Dissent and Disputes - Science topic

Institute of geopolitical communications of RUDN University, The Department of Mass Communication of the Faculty of Philology of RUDN University is pleased to invite you to attend the conference: I International Scientific and Practical Conference "War journalism in the Time of Modern Wars and Information Technology" The conference will be held in...

Exploring the intricate relationship between law, economics, and global politics, this book examines the regulatory environment of the aviation industry. Tracing the historical development of aviation law, the book has a particular focus on how economic polycentrism and the liberal international economic order have influenced the sector's regulator...

It is beyond dispute that English is the language of science, engineering, and medicine, as well as of business, technology, and the internet. In the College of Engineering and Petroleum in Kuwait University, engineering courses apply English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI). Students who join the College are introduced to only three English lang...

This chapter argues that anthropological and global art collections are an important starting point for understanding different kinds of relationships between objects and media, and the multiple actors and institutions who have engaged with them over time. It shows how the focus on collections as relations opens up new perspectives on (1) the micro...

Transboundary water disputes in the Middle East have increased in recent years due to growing constraints on water resources. Efforts to harvest more water from the atmosphere through weather intervention projects have exacerbated existing conflicts. Here, we propose that atmospheric water vapor should be recognized as a transboundary resource that...

Apocalyptic rhetoric-a narrative of imminent catastrophe and subsequent renewal-serves as a powerful tool in both cults and authoritarian regimes to consolidate power, foster group cohesion, and justify extreme actions. This paper explores the psychological, social, and political mechanisms underlying the use of apocalyptic themes in these contexts...

Human society has reached a critical crossroad in history. The global dynamic process that has driven the prosperity and freedoms embodied in Western civilization is grinding to a halt. The narrowing opportunities for humanity as population presses on technologically defined resources is generating public protests, ugly competition, civil disputes,...

This study aims to reveal Gus Baha’s (hereafter referred to as GB) moderation thoughts in presenting discourse on bank interest. The data sources used are the videos of GB’s Islamic lectures broadcasted by several YouTube channels. The oral text data is sorted, based on relevant theme. The data were then studied, based on Fairclough’s (1,2) discour...

Throughout history, the Church has played a central role in shaping society, morality, and governance. However, its authority has not always been wielded with compassion or justice. In its efforts to enforce orthodoxy and preserve power, the Church has been complicit in the persecution and execution of countless individuals and groups, often labeli...

Since seizing power in a 2013 military coup, the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has imposed a form of militarized governance in Egypt. The military controls much of the economy, while tightening domestic security to suppress dissent and prevent a recurrence of street protests. In an effort to stamp out lingering public support for (and em...

Land is a source of livelihood and subsistence for people and communities, and is considered the most basic human need due to its high value and usefulness in human life. In fact, land and people are closely intertwined. This underscores the importance of land ownership status. However, there are still individuals who are unaware of permanent land...

The rebellion that brought the Komnenoi to power in 1081 was successful because it had many supporters, the most important of which was the Doukai, a lineage that had already controlled imperial power and with which Alexios was linked by marriage. The traditional position of historiography is that this was the beginning of an aristocratic governmen...

Water scarcity has become one of the most pressing global challenges, exacerbated by climate change, population growth, and increasing demand for freshwater resources. Transboundary water resources-rivers, lakes, and aquifers shared by multiple countries-are particularly vulnerable to conflict, as competing nations vie for access to limited supplie...

The concept of a community with a shared future for humanity represents China’s vision for global governance in the new era of globalization, with a environmentally sustainable world as its central tenet. The international environmental rule of law is crucial for building a global ecological civilization. However, achieving this goal is hindered by...

This research examines how digital platforms facilitate cross-cultural exchanges throughout Asia in the intersection of social science and computer science. Digital platforms have, mostly enabled a facilitation for cultural exchanges within much of Asia's dynamic cultural contexts, characterized by a time of rapid technological development. These p...

Christian Zionism, a movement rooted in theological and political support for the modern state of Israel, has long held a prominent position in U.S. evangelical Christianity. For many evangelicals, this perspective is seen as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy and a spiritual obligation. However, not all evangelicals agree with this interpretation....

