Research limitations/implications – To overcome the limitations of a cross-sectional design, future research opportunities exist in the longitudinal evaluation of participatory socio-moral climates and comparisons between organizations. Debate and decision comprehensiveness can be further studied using behavior-based methodological designs, such as observation. Practical implications – From this study, practitioners can learn of the needs and opportunities for participative approaches when managing innovation in teams. Promoting a socio-moral climate of cooperation, communication, openness, appreciation, trust and respect and leaving open the possibility that debating can help integrative decision comprehensiveness and thus innovation. Originality/value – This paper expands the literature on organizational climate, debate, decision comprehensiveness, and innovation. On the one hand, the results empirically linked the socio-moral climate, a theoretically well-founded climate construct, to process variables. On the other hand, the literature on debate and decision comprehensiveness was expanded by adding the socio-moral climate as a pre-condition of debate and decision comprehensiveness. Furthermore, both were linked to a crucial outcome variable, innovation.
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McBain, Kenneth, and Linda B. M. Renton. "Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 60, no. 5 (May 1997): 199–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802269706000503.
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Occupational therapists have been exploring and debating the therapeutic use of computers for over 10 years. Much of the literature on this topic is descriptive in nature. There has, however, been some work done in the area of cognitive rehabilitation. This article reviews the literature in relation to the use of computers in occupational therapy and in computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation (CACR). The benefits of computers and the human computer interface are explored and the restorative versus the adaptive approaches in cognitive rehabilitation are debated. The role of occupational therapy in CACR is discussed and assistive technology literature is used to expand upon this topic. The topic of the contributions of programmers and clinicians in designing software is raised. Software issues are also raised, such as the properties, limitations and development of software. The conclusions suggest that there have been few studies that have explored the efficacy of CACR and that those that have indicate that there is limited clinical benefit. Some of the limiting factors are the hardware the programs were developed on and the lack of theoretical underpinning for using software in a rehabilitation programme. However, when an adaptive rather than a restorative approach is considered, the use of computers in this area appears more promising.
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Colding, Johan, Magnus Colding, and Stephan Barthel. "The smart city model: A new panacea for urban sustainability or unmanageable complexity?" Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 47, no. 1 (March 21, 2018): 179–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808318763164.
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Despite several calls in this journal of debating the rapid growth of the literature on “smart cities”, such a debate has in large been absent. Smart cities are often un-critically launched as a sustainable way of developing cities. When cities become increasingly complex as its features are wired into the Internet, theories for their understanding is lagging behind. As it is prospected that a greater number of people and things will become connected by Information and Computer Technology, the complexity of urban systems will over time increase. Historical insights reveal that as complexity in societies increase, growth in energy consumption tends to follow. In this paper, we discuss whether complexity carried too far could lead to diminishing returns of energy saving and create unmanageable urban systems. As part of initiating such a debate, this commentary asks whether the smart cities development has a bearing on the issue whether a society can erode its capacity of sustaining itself? We pose this question against the backdrop that no one actually knows what type of society the smart cities model in the end will generate.
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Heijmans, Annelies, and Rik Eweg. "Transformative research and education in Living Labs using the SDGs as a compass." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 24, no. 9 (September 25, 2023): 335–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-11-2022-0350.
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Purpose This study aims to investigate how Living Labs of Van Hall Larenstein UAS perform as sustainability-oriented, transdisciplinary learning environments. It shows how the sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be used as a compass and debates the sustainability impact of applied research. Design/methodology/approach A case study approach was adopted, including a literature review, scoping visits, online workshops and peer-to-peer inter-vision/learning, using the SDGs as a compass and framework for analysis. Findings Most Living Labs use a “silo-approach” on the SDGs and are designed from a technological-expert perspective. This results in blind spots, particularly on SDGs related to reducing socio-economic inequality and just institutions. Debating unsustainable systems, cultures and practices is avoided. To contribute to sustainability transitions, universities need to invest in developing transformative capacity. This refers to SDG-transition competences such as collaborative communication, constructively engaging with diversity and conflicts, discussing values, norms and ethics and encouraging reflexivity. Research limitations/implications Mainly lecturer-researchers were involved in the study. COVID-19 travel restrictions hindered the research at the grassroots level in India and Indonesia. Originality/value The study revealed the importance of creating Living Labs as safe and brave inter- and transdisciplinary learning environments to practice reflexivity: encouraging students, researchers and stakeholders to look at sustainability issues from plural perspectives and questioning unsustainable practices, which combined lead to changing perceptions, practices and relations and a deeper understanding of how change happens. The SDGs as a compass method supports reflexivity among stakeholders and in redirecting strategies towards a sustainable future.
