Celebrity - Science topic

Announcing a special memorial issue celebrating the life and scientific career of Dr. Chris G. Dealwis, who unexpectedly passed away in July 2022

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, We are honoured to invite you to participate in the International Congress organized by the Faculty of Animal Sciences and Bioeconomy of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin dedicated to “The Opportunities of Animal Sciences – 70 years of the Faculty of Animal Sciences and Bioeconomy”. The aim of t...

https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/BuscaTotal.aspx?C1=graillet El propósito de la presente investigación es doble; por un lado arroja luz al conocimiento de los procesos de adaptación, producción y censura de las recreaciones (tele)fílmicas españolas basadas en una de las obras canónicas más célebres de la historia literaria hispana. Por otro,...

This study endeavors to answer four research questions: (a) Who are the celebrities? (b) How popular are they? (c) What do they post on social media platforms? (d) How do their followers react to them? Following quantitative methods, this study analyzes the top 195 Facebook celebrities of Bangladesh and their 9,441 Facebook posts’ interactions. The...

This article examines Antonia Mercé La Argentina's stay in Manila in 1929 and the creation of her solo La Cariñosa as a case study to analyze the place of Spanish dance as both colonizing and colonized on the basis of the cultural legacies since Romanticism, when Spanish dance was an exoticized and racialized “Other dance” in relation to the canon...

The ideology that customary marriages are celebrated according to ancestral traditions and customs is rife in Africa. There is however continuous invention and evolution of institutions associated with customary marriage rendering it burdensome to trace the visibility of ancient ‘traditions’ therein. This argument is anchored in the theoretical per...

Televizyon yıldızlığı içinde şöhret ve ünü barındırdığından tanımlanması zor kavramlardan biridir. Ünlülük (celebrity studies) ve film (film studies) çalışmaları dışında çoğu zaman birbirinin eş anlamlısı olarak kullanılmasına rağmen farklı parametrelere sahip olan bu üç kavram, çalışmada televizyon üzerinden incelenmektedir. Çalışmada önce Türkiye...

The practice of displaying tarpaulins among Meranaws traces its history to the times when gongs were sounded and people would celebrate for the victories of Sultans after conquering places and for union of individuals in marriage. This practice has earned for Marawi city to be called as City of Streamers in the 70s and 80s. With advancement of tech...

Advertising is a nicely designed and encapsulated communication about any product or service that gives a brief picture and an attractive and appealing message intending to arouse the interest of target consumers. Information technology is rapidly changing the pace of this communication. When it comes to advertisement and campaigns blended with IT...

With the development of online information and network communication technology, the Internet is entering people's work and life. In recent years, as an emerging shopping method, online shopping has attracted more and more consumers for its fashion and convenience. In the past two years, live streaming and short videos have become the most importan...

In China, live streaming has grown significantly in recent years, and live streaming platforms have allowed companies to interact with their target audience in more profound and engaging ways. Influencers have produced advertising effects and sales through live-streaming platforms such as Douyin. The aim of this study was to find out how viewers' p...

Road traffic accidents are a real pandemic and incur expenses amounting to 1–2% of every country’s GDP. AESLEME (Association for the Study of Spinal Cord Injuries) has celebrated its 30th anniversary here in Spain. AESLEME’s instructors are health workers and people with spinal cord injuries caused by road accidents: their presentations—teaching ro...

FSC's Mathematics Department will once again (finally!) be hosting a Financial Mathematics Conference on Friday, March 24'th and I wanted to extend a personal invitation. The conference has an exciting slate of speakers including our keynote speaker, Dr. James Glimm, celebrated mathematician and founder of GlimmAnalytics, a highly regarded risk ma...

A celebrated result of Gromov ensures the existence of a contact structure on any connected non-compact odd dimensional Lie group. In general, such structures are not invariant under left translation. The problem of finding which Lie groups admit a left-invariant contact structure (contact Lie groups) resolves to the question of determining when a...

NISQ is a representative keyword at present as an acronym for “noisy intermediate-scale quantum”, which identifies the current era of quantum information processing (QIP) technologies. QIP science and technologies aim to accomplish unprecedented performance in computation, communications, simulations, and sensing by exploiting the infinite capacity...

