This study investigates the potential ideological stances reflected in President Trump’s speeches during coronavirus crisis through use of certain lexical items and grammatical constructions, including modal structures, comparative superlative forms pronouns. Two delivered by Trump two different phases are selected analyzed light Fairclough’s (1995) CDA three-dimensional model. The found that u...

یکی از پرسش های مهمی که فرا روی آدمی, به عنوان موجودی مدرک و مختار, قرار می گیرد, مربوط به هدف کارها و رفتارهایش می باشد. انگیزه و هدف نهایی کارها و رفتارهای ما چیست؟ آیا هدف غایی افعال آدمی تأمین نفع شخصی, رفاه یا خوشبختی خود فرد است یا آن که کارها و رفتارهایی وجود دارد که انگیزه غایی فرد از انجام آن ها نه تأمین نفع شخصی و یا رفاه و خوشبختی خود, بلکه تأمین خیر, رفاه یا خوشبختی دیگران است؟ در پ...

This study contributes to the discussion on student perceptions of questionable academic behavior. Students evaluate behavioral scenarios to see whether they judge the behavior as ethical and to examine potential predictors of that judgment. The scenarios used isolate academic integrity decisions that involve the use of IT. The respondents were given items to examine the influence of moral equi...

The purpose of this study is to explore cross-cultural differences between U.S. and Chinese business students in their rationales for ethical decision-makingwith respect tocommon information-related ethical dilemmas. Wefound thatthe dimensions (i.e., moral equity, relativism, egoism, contractualism, and utilitarianism) of the multidimensional ethics scale (MES) had varying influences on the eth...

This study describes and tests two models of personality: the HEXACO model of personality, which is derived from the lexical tradition and which is rooted in "normal" psychology, and the 5DPT model of personality, which is derived from a theoretical approach and which is rooted in clinical psychology. The HEXACO and 5DPT models are compared in the prediction of antisocial and self-benefiting pe...

This paper presents MADeM, a multi-modal agent decision making to provide virtual agents with socially acceptable decisions. We consider multi-modal decisions as those that are able to merge multiple information sources received from a MAS. MADeM performs social decisions since it relies on auctions, a well known market-based coordination mechanism. Our social agents express their preferences f...

This paper considers the so-called Multiple-InputMultiple-Output interference channel (MIMO-IC) which has relevance in applications such as multi-cell coordination in cellular networks as well as spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks among others. We address the design of precoding (i.e. beamforming) vectors at each sender with the aim of striking a compromise between beamforming gain at...

The paper discusses why on the one hand William Edmundson thinks that market socialism is superior to property-owning democracy, while other Alan Thomas an egalitarian version of democracy socialism. For purpose this discussion, concepts and are systematized it argued those concepts, as understood by Rawls, do not exhaust list possible alternatives capitalism state Economic mandatory workplace ...

Revisiting Parfit’s ‘Triple Theory’ 
 Resumen: En On What Matters, Derek Parfit trata, según nos dice él mismo, de solucionar lo que Sidgwick denominó “el dualismo la razón práctica”. Según Sidgwick, el intuicionismo y consecuencialismo son fácilmente compatibles dentro un utilitarismo sensato, si bien no se pueden hacer con egoísmo ético. Parfit, quien considera a Kant al propio como sus ...