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Levin, Janet. "Imaginability, Possibility, and the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41, no. 3 (2011): 391–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.2011.0027.
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IntroductionIt is standard practice in philosophical inquiry to test a general thesis (of the form ‘F iff G’ or ‘F only if G’) by attempting to construct a counterexample to it. If we can imagine or conceive of an F that isn't a G, then we have evidence that there could be an F that isn't a G — and thus evidence against the thesis in question; if not, then the thesis is (at least temporarily) secure. Or so it is standardly claimed.But there is increasing skepticism about how seriously to take what we can imagine or conceive as evidence for (or against) a priori philosophical theses, given the many historical examples of now-questionable theses that once seemed impossible to doubt — and also the recent experimental research suggesting that our verdicts on Gettier cases, trolley cases, and the scenarios depicted in other familiar thought-experiments may be affected by cultural, situational, and other adventitious factors.
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Brancacci, Aldo. "Aristotele e Diogene il Cinico." Peitho. Examina Antiqua 11, no. 1 (2020): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pea.2020.1.3.
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In this paper I examine the testimonium of Aristotle’s Rhetoric concerning Diogenes the Cynic (SSR V B 184). This piece of evidence is the most ancient source of Diogenes and proves that Aristotle was familiar with his writings. I also study the testimonium on Diogenes that is handed down by Theophrastus (SSR V B 172), which confirms the interest of the ancient Peripatos in this philosopher. Finally, I examine a passage of Book 1 of the Politics where Aristotle refers to the thesis on the abolition of money. I argue that such a thesis could be ascribed to Diogenes. In particular, I attempt to demonstrate that several theses of political philosophy put forward by Diogenes should be considered as constituting a polemical overthrow of the corresponding theses of Aristotle in Book 1 of his Politics.
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Levins, Richard. "Living the Eleventh Thesis." Monthly Review 67, no. 11 (2016): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-067-11-2016-04_4.
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When I was a boy I always assumed that I would grow up to be both a scientist and a Red. Rather than face a problem of combining activism and scholarship, I would have had a very difficult time trying to separate them.&hellip; Before I could read, my grandfather read to me from Bad Bishop Brown's <em>Science and History for Girls and Boys</em>. My grandfather believed that at a minimum every socialist worker should be familiar with cosmology, evolution, and history. I never separated history, in which we are active participants, from science, the finding out how things are. My family had broken with organized religion five generations back, but my father sat me down for Bible study every Friday evening because it was an important part of the surrounding culture and important to many people, a fascinating account of how ideas develop in changing conditions, and because every atheist should know it as well as believers do.&hellip; On my first day of primary school, my grandmother urged me to learn everything they could teach me&mdash;but not to believe it all. She was all too aware of the "racial science" of 1930s Germany and the justifications for eugenics and male supremacy that were popular in our own country. Her attitude came from her knowledge of the uses of science for power and profit and from a worker's generic distrust of the rulers. Her advice formed my stance in academic life: consciously in, but not of, the university.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-11" title="Vol. 67, No. 11: April 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>
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Greco, John. "Does anti-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony imply interest relativism about knowledge attributions?" Veritas (Porto Alegre) 66, no. 1 (2021): e41472. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2021.1.41472.
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Anti-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony is the thesis that testimonial knowledge is not reducible to knowledge of some other familiar kind, such as inductive knowledge. Interest relativism about knowledge attributions is the thesis that the standards for knowledge attributions are relative to practical contexts. This paper argues that anti-reductionism implies interest relativism. The notion of “implies” here is a fairly strong one: anti-reductionism, together with plausible assumptions, entails interest relativism. A second thesis of the paper is that anti-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony creates significant pressure toward attributor contextualism (a version of interest relativism). Even if anti-reductionism does not strictly entail attributor contextualism, the most powerful motivations for anti-reductionism also motivate attributor contextualism over alternative positions.
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Hooley, Cole Douglas. "A Familiar Friend: The Impacts of the Master’s Thesis Over Four Formative Career Phases." Smith College Studies in Social Work 87, no. 4 (2017): 380–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2017.1372547.
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Hornbeck, Ryan. "Facing the Consequences: The Case for Transformative Fieldwork in Undergraduate Curriculums." Teaching Anthropology 13, no. 1 (2024): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.22582/ta.v13i1.726.
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In this paper I argue that transformative fieldwork can and should be a pillar of an undergraduate education in anthropology. By transformative fieldwork, I mean long- or medium-term immersive participant observation that challenges the investigator’s beliefs, bodily experience (embodiment), and/or ethics, prompting adaptive responses that, collectively over time, fundamentally alter their experience of the world. My proposal has two parts. First, I advance the “senior thesis” – an in-depth research project undertaken in the final year of undergraduate study – as a viable placeholder for substantive fieldwork in an undergraduate curriculum. Such fieldwork, carried out locally or online, has advantages in accessibility, affordability, and authenticity relative to the conventional undergraduate gateway to fieldwork experience: methodological “field school.” Second, addressing a significant challenge to doing fieldwork on local (culturally familiar) terrain, I argue that such fieldwork can be transformative, and not merely a replication of familiar experiences, if students and their advisors design participant observation projects that carry significant consequences for the student’s beliefs, bodily experience, and/or ethics. I outline strategies for designing such projects, illustrated by examples drawn from my own students’ senior theses. The concluding section addresses three potential reservations about undergraduates undertaking “consequential” research.
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Pataut, Fabrice. "Truth and Modalities (I)." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2022): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp202214213.
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I contrast two construals of the thesis that truth is independent of verifiability in principle: a modal one and a non modal one. I argue in favor of the modal construal and then, on that basis, that independence holds across the board, i.e., even for statements that are verifiable by us relative to familiar, customary, non-skeptical standards.
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Pataut, Fabrice. "Truth and Modalities (II)." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 15, no. 2 (2023): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp202315213.
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I contrast two construals of the thesis that truth is independent of verifiability in principle: a modal one and a non modal one. I argue in favor of the modal construal and then, on that basis, that independence holds across the board, i.e., even for statements that are verifiable by us relative to familiar, customary, non-skeptical standards.