By increasing access to social media in Iran, the clerics as well have used these media. They not only use these media for religious content production; but also they use social media such as Instagram to present non-religious content to attract attention. In this study, based on purposeful sampling method 71 Instagram posts of 5 clergymen were ana...

Drought is one of the most severe disasters faced by the Latur region quite frequently. The recent 2016 drought resulted in severe water scarcity in Latur city. The administration has to bring water by railway wagon from Miraj and supply to households through tankers for almost two months. The situation didn't improve even in 2019 due to insufficie...

In the seminal paper, Michael and Simon (Comm Pure Appl Math 26:361–379, 1973) generalized the celebrated Sobolev inequality for submanifolds into Euclidean spaces. The universal constant obtained by them does not depend on the submanifold. A sort of applications to the submanifold theory can be derived from that inequality. Batista et al. (J Diffe...

In this issue of the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, the contributing authors explore the impact of partnerships and purposeful engagement in attracting and retaining professionals to regional and rural communities. Attracting and retaining a well-prepared workforce for regional and rural communities is developed through a...

z Yeme-içme ihtiyacı, insanların en temel biyolojik gereksinimlerinin başında gelmektedir. Aynı zamanda bir milletin kültürel özelliklerini ve zenginliklerini yansıtmaktadır. Dünyada birçok yönden farklılığı bulunan, fakat toplum olarak yaşayabilen insanların en temel özelliklerinden biri ortak bir kültüre sahip olmasıdır. Kültürün bir parçası olan...

International trade law has long been the site of a battle over who or what the state can represent. Today, that battle is taking a new form. While for decades the WTO was considered a centerpiece of the international economic order, the policy landscape is now awash with claims that the US should abandon WTO disciplines, critiques of the WTO as th...

Human beings adapt their language to the audience they interact with. While audience effects have been studied theoretically and in small-scale research designs, large-scale studies of naturally-occurring audience effects are rare. We look at the audience effects in interaction with gendered contexts emphasizing different social identities (i.e., m...

The Argentine journalist and writer José Mármol (1817–71), famously known as “el verdugo poético de Rosas”, offers one of the most effective literary exposures of the Rosas regime in his novel Amalia (1851). Written during Mármol’s exile in Montevideo (1846–52), it is set in 1840 during the French blockade and covers the months leading up to Lavall...

Since the Islamic Revolution, Iranian traditions and festivities have come under attack by the top clerics with ridicule and hostility. In the early years, they assaulted the traditions and celebrations of Nowruz (new day), the Iranian new year on the first day of Spring. Nowruz has been the most popular festival in Iranian culture from ancient tim...

In its meticulous, freewheeling adaptation of the life and work of celebrated poet Emily Dickinson, the television series Dickinson (Apple TV+, 2019–2021) manifests a twenty-first-century disruption of high and low culture afforded by digital media, including streaming video and music platforms. This article argues that the fanciful series models a...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is familiar to international human rights lawyers worldwide. Celebrations of its adoption have included commemorative sessions held in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly during milestone anniversary years. Scholarship has not yet considered these sessions together, exploring what may be learned...

Among different types of semiconductor photocatalysts, MoS2 hybridized with graphitic carbon heterojunction has developed the most promising “celebrity” due to its static chemical properties, suitable band structure, and facile synthesis. Physiochemical and surface characterizations were revealed with structural, electronic, and optical analysis. D...

This article presents the almost century-long history of the development of futures studies in a comprehensive review. Futures studies, rooted in sociology and policy sciences, had become an academic discipline by the 1960s. One of the major global communities representing the discipline, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), celebrates its...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce various convexity concepts in terms of a positive Chebyshev system $\omega$ and give a systematic investigation of the relations among them. We generalize a celebrated theorem of Bernstein--Doetsch to the setting of $\omega$-Jensen convexity. We also give sufficient conditions for the existence of disc...

Solid, powdered samples are often prepared for infrared (IR) spectroscopy analysis in the form of compressed pellets. The intense scattering of incident light by such samples inhibits applications of more advanced IR spectroscopic techniques, such as two-dimensional (2D)-IR spectroscopy. We describe here an experimental approach that enables the me...