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Tudoran, Cristina, Mariana Tudoran, Catalina Giurgi-Oncu, Ahmed Abu-Awwad, Simona-Alina Abu-Awwad, and Florica Voiţă-Mekereş. "Associations between Oral Glucose-Lowering Agents and Increased Risk for Life-Threatening Arrhythmias in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—A Literature Review." Medicina 59, no. 10 (October 2, 2023): 1760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59101760.
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Background and Objectives: The relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality is well-established. Ventricular arrhythmias (VA) are frequently diagnosed in patients with T2DM, especially in those with associated coronary syndrome, non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM), and heart failure (HF). In these patients, VA and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) are considered responsible for more than 50% of CV deaths. Newly developed glucose-lowering agents (GLA) seem not only to ameliorate CV morbidity and mortality, but also to reduce the risk of VA and SCA. Materials and Methods: We researched the medical literature on Pub-Med, Clarivate, and Google Scholar for original articles published in the last five years that debated the possible effects of various GLA on ventricular arrhythmias. Results: We identified nineteen original articles, nine of them debating the antiarrhythmic effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i); Conclusions: The results concerning the impact of various GLA on VA/SCA were heterogeneous depending on the pharmacological class studied, with some of them having neutral, positive, or negative effects. Although it appears that SGLT2i reduces the prevalence of atrial fibrillation and SCA, their effect on VA is not conclusive.
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Popescu, Andreea. "The Easy Approach to Group Agency. A Simple Realist View on Group Agents." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia 66, no. 2 (August 3, 2021): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2021.2.04.
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"We talk about groups as doing something, we talk as if groups have agency. Is our talk legitimate? Are there group agents? Is there something like group agency? In this paper, I discuss two ontological frameworks concerning existence questions: the Quinean framework and the Thomasson-Carnap framework. I apply them to the problem of group agency. I review the Quinean-oriented literature debating the existence of group agents and its methodological background. I argue, via Thomasson’s easy approach to ontology, that deflationism can simplify the debate surrounding group agents. Thus, I argue for a Thomasson-Carnap framework and show that it is better suited to answer the particular question whether there are group agents. More specifically, I argue for a non-reductive simple realist view on group agents, i.e. I argue for the truth of “There are group agents,” via analytic entailments, by truths about the actions and deeds of groups. Keywords: Analytic Entailments, Deflationism, Group agency, Group agents, Simple Realism "
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Lowe, Alan D., Ivo De Loo, and Yesh Nama. "Cutting the Gordian knot [?]: a response to Lukka and Vinnari (2014)." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29, no. 2 (February 15, 2016): 305–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-04-2015-2025.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to constructively discuss the meaning and nature of (theoretical) contribution in accounting research, as represented by Lukka and Vinnari (2014) (hereafter referred to as LV). The authors aim is to further encourage debate on what constitutes management accounting theory (or theories) and how to modestly clarify contributions to the extant literature. Design/methodology/approach – The approach the authors take can be seen as (a)n interdisciplinary literature sourced analysis and critique of the movement’s positioning and trajectory” (Parker and Guthrie, 2014, p. 1218). The paper also draws upon and synthesizes the present authors and other’s contributions to accounting research using actor network theory. Findings – While a distinction between domain and methods theories … may appear analytically viable, it may be virtually impossible to separate them in practice. In line with Armstrong (2008), the authors cast a measure of doubt on the quest to significantly extend theoretical contributions from accounting research. Research limitations/implications – Rather than making (apparently) grandiose claims about (theoretical) contributions from individual studies, the authors suggest making more modest claims from the research. The authors try to provide a more appropriate and realistic approach to the appreciation of research contributions. Originality/value – The authors contribute to the debate on how theoretical contributions can be made in the accounting literature by constructively debating some views that have recently been outlined by LV. The aim is to provide some perspective on the usefulness of the criteria suggested by these authors. The authors also suggest and highlight (alternative) ways in which contributions might be discerned and clarified.
