This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it state constant disorientation. The main argument that post-truth has material power basis: neithe...

This is a multidisciplinary paper. It is based on ideas taken from mathematics, physics, economics, engineering, and religion. (A) The paper justifies reincarnation by providing real life examples for three most important kinds of reincarnation. It also shows how some scientists and many ordinary people, of societies all over the world, and for all time have personally experienced, verified the...

The article by Montini and Bero in this issue of Tobacco Control provides sound insights and sane counsel for tobacco control advocates. There are also intriguing hints of benevolent bias, which bodes well for advocates in sympathetic societies, but a cautionary note for those seeking strong regulation in more tobacco industry friendly political environments. Let me begin with the good news for...

In this article a low power and low latency 4-2 compressor has been presented. By using modified truth table and Pass Transistor Logic (PTL) a novel structure has been proposed which outperforms previous designs from the frequency of operation view point. The proposed design method has reduced the total transistor count considerably which will lead to reduced power consumption and smaller activ...

This conceptual paper argues for the reconfiguring of Intercultural Communication Education (ICE) through a dialogical engagement with Istina (Truth) and Pravda (Truth in Justice). The that field ICE is predominantly characterised by normative conceptualisations truth (e.g., fixed or ‘objective’ interpretations language culture) hyper-relativist post-truth non-essentialist approaches to ICE). p...

The popularity, and subsequent ambiguity, in the use of the term "empowerment" has created an even greater need for reassessment in the applied context than in the theory and research literatures. This paper outlines some of the areas of community, organizational, and societal level social intervention and policy ostensibly based on the concept of empowerment. These include neighborhood volunta...