Global union organisations face recurrent organisational challenges concerning 1) the tendency towards bureaucratisation and oligarchy as they operate at increasing scales 2) to reinscribe unequal relations of power between trade unions in North South. This double problem is investigated through a case study International Dockworkers Council (IDC), an independent global organisation, which unde...

This paper develops and deploys a theoretical framework for assessing the prospects of cluster technologies driving what is often called digital transformation. There considerable uncertainty regarding this transformation’s future trajectory, to understand bound that uncertainty, we build on Schumpeter’s macro-level theory economy-wide, technological revolutions work several scholars who have e...

Does democracy have a bright future? This brief paper addresses this question and argues, that, thanks to Prometheus, political “animals” can build better-managed corral for their common living which includes better provision of education all “animals.” A historical analysis the long past may be used discern what lies ahead. Democracy requires virtue, or put it in one word, pedagogy. The higher...

Abstract In the weak evaluation state of Germany, full professors are involved in traditional social governance partnership between state, and self-governing higher education institutions (HEI) disciplinary associations. Literature suggests that formal informal could trigger changes academics’ publication behavior by valorizing certain outputs. article, secondary data from three surveys (1992, ...

Usual transformations of the current lexis and its stock, semantics as well treatments particular words reflect some shifts in social consciousness. They are provoked by changes political, cultural, psychological spheres life. The author this article aim at analysis factors which facilitate such lexical units semantic axiological characteristics modern discourse. Among tasks is considered a dif...

SILENT DEMOCRACY, NOISY MEDIA The aim of my research in Silent Democracy, Noisy Media is to study representative democracy and the public sphere as a domain of democracy through four specific decision-making processes. According to Habermas, the public sphere is an analytical category between the state and civil society, and embraces more than just the media, serving as a common theatre for cit...

String duality suggests a fascinating juxtoposition of world-volume and target-space dynamics. This is particularly apparent in the D-brane description of stringy solitons that forms a major focus of this article (which is not intended to be a comprehensive review of this extensive subject). The article is divided into four sections: • The oligarchy of string world-sheets • p-branes and world-v...

THE CURRENT DEBATE on the political culture of the Roman republic began almost twenty years ago and has lost little of its momentum since. For the first time in decades, the focus was not on the countless individual issues but on the really basic questions. The status, identity, functions, and interactions of citizen body and popular assemblies, of Senate and magistrates were problematized and ...

The belly button is one of the habitats closest to us, and yet it remains relatively unexplored. We analyzed bacteria and arachaea from the belly buttons of humans from two different populations sampled within a nation-wide citizen science project. We examined bacterial and archaeal phylotypes present and their diversity using multiplex pyrosequencing of 16S rDNA libraries. We then tested the o...

Experts seem to find routes in a complex environment by finding a connection from the starting place to a subset of major paths—the “skeleton”—then moving within the skeleton to the neighborhood of the destination, making a final connection to the destination. We present a computational hypothesis to account for the skeleton as an emergent phenomenon, arising from the interaction of three facto...