In the work environment, employees definitely have different identities such as origin, religion, ethnicity and education. However, these differences do not affect the condition of the company unless accompanied by bad behavior from the employees employed there. Inappropriate behavior disrupts communication and communication effectiveness. This cre...

The origin of the chirality of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) has been a long-standing dispute. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations driven by machine-learning force fields (MLFF), which can study the interface dynamics under near ab-initio accuracy, provides a powerful technique to reveal the formation mechanism of SWCNTs. Here, we develop...

Acknowledgment is considered one of the strongest means of proof stipulated by law as it directly relates to the truth. This is because it involves a declaration made by the person against whom it is used, lending it a high degree of credibility. As a result, acknowledgment has gained decisive authority in resolving disputes and reaching judgments...

This article aims to highlight Colombia's contribution to the debate on reforming the International Investment Regime (IIR), with its 2017 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). It will give some background on Colombia's investment policy and its 2017 Model. It will then explore Colombia's Model through: clarification of the language of BIT provi...

Common property is the property acquired throughout the marriage, from marriage entered into to marriage termination or divorce, death, or court decision. The settlement of the common property is often complicated and sometimes difficult to solve. This is because each side argues that they are the most contributing to the acquisition of the common...

The present essay analyzes Boghossian’s critique of Relativism and Constructivism, especially the Relativism of Epistemic Justification, as presented by Richard Rorty using the particular case of the dispute between Galileo and Bellarmino. In general, this critique is positively appraised, but, on the basis of Galileo’s historical case, there is an...

This abstract explores the intersections between fascism and cult dynamics, highlighting shared mechanisms of control, ideological constructs, and psychological influence. Both fascist regimes and cults thrive on centralized authority, a charismatic leader, and a compelling narrative that unites followers under an exclusionary worldview. The analys...

Charismatic leadership is a form of influence that emerges when a leader inspires and mobilizes followers through personal charm, vision, and persuasive authority. Rooted in Max Weber's sociological framework, charismatic leadership transcends traditional and bureaucratic forms of authority by emphasizing the leader's exceptional qualities and thei...

Semanticism, often using the problem of persistence as its flagship, had argued that metaphysics disputes are merely verbal and can be resolved by appeal to ordinary language. Hence, metaphysics is not a substantive discipline. This position threatens the importance of metaphysics as the basis of all rational activities. This paper identified the a...

The number of deaths caused by suicide has increased at a remarkable rate in recent years in Islamic countries in general and in Jordan in particular. Because Islam forbids suicide and decrees a hellish fate for those who commit suicide, it is appropriate to frame religious beliefs that stem from the Islamic faith, such as “And [I have] shown them...

The article analyses multiple meanings of silence in the novel Chronicle of a Last Summer written by the contemporary Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi. The paper moves beyond the understanding of silence as a mere absence of speech and considers its semantic ambiguity whose interpretation is circumstantially dependent. The silences depicted in th...

The Sale and Purchase Deed (AJB) is an important document in property sale and purchase transactions, especially land and buildings, which serves as legal evidence of the transfer of ownership rights from the seller to the buyer. As an authentic deed made by a Land Deed Official (PPAT), AJB has higher legal force compared to private deeds, thus pro...

This study delves into the intersection of cults and the concept of "eternal fascism" as described by Umberto Eco. It explores how cults employ semiotics, ideology, and psychological control to exert power over their members. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the research identifies parallels between cult structures and fascist systems, in...

This article aims to analyze the structure and challenges faced by sports justice in Brazil, in addition to the growing tendency to seek solutions within the scope of common justice. Using an analytical and critical approach, based on principles of sports law, such as the indefeasibility of jurisdiction and the autonomy of sports entities, which ar...

Background: Law is a key regulator of social relations. Its systemic nature is fundamental for proper, clear and comprehensive regulation of legal relations. As an integral system, law has its own logic, structure, order and purpose. This purpose is to properly regulate social relations, ensure law and order, and qualitatively and consistently sati...

