In the immediate aftermath of local council elections held in early and mid-October, consensus among politicians media commentators was that Partito Democratico (Democratic Party, P...

This study investigated the metaphorical speech acts used by Australian commentators on Facebook during COVID-19. The sample contained 50 comments that were analyzed qualitatively. adopted Searle taxonomy of acts, namely, directive, assertive, expressive, commissive, and declarative. helped in identifying different functions acts. Moreover, Austin act forms, locutionary, illocutionary, perlocut...

The commentaries by Contesi, Hardcastle, Pismenny, and Gallegos pose pressing questions about the nature of boredom, frustration, anticipation. Although their concern specific claims that I make in Propelled, they are broad philosophical interest for, ultimately, pave way for a better understanding these three psychological states. In my responses to commentators, clarify certain made Propelled...

In 1982, the Journal of Forecasting published the results of a forecasting competition organized by Spyros Makridakis (Makridakis et al., 1982). In this, the ex ante forecast errors of 21 methods were compared for forecasts of a variety of economic time series, generally using 1001 time series. Only extrapolative methods were used, as no data were available on causal variables. The accuracies o...