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Silva, Priscila De Souza, Luana Junqueira Dias Myrrha, and Silvana Nunes de Queiroz. "ANÁLISE SOBRE A MOBILIDADE OCUPACIONAL DAS FILHAS DE TRABALHADORAS DOMÉSTICAS NAS GRANDES REGIÕES DO BRASIL." (SYN)THESIS 15, no. 1 (2022): 58–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/(syn)thesis.2022.69288.
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Historicamente, o Brasil convive com diversas desigualdades, mas entre 2003 e 2014, mudanças econômicas e sociais geraram oportunidades de capacitação, acesso ao mercado de trabalho e renda para grupos mais despossuídos, como as filhas de trabalhadoras domésticas. A mobilidade intergeracional de ocupação dessas mulheres, como consequência de recursos familiares ou vantagens da meritocracia, provavelmente é mais escassa, devido ao próprio contexto socioeconômico familiar. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar os indicadores de mobilidade intergeracional de ocupação das filhas de trabalhadoras domésticas em relação às suas mães, para as Grandes Regiões do Brasil, em 2014. Foram utilizados os dados do Suplemento de Mobilidade Sócio-ocupacional da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD), de 2014. Os principais resultados indicam que a grande maioria das filhas de trabalhadoras domésticas experimentou mobilidade ascendente, nas cinco regiões do Brasil. As mudanças sociais e inclusivas desencadeadas no país foram determinantes neste processo, mas as diferenças de desenvolvimento regional ainda influenciam a possibilidade da melhoria de vida das filhas das trabalhadoras domésticas.
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Bury, Stephen. "The Artist’s Book in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Walter Benjamin and the Artist’s Book." Arts 8, no. 4 (2019): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8040138.
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Walter Benjamin, who was familiar with the pre-Second World War avant-garde, argued that mechanization threatens the aura of art objects. The digital revolution has been seen as reconfirming Benjamin’s thesis, but the digital can be seen to reaffirm the value of the actual, physical artist’s book, and moreover, artists have exploited the digital—as technologies and subject matter—to make artists’ books.
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Zhu, Jing Jing, Qun Qun Huang, Shui Qing Yang, Wei Luo, and Jun Lin. "Recycling of SiC in Crystalline Silicon Cutting Fluid." Advanced Materials Research 622-623 (December 2012): 504–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.622-623.504.
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Both merits and demerits of existing recovery techniques of crystalline silicon scrap cutting fluid were analyzed and compared in this paper. In the thesis, a new separation process for separating and recovering SiC in crystalline silicon cutting fluid was presented. The performance index of recycled SiC powder is equal/familiar to the new one, and that can replace the use of new one completely.
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Forrest, Peter. "Acquaintance with Universals." Metaphysica 18, no. 1 (2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mp-2017-0013.
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AbstractIn this paper I argue that the problems solved by universals require not merely that we know they exist but that we know them by acquaintance. I begin by explicating this thesis of acquaintance with universals. I then show how it solves some familiar problems. After that I reply to the objection that something weaker will do such as David Lewis’ distinction between natural and artificial classes of possibilia.
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El Khatib, Mounir, AbdulAziz Al Hammadi, Khalifa Alzaabi, and Khalifa Al Hammadi. "Operational Risk Management (ORM) as an Approach to Optimize Sustainability in the Construction Industry." International Journal of Theory of Organization and Practice (IJTOP) 3, no. 2 (2024): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.54489/ijtop.v3i2.307.
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In the contemporary domain, sustainable construction projects are growing in the market with advanced standards. With the application of new materials and technology in construction, there has been an exponential surge in risks. The significance of risk administration in optimizing sustainability in construction ventures is, therefore, augmenting. This thesis assignment was aimed at expanding insights into project-related operational risks in the construction sector and their management. It was requisite to get familiar with good practices in the sector to suggest effective recommendations relating to the topic. The thesis examined operational risk management (ORM) as an approach to optimize sustainability in the construction industry. The thesis assumed an archival study and secondary analysis to construe the study hypothesis. Data gathering utilized both primary and secondary approaches. The questionnaire was used to reinforce the research outcomes. Data analysis involved categorization using a network of relationships. The results from 10 articles sampled in the study indicated that while most actors in the construction sector understand the importance of risk management, the role played by ORM in improving sustainability is not widespread.
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Ahmad, Kasem Haj Ali. "THE ROLE OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN ENGLISH MEDIA ACROSS GENRES." Znanstvena misel journal, no. 80 (July 25, 2023): 81–85. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8181321.
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This thesis investigates the frequency and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in four genres of media discourse: news, interviews, opinions, and blogs. This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the familiar shapes and functions of DMs across categories and the instances and spread of DMs within each. The pedagogical implications of the study's findings are also discussed. The research examines the use of DMs in spoken and written media conversations.
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Barra, Eduardo Salles de Oliveira, and Ricardo Batista Dos Santos. "Duhem’s Analysis of Newtonian Method and the Logical Priority of Physics over Metaphysics." Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, no. 2 (June 28, 2017): 07. http://dx.doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2017.i2.03.
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This article offers a discussion of Duhemian analysis of Newton's method in the Principia considering both the traditional response to this analysis (Popper et alii) and the more recent ones (Harper et alii). It is argued that in General Scholium to the Principia, Newton is not advocating what Duhem suggests in his best-known criticism, but he is proposing something very close to the establishment of a logical priority of physics over metaphysics, a familiar thesis defended by the French physicist himself.
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Hayati, Asfitri, and Raden Asri Kartini. "PELATIHAN MENULIS KARYA TULIS ILMIAH MAHASISWA PRODI PARIWISATA UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH TANGERANG TAHUN AJARAN 2023-2024." Community Services and Social Work Bulletin 3, no. 2 (2024): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.31000/cswb.v3i2.10507.
