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UEFA EURO 2012™ in the Polish Sociopolitical Narration
Sport constitutes an increasingly popular language of discourse in modern societies, providing a (formal) system of signs, which is easily used by, among others, businesses, media, public persons, and, particularly willingly, politicians.
Michaluk Tomasz, Pezdek Krzysztof
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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During this year of Peirce's centennial celebration a question keeps going round in my head.
Salvatore Zingale
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O PROCESSO DE INTERPRETAÇÃO DOS SIGNOS: UMA PROPOSTA DE ANÁLISE SEMIÓTICA PARA O ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS
A aplicação da análise semiótica no ensino de ciências ainda é um processo em desenvolvimento no Brasil, necessitando não só de pesquisas na área, mas de propostas capazes de transformar suas principais concepções em elementos que possam auxiliar ...
Elemar Kleber Favreto +2 more
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El trabajo propone analizar el proceso de significación mediática de un acontecimiento jurídico central en el transcurso del conflicto diplomático entre Uruguay y Argentina por la instalación de las fábricas de pasta de celulosa: el dictamen de la Corte ...
Matías Carbajal
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Summary: We present the essential theoretical basis and prove concrete practical formulas to compute the image of a point on the terrestrial sphere under Peirce quincunicial projection. We also develop a numerical method to implement such formulas in a digital computer and illustrate this method with examples.
SOLANILLA, LEONARDO +2 more
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Windows of opportunity in subseasonal weather regime forecasting: A statistical–dynamical approach
This study explores how the atmospheric state at initialisation creates windows of opportunity for improving week 3 forecasts of weather regime activity. Greenland blocking activity increases following Madden–Julian Oscillation phases 7, 8, and 1 and weak stratospheric polar vortex states, revealing patterns exploitable by statistical models.
Fabian Mockert +3 more
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Abstract Research Summary This study provides a causal explanation concerning how managerial actions using historical values contribute to dynamic capabilities, or sustaining competitive advantage in changing environments. Based on historical methods that consist mainly of hermeneutics, contextualization, and source criticism, it analyzes sources and ...
Katsuki Aoki
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ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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This piece ponders how teachers might best approach the issue of truth in the classroom, now that traditional models of truth-transmission have been problematised by what social epistemologist Steven Fuller calls ‘second-order awareness’—the apparent ...
Catherine Legg
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