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Wunder, Amanda. "Women’s Fashions and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Spain: The Rise and Fall of theGuardainfante*." Renaissance Quarterly 68, no. 1 (2015): 133–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/681310.
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AbstractWomen’s clothes were at the center of political debate in the Spain of Philip IV (r. 1621–65), and no garment inspired more controversy than the wide-hipped farthingale, or hoopskirt, known as theguardainfante. Considered scandalous with its reputation for hiding illicit pregnancies, theguardainfantewas banned in 1639. Nonetheless, theguardainfantebecame more popular than ever and turned into an enduring icon of Golden Age Spain during the reign of Philip’s second queen, Mariana of Austria (1649–65). Despite theguardainfante’s high level of visibility, most notably in court portraits by Diego Velázquez, very little is known about the historical experiences of the women who wore it. This article demonstrates that real women really did wear theguardainfantein a variety of contexts outside of portraiture and the theater. In Madrid and in cities throughout the Spanish empire, women of different stations and convictions participated in the political culture of their times by making, disseminating, and debating this controversial garment.
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Barinotti, Alice, Massimo Radin, Irene Cecchi, Silvia Grazietta Foddai, Elena Rubini, Dario Roccatello, Savino Sciascia, and Elisa Menegatti. "Genetic Factors in Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Preliminary Experience with Whole Exome Sequencing." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21, no. 24 (December 15, 2020): 9551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21249551.
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As in many autoimmune diseases, the pathogenesis of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is the result of a complex interplay between predisposing genes and triggering environmental factors, leading to a loss of self-tolerance and immune-mediated tissue damage. While the first genetic studies in APS focused primarily on the human leukocytes antigen system (HLA) region, more recent data highlighted the role of other genes in APS susceptibility, including those involved in the immune response and in the hemostatic process. In order to join this intriguing debate, we analyzed the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) derived from the whole exome sequencing (WES) of two siblings affected by APS and compared our findings with the available literature. We identified genes encoding proteins involved in the hemostatic process, the immune response, and the phospholipid metabolism (PLA2G6, HSPG2, BCL3, ZFAT, ATP2B2, CRTC3, and ADCY3) of potential interest when debating the pathogenesis of the syndrome. The study of the selected SNPs in a larger cohort of APS patients and the integration of WES results with the network-based approaches will help decipher the genetic risk factors involved in the diverse clinical features of APS.
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Yanti, Prima Gusti. "IMPROVING THE DEBATE ABILITY THROUGH INQUIRY METHOD AND AUDIO VISUAL LEARNING MEDIA IN COURSE OF SPEAKING SKILL (Lesson Study Results)." BAHTERA : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra 17, no. 2 (July 14, 2018): 82–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/bahtera.172.08.
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AbstractThis study aims to apply the model of professional development of lesson study in Speech Skills course through debating ability of student of lndonesian language and literature study program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Muhammadiyah University Professor Dr. Hamka. This lesson study program involves various elements, namely the lecturers team of lesson study, lecturers of speech skills students and semester III students of Indonesian Language and Literature Studies Program FKIP UHAMKA. This research uses Classroom Action Research which consists of (1) Plan stage, is development of teaching materials that is debate. (2) Do stage in the form of activities or implementation in the classroom by the model lecturer in the form of learning to students of the third semester, and (3) See stage or joint reflection between the model lecturer and the observer team about the advantages and disadvantages of teaching materials and processes that have been implemented. Lesson Study activities are designed in two cycles, each cycle consists of 2X meetings, at each meeting will be Plan, Do, and See stages in each learning process. The purpose of phasing in each cycle is to improve the students 'ability to speak which was previously passive, but continuously improved by using appropriate methods and media can improve students' ability in expressing their arguments so that students can improve their ability to argue. The results of this study indicate that: (1) the implementation of lesson study has given satisfaction to lecturer model and observer and student. (2) the are able to produce lessons (RPS, LKM, teaching materials, learning media, and quality assessment instruments) as they are made together with model lecturers and lecturers observer teams) (3) Dean of FKIP Uhamka’s support and its staff on lesson study activities for the improvement of lecturers professionalism that will ultimately improve the quality of education.Keywords: Ability, Inquiry, Media, Speech Skills
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Feldman, Matthew. "Debating Debates in ‘Holocaust Studies’." Holocaust Studies 16, no. 3 (December 2010): 156–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2010.11087262.