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Students are certainly familiar with the term scientific work. Scientific work is written work that contains an explanation of a scientific discussion carried out by a writer or researcher. Scientific work is written work, specifically writing a thesis. For every student completing their studies, they are required to write a scientific work, because it is a regulation in higher education that they will graduate or get a degree when they have completed all the demands in higher education, namely writing a thesis. So it is necessary to hold training in writing Scientific Writing (KTI) for tourism study program students, Faculty of Tourism and Creative Industries, Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang. With this training activity, it is hoped that students will be able to increase their knowledge and skills in writing scientific papers, namely writing theses or other scientific works. The methods used in this service or training in writing scientific papers are the lecture method, discussion method and writing practice method. This training was carried out over three meetings starting from Tuesday to Thursday 17-19 October 2023. The training participants were 20 tourism study program students from the Faculty of Tourism and Creative Industries. Based on the results of the training. Students are trained in choosing titles and determining topics and creating an outline for an essay. Students are able to write problem formulations well by following the systematics of writing scientific papers. With the level of student ability in the training process, the level of student ability in understanding how to choose a title is 80%, compiling an outline online is 82%, practicing writing is 75%, while students find it difficult to determine a topic at 5%.Students are certainly familiar with the term scientific work. Scientific work is written work that contains an explanation of a scientific discussion carried out by a writer or researcher. Scientific work is written work, specifically writing a thesis. For every student completing their studies, they are required to write a scientific work, because it is a regulation in higher education that they will graduate or get a degree when they have completed all the demands in higher education, namely writing a thesis. So it is necessary to hold training in writing Scientific Writing (KTI) for tourism study program students, Faculty of Tourism and Creative Industries, Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang. With this training activity, it is hoped that students will be able to increase their knowledge and skills in writing scientific papers, namely writing theses or other scientific works. The methods used in this service or training in writing scientific papers are the lecture method, discussion method and writing practice method. This training was carried out over three meetings starting from Tuesday to Thursday 17-19 October 2023. The training participants were 20 tourism study program students from the Faculty of Tourism and Creative Industries. Based on the results of the training. Students are trained in choosing titles and determining topics and creating an outline for an essay. Students are able to write problem formulations well by following the systematics of writing scientific papers. With the level of student ability in the training process, the level of student ability in understanding how to choose a title is 80%, compiling an outline online is 82%, practicing writing is 75%, while students find it difficult to determine a topic at 5%.
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McGee, Vann. "“Kilimanjaro”1." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 23 (1997): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1997.10715965.
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This is not an overly ambitious paper. What I would like to do is to take a thesis that most people would regard as wildly implausible, and convince you that it is, in fact, false. What's worse, the argument I shall give is by no means airtight, though I hope it's reasonably convincing. The thesis has to do with the fuzzy boundaries of terms that refer to familiar middle-sized objects, terms like ‘Kilimanjaro’ and ‘the tallest mountain in Africa.’ It is intuitively clear (though not beyond doubt — see Timothy Williamson's book Vagueness) that Kilimanjaro has a fuzzy boundary, so that there are some clods of earth at the base of the mountain for which there isn't anything, either in our practices in using the word ‘Kilimanjaro’ or in the facts of geography, that determines an answer to the question whether the clod is a part of Kilimanjaro.
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Daniel, Yelkpieri, Acquah Andrews, M. J. Tamanja Emmanuel, and K. Dzikunu Cosmos. "Students' Level of Satisfaction of Postgraduate Thesis Supervision at the University of Education, Winneba." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITY & MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 04, no. 02 (2025): 298–307. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14870130.
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The study sought to investigate the extent of postgraduate students’ level of satisfaction with thesis supervision and completion in the University of Education, Winneba. The sequential explanatory design was used to carry out this study. The population of the study comprised students who offered postgraduate programmes, postgraduate thesis supervisors, and Deans of the various faculties. A cluster, simple random and purposive sampling techniques were employed to select the respondents. A sample of 72 respondents were involved, 62 students answered the questionnaire while 10 supervisors were interviewed. The study found that more than half (56.5%) of the participants were familiar with the rules, regulations and procedures concerning postgraduate studies. More than half (53.2%) were not assigned supervisors in the first year and 6 out of 10 participants in the interview said that thesis topics were not approved. It was further found that two-fifth (40.3%) of the participants were satisfied with their supervisors’ availability or accessibility for consultation. Again, one third (33%) of the participants were satisfied with the ability of their supervisors keeping to timelines. The study recommends that monitoring and tracking of students’ study plan and progress reports by postgraduate coordinators and supervisors should be intensified in all postgraduate programmes and to submit annual report on all research postgraduate students.
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Brorsson, Anna, Louise Nygard, and annika Ohman. "ACCESS TO EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC SPACE - VIEWS OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S774—S775. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2847.
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Abstract People with dementia value staying active and continuing with their everyday lives in public space, however there is a lack of knowledge about how they experience accessibility, problematic situations and how to manage these situations. The aim is to illuminate experiences of accessibility in public space in people with dementia with focus on places, activities and problematic situations. A Grounded theory approach was used in the thesis with multiple data collection methods (interviews, focus group interviews, observations and visual methods). Findings show that having access to everyday activities at different places in the neighbourhood was very important for the participants when they perceived themselves as being a part of the society and being active and independent persons. Engaging in familiar activities in familiar places was important. However, their activity radii in the community became smaller. The findings inspired the development of the questionnaire Participation in Activities and Places Outside Home.
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Woodward, James. "Supervenience and Singular Causal Statements." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 27 (March 1990): 211–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100005129.
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In his recent book, Causation: A Realistic Approach, Michael Tooley discusses the following thesis, which he calls the ‘thesis of the Humean Supervenience of Causal Relations’:(T) The truth values of all singular causal statements are logically determined by the truth values of statements of causal laws, together with the truth values of non-causal statements about particulars (p. 182).(T) represents one version of the ‘Humean’ idea that there is no more factual content to the claim that two particular events are causally connected than that they occur, instantiate some law or regularity, and perhaps bear some appropriate non-causal (e.g. spatio-temporal) to each other. This is an idea that is tacitly or explicitly assumed in most familiar accounts of singular causal statements. For example (T) is assumed by many probabilistic theories of singular causal statements, by theories which attempt to analyse singular causal statements in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, and, as I shall argue below, by David Lewis' counterfactual theory.
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Forrest, Peter. "Integrating Plenitude, Axiarchism And Agency." Roczniki Filozoficzne 71, no. 2 (2023): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rf237102.5.
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I consider three candidates for ultimate understanding: (1) ultimate agency, the familiar idea of understanding the existence and nature of the universe as created by God for good reasons; (2) axiarchism, the initially counter-intuitive idea that goodness is the first cause of contingent reality; and (3) plenitude, the thesis that all possible types of situation are real.
