Pragmatics - Science topic

In recent years, algorithmic management practices have been widely adopted by employers to monitor remote work, analyse how applicants behave during job interviews, rate workers' performance and calculate wage adjustments. As a consequence, the condition of workers being subjected to the upstream authority of managers has intensified. Employment pr...

In this essay I discuss a case study of one way in which performance might engage with ecology: Child of Tree (1975) by John Cage (1912-1992). This case study is not based upon empirical research in ecological topics; qua performance Child of Tree does not avail itself of ecological data; and its political position is only proto-ecocritical. Howeve...

This study conducts a pragmatic analysis of various linguistic deviations skillfully used in Hemingway’s novel The Heart of Darkness. It is confined to the following types of linguistic deviations: internal deviation, lexical deviation, semantic deviation, phonological deviation, morphological deviation, grammatical, and graphological deviation. Al...

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo el estudio de una nómina de recursos macrosintácticos del discurso de jugadores de dos equipos de fútbol: el Real Betis Balompié y el Sevilla Fútbol Club, con el fin de establecer cómo gestionan estos agentes comunicativos las victorias y las derrotas. Para ello, partimos de la metodología de Lingüística pragm...

Objetivo do estudo: Apurar e discutir os preceitos do método Dragon Dreaming para lidar com o conhecimento tácito advindo da gestão de projetos. Relevância/originalidade: Análise (utilizando a Análise Textual como técnica estatística) dos preceitos de um método de gestão de projetos que, embora se baseie em princípios de sustentabilidade como fato...

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Herein, electrochemically assisted dissolution-deposition (EADD) is utilized over a three-electrode assembly to prepare an electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Cyclic voltammetry is performed to yield atomistic loading of platinum (Pt) over SnS 2 nanostructures via Pt dissolution from the counter electrode (CE). Astonishingly, the...

This research entitled (pragmatics of pronouns in Haw rami dialect), focuses on how to use pronouns pragmatically in haw rami dialect, in pragmatics, pronouns are usually classified as pragmatic signs, which include signs (personal, social) and signs (place, time). In contrast to this classification, this study attempts to examine pronouns in the c...

The aim of the study is to investigate the pragmatic functions of diminutives in Kurdish. The researchers adopted Brown and Levinson’s model of linguistic politeness in the analysis. The data has been collected through interviews and naturally occurring conversations. The diminutives in Kurdish are used both as positive and negative politeness stra...

Verruca vulgaris, also known as common warts, is benign lesions caused by the non-malignant human papillomavirus, affecting approximately 10% of the population globally. It may range from 1 mm to several cm, and are mostly seen on the extremities, followed by the face. They may be transmitted by direct or indirect contact and lead to cosmetic conce...

Positive face threatening acts impinge upon positive face desires of interlocutors. These acts threaten hearer's desire to be liked when a speaker does not care about his/her interactant's feelings/wants or does not want what the other wants. In conversations, interlocutors try to protect their positive public image and want to be seen as valuable...

In the wake of tragic events such as the ‘Paris Attacks of 2015’, the expression of condolences through e-messages has become a common way for individuals to offer support and sympathy to those affected. However, limited research has been conducted on the linguistic aspects of condolence e-messages and how they reflect the communicative speech act...

Stavros Kousoulas and Andrej Radman are editing Footprint 36, dedicated to the topic of ‘Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity’. Rather than focusing on the essentialist question of what architectural intelligence is, we are interested in the pragmatics of how it occurs, who institutes it, and through which techniciti...

Language has been a communication tool from early human history up to date. It is by using this significant tool that events and traditions have remained from the forefathers of every nation. An instance of the remained treasures of history is the items of folklore, in essence, proverbs, which is the subject of the current study. Admittedly, prover...

This study is entitled "Felicity Conditions in Speech Acts from the "KNIVES OUT" Movie: A Pragmatic Study". The research method used is descriptive qualitative because this research aims to classify, explain and summarize an utterance that appears in a film. The source of the data taken is the utterances that appear in the transcript of the film Kn...

In the philosophy of language, there are many ongoing controversies that stem from relying too heavily on an utterance-based framework. The traditional approach of rigidly partitioning the utterance's meaning into what is grammatically determined from what is not may not fully capture the complexity of human language in real-world communicative con...

