Keywords: corruption; Ukraine; Ukrainian government; Leonid Kozachenko; Pavlo Lazarenko; Ukrainian agriculture
Was the arrest of a deputy minister for agriculture really an attempt to root out corruption, or the signal for an attack on the free market?
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Keywords: Social Democratic Party; Croatian parliament; Stjepan Mesic; parliamentary elections; Ivica Racan
Ivica Racan has missed too many opportunities to change the way Croatians view their role in the breakup of Yugoslavia and their own botched economic transition. Franjo Tudjman's old party may be the beneficiary.
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Je soutiens, en dépit des déclarations contraires de la part de certains qui se considèrent marxistes, qu'on ne peut éviter le problème du caractère et du statut d'une éthique marxienne. Il faut rouvrir l' "affaire Marx" afin de déterminer ce qu'est et ce que doit être le caractère d'une telle éthique. J'essaie, tout d'abord, d'offrir une reconstruction de l'essentiel dans l'éthique marxienne en faisant un examen critique des textes mêmes de Marx qui montrent clairement le sens distinctif d'autonomie absolue, de liberté et de Sittlichkeit. Cette reconstruction fournit les normes critiques pour juger certaines interprétations erronées et modifications de la tradition marxiste postérieure. Je discute ainsi les contributions et points de divergence de Plekhanov, Staudinger, Bauer, Kautsky, et de Lukâcs. L'enquête nous permet de voir la nécessité urgente de formuler une nouvelle philosophie morale, d'esprit marxien, capable d'affronter les problèmes de notre temps, et présentée à un niveau approprié au discours philosophique contemporain. Cette nouvelle éthique, qui serait authentiquement une éthique de praxis n'est pas seulement un pas de plus dans la voie théorique, mais aussi une obligation morale pour tous ceux qui prennent le marxisme au sérieux. Trotz gegensätzlicher Behauptungen einiger, die sich als Marxisten bezeichnen, bestreite ich, daß das Problem von Wesen und Status der marxistischen Ethik zu vermeiden sei. Dies erfordert ein Wiederaufrollen des "Falles Marx", um festlegen zu können, was das Wesen einer solchen Ethik ist oder sein sollte. Zuerst versuche ich, das Wesentliche für eine marxistische Ethik zu rekonstruieren, indem ich Marx' eigene Schiften untersuche unter besonderer Beachtung der spezifischen Bedeutung von absoluter Autonomie, Freiheit und Sitlichkeit. Diese Rekonstruktion bestimmt die kritische Norm, um einige der Mißinterpretationen und Veränderungen in der späteren, marxistischen Tradition ins rechte Licht zu rücken. Hier bespreche ich
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George Szirtes and Clarissa Upchurch: Budapest: Kép, vers, film / Budapest: Image, Poem, Film. Budapest, Corvina Press, 2006, 64 pp.
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ON THE TWO MOST RECENT MACEDONIAN FILMS: GOODBYE TO XX CENTURY BY D. MITREVSKI & A. POPOVSKI AND MAKLABAS BY A. STANKOVSKI
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Keywords: open innovation; SME; open innovation process; open innovation barriers; open innovation awareness
Open innovation is a concept of growing acceptance in the field of innovation management. It is based on the idea that companies can leverage the knowledge generated externally to improve their innovation performance. Shorter innovation cycles, the rising costs of industrial research and development, and a lack of resources have motivated many organizations to change their innovation strategies towards implementing open innovations. However managing open innovation process in SMEs is more difficult and complex than it is the case with large enterprises. The reasons behind the low integration of the open innovations in SMEs generally can be found in their limited organizational, financial and human resources. By conducting a survey among 63 SMEs in Republic of Macedonia, current open innovation practices and barriers are searched. Findings revealed that the low capacity of the SMEs to deal with the open innovation process, low awareness of the benefits of the open innovation process, and lack of knowledge on protection of intellectual property rights are concluded as the main constraints in adapting open innovation practices.