This chapter concerns the contribution of the School of Milano to the study of human responses to altitude exposure. Paolo Cerretelli’s contributions are firstly described. The studies performed during the expedition to Mount Kanjut-Sar, Karakorum, in 1957, and during the Italian Expedition to Mount Everest in 1973 are reported. This expedition gen...

Nel 2009, prodotto dalla Produção filmes do Tejo esce il film Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loira, diretto dal celebre regista portoghese Manoel Oliveira (1908-2015). Il film riprende l’omonimo racconto di Eça de Queirós (1845-1900). Il presente lavoro analizza le principali caratteristiche testuali del testo queirosiano e il modo in cui il regist...

Fashion has always been a controversial topic. In recent years, there has been an increasing number of fashion brands, but it seems that Off-White stands out as the leader in the whole luxury fashion industry. So this research paper not only qualitatively summarizes the reasons the famous luxury streetwear fashion brand, Off-White rapidly gained su...

Pose transfer aims to transfer a given person into a specified posture, has recently attracted considerable attention. A typical pose transfer framework usually employs representative datasets to train a discriminative model, which is often violated by out-of-distribution (OOD) instances. Recently, test-time adaption (TTA) offers a feasible solutio...

The purpose of this study was to disseminate the results of the Ethnomatematics Exploration on the Kampar Typical Losuong Dance. Losuong dance is one of the typical dances of Kampar. The Losuong dance is a community dance when welcoming the celebration of the rice harvest festival as a form of community gratitude for the blessings of the harvest gi...

This article will start with the development trend and current situation of the skincare industry, marketing methods, product styles, online celebrity industry, and marketing methods on skincare products from the perspective of marketing. The study highlights the internal and external differences between marketing methods and skincare products, ana...

We are delighted to invite you to contribute to this special edition of Toxics to celebrate the achievements of women environmental scientists and toxicologists, and furthering our understanding of the exposure, effects, and risks of chemicals and materials in humans and the natural environment as well as approaches to assessing and/or managing the...

Nowadays, when the entire earth has become a global village - observable days and weeks within a nation are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. Even in the present era of great scientific and technological...

This three-part collection of personal memories was inspired by Otto Dix's triptych ‘The War’ (1929-1932). The horrors of war and presence of death Dix exposed in his painting form the implicit point of reference for three short stories of reconciliation in and after the Second World War. The three auto/biographical memories by and ‘as told to’ the...

The research tended to pay attention to mentioning the evidence from the Sharia texts that clarify this connotation, and it came in four sections, which contained what the research intended. Beginning with the explanation of the purpose of the revelation by stating the well-chosen names and introducing them to the worshipers, and explaining the ori...

This paper studies the celebrated Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of coupled oscillators adopting two recent concepts. First, we consider appropriately-defined subsets of the $n$-torus called winding cells. Second, we analyze the semicontractivity of the model, i.e., the property that the distance between trajectories decreases when measured according to...

Our Earth, Our Survival: philosophy of environmental day celebration; environment as a concept; human and environment relation; overview of environmental risks; environmental risks and drivers in Africa; frontiers in environmental protection.

Punktem wyjścia dla tekstu jest reportaż, zapowiedziany zdjęciem okładkowym, zamieszony w listopadowym numerze „Stettiner Illustrierte Zeitung” z 1924 roku (1 Jahrgang, Nr 38). Fotografie wykonał Max Dreblow (1869-1927), uznany dokumentalista życia Szczecina początku XX wieku i wybitny portrecista statków. Bohaterem reportażu jest natomiast Paul Ro...

The Seven Sisters Festival (also known as Qixi Festival) is especially important to Cantonese women, with differences in syncretic religious practices and beliefs between marriage resistance and nonresistance regions. Despite being forerunners in the wave of women’s migration since the 19th century, developments in ritualistic practices and sisterh...

The impacts of link recommendations on social networks are challenging to evaluate, and so far they have been studied in limited settings. Observational studies are restricted in the kinds of causal questions they can answer and naive A/B tests often lead to biased evaluations due to unaccounted network interference. Furthermore, evaluations in sim...

The A_2 Bailey chain of Andrews, Schilling and the author is extended to a four-parameter A_2 Bailey tree. As main application of this tree, we prove the Kanade-Russell conjecture for a three-parameter family of Rogers-Ramanujan-type identities related to the principal characters of the affine Lie algebra A^{(1)}_2. Combined with known q-series res...

