This thematic issue addresses the relationship between local self-governance and state. Self-governance is understood as rules that emerge in social spatial context. Local of individual groups, actors, communities, their institutional arrangements are considered. From this situated collective entanglement, interactions relations with state authorities analysed various contributions embedded con...

Abstract This paper analyzes Aquinas’ understanding of persuasion and its impact for apologetics. It consists three parts. The first explains the meaning in his writings philosophical framework. second explore manner convincing others towards truth. Finally, attention is drawn to argumentative strategies recommendations on how deal with contradicentes fidei . permits understand theological valu...

In the last 50 years, investigators have produced convincing evidence that sympathetic and parasympathetic mechanisms are important in predisposing the ischemic heart to malignant ventricular arrhythmias. 1-4 In this issue, Schwartz and his colleagues in Italy and Oklahoma present two studies5,6 that extend their previous investigations into the role of the autonomic nervous system in the patho...