The teacher/student relationship is considered to be cultural, but it is also pedagogical, as it is established by means of the knowledge intentionally taught and learned. In this scene, the teaching activity must, necessarily, include moments of reflection and criticism, during which the meaning and the teaching methods must be brought about by presenting the student with one's own perspective...

BACKGROUND As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perception of the underlying science. METHODS A philosophical methodology is used, based on novel and classical philosophical reflection upon existent literature, clinical wisdoms ...

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that women are more likely than men to use politeness strategies in their speech. Researchers have reported that women pay more compliments than men, that women in talk with same-sex peers use a large number of positive-politeness strategies while men in analogous situations do not, and that women are more likely to apologize, soften criticism or express thanks...

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...

As an academic movement, ecocriticism first appeared on the scene of literary and cultural studies in later twentieth century. Since then, it has become one fastest-growing areas study interdisciplinary research humanities. Once defined as ‘the relationship between literature physical environment’ (C. Glotfelty, The Ecocriticism Reader [1996], p. xix), is a form criticism that pays special atte...

Scene change detection plays an important role in a number of video applications, including video indexing, searching, browsing, semantic features extraction, and, in general, pre-processing and post-processing operations. Several scene change detection methods have been proposed in different coding standards. Most of them use fixed thresholds for the similarity metrics to determine if there wa...

This study explores the representation of space in O.A Bushnell’s Ka’awa which seemingly contradictory spatial scene urban, rural, picturesque and macabre delineates complexity postcolonial spaces. Ka’a’awa foregrounds journey Hiram Nihoa through his travel all around O’ahu 1850’s. Nihoa’s first-person account provides a vivid avenue for readers textual cues delineating spaces as they mentally ...

Associations of 6-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency with 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies during face-to-face play were investigated in 126 dyads. Infant and mother face, gaze, touch, and vocal quality were coded second by second from split-screen videotape. Self- and interactive contingencies were defined as auto- and lagged cross-correlation, resp...