We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.

4.50 €

Preview

MASS MEDIA COVERAGE AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS IN ETHICAL DEMOCRACIES

Author(s): Nela Mircică / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The political and the media fields raise the interest of many scientific disciplines and not only now, but from the farthest times. The future of politics is tied more than ever to communication through the classical and the modern media channels (the internet and the social networks). On the other hand, politics is the most concentrated part of the economy and that is why we cannot omit its reflection into the political consciousness of the human society, its reflection through the most elaborated mechanisms, such as those of the mass media. The stringency and usefulness of the messages coming from the politically filtered economy prove the validity of the messages that circulate through the media, based on the political communication relation of the social actors.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

POLITICS, FAITH AND GOD’S REALITY

Author(s): TIBOR MACHAN / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

God’s innate mysteriousness, at least to human inquirers, makes God a difficult explanation. God’s nature as something defying the nature studied in physics, chemistry, biology, etc., is the problem here. How can something intend, without the brain that enables us to have thoughts and make judgments? How can God communicate without any of the facilities or faculties that make communication part of the world? How can God be a cause without any of the familiar attributes that enable things to produce other things? More generally, how can something explain the existence of something else if it is impossible to reconcile some of its own properties: e.g., omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence with the clear presence of bad things within the realm supposedly explained by God?

More...

4.50 €

Preview

THE COMMUNICATIVE ROLE OF AUDIT IN FIGHTING AGAINST CORRUPTION AND FRAUD

Author(s): Luminiţa Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The aim of this paper is to present the importance of auditing in curbing corruption and fraud, how audit is evaluating the internal control and the role of accountants in discovering fraud or theft. The role of audit is crucial for improving an organization’s governance, management and to prevent corruption, because the misstatements in the financial statements can arise from either fraud or error. The auditors and professional accountants are playing an important role in combating corruption and fraud. This paper presents the way in which auditors are fighting private sector corruption using the International Standard of Auditing and International Accounting Standards.

More...

Download

Conducting qualitative interviews with children – methodological and ethical challenges

Author(s): Kitti Kutrovátz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This paper explores the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting qualitative research – especially individual interviews – with children in relation to an investigation of individual perspectives about the time that parents and their teenage children spend together. From an overview of the topic, three key issues are identified: power inequalities, competence, and parental gatekeeping. First, the paper discusses general challenges and suggests possible responses as far as conducting qualitative interviews with children are concerned, with a focus on the phases of research design and data collection. Second, it reflects on specific questions that are raised in connection with an investigation of the sensitive issues of parental time and technology use. The paper concludes that using a combination of traditional and innovative techniques, and paying attention to taking a reflexive approach throughout the research process, are essential elements of research with children.

More...

Download

ТЕОРЕТИЧНА СУТНІСТЬ СИСТЕМНОГО ПІДХОДУ ТА МЕТОДОЛОГІЯ ЙОГО РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ В НАУКОВОМУ ПОШУКУ

Author(s): I. Szaposznikowa,W. Bondar / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 4/2015

The article undertakes the attempt of the non-traditional breed used in scientific works, the integrity called "theoretical-methodological Foundation" of the study of any objects, phenomena, processes two indicators: research and theoretical approaches on the basis of which developed the concept of research as a theoretical base of scientific research and methodological concept of research, enabling its subject to create implementation models theoretical framework, to develop General methods of scientific research, which are used in various Sciences. Shows how scientific-theoretical and scientific methodological interaction of theory and methodology, the enrichment of theory, methodology and methodology – theory.

More...

Download

МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКАЯ МОДЕЛЬ ПРОЧНОСТИ ПРЯЖИ С ДИСКРЕТНЫМИ ПАРАЛЛЕЛЬНЫМИ ВОЛОКНАМИ

Author(s): T. Mosechvili,A. Tvalchelidze,Petro Savchuk / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 3/2013

There are considered the structure of untwist (adhesive) yarn composed of discontinuous chemical fibers and the mathematical model of yarn mechanics. Based on the model it is possible to evaluate the elastic responses and strength of this yarn.