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Keywords: moral freedom, interdependence; modernity; knowledge through reason; moral responsibility;
The article questions the relationship between moral freedom and social interdependence than any individual consciousness evolves. Imperative knowledge through reason was imposed in modernity. Kant’s point of view illustrates this spirit of modernity. The article focuses a critical perspective based on the imperative of moral responsibility.
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Notre article propose au public quelques techniques d’analyse linguistique des réclames. Le discours de la publicité, accompagné par un texte et une image, est décodé par une application aux fonctions de la langue: expres-sive, impressive, phatique, référentielle, métalinguistique et poétique. La publi-cité est un art, une poésie du langage et des formes visuelles.
More...Keywords: concediere; concediere - procedură;
Curtea de Apel Bucureşti, secţia VII‑a civilă şi pentru cauze privind conflictele de muncă şi asigurări sociale, decizia nr. 4160 din 14 iulie 2011
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Keywords: ethnicity; identity; language; language universals; liberty; unity;
Language represents a system of communication by means of which we define concepts and values, we share ideas and express feelings, we transmit information and influence the activities and behavior of others. Therefore, one can argue that language and reality are closely related entities. Reality can be expressed by the linguistic vehicle of natural languages as the state of things as they actually exist. This paper revisits one of the postulates of the philosophy of language that sees natural languages as representing attempts at unifying the diversity and the individuality. The framework of the discussion is given by the historic moment of the Romanian Great Union in December 1918 when the Romanian language represented one of the most important, if not the most important, factors that led to the accomplishment of the union of all Romanian provinces of the time.
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Keywords: language learning; language communication; barriers to learning; emotional intelligence; NLP; self development;
Self-development has been regarded as a complementary method of education, usually as a parallel or post-educational step, involving self-awareness, self progress, and competitive desire to reach high levels of professionalism and a complex personality. While considering a variety of skills and aptitudes the individual must put to work, second or foreign language learning is likely to count among the most important aspects that can bring benefits to selfdevelopment. An ideal situation would be if we could train our children to grow into perpetuously developing personalities, always in search of good communication with the world and themselves. Part of this self-growth must start in infancy and continue throughout our lives, as a condition of progress. My study attempts to analyse some aspects that are implicit in this process, as well as the inherent impediments responsible for us not always being able to develop our personality, depending on many objective or subjective conditions. The ultimate purpose of the study, however, is to cast light on the important aspect of self-improvement and development.
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Keywords: Georgia; Russia; China
China’s economic and military rise is arguably one of the central themes of st century geopolitics. As Chinese investment and interest in Georgia increases, Tbilisi must consider the geopolitical potential that a closer relationship with China might bring to a country long marginalised and weakened by Russia.
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Keywords: freedom of religion; concept; religious option; belief; tolerance; intolerance;
Freedom of religion, a fundamental human right, has always been a hot topic, given the spectrum of the issue. The concept of freedom of religion implies freedom of religion and conscience, freedom to profess and manifest one’s religion in public or private, freedom to communicate with people sharing the same religious beliefs, with people from the same country as well as with those from abroad, freedom to promote religious ideas through convenient means, freedom to associate and to form an autonomous organization.
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Keywords: Artificial Neural Networks; Humanoids; Biped Robots
This paper provides a brief overview the need for humanoid robots specifically bipedal robots. The advantages and shortcomings of bipedal robots have been highlighted. The paper discusses in detail the various types of controllers that have been applied for the control of humanoid robots. Typical controllers such as slide mode control, active force control, computed torque control etc., require the boundaries of uncertainties to be known, which is very difficult considering the real world terrain. The application of artificial neural networks has thus become a priority in controller design for bipedal robots. Some of the neural network based on the controller design and their comparisons to typical controllers have been surveyed in this paper. The survey presented visibly shows that the application of neural networks results in an exponential increase in accuracy for bipedal robots in comparison to classic approaches.