As codified in professional guidelines, professional interpreters should faithfully interpret everything that has been said exactly as the original speakers. In other words, court interpreters are expected to adequately interpret both the content and the manner of original utterances into their pragmatic equivalence to the best of their knowledge....

In everyday conversation, messages are often communicated indirectly, implicitly. Why do we seem to communicate so inefficiently? How speakers choose to express a message (modulating confidence, using less explicit formulations) has been proposed to impact how committed they will appear to be to its content. This commitment can be assessed in terms...

Research investigating pragmatic deficits in individuals with right hemisphere damage focuses on identifying the potential mechanisms responsible for the nature of these impairments. Nonetheless, the presumed shared cognitive mechanisms that could account for these deficits have not yet been established through data-based evidence from lesion studi...

This study examines the impact of CO2 emissions, globalization, economic growth, and renewable and non-renewable energies consumption in South Asian countries between 1985 and 2019. We employ a fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) method to achieve the purpose of this study. The empirical results of this study indicate that globalization p...

The deixis in the speech text of President Joko Widodo on Independence Day, August 17, 2022, is the subject of this article. This study's objectives are to identify deixis types, identify the dominant type in the speech text of President Joko Widodo, and explain deixis types and their causes. The study aims to identify the prevalent deixis type, un...

This paper attempts to understand the economics underlying broadcast media in Pakistan. Specifically, we seek to understand the media market in Pakistan, the politics of media ratings in the country, and the role of PEMRA as the regulator of broadcast media. After explaining what media economics as a specialised field of scientific inquiry entails,...

Background Long COVID is suggested to be present in 14 to 43% of COVID 19-survivors. Literature on this new condition states a need for a multidisciplinary approach including physical exercise and nutrition. The aim of the current pilot study is to investigate the feasibility of the proposed protocol to prepare for a randomized controlled study tha...

In this paper I describe Word Clouds, as applied pragmatically, in an interpretive qualitative study regarding effective teaching and learning of Music Literacy in South African secondary schools. Word Clouds, or, word frequency lists, are usually seen by qualitative researchers as non-interpretive and non-subjective, and thus not suitable to be ut...

The article delves into the experiences of immigrants in Greece who have been residing in the country for an extended period but face difficulties in obtaining Greek citizenship. This study is based on in-depth interviews conducted with 10 immigrants whose applications for Greek citizenship were rejected in the summer of 2022. Through these intervi...

Introduction: To compensate for the lack of pragmatic information available when communicating via text message, texters make frequent use of texting-specific cues, or textisms , to convey meaning that would otherwise be apparent in spoken conversation. Here, we explore how one such cue, face emoji, can impact the interpretation of text messages. M...

In recent years, representations from brain activity patterns and pre-trained language models have been linked to each other based on neural fits to validate hypotheses about language processing. Nonetheless, open questions remain about what intrinsic properties of language processing these neural fits reflect and whether they differ across neural...

A Educação Ambiental (EA) é marcada por um pluralismo pedagógico que pode ser percebido por meio de concepções acerca da mesma. Nas escolas, a Educação Ambiental deve estar voltada para interdisciplinaridade conforme a BNCC e as DCNEB, no entanto ela é trabalhada de maneira disciplinar, pois existem dificuldades para trabalhá-la de modo interdiscip...

The article discusses such concepts as digital advertising and digital communication and analyzes their manipulative properties on the mass consciousness of mankind. The article reveals the role and feature of digital communications in the process of influencing the consciousness of members of society and the state; the tools of manipulation of mas...

This study employs discourse analysis to examine the pragmatic functions of vague language in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address. By interpreting hedging, abstract concepts and generalizations in the address, the author explores how vague language is strategically utilized by political leaders to achieve his political purposes, such as establishing u...

In order to address the drawbacks of semantic ambiguity, inaccurate quantifiers, and low translation accuracy in traditional grammar-based translation methods, this paper proposes an artificial intelligence translation method based on semantic analysis for English fuzzy semantics. Firstly, a comprehensive analysis of English language semantics was...

Drawing on Brown and Fraser’s (in: Giles, Scherer (eds) Social markers in speech, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 33–62, 1979) framework for the analysis of communicative situations and Fuentes Rodríguez’s (Lingüística pragmática y Análisis del discurso, Arco Libros, Madrid, 2000; in Estudios de Lingüística: Investigaciones lingüísticas e...

