Cultural factors are often identified as a crucial influence on the success or failure of information systems in general or computer-mediated communication (CMC) in particular. Several authors have suggested ways in which management can accommodate these factors or solve the problem they pose. This paper attempts to go one step beyond management measures and ask whether there is a theoretical f...

I argue that any account of perceptual experience should satisfy the following two desiderata. First, it should account for the particularity of perceptual experience, that is, it should account for the mind-independent object of an experience making a difference to individuating the experience. Second, it should explain the possibility that perceptual relations to distinct environments could y...

With the apparent failure of the European Constitution (at least on the first try...), the search for a pan-European civic ‘identification mechanism’ is as likely to be intensified as it is to be abandoned. Given that most political theorists are reluctant to formulate a liberal pan-European nationalism, a ‘thicker’ version of constitutional patriotism might seem an attractive (and relatively m...

TAFRO syndrome is defined by the presence of thrombocytopenia, hydrops, fever, fibrosis, renal dysfunction, and organomegaly can be seen with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) or as an isolated process without iMCD. The pathophysiology not well understood, but it thought to related hypercytokinemia. Subclinical hypothyroidism may a potential factor in pathogenesis symptomatology ...