 After some initial clarification, I note the problems with axiarchism, and offer solutions. These solutions require the unification of space and time as space-time, and the consequent introduction of what might be called hypertime, but which I take to be true time—Time with an upper case “T”. I note how axiarchism and plenitude may be combined into the Plenum Bonum thesis that all and only good universes are real. Next, I note some problems with agency as an ultimate way of understanding. Finally, I solve these by means of a theory of agency as completing axiarchism, the Good versus Good theory.
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Nangimah, Musrifatun, and Robert Walldén. "Situated view on supervision. Insights from interviews with EAL supervisors in Sweden and Indonesia." Journal of Praxis in Higher Education 5, no. 1 (2023): 122–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/kpdc281.
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Literature on thesis supervision emphasises collaborative approaches with strong and supportive relationships. Despite an increasing research interest in supervisory relationships, little cross-cultural research has been conducted on supervisory roles and relationships in expanding-circle countries. This research explores how thesis supervisors negotiate different roles in supervision and relationships with colleagues and students in EAL (English as an Additional Language) contexts. A multi-case study was employed in three contexts: a Swedish university, two Indonesian private universities and an Indonesian public university. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 thesis supervisors. Thematic analysis and systemic-functional appraisal theory were used to analyse the discourse. Our findings revealed that supervisors expressed dealing with (a)symmetrical relationships with students and colleagues, dealing with different roles as supervisors, and managing priorities relating to intellectual development and instrumental goals. However, these dimensions of supervision were described differently in the three contexts. Swedish supervisors expressed concerns about weak authority, while the Indonesian private supervisors described frustrated attempts to form a closer relationship with the students. However, the Indonesian public supervisors reacted to students trying to become too familiar. Furthermore, supervisors in the three contexts had to take different unwanted roles in supervision. Implications for the understanding of situated supervision are discussed.
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Brody, Baruch. "The Role of Private Philanthropy in a Free and Democratic State." Social Philosophy and Policy 4, no. 2 (1987): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500000558.
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This paper will attempt to defend the thesis that it is impossible to understand the proper role of private philanthropy in a free and democratic society without examining certain fundamental questions about the proper roles of the state and about the rights and obligations of owners of private property. It will defend that thesis by presenting arguments for four subordinate theses: (a) there are historical and philosophical reasons for being skeptical about the role of private philanthropy in a free and democratic state; (b) these reasons can be met by certain familiar responses, but these responses are not fully satisfactory; (c) certain radical libertarian views, and more moderate versions of those views, would provide a basis for an alternative understanding of the role of private philanthropy in a free and democratic state; (d) whether or not one accepts those views, one can also better understand that role if one adopts a view of the state which emphasizes its role in the promotion of the virtues.(1) Historical and Philosophical DoubtsThe skeptical challenge to the claim that there is an important role for private philanthropy in a free and democratic state can be put very simply. It is the challenge that the emergence of strong but democratic states, with the concurrent emergence of a proper understanding of the extensive nature of legitimate state functions, has undercut the need for private philanthropy and its corresponding favorable tax treatment. It is the further claim that these developments, both historical and conceptual, have left private philanthropy with no significant role.
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Witmer, D. Gene. "Physicalism UnBlocked." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50, no. 7 (2020): 890–904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2020.35.
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AbstractWhat has become known as the blockers problem is an alleged difficulty facing attempts to formulate physicalism as a supervenience thesis. A blocker is an entity, itself contrary to physicalism, with the power to disrupt an otherwise necessary connection between physical and nonphysical conditions. I argue that there is no distinct blockers problem. Insofar as a problem can be identified, it turns out to be just a rather baroque version of a distinct and familiar objection to supervenience formulations and to be of no independent interest. Work on the formulation of physicalism can thus proceed without worrying about blockers.
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Gibbs, Alexis. "Familiar or strange? Rediscovering the ‘real’ child of educational policy through film." Policy Futures in Education 16, no. 8 (2018): 953–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210318774470.
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The working thesis of my latest research is that cinema can offer a viewer something of a ‘re-education in education’. In the case of policymakers and researchers in the field of education, this means looking again at the reality of the conceptual phenomena with which we occupy ourselves in writing to see whether the two groups are aligned. This article will first look at how the figure of the child is commonly constructed as an object of knowledge within policy and philosophical discourse, suggesting that this approach affirms frameworks in which it is possible to know what a child is, but may fail to do justice to the child of our ordinary experience. I then turn to a discussion of some of Iran’s so-called ‘children’s films’, exploring how their presentation of a world, and the representation of children within that world, allow for a re-education in the lived reality of children. It is suggested that this aesthetic turn in observing the child's behaviour may encourage a more faithful representation of that reality within educational policy and research also.
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Ramailis, Neri Widya. "VISUALISASI PERILAKU PENGENDARA SEPEDA MOTOR SEBAGAI BENTUK CRIME IN EVERYDAY LIFE ANALISIS CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY." SISI LAIN REALITA 1, no. 1 (2016): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/sisilainrealita.2016.vol1(1).1399.
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The phenomenon of traffic violations made by motorcyclists on the road is a pattern of behavior that is accustomed habit, done repeatedly and happen everyday, so as to for man aberrant culture. Then, in another case of traffic violation phenomenon is also seen as a condition of demoralization, which is interpreted as a form of the decrease to values, morality and norms in society. Where, in this case the people familiar with the rules and laws that apply, however, the rules are not well practiced in everyday life. This thesis tries to explain how cultural criminology see motorcyclists behavioral phenomena in everyday life dimension in crime and crime as culture. The method used in this research is a visual analyst criminology developed by Cecil E. Greek to display an image/photo related traffic offenses committed motorcyclists. The conclusion of this thesis is the behavior of motorcyclists present in this case as a form of crime phenomena in everyday life (crime in everyday life), and the phenomenon of crime and culture (culture as crime).
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Harun, Azahar, and Mohameed Razeef Abd Razak. "The Use of Anthropomorphic Agent in Movie: Case study of Cast Away (2000)." International Journal of Art & Design 1, no. 1 (2019): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ijad.v1i1.2658.