More...

Download

Друштвене и хуманистичке науке између оспоравања и нове улоге у савремености

Author(s): Dragan Simeunović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2017

From the end of the twentieth century until today, not only the role, but also the need for the existence of social and humanistic sciences are continually being re-examined, and their significance is drastically disputed with a greater or lesser intensity of subjectivity. The reasons for this are numerous. There has been an inevitable change in the structure of society itself, and therefore of the very meaning of the term society. Globalization has elevated, on its own pedestal, profit and everything related to it, and is evaluating everything by profit and its size, i.e. its absence, whereas the contribution of social and humanistic science to generating of profit is not always clearly visible, and therefore not easily measurable. In modern society, there is obviously a decrease in demand, but that does not necessarily mean, and the need for scientific knowledge of social and humanistic sciences and their interpretative role. The change of the significance of social sciences is largely confused with the need for their dissemination and delocation. The process of changing the role of social and humanistic sciences is inevitable, because of the increasing speed of social life, which will be manifested in increased turning of these two sciences toward prognosis and prevention, but without abandoning the explanation of the past and the present and offering solutions to present problems, as well as putting emphasis on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. They can retain their significance only by approaching towards the natural sciences, but without the ambition of competition, even without a tendency for equality with them, but with the ambition of their increased social usefulness because of the growing innovativeness and of the more complex phronetic performance of their function, and therefore justification of, not only their own existence, but also of their likely progress.

More...

Download

NEKE METODOLOŠKE PRETPOSTAVKE ZA PISANJE NAUČNOG ILI STRUČNOG ČLANKA

Author(s): Nevzet Veladžić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2010

This article points out the basic methodological assumptions related to writing a scientific or professional paper work. Those can be very useful to all who are dealing with research and want to publish their research results. The Author particularly refers to the importance of the research subjects; relevance of the research questions, acceptance and appliance of the standards related to the scientific proves, as well as argumentation and comprehensibility of the scientific paper work. Each Article with its content should influence the research problem solving, respectively if the professional paper is in question, new dimension of appliance or explanations of the issues that are being elaborated should be given. Moreover, one other type of the Article should send out the ideas and opinions that will be valuable for the readers. Writing the scientific and professional papers imply understanding the materials that are written about, use of the suitable methods, acceptance and appliance of the methodological standards and respecting lingual and stylistic regulations.

More...

Download

PRISTUP METODAMA PRAVNIH I DRUŠTVENIH ISTRAŽIVANJA: TEORIJSKI ILI INSTRUMENTALAN I PRAKTIČKI ?

Author(s): Ivan Padjen / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/1991

A study of methods necessarily intervenes in its subject matter. For that reason it is plausible to formulate methodologies with explicit instrumental and practical aims. Such inquiries can be in several respects superior to traditional methodologies, which are theoretically oriented and - almost inevitably - either philosophically naive or preoccupied more with their own philosophical grounding than with methods they study.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

WHAT IS (AND ISN’T) CENSORSHIP

Author(s): Tibor R. Machan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The function of private property rights is, among other things, to ration, in a reasonably just fashion, the allocation of space and time – since both space and time are determinate or finite, it is not even imaginable that there should be resources to satisfy all demands, wishes, desires. Private property is anathema to socialism. The institution of the right to private property is a concrete, practical implementation of individual rights. It makes the free exercise of religion, of freedom of speech and expression possible for individuals. Censorship cannot be identified with editorial or publishing judgment because censorship is what a government imposes, forcibly, at the point of a gun. Because the medium of broadcasting is federally owned, the private users of the medium are subject to censorship, not unlike the way restaurants that open to the public road have been held to be under the public authority and ordered to prohibit smoking or whatnot, on grounds that they are involved with the public interest.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN ROMANIAN MEDIA