This paper examines gender discrimination cases in labour arbitration, exploring the systemic challenges and effectiveness of arbitration in resolving workplace disputes. The research aims to investigate how gender biases influence arbitration outcomes and whether the process adequately addresses gender-based disparities in employment decisions. Us...

Labour arbitration is another important method of settling an employment relation dispute since it is less acrimonious and is cheaper compared to going to court. However, ethical issues in labor arbitration present some real difficulties as regards the principles of the arbitration procedure. The following is a discussion of critical ethical concer...

Storytelling is a form of communication for authors to express their ingenuity and engage a wider audience with pertinent social concerns. Censorship, on the other hand, is frequently enforced by state legislation to preserve societal harmony, and writers frequently face censorship issues from various authoritative groups or organisations. Writers...

Considerably attention has been directed towards assessing the capabilities of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) in various aspects such as syntax accuracy, factual correctness, comprehensive world understanding, ethical alignment, common sense, and formal logical reasoning. However, the bulk of the research has primarily focused on an...

One of the main objectives of establishing a land management system is to acquire land tenure security. Although there are several layers to the idea of tenure security, the most widely held opinion is that obtaining such security has frequently been tied to having possession of a land title record obtained through a formal titling system. Malaysia...

This review article explores how to determine correct authorship order, addresses disputes among co-authors over authorship credit, identifies misconduct, and offers recommendations to resolve such conflicts. An electronic literature search was conducted using keywords such as “authorship,” “authorship conflict,” “publication abuses” “co-authorship...

There have been many (and good) analyses of the Spanish left-populist party Podemos (2014-16) in terms of ideology, politics and class. However, this chapter focuses on an almost completely neglected dimension of its rise and fall: temporality. Firmly based on Nietzsche’s distinction in the Second Untimely Meditation between three “species of histo...

The provision of social care for people in prison in England has historically been lacking. Seeking to address this, the 2014 Care Act clarified that local authorities are responsible for identifying, assessing and meeting prisoners’ social care needs. Against this background, in 2020 we undertook a survey to explore the emerging services for this...

Among the classroom responsive strategies, tactical ignoring and positive correction have been rated highly effective in schools. Ofsted (2014) supports the use of tactical ignoring for minor low-level behaviour, while the DfE (2022) endorses the use of positive correction as an impactful measure because it addresses student behaviour in a way that...

The paper engages in two metaphilosophical disputes. The first concerns the importance of studying original texts to establish the methods used by philosophers. The second addresses the role of intuitions in philosophical arguments. In this paper, I argue that a close reading of original texts is crucial for the methodological dispute on the role o...

This research is very important because there are many similar cases in Indonesia. An International Arbitration award is basically final and binding, so the award should be enforceable. But sometimes it is often canceled by the rules of a country which in this case is Indonesia. That is why we need to look back at how the rules regarding this matte...

This study aims to explore the communication mechanism and user sentiment analysis of public emergencies in social media. Taking the doctor-patient dispute in Wenzhou, China on 7.19 as an example, the study systematically analyses the dissemination path, speed, influence and user sentiment changes of the incident in social media, and through data c...

Why does an argument end up in the final court decision? Was it deliberated or questioned during the oral hearings? Was there something in the hearings that triggered a particular judge to write a dissenting opinion? Despite the availability of the final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), none of these legal research questions...

Jack L. Granatstein is a senior figure in the field of Canadian historians. A highly respected academic, Granatstein studied the politics, structures of governance, military, leadership, and nationalism of twentieth century Canada. Some have deemed him to be a ‘great man’ historian who focuses on a style of history that examines the world solely th...

The term ‘sixth mass extinction’ has become synonymous with the current biodiversity crisis. However, despite a general agreement that current biodiversity declines are severe, no consensus has been reached on whether this constitutes a ‘mass extinction event’, and thus, whether our current situation is comparable to the catastrophic extinction eve...

This research examines the legal certainty surrounding the time limits for resolving disputes over the results of Village Head elections through the State Administrative Court. The absence of clear regulations on the deadlines and mechanisms for addressing these disputes has led to various issues, including legal uncertainty, inequality in treatmen...