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This paper presents a case study of a Hollywood blockbuster movie called Cast Away (2000). The analysis is based on two anthropomorphism theories called Familiar Thesis and Comfort Thesis. Categorised under adventure drama, Cast Away (2000) depicts a story of a Federal Express executive named Chuck Noland who survives a plane crash and is stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific for four years. Cut off from the modern world, Chuck adapts to the harsh environment of the tropical island by salvaging FedEx packages washed up on the beach. One of the packages contains a Wilson volleyball which later in the plot becomes Chuck’s companion. This study employs a scene-by-scene analysis approach to understand how anthropomorphism theories are exploited and presented in the plot. From this, several important scenes that promote the meaning of life and social relationships have been discovered. In this regard, the study concludes that the Wilson volleyball is not just an advertising gimmick but an anthropomorphic agent that helps provide companionship, care, comfort and motivation which are essential for human survival.
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Babiak, Olha. "THREADS AND UPGRADES OF AI TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEW MEDIA ERA." Grail of Science, no. 24 (February 26, 2023): 441–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/grail-of-science.17.02.2023.080.
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Traditionally, media organizations have had an inner hierarchy, and on each level of it there is a specific job representative. However, with the rapid development of technology, including introducing artificial intelligence into all aspects of modern society, the industries we are familiar with are becoming more and more mechanized. In recent years, AI algorithms have developed its collect and process large amounts of data ability, now AI technology are able to create content on its own and personalize it based on the user's data. Some leading media outlets are already used to using AI in their workflows. Nevertheless, there are many experts who remain sceptical about this trend of great acceptance of AI technology. So does AI serve as a progressive tool for a new era of media or is it just a potential threat? This is the question that this thesis attempts to answer. The thesis contains an exploration of the definition of AI, an analysis of the impact AI technology has on media organization and their employees, as well as an indication of the potential threats of AI.
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Conca, Ken. "Ecology in an Age of Empire: A Reply to (and extension of) Dalby's Imperial Thesis." Global Environmental Politics 4, no. 2 (2004): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152638004323074165.
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If we are to think imperially about global environmental politics we must be clear about what we mean by empire, as use of the term often conflates two distinct trends. If “empire” means the resurgence of muscular American unilateralism, then the principal ramification is the need to understand international environmental cooperation not simply “after hegemony” but in the face of it, with American domestic politics a central consideration. If the term refers instead to broader processes of world economic restructuring that are not reducible to American foreign policy initiatives, then we need to situate global environmental politics in the context of changing global modes of accumulation and regulation. Although the two images of empire are not easily reconciled, some of their implications for the study of global environmental politics are shared. Both suggest the growing importance of studying contentious environmental politics alongside more familiar cooperation-theoretic approaches. Also, both suggest that tensions between the localized and non-localized meanings of the world's forests, rivers, watersheds, and coastlines will be at the center of such contention.
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Wallraff, H. "Seven theses on pigeon homing deduced from empirical findings." Journal of Experimental Biology 199, no. 1 (1996): 105–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.199.1.105.
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Experimental findings obtained in recent years make it possible to recognize and distinguish the most relevant components determining homing flights of displaced pigeons. Conclusions deduced from these experiments, more or less compelling or tentative, are presented in the form of seven theses, supplemented by several subtheses along with reference to empirical data. The principal theses are as follows. (1) Passively displaced pigeons find the way home by using location-dependent signals and not by path integration based on recording of motion. Pigeons are able to home, even from unfamiliar areas, without access to potentially useful information during transport to the release site. (2) Home-related orientation of pigeons in unfamiliar areas requires positional information acquired olfactorily from atmospheric trace gases. Empirically deduced details of olfactory navigation are enumerated (connection with winds and the sun, inaccuracy, spatial range, time course of sampling and memorizing spatial information, etc.). The critical gap in our knowledge, i.e. the nature and spatio-temporal distribution of the substances involved, is provisionally filled by speculation. (3) In familiar areas, known from previous flights, the visual landscape is used additionally to find the way home. (4) Initial orientation of pigeons does not exclusively reflect home-related navigation but includes components independent of the position with respect to home. Observed bearings are co-determined by a general preference for a certain compass direction and by distracting features of the nearby landscape. (5) Proportions among components controlling initial orientation according to theses 2-4 are highly variable depending on local, temporal and experimental conditions and on the life histories of the pigeons. This complexity greatly restricts recognition of the navigationally relevant components of behaviour at a given release site. (6) Sensory inputs, being neither olfactory nor visual, do not substantially contribute to determining the current position with respect to home. This thesis need not be definitive, but at present no contradicting evidence is available. (7) Pigeon homing is a model case of bird homing in general. Experiments with other species support this thesis. So far, there is no reason to assume that wild birds apply mechanisms fundamentally different from those of pigeons to find the way home.
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Sindrewicz, Karolina. "Struktury zdaniowe z czasownikami ruchu w mowie dzieci dwu- i trzyletnich." Poradnik Językowy 2019, no. 9 (2019): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.33896/porj.2019.9.5.
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The aim of this paper is to point to the issue of acquisition of the syntactic and infl ectional subsystems in speech development, and in particular to development of simple sentence structures. Based on the language material covering fragments of utterances made by 50 children, collected during a screening conducted in 3 nurseries in Praga-Północ in 2015, I made a brief analysis of the utterances constituted by verbs of movement, a class characterised by high frequency and free use by the children. The fi ndings confi rm the thesis that verbs of movement are a group with which children aged 2-3 are well familiar.
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Lavan, Luke. "FORA AND AGORAI IN MEDITERRANEAN CITIES DURING THE 4TH AND 5TH C. A.D." Late Antique Archaeology 3, no. 1 (2006): 193–249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134522-90000044.
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This article reviews the nature of fora and agorai during the late 3rd–5th c. A.D., and investigates the material appearance and everyday functions of these spaces. It revises the thesis of T. Potter’s Towns in Late Antiquity, through drawing upon a wider range of archaeological evidence and literary sources, which provide vivid details about everyday activities. It is argued that in many cities, especially in the East, fora/agorai were still monumental public squares with familiar public functions, and that the definitive eclipse of civic plazas, departing from earlier models of Mediterranean urbanism, comes later than has often been thought, in the 6th and 7th c.
