Despite years of research, bios – life – has only been found on our planet. Yet this most valuable possession is threatened by arrogance and oversight. We cannot stop technological progress but we have the possibility to guide it in the right direction. We have opened Pandora’s box, but unlike the ancient myth, we have the option of controlling its unintended consequences if we place respect fo...

The terrorism of obscurantism is one of the hallmarks of Don DeLillo’s The Names (1982), distinguishing it as one of the "difficult writings" in his canon. Terrorism, however, is not confined to the novel’s poetics of writing, it constitutes, as the arch-motif of the novel, its politics as well. Relying on the Orientalist bulk of knowledge about the Orient, DeLillo, in this novel, inaugurates a...

a new antagonistic discourse has been formed among intellectuals, in the intellectual history of the world.  some anti-british, and after september 1941 anti-american activities are evident among iranian intellectuals under the rule of pahlavi i. the westerns' anti-west beliefs disclose the unjust behavior of west in contrast to non-westerns, what chamskey introduces as one of intellectual...

When passion edges into zeal and frustration becomes arrogance, scientists lose credibility and risk depriving us of their considerable and unique understanding of the intricacies of biology and the nuances of meaningful research. Alternative medicine has more than its share of snake-oil merchants and other zealots, and there is little doubt that patients are wasting money on much of what they ...

Financial statement fraud is a misrepresentation and intentional concealment of facts on account values in the financial statements which results irrelevant information. Fraudulent can lead to internal external conflicts within company that harm decision makers. This study aims determine effect hexagon consists pressure (external pressure), capability (change director's), opportunity (nature in...

This paper focuses on improving a specific opinion spam detection task, deceptive spam. In addition to traditional word form and other shallow syntactic features, we introduce two types of deep level linguistic features. The first type of features are derived from a shallow discourse parser trained on Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), which can capture inter-sentence information. The second type ...

<p align="justify">This study aims to examine the influence of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, ability, arrogance, and collusion in detecting village fund management fraud with materialism as moderator. The population this are all village/traditional state apparatus Ambon City, totaling 15 states, namely: 3 customary lands each sub-district. sample consisted 66 respondents consist...