In studying pragmatics deixis play an important role. With the help of deixis it become easy to interpret the meaning of certain sentence according to the context. In simple words it is said that it simply means pointing or asserting something via language. Through the use of deictic expressions, the readers understand the speaker's deictic centre,...

Background: Nutrition care in general practice is crucial for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and management, though comparison between dietary strategies is lacking. Aim: To compare best-available (most recent, relevant, and high-quality) evidence for six dietary strategies effective for primary prevention/absolute risk reduction of CVD. D...

This article introduces the notion of interspecies pragmatics and suggests that embodied CA studies can inform such pragmatics. The aim of the study was to investigate how dogs provide embodied responses to human utterances when a human is about to throw a ball for them to catch. Studying dogs' recipiency in interaction requires that multimodal app...

Traditionally, scholars have portrayed British popular Liberalism as thoroughly laissez-faire, minarchist, and anti-imperialist before the late nineteenth century. After this point, many scholars claim, popular Liberals broke with their traditional policies for humanitarian and pragmatic reasons by funding social welfare programs, regulating t...

The meaning of language is tied to the context where it is used. This study examines the different pragmatic acts performed by beggars across Southwest Nigeria while soliciting alms. The aim is to establish the role of language as a tool in perpetuating this age-long profession of soliciting alms from members of society. The study employs Jacob Mey...

Motivation The Cochran test, also known as Cochran’s Q test, is a statistical procedure used to assess the consistency of proportions across multiple groups in a dichotomous dataset Description This paper introduces a modified version of Cochran’s Q test using neutrosophic statistics to handle uncertainty in practical situations. The neutrosophic...

The main objective of this paper is to redirect the attention of the African performer, the writer, the theatre artist, theatre enthusiast and commentator to what constitutes an African thought in the process of African inquiry and creative production. To the African performer as well as his critic; to the African theatre enthusiast as well as its...

This paper aims to develop a simulation-based framework to identify critical equipment, critical maintenance and operational factors (e.g., maintenance actions, spare sourcing lead times and fill rate) affecting plant performance (availability and maintenance cost). The study develops a framework that utilizes empirical maintenance data. Pareto ana...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the strategies to be employed to mitigate challenges facing students in selection and progression in agriculture careers in tertiary institutions of Bungoma and Kakamega counties, Kenya. Further, the study formulated a conceptual framework based on the research variables, which also aided the formulation of...

The COVID-19 revolution compelled higher education institutions (HEIs) to use e-learning or a digitalised curriculum (DC) to save or complete the 2020/ 2021 academic calendar/ year. Ideological-ware resources are cognitive processes that drive or manage human actions in using hardware and software resources to address human needs. These resources a...

O processamento da língua falada depende de uma vasta gama de conhecimentos que inclui acústica, fonologia, fonética, linguística geral, semântica, sintaxe, pragmática, estruturas discursivas, entre outras. Para além disso, outros conhecimentos mais comuns à ciência da computação, à engenharia elétrica, à matemática e, até mesmo à psicologia, també...

The chapter explores whether, or to what extent, recent work in experimental philosophy puts pressure on the idea that the concept of causation is ‘egalitarian’. Causal selection – where experimental subjects tend to rate the causal strength of (for example) a norm-violator more strongly than a non-norm-violator – is a well established phenomenon,...

In this article, we discuss epistemological limitations relating to the use of ethnoracial categories in biomedical research as devised by the Office of Management and Budget’s institutional guidelines. We argue that the obligation to use ethnoracial categories in genomics research should be abandoned. First, we outline how conceptual imprecision i...

Background Physical activity has been shown to benefit patients undergoing adjuvant cancer therapy. Although exercise interventions may be applied in several settings, most trials have focused on specialized facilities for their interventions. While these approaches benefit the access for individuals living near exercise centers, it hampers the ass...

Recent works in cognitive pragmatics have demonstrated how the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a number of phenomena that matters both to health sciences and to humanities and social sciences, raising the need to integrate different academic orientations in an interdisciplinary shift. This work proposes a preliminary study on the pharmaceutical indus...

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Heart failure (HF) is a significant clinical and financial burden worldwide. Remote monitoring (RM) devices capable of identifying early physiologic changes in decompensation have the potential to reduce the HF burden. However, few trials have discussed at length the practical aspects of implementing RM in real-world clinical practice. The present...

