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Humanities in transition : liberation of knowledge in Central Asia and the potential role of the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Concluding this article, the importance of the rational discourse in modern classes and local forums in contemporary Central Asia should be mentioned again. The liberation of knowledge should be a permanent part of educational initiatives in this region,
Jonboboev, Sunatullo
core   +2 more sources

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

CONSECINŢELE CONTRADICTORII ALE CONGRESULUI XX AL PCUS ÎN DOMENIUL ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTULUI ISTORIC SUPERIOR DIN URSS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2009
This article is dedicated to the study of the XXth Congress of the CPSU consequence about higher historical education. Author comes to conclusion that the XXth Congress of the CPSU resolutions had contradictory consequence in science and education ...
USM ADMIN
doaj  

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

The anglocentric tendency in the history of information engineering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the anglocentric nature of much writing on the history of technology, taking as an example important research results from the first half of the last century published in German and Russian in the field of information engineering. By ‘
Bissell, Christopher
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Boycott of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games as an Example of Political Play-Acting of the Cold War Superpowers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Sports boycott is one of the most important dimension of sport colliding with politics. The subject of the article is the boycott of the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, one of the most spectacular boycotts, which was conducted by communist ...
Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
core   +1 more source

What Can K–12 Education Teach College Professors?

open access: yes
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Michael P. Marchetti
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Russian National Legal System: Comparative Analysis of Soviet and Post-Soviet Stages

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные науки
The author used the methods of comparative jurisprudence to compare the formation and functioning of the Russian state and law as parts of the Soviet and post-Soviet national legal systems.
Kamran S. Amirov
doaj   +1 more source

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