Author(s): Valentina Marinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

To better understand the ways in which media images may be forming our understanding of violence against children, this study analyzed portrayals of it in news and articles in the specific case of Romanian media. In presenting the acts of violence against children in 2014 the Romanian newspapers tend to follow the same “editorial logic”: the appeal to the Police as the “primary definer” of the violent situation, the stress put on the dramatic and personalized characteristics of a violent event involving children, the mediatisation of the individual (and not the collective) actors in such acts. By increasing our understanding of how violence against children is portrayed in news media, researchers can now turn to studies that examine the effects of this coverage and its implications for public and policy support.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

MEDIA NARRATIVES ON THE BAD. THE STIGMATIZATION FRAME IN CONSTRUCTING THE VILLAIN IMAGE VS. THE HERO

Author(s): Ruxandra Coman / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Mythic aspects in media discourse have been of great academic interest for the last decades especially because of the importance given to the interdisciplinary studies which could offer pertinent answers to questions related to narrativity, semiotics, mythology, anthropology, and their applicability in the analysis of media field. The present research on the mythological dimension of media discourse refers especially to those catastrophic events in which the news reports lay out emotion over reflection, by employing some dichotomic narrative and characterization strategies.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

PROFESSIONAL SKEPTICISM IN DETECTING FRAUDULENT PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL REPORTING

Author(s): Luminita Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The aim of this paper is to explain the professional skepticism of controllers and auditors in detecting fraudulent financial reporting, and the connection between accounting procedures and control mechanisms. Financial reporting in the public sector is a priority for governments all over the word and internal control could prevent a significant portion of economic crime. Sound internal controls, and also internal audit, are the best way public sector organizations can mitigate fraud. Implementing internal control mechanisms in preventing and detecting fraud is recommended as good practice that public entities can follow in establishing effective fraud management programs.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

THE COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY OF MAN IN NICOLAI HARTMANN

Author(s): Nela Mircică / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This study aims to put into a theoretical and methodological connection the philosophical conclusions of thinker Nicolai Hartmann with the new approaches of the philosophy of knowledge and science. In the discourse universe of contemporary critical thinking, scientific and philosophical spirits, along with the religious one, are constantly interwoven, even though among these specific domains there are precise demarcations signalled with Kantian rigor. It is obvious that, at present, philosophy is made taking into account first of all the human being, the bio-psycho-socio-cultural and historical entity of the being in the immediate vicinity of the Supreme Being. The human being is at the centre of contemporary reflections, and Hartmann has enrolled himself in this exigency of contemporary philosophy.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

THE VIOLENCE AT WORK. CASE STUDY: ROMANIANS IN ITALY

Author(s): Aniţa Grigoriu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The objectives of this study focus on two benchmarks: the behaviour of Romanian women workers on the job and the behaviour of their employer. The working assumption considers the following statement: the lack of trust in local authorities and of actual involvement to solve the problems dissuades Romanian women workers in Sicily from turning in their aggressive employers. The research is based on press materials published over the period 2014–2015. The approach content analysis and qualitative analyses of narrative discourse and monitoring how cases are reported, emphasizing the use of stereotypes used by journalists when referring to the situation of Romanian migrant women and their Sicilian employers and to the impact of the press stories on local institutions in Italy.

More...

4.50 €

Preview

AYN RAND’S CASE FOR HUMAN LIBERTY

Author(s): Tibor R. Machan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Ayn Rand, the Russian-American novelist-philosopher, has advanced a line of argument in defense of individual liberty that draws a bit on all of these although hers is really a secular version of what the Christians believe in this regard, namely, that human goodness must be something the individual chooses and cannot be imposed by others. Rand argued that human freedom—in the sense of adult men and women acting without compulsion—is a necessary precondition for living a morally significant life (just as it is assumed in the criminal law).

More...

4.50 €

Preview

THE ACTUAL MAN – A HEDONIST OR A BEWILDERED MAN?