We generalize R. P. Stanley's celebrated theorem that the $h^\ast$-polynomial of the Ehrhart series of a rational polytope has nonnegative coefficients and is monotone under containment of polytopes. We show that these results continue to hold for weighted Ehrhart series where lattice points are counted with polynomial weights, as long as the weigh...

It is no exaggeration to say that regional innovation research has until recently had its gaze overwhelmingly focused on the dynamic regions of the world, with Silicon Valley being the most celebrated example (Breznitz, 2021; Saxenian, 1996). However, this has tended to frame innovation in narrow terms as a linear process relying on science and tec...

STAR Global Conference 2023 Hosted by the University of Vigo jointly with the UVigo UNESCO Chair Transformative Education for an Interconnected and Equitable World STAR Scholars network and the UNESCO Chair at the University of Vigo (Spain) are delighted to invite you to the STAR Global Conference to be celebrated in Vigo, Spain on October 9-10, 20...

Learning from Freire can be a live-long endeavor, always adding humor, rigorous critical theory, and narrative. This article addresses the theoretical and cognitive ways in which Freire can be embraced. Moving far beyond banking education and fixed ideological notions of Freire’s work, it is important to consider the tentative when reading and teac...

The spaces women take up in society have been shrouded in shame, disenfranchisement, and contention, with the kitchen as a focal point of this argument. This article aims to suggest ways in which women can take up space in the kitchen, this integral pillar of society that upholds connection and creativity as an art form. Adjacent to this subversive...

Purpose: As the Flex Program celebrates its 25th anniversary, we examined changes in critical access hospital (CAH) financial performance, investigated whether CAH status has reduced hospitals' financial vulnerability, and identified factors influencing financial performance. Methods: We collected data on acute care hospitals in Pennsylvania's r...

This paper attempts to date the original church of St. Cyril and Methodius in the VaroshNeighbourhood in Prilep, known by the name “Praklis”. At the same time, the questions related to the reasons for its construction and its dedication to the name of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius of Thessaloniki are opened. According to the written sources...

As our society grows, the potential of certain people affecting the masses has increased dramatically with the presence of media, virality, and celebrities. Therefore, it is essential to know which persons might be influencing, swaying, or manipulating the public the most in a social network. Similarly, finding the most important webpage can impact...

Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily was a place of multiple cultural contaminations and commercial exchanges throughout the early modern era. Trade, piracy, and even slavery implemented continuous contacts between populations from opposing shores, regardless of their different religious beliefs. Yet, the island was also i...

As social media and the internet become integral to producer-consumer relations, it is necessary to understand how to properly use these tools to maximize consumer acquisition. Companies and customers must be aware of how psychological factors influence consumer decision-making to improve marketing tactics. The author examines the need for belongin...

Asymmetric porous filter element can reach a high filtering accuracy with larger filtration flux, which can enhance the filtration efficiency and reduce the energy consumption when it was applied in separation equipment. A novel porous material of Ti-Si intermetallic compound micro-porous membrane was successfully synthesized with Fe doped Ti mixed...

Rowah is a social construction of the Sasak people in the form of celebrations that are usually carried out by Sasak Muslims in order to express gratitude, or to pray for others, both living and dead. In Karang Taliwang Rowah not only attended by Muslims but also by Hindus who are not small in number, and the event is a place for self-presentation...

With the advent of the digital age, China's e-commerce platform has developed rapidly. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, the enthusiasm of short video live e-commerce continues to rise, and this brand business faces many threats and challenges. Brand marketing needs new growth points, and short video and live broadcast marketing give brand...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

W obecnym stanie prawnym podczas organizowania w Polsce istotnych ze względu na skalę lub rangę konferencji, imprez, uroczystości czy innych wydarzeń, zwłaszcza o charakterze międzynarodowym, działania je zabezpieczające są prowadzone na podstawie przepisów ogólnych – przede wszystkim ustaw pragmatycznych służb i innych instytucji realizujących te...

p>[Book Review; First paragraph]: "Food is a vital and necessary part of each of our daily lives. Beyond merely providing sustenance, food is frequently a provider of pleasure, a site of community, and a celebration of culture. However, food can also be a vector of inequality. To this end, Professor Andrea Freeman has pioneered the concept of “food...