Understanding citizens’ evaluation of public urban green space (UGS) attributes and plant species features can inform greenspace design to meet public expectations. This study evaluated the public’s responses to UGS attributes and plant species in Hong Kong using a questionnaire survey of 827 adult respondents. Principal component analysis followed...

Premier trimestre 2020, l’Europe, puis l’ensemble des continents dont l’Afrique ont subi de plein fouet la vague pandémique de la Covid-19. Les discours mobilisés alors se révèlent de toute nature (prescriptive, anxiogène, critique), chez quelque acteur que ce soit (représentants de l’autorité et de l’action publiques, experts de la santé habilités...

Neural Networks have been a hotspot domain for researchers due to its increasing area of applications in areas where huge amounts of data is used and the main goal is to infer patterns out of it. This passage offers an assessment of Neural Networks and their pragmatic uses in real-world situations. It provides information regarding the basic struct...

This paper explains how an assertion may be understood despite there being nothing said or meant by the assertion. That such understanding is possible is revealed by cases of the so-called “felicitous underspecification” of demonstratives: cases where there is understanding of an assertion containing a demonstrative despite the interlocutors not se...

Osmanlı ve Türkiye düzlemlerinde bu hazır bulunuşluk toplumsal ve kültürel farklılıklar nedeniyle modernitenin dinamiklerine hızla uyum sağlayabilecek yeterlilikte değildi. Seküler dürtüleri barındıran pragmatik, lojistik kaygılar tarafından eğitimin yönlendirilmesi formel eğitim politikalarının modernitenin dinamikleriyle çatışan informel eğitim g...

Communities of practice (CoP) have become a popular source of knowledge-sharing and learning in organizations. However, several problems occur in managing them and more knowledge about this area is needed. This article addresses this knowledge gap and aims to understand and describe how to facilitate communities of practice in a large corporation....

Designing child-friendly streetscapes is a pragmatic and effective approach to addressing the limited outdoor play spaces and social exclusion experienced by migrant children living in vulnerable residential areas. However, the existing research and guidelines on streetscape design lack specificity for migrant workers' communities and fail to provi...

Predictive Maintenance (PdM) has a main role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; its goal is to design models that can safely detect failure in systems before they fail, aiming to reduce financial, environmental, and operational costs. A brushless DC (BLDC) electric motors have increasingly become more popular and been gaining popularity in indust...

If A asks B “Do you like berries?”, and B replies “I like some berries,” B would infer that A does not like all kinds of berries. Such inference derived by negating the stronger alternative (all) is known as the scalar implicature (SI). Earlier experimental studies showed that computation of SI requires additional processing time compared to litera...

Here, I present the basic ideas about a future Rosetta Stone Framework and a Rosetta Interoperability Service. I give an introduction to the terms "machine-actionability", "interoperability", "semantic interoperability", and "cognitive interoperability" and try to stay as close as possible to (English) natural language statements. I show that we wi...

In-person culinary medicine (CM) can improve health behaviors, but its translation to virtual platforms and impact on diabetes outcomes are not well described. We designed a pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness of virtual CM (eCM) to Medical Nutrition Therapy on diabetes outcomes among patients with uncontrolled diabetes within a safety-net...

Body checking, characterized by the repeated visual or physical inspection of particular parts of one’s own body (e.g. thighs, waist, or upper arms) is one of the most prominent behaviors associated with eating disorders, particularly Anorexia Nervosa (AN). In this paper, we explore the explanatory potential of the Recalcitrant Fear Model of AN (RF...

History education in Ghana has been situated within the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial trajectories and debates. Whereas there is a conscious effort by history teacher associations, academics and other interest groups to advance and develop the teaching of the subject at different levels of the educational system in Ghana, little attention...

It is prima facie uncontroversial that the justification of an assertion amounts to a collection of other (inferentially related) assertions. In this paper, we point at a class of assertions, i.e. mathematical assertions, that appear to systematically flout this principle. To justify a mathematical assertion (e.g. a theorem) is to provide a proof-a...

In the pursuit of understanding truth, philosophers throughout history have grappled with its multifaceted nature and the evolving contexts in which it resides. This paper delves into the rich history of truth theory, from ancient Greek contemplations on reality to the pragmatic approach of the late 19th and early 20th century. It explores how Cohe...