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Keywords: resignation speeches; politicians; linguistic analysis; syntax;
Delivering effective and persuasive speeches is vital for politicians to keep themselves afloat in the political waters. Making a proper choice of words and expressions and constructing grammatically correct, and, sometimes, even syntactically atypical utterances on purpose to draw the attention to a specific point, are perhaps among the most necessary skills of both aspiring and well-established politicians. In other words, given that politics and language go hand in hand, a perfect mastery of language and very skillful language use are instrumental for all those who have entered the domain of politics. Practice has shown that politicians who are adept at using language effectively fare much better not only when it comes to obtaining and maintaining power, but when they have to relinquish power as well. In that respect, Chilton (2004) rightfully remarks that most political actors are normally acutely aware of the importance of their language use for their political career.
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Keywords: self-determination; principles; international law; international documents;
In the current geopolitical context and given the conditions of a Europe facing centrifugal directions from several nationalist currents of opinion and entities with self-determination needs or wishing to be autonomous based on various criteria (ethnical, religious, etc.) and who start questioning the European construction and state borders, the author considers that it is of interest to provide a short analysis of two concepts, which at their first interpretation may seem contradictory – the self-determination and the inviolability of borders.This study deals with the two concepts, self-determination and inviolability of borders, in the view of international documents.
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Keywords: cancellation; regularization; review; exceptions;
The purpose of setting up the procedure for verifying and regularizing appeals was to seek to relieve the courts of requests that do not meet the formal requirements and also to discipline the participants in the civil process. Also, an important role achievable through regularization is the optimization and reduction of the length of the civil process, thus reducing the cases where the process is tergiversate. Thus, as a rule, no exception can be made in this procedure because it is contrary to the principle of contradictory law at the present time, since the defendant is not aware of the dispute.
More...Keywords: management;social responsibility;consumers;strategy;corporation;development;
Corporate social responsibility implies that all transactions in the Company executed with respect to the economic legal and ethical principles. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a relatively small number of companies expanding their economic objectives of socio - economic and included in solving social problems. Due to technical - technological progress changes occur rapidly and result in a large number of social problems that can return a negative impact on business operations. There is a wide choice of alternatives by which companies can do business socially responsible, and each of these alternatives offers a number of benefits for all involved (company, non-profit organizations and consumers). The subject of this analysis involves, on the one point of view corporate social responsibility, and on the another the success of the company. Corporate social responsibility will beexamined through economic, social, environmental and ethical dimension. The aim of this thesis is to theoretically position management and social responsibility as part of the management functions in the work of the business entity. Also, aim is to point out the many advantages resulting from the application of socially responsible business practices and point to the achievement of successful cooperation between of interest groups influential in the development of Boards. This paper will explain the dimensions of corporate social responsibility, to point out the many benefits arising from the application of such business practices and potential problems that may occur. Methodology is based on the analysis and synthesis of primary and secondary data. Secondary, data were used in this study are available in the scientific and professional literature. in the development of work methods were used to analyze, synthesize, descriptions and comparisons. The research purpose and significance is to highlight the growing impact that society has on the company and / or organization and importance of corporate social responsibility as an important factor of achieving competitive advantages. The purpose of the study also explained that CSR is the value and strategy, not just a means of making a profit company.
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Keywords: sharing economy;sustainability;moral economy;alternative tourism
The paper will discuss the impact of development of sharing economy on ecological sustainability for the tourism sector at global scale since the main focus in the literature is generally limited to economic and social impacts. It will provide a mathematical model in order to measure the impact of the sharing economy on the welfare of individuals who take part in particular tourism destinations as well as providing benefits for other individuals as a positive external outlook. The development of the model will be dependent on the findings obtained in this study. The results will show that the sharing economy together with collaborative consumption in the tourism sector is an increasing trend in global economy that contributes to ecological sustainability as well. By sharing the means of production, transportation, communication etc both tourists and service providers are capable of decreasing their ecological footprints. In conclusion the paper will contribute to the literature by filling a gap with respect to the lack of connection between environmental sustainability and sharing economy in tourism sector.
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