In the current legal status, during the organisation in Poland of conferences, events, ceremonies or other events, significant due to their scale or rank, especially those of international character, security activities are carried out on the basis of general provisions - primarily pragmatic acts of services and other institutions carrying out thes...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

The evolution of Online Social Networks in recent years have lead to an enormous rise in users working on Facebook, LinkedIn and twitter etc.. Actively, it can be claimed that Internet projects itself as the ultimate mode of communication providing easy and user friendly exchange of information worldwide. The figures reveal that OSN namely Facebook...

Due to an increased awareness and adherence to the social comparison theory, where individuals have a fundamental need to be liked and ranked amongst their peers, teens fall victim to the wishful identification phenomenon potentially leading to long-term dependence on materialism for fulfilment in life. Influencers derive their social powers from w...

Clement Greenberg interpreted the rise of authentic modern art as a rejection of kitsch and “half-baked” religiosity and celebrated Jackson Pollock as representing what he called for. However, his presentation of Pollock as a leading modernist fails to do justice to his lifelong spiritual quest and to his desire to reach a broad public, which led h...

En este trabajo presentamos las bases de una teoría disposicional de la libertad en Schelling hacia 1809 y 1810 movilizando el comentario de Heidegger de 1936 sobre el escrito de la libertad (2). Vemos la constitución de la libertad en Schelling como una fusión de las teorías idealistas de la libertad y del pensamiento de la naturaleza como vida, d...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

Este estudo apresenta a concepção trans-histórica de Bakhtin no que diz respeito às visões oblíquas a que a estética do grotesco foi imposta, partindo do medievo até o Romantismo. Aqui, teço uma análise do elo universal e equânime entre o belo e o feio, o que acarreta a compreensão da gênese do espírito do carnaval e dos festejos populares proposta...

The main purpose of this paper is to further study the structure, parameters and constructions of the recently introduced minimal codes in the sum-rank metric. These objects form a bridge between the classical minimal codes in the Hamming metric, the subject of intense research over the past three decades partly because of their cryptographic prope...

Neoclassical thinkers and artists defined several facial proportions that supposedly evaluate facial attractiveness in an objective manner. While these neoclassical canons are highly influential in Western art and beauty cultures, their influences on East Asian beauty perception are unclear. This research paper explores the relevance of three neocl...

Le monument majeur en tant qu’œuvre d’art se voulait être, depuis les temps les plus reculés, la concrétisation de l’image parfaite du savoir-faire du génie humain. Pour ce faire, l’homme-bâtisseur avait eu recours à toutes ses facultés intellectuelles pour construire son œuvre architecturale, en ayant recours, en autres à la rationalité des scienc...

"Ignorance... is a guarantee of marginalisation."as Lewin (2000: 23) Inclusive education lays the foundation to an inclusive society accepting, respecting and celebrating diversity. The present paper traces the concept of inclusive education in Indian context. The paper throws light on the International and National level Policy frameworks and Le...

Considered to be the most prolific and influential architect in Sri Lanka, Geoffrey Bawa has put a tremendous impact on Asian Architecture according to the reviews of numerous experts in Architecture worldwide. Bawa’s creative approach towards Architecture was to bring out a remarkable flow through the site and its surroundings, responding in a nat...

Learning analytics has the capacity to provide potential benefit to a wide range of stakeholders within a range of educational contexts. It can provide prompt support to students, facilitate effective teaching, highlight aspects of course content that might be adapted, and predict a range of possible outcomes, such as students registering for more...

O presente texto foi construído em maio de 2004, a partir da necessidade de resgatar a história de vida de Dr. Juca (1890-1979), um ilustre personagem da História de Arez/RN, que foi, a um só tempo: Dentista, Médico e Conselheiro, além de Prefeito, Vereador, etc. Em 1980, na gestãodo Prefeito José Ferreira de Carvalho (seu sobrinho), a Prefeitura d...

The summer of 2020 riveted the attention of our nation with a sense of urgency to address structural racism. Cities declared racism a public health crisis, and organizations called for increased awareness of persistent historic racial inequities and advocacy for change. In medical education, students and institutional leaders felt compelled to tran...