This study examines the memories of the Immigrant Olympics among Croatian-Yugoslav immigrants in São Paulo, concentrated in the Society of Friends of Yugoslavia (SAIUG). Through journalistic sources and multigenerational interviews, the event, which took place from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, emerges as a crucial agent in structuring social r...

The paper – referring to the poems by Aleksander Wat and Stanisław Barańczak, in which the metaphor of observing the world “from behind the glass” appears – describes the evolution of the way the metaphor was defined. The author traces this evolution in disputes from the time of structuralism, which dominated the literary methodology, to the contem...

A dispute is something that causes disagreement from two or more parties. As happened with the online motorcycle taxi company and its partners, which are currently involved in a wage distribution dispute and legal uncertainty for their partners. In this article, the author uses an empirical juridical writing method, using the results of conversatio...

In the journal Nuova Secondaria Ricerca (XLII, n. 2, October 2024), my article titled "When Respect for Authority and Those Who Represent It Is Lacking" has been published. The paper begins with an analysis of a well-known episode of dissent directed at an authority figure, then explores the distinction between the "what" and the "how" in educatio...

In “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger juxtaposes the notion of homelessness (Heimlosigkeit) with home-coming (Heimholung), i.e. the reawakening to our original relationship to Being. This focus on dwelling in Being represents an interesting modification from his earlier study of “incipience” (Anfang), which emphasizes departure. We follow the c...

Each new conflict between Israel and Palestine, as well as tensions in disputed areas such as Kosovo and Metohija, once again raises the issue of recognizing newly established states. The process of recognition is complex and depends on a mix of political interests, international law, and geopolitical circumstances. States often recognize new entit...

This article is devoted to the procedural institute of environmental expertise of water objects, which has relatively recently received a residence in the domestic legal proceedings. Restoration of certain places requires considerable time, carrying out expensive reanimation works. Predictive activity and elements of propaedeutics become an importa...

Under the background of digitalization of collections, in order to avoid copyright disputes, museums and other collection institutions often use a "copyright statements" on their homepage to declare that their collection resources are all belong to themselves. American museums use various methods to restrict public access in practice. Measures such...

The impact of the Italo-Ethiopian war deeply changed international politics, but involved processes even more profound in different countries. In fact, it is possible to discuss the effects of the dispute on the nation-building of Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Canada and Irish Free State.

Irredentist disputes have produced distinct political ethnoterritories under the de jure sovereignty of recognised parent states, but the de facto political authority of external national homelands. This study problematises the relationship between national homeland and claimed ethnoterritory as a nested game in which, in addition to bargaining wit...

India’s status as a significant world power has strengthened in the last few decades as a member state to various international treaties and conventions. However, its practice of instrumentalisation and withdrawal through the reservations imposed to the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and the resistance to becoming a p...

The realization of intelligent and green manufacturing represents two core challenges currently faced by manufacturing enterprises. The “Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration List” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of the People’s Republic of China provides a sample of firms that have undergone stringent s...

Purpose: The article aims to identify systemic challenges in Slovenian administrative practice arising from an inadequately regulated right to appeal under the General Administrative Procedure Act (GAPA). For this purpose, an analysis of Administrative Consultation (AC), a legal clinic operating since 2009, was conducted. The study includes analyse...

New originalists have increasingly claimed that the Reconstruction Amendments support a variety of famous twentieth century Supreme Court decisions, including Brown v. Board of Education, without the use of nonoriginalism or contemporary values. In this article, based on an extensive review of recent histories of Reconstruction, I dispute this clai...

The provisions of the marine spatial order are quite good in regulating control, especially the obligation for everyone to have a permit in the form of approval or confirmation of the suitability of marine space utilization activities issued by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP). Unfortunately, on the other hand, KKP only provides...

California regulates pork; does it offend the Constitution that pork producers in other states must comply with its regulations if they want to sell Californians pork? In National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, the Supreme Court emerged sharply divided in its approach to the practical extraterritorial spillover effect of the in-state regulations o...