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Armour, John. "An Economic and Jurisprudential Genealogy of Corporate Law. By Michael J. Whincop. [Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001. xviii, 222, (Bibliography) 20 and (Index) 5 pp. Hardback £45. ISBN 1–84014–773–3.]." Cambridge Law Journal 61, no. 2 (2002): 463–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008197302391694.
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Economic analysis has recently gained a high profile in English company law scholarship, not least through its employment by the Law Commissions and its resonance with the Company Law Review. This approach has taught us much about how company law functions in relation to the marketplace. Whincop’s book is, however, the first attempt to use economic methodology not only to explain how the law functions, but also to provide an evolutionary account of why the history of English company law followed the path it did. The result is a thesis that, whilst complex, has a powerful intuitive appeal for those familiar with Victorian company law judgments.
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Demicheva, Taisiia. "Despotism or Enlightened Absolutism? Towards the Image of Russia in the Work of Abbé Raynal “Histoire des Deux Indes”." ISTORIYA 13, no. 2 (112) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840019886-3.
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The article reveals the image of Russia in the work of Abbé Raynal “Histoire des deux Indes”. The subject of this study based on the imperial theory thesis in the Enlightened France recorded in the parts of the “Histoire des deux Indes” devoted to Russia. French philosophers criticized the empires activities destroyed indigenous peoples and sold people into slavery. When they discovered Russia, they began to compare it with the already studied and familiar models: prevailed in Russia estate system with the colonial one, and the serf peasant with the slaves exploited in the colonies, i.e. they operated with categories familiar to them. The article was written within the framework of the new imperial history. We will look at the image of Russia in of Abbé Raynal’s work based on such categories of analysis as state policy, population, trade and suggestions for improvement. We will argue that the image of Russia was similar to the eastern despotic states, as well as that there no need for the Russian state to export foreign state models.
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Korkut Raptis, Buket. "The Relevance of Emotions for Ethical Discourse: A Thesis in Philosophical Anthropology." Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 15, no. 1 (2020): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1895-8001.15.1.2.
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In this paper I propose a thesis in philosophical anthropology that aims to explain the relevance of emotions in ethical discourse. I introduce the concept of Gönül which, in Turkish language, stands primarily for the faculty of love and, generally, for that of emotions. In my analysis, I rely on the etymological connections between certain concepts in Turkish so as to understand the relevance of love in particular and emotions in general for ethical discourse. I argue that it is not the faculty of mind but that of Gönül which distinguishes humans from animals. Based on the distinction between “to understand” and “to know” in Turkish and their etymological relations with other concepts, I argue that understanding pertains to subjects, while knowledge pertains to objects. In other words, I claim that although we can understand subjects, we cannot know them, and that although we can know objects, we cannot understand them. Furthermore, given the familiar distinction between mechanical causation and teleological causation, I propose that “to know” is “to know how something works in terms of mechanical reasons” and that “to understand” is “to understand why someone acts in terms of teleological reasons.” Accordingly, based on the distinction between knowledge and understanding, the distinction between mind and Gönül can be rephrased: through mind we know how an object works based on mechanical reasons and through Gönül we understand why a subject acts based on teleological reasons. This means that we can understand a subject’s reasons for action only if we can sympathise with her emotions. I conclude that the realm of ethical discourse involves understanding through emotions, which is the task of the capacity of Gönül. In this sense, Gönül is a higher capacity than mind, for it presupposes the knowledge of objects but also requires understanding through emotions.
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Saeed, Jalal Anwer. "Reflection of The Relations Between Human Beings & Animal in Kurdish Poetry." Journal of University of Raparin 8, no. 1 (2021): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.26750/vol(8).no(1).paper8.
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Since the beginning of its appearance on this planet, human being has felt alien in one hand because he has not been familiar to anything in the wide nature he has lived in and in the other hand he has been afraid and felt hesitated due to his fear to from all other creatures. But gradually he has been familiar with nature and his environment and tried at the beginning to align himself with it then to overcome it and to use them for his own interest, especially the animals which are the second sequence after human being in the planet. This align and controlling is not a matter of one night and day, but it has gone through certain stages and periods and has taken certain forms until it reached to the form, we can see it today. This thesis has tried to point out the types of those relationships based on sequences and their reflections in Kurdish poetry which show the perspective of Kurdish poets towards animals.
 The thesis points out five types of relationships between human being & animals based on their sequence and appearance as following:
 
 Conflict Relationship.
 Interest Relationship.
 Friendship Relationship.
 Spiritual Relationship.
 Artistic Relationship.
 
 Each of those relationships is explained theoretically except the spiritual relationship, examples are given for all other relationships in Kurdish poetry. The reason why we have not seen example in Kurdish poetry for spiritual relationship is to the fact that we believe Kurdish society is an Islamic society and its religious perspective has not allowed this relationship to exceed friendship relationship and to reach spiritual relationship. Even, the friendship relationship sometimes has been based on interest relationship.
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Garcia, Brian. "Giovanni Pico and the Scholastics: A Note on «A Philosopher at the Crossroads»." Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 9 (April 23, 2024): 349–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v9i.16810.
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This review note surveys some important aspects of a recent publication by Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy. While focus over the last decades has been placed on Pico’s thought in relation to Jewish Kabbalah and mysticism, Edelheit hopes to emphasize the importance of the scholastic tradition (or, rather, the pluriform and various tradition of late medieval and Renaissance scholasticism) in Pico’s thought, and the ways in which this intellectual context places this unique Renaissance thinker at a sort of ‘crossroads’. Beyond providing a brief overview of the three main parts of the text, this note examines more closely Edelheit’s study of Pico’s 900 Theses and the methodological approach which involves a reconstruction of the dialectical context for each thesis. The Latin scholastics are real conversational partners for Pico: he is versed in the 13th-century scholastic sources, is certainly familiar with contemporaneous scholastic thought, and is able to employ scholastic methods and terminology within his wider philosophical project. While scholastic philosophy was very much alive at the end of the fifteenth century, Pico’s new and inclusive approach to philosophy and the history of philosophy, never eschewing the Latin masters, departs from both scholastic and humanist trends.
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Nardin, Terry. "International ethics and international law." Review of International Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210500118728.