Author(s): Florin Ștefan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This study aims to analyze a contemporary topic that has become the subject of many research and source for statistics in various fields. It is about the new framing of human experience, after man’s existence has entered the era of technologies, in the flow of globalization and has been absorbed by the virtual world, and its emotional features have become addicted to emoticons lacking of expressivity, which induce confusion in choice and in interpretation. The natural environment of the human being, or better said, the setting of a human being in nature, has been distorted. The contemporary man has been affected by urbanization, moving away from both his surrounding nature and his own nature. In this case, the rules of the fortress predisposed him to internal transformations that are compromising both the psychological balance, the original mechanisms of protection and survival, the need for communication, but especially the instinct of belonging. Intrinsically, he feels alone, depressed, isolated, very inactive and without initiative. These ascertainments and remarks will be detailed with arguments regarding the postmodern human’s condition which is looking for chemical, physical or behavioral adjuvants to feel the flame burning inside, that he is still full of life, that he still has signs of existential vitality. It is already highlighted in psychiatric treatises a syndrome of meaninglessness that is spreading more and more among the modern societies. The direction of human ascension has been identified as an axiological fact, that’s why he discovers his meaning and being in relationship with the greater good. The theological perspective, followed by the neuroscience, offers solid fundamentals of self-revelation through communion with a supreme being, called God.

More...

Download

BENEFICIILE UTILIZĂRII METODEI SORTĂRII DE TIP Q ÎN ANALIZA PERCEPȚIEI SOCIALE ASUPRA RISCURILOR LA ADRESA SECURITĂȚII NAȚIONALE

Author(s): Ionuț Valentin Nicula / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 22/2015

This paper aims to present a number of benefits of the inter-disciplinary approach in analyzing the social perception of national security risks, identified during the course of our doctoral research pilot study. Thus, in order to conduct the pilot study on the social perception of risks to national security we have chosen to use the Q sort method as the investigation technique, since it provides a number of advantages.One of these rests in the applicability of the Q sort method for this type of research, both in terms of subject proposed for investigation - perceptions being par excellence the attribute of subjectivity - and in terms of size a doctoral research project involves – the Q sort methodology application involving a small number of respondents for data collection.On the other hand, another advantage of the Q sort method is provided by the availability of the instruments used. We have identified in this respect free software tools for the smooth application of the method, from data collection to the analysis of the results.

More...