The traditional and majoritarian view of medicine as a vocation rather than a job remains the basic principle that motivates doctors. Nevertheless, over the last two decades, there has been an erosion of their authority and an inability to fulfil the best care they can provide with successive cuts to the NHS and a relative salary reduction. That fe...

Introducción Al conmemorar el tricentenario del nacimiento de Adam Smith, es importante recordar que no sólo fue autor de la justamente célebre obra conocida como La riqueza de las naciones, publicada en 1776. Diez y siete años antes, en 1759, Smith había publicado su primera obra importante, La teoría de los sentimientos morales. Los dos libros, p...

The article is analyzing how people could achieve the title "celebrity" and gain fame and being famous for their careers based on socio-economic resources in Indonesia. The three determinant factors are constant attention (by public), kinship (to other celebrities), and media publication (through newspaper or magazine) that will be analyzed through...

The celebrated geodesic congruence equation of Raychaudhuri, together with the resulting singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking that it enabled, yield a highly general set of conditions under which a spacetime (or, more generically, a pseudo-Riemannian manifold) is expected to become geodesically incomplete. However, the proofs of these theore...

No século XIX, Dr. João de Albuquerque Maranhão, também conhecido como Dr. João de Estivas, foi um célebre morador de Arez/RN. Sua sepultura, no Cemitério Histórico de Arez, é uma obra arquitetônica e digna de preservação, tanto pela História de Dr. João, quanto por ser a mais antiga que existe naquele Cemitério, e, por isso, merece ser visitada. N...

The lord's right of the first wedding night (jus primae noctis or droit du seigneur) has been a focus for much Western European historiography. The highly celebrated movie Brave Heart (1995), directed and acted by Mel Gibson, drew further attention to the odious privilege of governing classes to deprive ordinary men, particularly those of captive n...

The paper x-rayed the growth and development of Kaduna State University Library and celebrated its decade of existence. Discussing its achievements and challenges, the paper highlights some major breakthroughs, such as designing and adopting a new Information Resource Development Policy (IRDP), up-to-date access to TETFund interventions, recruitmen...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

During March 2023, Nature Cardiovascular Research celebrates the female scientists that published with us last year, by reporting a brief story of their scientific and life journey. As we celebrate these extraordinary women through their fascinating stories, we hope to inspire younger generations that are starting their own amazing journey in life...

This study tries to identify the impact social media on the purchase of products from offline stores. Social media plays a vital role in today business environment for promotion of products among the youth. Advertising in social media is also considered as cost effective and effective and efficient for the wide spread customers over the geographica...

The present paper translates the poem selected from Waray into English of the Chito S. Roño Literary Awards, and applies New Criticism in the textual analysis. It focuses on the translator's role as a linguistic and cultural interpreter in faithfully rendering the nuances of the literary text from Waray to English. Before developing a strategy for...

Over the last three decades of evolution, the Jogye Order’s postulant education system has made considerable progress in standardizing, centralizing, and modernizing Buddhist education for aspiring monastics. As celebrated by the order’s 2022 publication The 30-year History of Buddhist Monastic Postulant Education, the order’s program has successfu...

Successful black or nonwhite healthcare scholars represent ideal role models for young, aspiring, and underrepresented healthcare professionals. Unfortunately, their successes are often celebrated by many who do not have a proper understanding of the rough journey they went through, to get to the positions they attained. Most black healthcare profe...

This paper introduces the distributionally robust random utility model (DRO-RUM), which allows the preference shock (unobserved heterogeneity) distribution to be misspecified or unknown. We make three contributions using tools from the literature on robust optimization. First, by exploiting the notion of distributionally robust social surplus funct...

At the stroke of the midnight on 15 August 1947, India obtains its independence from the British rule; this moment of celebration is, however, marred by the horrendous event of partition. This catastrophic event has earned the notoriety of being one of the most painful events in recorded history of India. Writer Khushwant Singh is someone who has l...

The civil rights movement-its training and much of its practice-was built around agape, the love depicted in Paul's letter to the Corinthians: the love that is patient and kind, that keeps no record of wrongs. A liberal arts education, according to environmental historian William Cronon, "nurtures human freedom in the service of human community, wh...