Language, as a system we use to communicate, represents the brain’s biologically perfected machinery for converting thoughts (ideas, concepts, and reflections of both the outside world and our inner feelings) into words and sentences. Crucially, this process occurs in real time. How hundreds of billions of neurons within the dark of the skull contr...

The primary objective of this study was to determine the various dimensions of impoverishment and to investigate the mechanism to alleviate poverty among rural households residing in Dezpart Town located in Izeh City. The present study was pragmatic in its objective and employed an exploratory approach in its methodology. The research sample compri...

The present paper contributes to the emerging field of embodied interaction. It reports on research into deictic interactions between a human and a non-human, specifically a cat, interlocutor, applying a pragmatic framework developed for human–human communicative interactions. We analyse video recordings of interactions where a cat is a deictic age...

Modality is an aspect of meaning in discourse that involves ways in which attitudes of the speaker or writer can be expressed to signal factuality, degree of certainty or doubt, vagueness, possibility, necessity, and even permission and obligation. Despite scholars' attention on this linguistic phenomenon, the modality of Hausa language is not well...

Logical and philosophical literature provides different classifications of reasoning. In the Polish literature on the subject, for instance, there are three popular ones accepted by representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School: Jan Łukasiewicz, Tadeusz Czeżowski and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (Ajdukiewicz in Logika pragmatyczna [Pragmatic Logic]. PWN, Wars...

While researchers continue to develop their understanding of gender as a complex and multifaceted concept, the detrimental impact of gender-related inequity and social injustice persists. This conceptual paper describes the potential benefits of incorporating Relational Frame Theory (RFT) as a contextual and pragmatic approach to gender. An RFT len...

Background Healthy China is a nationwide health strategy aiming at improving health from diverse dimensions, and strengthening high-quality assessment is essential for its stimulation. However, there is limited evidence in the surveillance of the actual performance of the initiative at regional levels. This study innovatively proposes a two-step su...

Increasing disability-free life expectancy is a crucial issue to optimize active ageing and to reduce the burden of evitable medical costs. One of the main challenges is to develop pragmatic and personalized prevention strategies in order to prevent frailty, counteract adverse outcomes such as falls and mobility disability, and to improve quality o...

The current research is concerned with a pragmatic study of attack and defense acts that are used by President Donald Trump in the American Presidential Debate in 2020. Attack is an attempt to harm or defeat someone, and it is a bold message that the speaker or attacker does not like or disagree with the other antagonist. On the contrary, defense m...

Resumo Este estudo tem como objetivo abordar as percepções dos nativos digitais em relação ao uso de mídia social interna (ISM) em contextos corporativos. Pesquisas de empresas de consultoria, embora limitadas como evidência científica, revelaram que os nativos digitais, se tivessem escolha, deixariam seus empregos nos próximos dois anos, mostrando...

Viewing conversations from an epistemic perspective involves analysing how participants navigate their knowledge, handle uncertainty, and address their lack of knowledge. This article focuses on the use of epistemic disclaimers, i.e., linguistic expressions that speakers employ to indicate uncertainty or lack of knowledge, in a collection of Italia...

The Great Commission has been considered as one of the most important commands of Jesus Christ by the church. It has been passed down from the disciples to the early church fathers and so on until today. Many followers of Christ have tried to fulfill it to their best effort. However, the interpretation of such command, and therefore its implementat...

Street trees play a significant ecological role in modern urban ecosystems, but usually the selection criteria follow pragmatic reasons rather than bio-ecological suitability. Understanding the influence of such factors can be relevant, especially in cities having a certain complexity and area. This paper aims to analyze the variation in the distri...

This article examines the concept of “newspeak,” created by J. Orwell in his novel “1984,” which functions as one of the means of manipulating the political consciousness of people. The article focuses on the linguistic manifestation of newspeak in the speech behavior of modern German politicians. It reveals two main functions of newspeak in the sp...

Language and literacy development has come to be influenced by digital technology in the current information age. Comments posted on a video streaming site by a developing bilingual seven-year-old child speaking an autochthonous Philippine language and English were analyzed as to their mean length, syntactic form and pragmatic uses. Results reveale...