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In this paper I am going to argue a familiar but still controversial thesis about the relation between international ethics and international law, which I would sum up in the following list of propositions:First, international law is a source as well as an object of ethical judgements. The idea of legality or the rule of law is an ethical one, and international law has ethical significance because it gives institutional expression to the rule of law in international relations.Secondly, international law—or, more precisely, the idea of the rule of law in international relations—reflects a rule-oriented rather than outcome-oriented ethic of international affairs. By insisting on the priority of rules over outcomes, this ethic rejects consequentialism in all its forms.
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Forbes, Curtis. "Editor's Introduction." Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 9, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v9i1.29354.
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The debate over scientific realism, simply put, is a debate over what we can and should believe about reality once we've critically assessed all the available arguments and empirical evidence. Thinking earnestly about the merits of scientific realism as a philosophical thesis requires navigating contentious historiographical issues, being familiar with the technical details of various scientific theories, and addressing disparate philosophical problems spanning aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and beyond. This issue of Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science aims to make participating in the scientific realism debate easier for both newcomers and veterans, collecting over twenty invited and peer-reviewed papers under the title "The Future of the Scientific Realism Debate: Contemporary Issues Concerning Scientific Realism."
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Mario Helarius Purba, Kristiana Mendrofa, and Blasius Superma Yese. "Keutamaan Santo Yusuf sebagai Teladan Hidup Katekis dalam Karya Pastoral." Journal New Light 2, no. 4 (2024): 09–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.62200/newlight.v2i4.147.
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This thesis departs from the author's awareness and interest in getting to know the lives of Christian believers who are struggling to practice their faith in this world. This thesis describes that Saint Joseph was a saint whose name was familiar to the ears of the faithful. Saint Joseph was god's choice to be entrusted to be the father of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Saint Joseph performed these duties and responsibilities humbly and faithfully to the Lord's commands. The Church then reflected on the life of this Saint Joseph and made him the Protector of the Universal Church, the Protector of the Holy Family of Nazareth, and the Protector of the Workers' Fig. Just as Saint Joseph made his life a servant of God's plan, so too did the faithful realize his calling as a herald of love. The faithful are invited to always see what God wants in a crisis-stricken life, while still trying to find creative ways and efforts to solve all of life's problems. Thus, this example of the primacy of Saint Joseph can lead the faithful to remain faithful to God until they are finally able to achieve eternal unity with God in heavenly happiness.
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Mazidah, Eva Nur, and Lailatul Masruroh. "Interactional Metadiscourse in Students’ Abstracts across Studies at Universitas Qomaruddin." Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching 8, no. 2 (2022): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.29300/ling.v8i2.6443.
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Writing is one of the essential things that all students must do. In writing, the delivery of ideas needs to be arranged so that the writing is easy to understand and practical. One type of writing is when students write a research article for their final project or thesis. Abstract writing is one of the crucial sections of a final project or thesis because the abstract contains an outline of the research they did. In writing abstracts, metadiscourse markers were possible because they aimed to organize a sequence of ideas, attract readers' attention, and indicate how important the information was presented. This study investigated one hundred and twenty abstract theses from six study programs at Universitas Qomaruddin. They are English Department (PBI), Mathematic Department (PMT), Industrial Engineering (TI), Electrical Engineering (TE), Mechanical Engineering (MS), and Informatics Engineering (IF). Hyland (2005) formulated the interactional metadiscourse investigated as the primary reference. The results showed that all six study programs applied interactional metadiscourse markers when writing their abstracts. Moredespite different styles and preferences in applying markers. In terms of usage of overall metadiscourse, PBI applied the most markers, while MS applied the least. In terms of variants of metadiscourse, PBI also applied the most, and MS applied the least varied markers. The reasons behind more or less usage of interactional markers were influenced by how familiar they were with using English, as it also revealed their writing style. PBI is one example that their exposure to English pretty helps them vary the way they arrange their ideas in their abstracts. However, other surprising groups were PMT and IF groups, which frequently showed the uses of metadiscourse markers. It also strengthened that English was not only dominated by English department students. It was more on how this language was known to many students at Universitas Qomaruddin. It is hoped that English as one of the international languages is no longer a big problem for students, especially in the case of abstract writing.
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Agha, Zaki A., Andy Triwinarko, and Baigo Hamuna. "Pemetaan Industri di Kota Batam Menggunakan Mobile GIS Berbasis Android." JOURNAL OF APPLIED INFORMATICS AND COMPUTING 1, no. 1 (2017): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.30871/jaic.v1i1.990.
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Android-based mobile GIS application is a service that combines digital maps in vector and smartphone media to search industry in Batam. This application is online. Currently, the information presented only provide location of region, users who are not familiar with the location will be difficult or take a long time to find the location of industry. Therefore it is necessary to design an application that is able to provide information on the location of industries in Batam. This thesis did research and development of Android-based mobile GIS applications to provide information on the location of industry in Batam. These applications have been built with the ability to show a map of Batam are taken from GeoServer, handle the search process, displays information and maps location of industry as desired user.
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Mzayek, May. "Liminal Identity: Reconstruction of Syrian Identity in Trump's America." Practicing Anthropology 41, no. 1 (2019): 20–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.41.1.20.
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Abstract During November of 2016, the Electoral College elected Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. The following spring, I conducted research with Syrian refugees in Austin, Texas. Using liminality, or the space of uncertainty, I examined identity loss and change with Syrian refugees and within myself. As an immigrant from Syria, my identity was always an issue growing up in the United States, especially as my family struggled for years to attain citizenship. Trump's election evoked my past feelings of uncertainty regarding personhood. Understanding the political context and the challenges of resettlement, I conducted my thesis research in Austin, Texas, with Syrian refugees in order to examine changes in their identities. Their continued feelings of identity loss and change fortified their existence in a space I am very familiar with—liminality.
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Corradini, Franziska. "Sustainable Development Goals in libraries of the German-speaking countries." Journal of EAHIL 16, no. 4 (2020): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32384/jeahil16439.