In the \textit{A}V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ (\textit{A}~$=$~K,~Rb,~Cs) kagome materials, superconductivity coexists with a charge density wave (CDW), constituting a new platform to study the interplay of these two orders. Despite extensive research, the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter remains disputed, with experiments seemingly supporting dif...

The trademark licensing system is an important system stipulated by the Trademark Law. How to allocate the added value during the trademark licensing process between the trademark licensor and the licensee, and how the licensee compensates or compensates the trademark licensor for the depreciation of the trademark value, are not stipulated in the T...

With the rise of the digital economy, new productivity is becoming a key driving force for economic growth and social change. With artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other technologies as the core, and data-driven, intelligent decision-making and collaborative innovation as the distinctive characteristics, the new quality produc...

With reductions in the malaria burden stalling in the past years, gene drive holds promise as a novel way of reducing disease transmission. Governance and decision-making processes are pivotal aspects of the legitimate adoption of this technology. Here, the authors explore Target Malaria's journey in developing a community agreement model for the r...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s autocratic techniques have pushed Venezuela closer to authoritarianism and farther from democracy. These techniques involve newer tactics that build on his predecessor’s success in suppressing democracy and work quietly and efficiently to disrupt elections. Dodging accountability for his hand in Venezuela’s dem...

Water scarcity poses significant challenges to sustainable development. This study investigates the historical water treaty between Kedah and Perlis, Malaysia (1971-1999), focusing on Perlis' non-payment for water intake from Kedah. The transboundary relationship involves raw water transfer from Kedah's Muda Dam to Perlis. By examining this dispute...

As a former colony of Japan, South Koreas relationship with Japan has always been ambivalent. South Korea did form an alliance with Japan through the alliance with the United States and a geopolitical situation, but tension remained due to historical grievances between the two countries. In recent years, populist South Koreans have demanded the gov...

Populism is one of the most discussed topics in political theory. Nonetheless, much work remains to be done in order to understand populism in historical context. To what extent is contemporary populism a distinctively modern phenomenon? To what extent does it have roots and precedents in earlier periods of political history? And how can studying p...

“From 'virtual reality' to the real world: “what challenges and regulatory issues do the 'Metaverses' bring to the State?”, based on this provocation, this theoretical essay seeks to articulate authors who base the Metaverses phenomenon with authors who elucidate aspects of technological and informational disputes. Discussion: Six provocations are...

Many populist leaders politicise disputes with external financial ‘elites’, but most are forced by economic pressures to fundamentally change their ‘people-versus-elite’ problem representations and ‘concede defeat’. Notable exceptions are Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner, and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who sooner or later r...

We use a novel experiment in China to examine the effects of having a quasi-official investor own a small number of shares on specific firm outcomes. We find that, relative to control firms, pilot firms experience an increase in dissenting votes from independent directors, a reduction in tunneling and earnings management activities, and an improvem...

The Hague Conference on Private International Law (hereinafter – “Conference”) has played a pivotal role in the development and unification of jurisdictional rules in private international law. This paper examines the outcomes of the Conference various conventions, focusing on their impact on harmonizing jurisdictional frameworks among member state...

In this article the Special Economic Zones “SEZ” are analyzed according to a new social vision linked to conflicts arising from policy problems and other negative phenomena. Port areas are not always the site of economic development but also of lack of growth and increase in social disparities, which occur on different dimensions. The article there...

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) over what would quickly become known as SARS-CoV- 2 or COVID- 19. This emergency status was officially ended in the United States in May 2023 amidst much dissent and debate. Although emergency conditions resulting from COVID- 19 wi...

The article touches upon the topic of intellectual property protection in the era of globalisation and reveals the principles of national legal order at the beginning of the formation of the foundations for protection of intellectual property rights, which will in fact serve as a qualitative basis for resolving potential disputes in the future. The...

Protest mobilisation and coordination require competences that extend beyond political leadership and communication. Technology, which has become a daily part of humanity, pushes protest leaders to obtain skills in navigating social media to achieve effective communication and leadership. Labour practices behind protest mobilisation are gradually c...