O ̩ fò̩ is a literary term employs to achieve a magical desire and wishes on a target object. There are numerous structural and stylistic works on O ̩ fò̩ with little attention paid to the syntactic processes used towards attainment of magical feat on a targeted object. Therefore, this study examines tense and aspectual marker in O ̩ fò̩ aiming at...

This study investigates the structure of discourse children initiate by asking inquisitive questions. In total, 301 question sequences were analyzed, taking into account the discourse analysis procedure. Generally, the analysis concluded that although children were demonstrating their epistemic stance, they used different question structures than t...

Idiographic research that focuses on the use of evidence in argumentative productions by high school students, who participated in a pedagogical design based on argumentation to develop critical-reflective thinking. It was analyzed discursively 112 productions of 28 cases, chosen through intentional sampling. Dialectical (type, nature) and pragmati...

Background: The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 imposed a severe crisis on nursing homes in Nor-way. Despite criticism in evaluations pointing to inadequate preparedness, nursing homes managed to keep infection and mortality rates low. Enhanced knowledge of crisis management in the aftermath of a crisis is important for preparedness...

This paper deals with the viscoelastic behavior during crystallization and melting of semicrystalline polymers, with the aim of later modeling the residual stresses after processing in cases where crystallization occurs in quasi-static conditions (in additive manufacturing for example). Despite an abundant literature on polymer crystallization, the...

Words can shift their meaning across time. This study shows the results obtained by the exploratory analysis of the semantic shifting on Spanish vocabulary using Diachronic Word Embeddings. Diachronic data consists of a 2018 Spanish corpus, before the COVID-19 outbreak, and a second corpus with documents from 2021. This paper addresses the construc...

Riportiamo in modo sintetico l'importante documento del Board del Calendario per la Vita sulla vaccinazione anti-Covid che si focalizza in modo semplice e pragmatico su quelle che sono le categorie di persone che possono beneficiare dei nuovi vaccini per garantire una adeguata copertura dalle nuove varianti. Il documento nella versione full-text è...

This paper is a response to Enguehard (Natural Language Semantics 29(4):527–578, 2021), who observes that presuppositions project in the same way from coordinations of declaratives and coordinations of polar questions, but existing mechanisms of projection from declaratives (e.g. Schlenker in Theoretical Linguistics 34(3):157–212, 2008, Semantics a...

Abstract. The aim of the research is to identify the most typical grammatical means of expressing passivisation (building constructions similar to or equivalent to the basic ones in ergative typology languages) in the Chinese (topic-prominent) and Russian (subject-prominent) languages. The scientific novelty lies in the revealing of the manifestat...

Introduction . The article deals with pragmatic syncretism and syncretic aspects of hedges – words and phrases used to mitigate claims, that is make them vaguer, more tentative and more uncertain. Hedges are looked upon as a type of discourse markers which are focused on the writer-reader interaction and the writer’s self-presentation. Methodology...

While several technological solutions are available for older adults to improve their wellbeing and quality of life, little is known about the gaps between the needs, provided solutions, and their adoption from a more pragmatic perspective. This paper reports on reviewing existing technological solutions for older adults, which span the work life,...

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In this paper, after presenting three challenges that any knowledge-based demarcation between science and non-science should meet, namely, the skeptical, triviality, and mimicry challenges, I show how a recent contender in epistemology, viz., presuppositional epistemic contextualism, allows these challenges to be met, hence pointing toward a novel...

Language and culture are two components that cannot be separated when learning a language; therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine the impact of Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) and Universidad Hispanoamericana (UH)’s English teaching major's cultural courses in 2022 senior students’ interpretation of conversational implicat...

Despite quantum theory's remarkable success at predicting the (statistical) results of experiments, many philosophers worry that it nonetheless lacks some crucial connection between theory and experiment. Such worries constitute the Quantum Measurement Problem. We can identify two kinds of worries: 1) pragmatic: it's unclear how to model our experi...

The practical, pragmatic benefits of building early architectural models of the embedded computing resources for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) have been documented and demonstrated. However, the rate of adoption of this practice by the contractor community has been slow. Empirically, we have observed skepticism with respect to the increased cost of...

Celebrity, including politicians, is often seen as the epitome of one specific culture. Dedi Mulyadi attempts to present himself as an ideal Sundanese for his viewers through his YouTube channel. With almost 4 million subscribers, the politician has become an internet sensation as his Sundanese characteristics reach many viewers. This article tries...