In 2011, the Busan Forum on Development Effectiveness announced creation of Global Partnership for Effective Cooperation (GPEDC). The GPEDC promised to replace old donor–recipient dynamic in international development with ‘an equator-less landscape multistakeholder global partnership’ (Eyben & Savage, 2013). Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have since become governance modality choice UN Su...

The World Wide Web is almost a paradigm case of the way postmodern knowledge works. Among the many congruences between hypertext and postmodernity are the idea of text as "nonlinear, or, more properly as multilinear or multisequential", the conception of "textual openness, intertextuality, and the irrelevance of distinctions between inside and outside a particular text", and the cultivation of ...

Since its introduction just over two decades ago, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has come to dominate medical practice, teaching, and policy. There are a growing number of textbooks, journals, and websites dedicated to EBM research, teaching, and evidence dissemination. EBM was most recently defined as a method that integrates best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values and...

Maurice Gross (1934-2001) was both a great linguist and a pioneer in natural language processing. This article is written in homage to his memory. Maurice Gross is remembered as a vital man surrounded by a lively group, constituted by his laboratory, the LADL, and by his international network, RELEX. He and his group always resolutely steered away from any kind of abstemiousness or abstinence. ...

In her article, "Nobel Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian and his Novel Soul Mountain," Mabel Lee introduces Gao Xingjian, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 2000. Lee is the translator of several of Gao's works from the Chinese into English, including the Nobel's main text of reference, Soul Mountain (first published in Chinese in 1990). Lee's article combines descriptions of Gao's biograp...

The world in recent years have witnessed undoubtedly the most brutal, tyrannical, unmerciful events of cultural identity, ethnicity, religion, policy and other factors which make people different from each other. Surely, it is not a new movement or concept, first may be last to oppress, neglect, forget isolate others who do think like us. History humanity full these unpleasant samples. Nearly, ...

The place of truth in the public sphere and politics has recently been shattered, as evidenced by rise concepts like “post-truth”. Severe concerns about being defenseless face masses embracing lies gave to fears that unchained democracy together with newest communication technologies threatens destruction rational sphere. This paper proposes a distinctly political approach challenges is facing....

Most of the students' inspiration lies in upbringing their parents. Because parenting is controlled giving a positive impact on children. The purpose this study was to find out about styles and suggestions for inspiring learning elementary school students. In addition, it also tries what kind style most influential according inspiration. method used qualitative with investigation information an...

This study examines Lewis Carroll’s Alice through the cultural glass of Arabic translations in Wonderland by Amira Kiwan (2003), Shakir Nasr Al Deen (2012), Siham Bint Saniya (2013), and Nadia Kholy Through Looking-Glass (2013). It seeks to explore engagement several issues language meaning, foreignness otherness, both with aid a simultaneous examination how key moments works are translated int...

This article examines the design and social impact of waterways in Athens early 5thC BCE. While Athenian political landscape transitioned from a series tyrannies to democracy at end Archaic period (ca. 650-480 BCE), archaeological record also shows widespread innovation development public water systems, particularly sanitation supply. A movement away buildings constructed by tyrants facilitated...