In his philosophical project of a “deconstruction monotheism,” Jean-Luc Nancy explores the hypothesis that historical roots secularization should be traced back to beginnings monotheistic traditions. The secular is not exclusively feature modern culture. complex connections and tensions between secularity religion in recent decades can only analyzed effectively if one rethinks notion along thes...

A standard problem in finance is that of an agent, with an asset, who seeks to raise a fixed amount of money by selling part of it. For example, consider an entrepreneur who sells shares in his company to raise a fixed amount of money from venture capitalists, or a firm in financial distress that has to sell off some of its assets to settle its obligations. These sales differ from the standard ...

Within days of taking office, Colin Blakemore, former professor of physiology at the University of Oxford and now head of the Medical Research Council, was on the road. In the first few months of his appointment he is spending as much time as possible learning at first hand about the strategies for medical research in UK universities, sharing his initial thoughts about the role of the MRC, and ...

Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of raising versus control. I provide a new argument from Nez Perce in support of possessor raising of a type thematically parallel to raising to subject. The possessor phrase moves from a possessum-DP-internal position to an ...

Raising Juveniles This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a ‘decentralized’ scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a ‘hierarchical’ scheme, in which the parents can enforce a particular level of schooling by employing a moni...

The paper presents a study conducted through a cross sectional research design and a quantitative content analysis method to categorize and provide a numerically based summary of the different abilities requested in online routine labor markets like Mechanical Turk. These markets are growing nowadays for the outsourcing of routine information processing tasks. This is mainly due to the existenc...