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“How did the release of the Agenda 2030 with its17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) affect libraries in German-speaking regions?” was the leading research question in my bachelor thesis. To analyse the situation, I did a case study, based on a literature review.Findings are that the SDG publication influenced particularly the library associations in Germany and Switzerland. Most actual libraries, though, are probably not familiar yet with the SDGs. Nevertheless, there exists in Austria an outstanding model in (library-)cooperation and SDG platform Bildung 2030. As there are hardly any articles about medical libraries contributing to the SDG discussion, there is unused potential for medical and health libraries to contribute. High potential lies within cooperation between public libraries and medical and health libraries, to spread health literacy to the public.
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Riefand Fadhlurrohman, Agung Triayudi, and Ratih Titi Komala Sari. "VoIP System Implementation Using Issabel as an Integrated IP PBX Server with Telco Vendors." SaNa: Journal of Blockchain, NFTs and Metaverse Technology 2, no. 1 (2024): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.58905/sana.v2i1.274.
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In today's telecommunication world, we cannot be separated from long-distance communication using telephones, either personal needs or mass needs. Therefore, this research aims to introduce a system that may be less familiar today, namely the VoIP System Implementation Using Issabel as an Integrated IP PBX Server with Telco Vendors. In this research, the author conducted experiments using VirtualBox to support thesis writing and using one of the providers that the author borrowed from the office in order to make calls to GSM and PSTN. The author observes that currently there are quite a lot of call centres that need this system to support employee performance and cost efficiency. Through this journal, the author hopes that entrepreneurs or telecommunication companies can gain an understanding of the VoIP System and IP PBX Server to be implemented.
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Xiao, Yang. "The Use of Schema Theory in the English Vocabulary Teaching." Frontiers in Sustainable Development 4, no. 7 (2024): 134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/p90mph97.
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Vocabulary is one of the three basic elements of a language. However, in many senior high schools, in the actual practice of senior high school English teaching, vocabulary teaching is not fully valued as it should be. Not only are teachers’ teaching methods simple and single, but also students are still given priority to memorize vocabulary by rote. The schema theory combines the known knowledge structure in people's brain with the new knowledge system to complete knowledge input. The purpose of this thesis is to apply schema theory to English vocabulary teaching in senior high school, so that students can learn to connect new concepts with their known knowledge to get familiar with the meaning of words and various uses of words, so as to help students expand their existing vocabulary.
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Kelsey, Sean. "Aristotle Physics I 8." Phronesis 51, no. 4 (2006): 330–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852806778876574.
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AbstractAristotle's thesis in Physics I 8 is that a certain old and familiar problem about coming to be can only be solved with the help of the new account of the "principles" he has developed in Physics I 7. This is a strong thesis and the literature on the chapter does not quite do it justice; specifically, as things now stand we are left wondering why Aristotle should have found this problem so compelling in the first place. In this paper I develop an interpretation which (I hope) will help to remedy this.I believe that Aristotle's problem about coming to be depends on a certain principle to the effect that "nothing can become what it already is" (it is this that is supposed to explain why τò óν cannot come to be εξ Óντoς – cf. 191a30). The main innovation of the interpretation developed here is its suggestion that we understand this principle as a principle about kinds. So understood, the principle does not make the comparatively trivial point that nothing can become any individual it already is, but rather the more powerful and substantive point that nothing can become any kind of thing it already is. I argue that this is a point which Aristotle himself accepts and that this is why the problem about coming to be raises serious difficulties for him. I also discuss Aristotle's proposed solutions to this problem, explaining how each draws on his new account of the principles and why each is required for any full resolution of the difficulties the problem raises. In this way I hope to show how the interpretation developed here does justice to the very strong thesis with which Aristotle begins Physics I 8. I conclude brie fly and somewhat speculatively with a suggestion as to why Aristotle might accept the principle on which I have suggested the problem turns.
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Arana, Ana Balda. "Cristóbal Balenciaga. Explorations in Traditional Spanish Aesthetics." Costume 53, no. 2 (2019): 161–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cost.2019.0119.
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This article investigates how the traditional attire and religious iconography of Cristóbal Balenciaga's (1895–1972) country of origin inspired his designs. The arguments presented here build on what has already been established on the subject, provide new data regarding the cultural context that informed the couturier's creative process (with which the Anglo-Saxon world is less familiar) and conclude by investigating the reasons and timing of his exploration of these fields. They suggest why this Spanish influence is present in his innovations in the 1950s and 1960s and go beyond clichéd interpretations of the ruffles of flamenco dress and bullfighters’ jackets. The findings derive from research for the author's doctoral thesis and her curatorial contribution to the exhibition Coal and Velvet. Balenciaga and Ortiz Echagüe. Views on the Popular Costume (Balenciaga Museum, Getaria, Spain, 7 October 2016–7 May 2017).
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Marmor, Andrei. "No Easy Cases?" Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 3, no. 2 (1990): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0841820900001168.
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Of all the various aspects of legal positivism, it is those bearing upon a theory of adjudication which have prompted its critics’ fiercest attacks. Legal positivism is taken to be committed to the thesis that a distinction exists between (so called) ‘easy’ cases—where the law can be identified and applied straightforwardly—and ‘hard’ cases—where the issue is not determined by the existing legal standards. Most critics are united in their rejection of this dichotomy, but divided by the two main routes they follow. The more familiar one, first outlined by Professor R.M. Dworkin, sets out to deny that hard cases are not regulated by legal standards. The other objection, and the one I wish to consider here, strives to show that the distinction itself is illusory since in all relevant respects, there are no easy cases as the positivist presumes.
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Mele, Alfred R. "Ultimate Responsibility and Dumb Luck." Social Philosophy and Policy 16, no. 2 (1999): 274–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500002478.
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My topic lies on conceptual terrain that is quite familiar to philosophers. For others, a bit of background may be in order. In light of what has filtered down from quantum mechanics, few philosophers today believe that the universe is causally deterministic (or “deterministic,” for short). That is, to use Peter van Inwagen's succinct definition of “determinism,” few philosophers believe that “there is at any instant exactly one physically possible future.” Even so, partly for obvious historical reasons, philosophers continue to argue about whether free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism. Compatibilists argue for compatibility, and incompatibilists argue against it. Some incompatibilists maintain that free will and moral responsibility are illusions. But most are libertarians, libertarianism being the conjunction of incompatibilism and the thesis that at least some human beings are possessed of free will and moral responsibility.