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Urso, Ornella. "The politicization of immigration in Italy. Who frames the issue, when and how." Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48, no. 3 (August 10, 2018): 365–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2018.16.
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AbstractItaly is one of the most representative ‘new immigration countries.’ Between the 1980s and the 1990s, it became a major country of destination for immigrants coming from Asia, Middle East, and North Africa. As a result, since the mid-90s, immigration has gained salience within the Italian political debate. Building on the existing literature on agenda-setting and framing studies, this article studies the evolution of the immigration issue in Italy over the last two decades. It focuses on the framing and, more specifically, the position political actors tend to adopt when debating on immigration. In particular, the main research questions are: to what extent is the framing of immigration associated with the traditional left vs. right spectrum? Do incumbent political parties tend to adopt a different position toward immigration than opposition parties? This article analyses party competition dynamics over the immigration issue in Italy from 1995 to 2011. The author carried out a political-claim analysis of articles from two Italian national daily newspapers. Findings show that immigration is more a positional issue than a valence one. Political actors’ positions towards migration appear to be anchored to the old left vs. right dimension of the political conflict. This demonstrates that parties’ engagement within the political conflict goes beyond electoral campaigns. Finally, being in government seems to play a crucial role in ‘softening’ the way party actors frame immigration, in terms of both the arguments used and the pro- or anti-immigration positions adopted.
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Lee, Ran. "Research on the Development of an Educational Model Integrating Debate and Argumentative Writing : Focusing on face-to-face debates and online debates." Korean Association of General Education 17, no. 4 (August 31, 2023): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.46392/kjge.2023.17.4.67.
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The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated education model of debate-argumentative writing and to specifically suggest the teaching and learning method in the model. For this, I proposed a circulative model of debating and argumentative writing including the processes of the topic formation, outline creation, debating, argumentative writing, feedback, online debating, and term paper evaluation. One of the main characteristics of this study is that the two activities circulate repetitively. In the repetition of the two activities, the target aims such as argumentative thinking skills, creativity, and speech and writing competences, can be achieved in an equally balanced manner. Another characteristic is that diverse patterns of debates such as formal debates, informal debates and online debates, are utilized for the learner’s active participation. Finally, since interactions can be strengthened between learners and a teacher, learners and learners, and learners and materials, feedback and information search can be strongly activated. For further study, intensified research is suggested regarding the analysis, as well as an effective teaching method involving the diversity of the communicative aspects in multi-layered debating message postings.
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Lee, Ran. "Research on the Development of an Educational Model Integrating Debate and Argumentative Writing : Focusing on face-to-face debates and online debates." Korean Association of General Education 17, no. 4 (August 31, 2023): 53–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.46392/kjge.2023.17.4.53.
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The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated education model of debate-argumentative writing and to specifically suggest the teaching and learning method in the model. For this, I proposed a circulative model of debating and argumentative writing including the processes of the topic formation, outline creation, debating, argumentative writing, feedback, online debating, and term paper evaluation. One of the main characteristics of this study is that the two activities circulate repetitively. In the repetition of the two activities, the target aims such as argumentative thinking skills, creativity, and speech and writing competences, can be achieved in an equally balanced manner. Another characteristic is that diverse patterns of debates such as formal debates, informal debates and online debates, are utilized for the learner’s active participation. Finally, since interactions can be strengthened between learners and a teacher, learners and learners, and learners and materials, feedback and information search can be strongly activated. For further study, intensified research is suggested regarding the analysis, as well as an effective teaching method involving the diversity of the communicative aspects in multi-layered debating message postings.
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Hardy, Cynthia, and Gill Palmer. "Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management." Journal of Management & Organization 5, no. 2 (March 1999): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200005526.
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AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.
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Hardy, Cynthia, and Gill Palmer. "Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management." Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 5, no. 2 (March 1999): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.1999.5.2.1.
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AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.
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Harihara Venkatraman, B., Dipankar Basak, and Dhandapani Venkataraman. "Debating the literature." Nature 460, no. 7252 (July 2009): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7252-295a.
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