The novelty of technologies deployed for communications in cyberspace facilitated crucially human interactions. The intensive adoption of cyberspace technologies generated a unique version of conflicts among users. Though their occurrence in a virtual environment, disputes in cyberspace inflict impacts in real life, which drive their parties to ini...

The purpose of this research is to know about the remedies which are given to the breach of contract with reference to India and Australia and to know the elements for breach of a contract and to know whether the remedies which are given to the people are directly reaching the people and also to know that the people are really claiming the damages...

Java Island has the most dense population in Indonesia. This is in line with the number of marriages and divorces that occur. One of the factors causing divorce is violence that occurs in the household. Violence is a physical act that often occurs in the scope of life. Based on the data obtained, there are 14 factors for divorce in Indonesia. facto...

Law and Social transformation is a very unique concept which highlights the studies and changes in social problems and their solutions through legal approach. Here law changes the society which means that the law of the land compels the society to be changed according to law. When dispute arises matter is brought before the judiciary which applies...

The article examines the modern capabilities of certain types of forensic examinations in combating crimes that encroach on the information security of Ukraine. Attention is drawn to the need to protect the information structure of the state, which is designed to ensure security and, as a result, stability and stability of the main spheres of life,...

This article takes the relation between religious buildings and cities as its starting point. Unlike the majority perspective in Latin America, our focus in this article is not on the construction of temples but on the disputes arising from the demolition of religious buildings. We argue that demolition implies the decomposition of religious materi...

The Industrial Relations Court has the authority to resolve Industrial Relations Disputes by the Industrial Relations Dispute Settlement Law, namely Law Number 2 of 2004. This study aims to analyze the limitations of the authority of the Industrial Relations Court with the Supreme Court Circular (SEMA) Number 7 of 2012. The type of research used in...

The article attempts to determine the principles of international legal regulation of the application of restitution as a form of material responsibility in international law, as restitution is a means of legal protection available to the claimant in the consideration of an international dispute, for which seized property is returned to the origina...

Currently, there is an increasing focus on procurement contract administration as among of the key variables in explaining the performance of construction projects. Despite such observations, their relationship with quality attainment of the Force Account (FA) construction projects is not well postulated to cement the observed causal relationship....

This article examines the legal and geopolitical implications of South Africa's unprecedented lawsuit against Israel for genocide in Gaza, brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The conflict stems from longstanding tensions between Israel and Palestine, exacerbated during the October 7, 2023 crisis. South Africa's legal action all...

Introduction: Societies and online social media have evolved into new structures that play an important role in the lives of communities, nations, and nations. The new world structure that we're experiencing is developing very fast. A lot of people are not ready to face this new world. Special rules are also needed because online media makes it eas...

The international community has recently witnessed a “battle of notes verbales ” between some claimant States and other States having interests in the South China Sea (SCS). The battle was triggered by Malaysia’s partial submission of its extended continental shelf to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) on 12 December 2019....

China and the United States, as leading global powers, have faced ongoing trade disputes. From 2003 to 2005, the U.S. triggered several trade frictions with China, marking a period of significant conflict. In 2018, the Trump administration’s trade war reignited tensions, and these frictions have since evolved alongside shifts in international relat...

This chapter considers the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) arguments in a note verbale dated September 18, 2020, where the PRC referred to the necessity of “developing and improving UNCLOS” in response to international criticism regarding its claims in the South China Sea. How the PRC’s narratives on the incompleteness of the UNCLOS regime and t...

One of the major achievements of UNCLOS—there are many—is the establishment of a mandatory system for the settlement of maritime disputes. Since we are celebrating UNCLOS let me briefly mention some of the important issues, which distinguishes this regime from previous ones.

This study explores the integral role of conflict management and team building in enhancing school leadership effectiveness. As schools face increasing challenges in diverse educational environments, effective leadership becomes crucial for fostering a productive and harmonious atmosphere. This research investigates how school leaders employ confli...

Introduction: As medical technology advances and public legal awareness increases, disputes between medical personnel and patients are coming to light more frequently, including allegations of malpractice, violations of medical standards, and hospital administrative issues. These disputes can potentially affect the quality of health services and pu...