Download

Turkey-Based Academic Writing And Referencing Style: ISNAD

Author(s): Abdullah Demir,Abdussamet Özkan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The ISNAD is a Turkey-based academic writing and referencing style developed to be used in studies done in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. “Citation” is one of the essentiality of the scientific nature of knowledge as well as a requirement of respect for intellectual property and copyrights. It is a crime of publication ethics when the original source of the text is not cited (plagiarism). Therefore, the sources of a scientific study must be cited correctly and completely with its bibliographic components so that other researchers can easily access to them. The ISNAD citation style, as a Turkey-based citation style, has been developed to meet the reference requirements in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences such as Anthropology, Archeology and Art History, Geography, Language and Literature, Education, Philosophy, Folklore, Law, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Theology, Psychology, Arts, Social Work, Sociology and History. The ISNAD citation stylecontains all the rules necessary to know and apply in academic writings such as how to determine the title of an academic work, what information should be included in its abstract, how to select the keywords, how the outlining format should be, how to create the tables and figures, how to write the names of authors and the titles of studies carried out in Arabic, Persian or English, how to indicate dates and centuries, what should be considered in the context of publication ethics, how to quote directly or indirectly from the source work, how to cite the references in the text or footnotes and how to create the bibliography.The word “isnād” (pl. asānīd) is derived from the root “sanad (pl. asnād)” in Arabic, meaning “to rely on, to lean, to put one’s trust in” in dictionary. Therefore, it means “to ground, to base upon, to take the word back to its owner, to indicate the way through which a word or a narration has been arrived, or to take it back to its origin.” It is used to question and indicate the source of the word as in the example of “what is the origin of your word?” in this sense, the word “ISNAD” was chosen as a name for the citation style by the majority (70.4%) of editors who work for the journals publishing in the field of Theology in Turkey. The ISNAD citation stylewas developed first as “Theology Citation Style” between 2017-2018 and its first version was published on 12/03/2018 in printed form and online and was put into service free of cost. This style, upon gaining interest in the journals belong to the field of Theology and also upon being demanded in other fields in Turkey and Turkic Republics, was put into service, updated to be used in all of social sciences in September 2018 as the second version of the ISNAD. From now on, the ISNADcan be used in all the fields Humanities and Social Sciences. The ISNAD citation stylehas been created by Dr. Abdullah Demir, as a part of RGD-015 numbered Project called “The National Ilahiyat Citation Index Project” which is supported by the administration of Sivas Cumhuriyet University within the scope of Sivas Cumhuriyet University Religious Sciences Implementation and Research Center (DIMER). This citation style has been developed by considering the views, suggestions and evaluations of the editors and of academicians who are specialists in the academic publications and peer-reviewed journals. Among the popular citation styles, APA has been upgraded by American Psychology Association, and Chicago by the Modern Languages Association and both have been launched for marketing. The ISNADis a style that was developed within Turkey and was launched in 12/03/2018. It is a style that has been, within a short period of time, adopted by peer-reviewed academic journals and book publications as well as by the faculty deans (in writing graduation thesis) and the Administration of the Institutes of Social Sciences (in writing Master and Ph.D. theses). It is also a style that has been integrated as one of the forms of citation in the index and journal platforms such as TUBITAK (The Scientific And Technological Research Council of Turkey) TR Indexand TUBITAK DergiPark (JournalPark Platform). In this citation style, the templates are created in the similar fashion as those of the library and citation management programs like Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote, which have been used worldwide. It is the only style which have been provided free of charge for the first time and is the only local and national citation style. Therefore, from this point of view, it is very important. If Turkish is targeted to become a scientific language, development of a scientific citation style is mandatory to achieve this target.The ISNAD citation style, that has been developed in Turkish language and is free to be used, is more convenient and easier to be learnt and used by the middle school and university students, as compared to the other citation styles, that are English in origin and are unaffordable. The scientists in Turkish speaking countries will help strengthen Turkish as a scientific language by preparing their scientific researches like symposium papers, articles and books according to the ISNAD citation style. By the ISNAD citation style, it is targeted to use a common citation style in Turkey and Turkic Republics in the publications prepared in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences such as; Anthropology, Archeology, Geography, Language and Literature, Philosophy, ethnology, Law, Economic and Administrative Sciences, Theology, Music, Psychology, Art History, Social Services, Sociology and History. The use of the ISNAD citation stylewill help detect the citation and the degree of influence by standardizing the citation style in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkish speaking countries and will make the scientific communication easier in Turkish speaking World.The ISNAD citation stylehas been initiated for students, academicians, writers who research and write in the Humanities and Social Sciences and for those institutions and organizations publishing in the same field. Many journals who publish in the field of Social Sciences have started using the ISNAD citation style. The number of universities who prefer using the ISNAD citation stylein BA graduation thesis, MA and Ph.D thesis is increasing. Furthermore, institutions and organizations organizing national and international symposiums and conferences have started asking their participants to prepare their papers according to the ISNAD citation style. This style, that has been initiated free of cost, having user-friendly interface and citation software add-ons, is gaining acceptance and is being adopted rapidly. Students, writers, researchers and academicians can carry out their “reference and citation” processes easily, fast and free of mistake with the help of the ISNAD’s citation management software add-ons like EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley. The use of the ISNAD citation stylecontinues to increase in Turkey and Turkic Republics.www.isnadsistemi.org

More...

Download

Arguing from Social Status in Public Discourse

Author(s): Cătălin Stănciulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2012

This paper presents a way of interpreting Brandom’s „institutional” pattern of material inferences as a defeasible and presumptive argumentation scheme that can be used in analyzing and evaluating the practical arguments containing the arguer’s claim that she or he is committed to a social institutional status as a premise, and intention (undertaking a commitment) to act as conclusion.

More...