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European Union Nation Branding through Humanitarian and Developmental Initiatives - Focus on EU Aid Volunteers

Biljana Popovska, Julie Darcq · Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany. Ministry of…
Diverse from the Erasmus program, amongst other EU international interactions, Humanitarian and Developmental initiatives resulting in Nation Branding is a field that is hardly explored. This paper has tried to analyze the concept of supra-nation branding through the EU humanitarian and development …
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Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis in Five Steps

James Chriss · Cleveland State University, USA
As a result of many years of reading about and teaching Max Weber’s famous Protestant Ethic thesis, I have developed an approach to covering this material in both my undergraduate and graduate theory courses which has been beneficial to students and has helped them make sense of the rather complex a…
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The importance of online payment on Travel and Tourism incomes - A Cross-Country Panel Data Study

Laura Lorente, Aurora Ruiz · University of Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
Digital facilities are changing the way companies market to consumers. The use of smartphones and what we called Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the way citizens consume. In this article we perform a cross-country panel data study to analyze how the implementation of business Internet use for …
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Various perspectives of labor and human resources challenges and changes due to automation and artificial intelligence.

Jessica Bayón, Andrés Arenas · Nebrija University, Spain
The constant technological changes and its impact in the labor force are causing a domino effect that can change corporate culture, laws and workers in upcoming years. The importance of Artificial Intelligence for companies is also a mayor subject that may cause conflicts among cities around the wor…
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Academicus - In the name of Science

Arta Musaraj · ETC - Entrepreneturship Training Center, Albania
Every time we mention the word “Science”, an inner debate, which very soon breaks the borders of our mental schemas, comes out, and becomes the dispute topic. Why is science for and what is science for? The hermetical vision of science, which in different ages of human story testified on how easily,…
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The Land of the Dawning Sun - Italian gazes out to Albania from the beginning of 1900 to present day

AnnaMaria Calore · Head of the Social Activities Dep. at ANRP, Italian Nat…
Over the first forty years of the last century the Italian View of Albania has changed in different ways, but always maintaining strong interest. Both the surprised and sometimes the astonished gaze of travelers and the one of those attracted by possible trade exchanges or the gaze on the soldiers c…
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From the Natural Self-Orgnizaton of Religion to the Modern Magical Realism of the Religious Experience

Gerardo Abreu · Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK
Religion is a powerful phenomenon arising in and from society. Various efforts have been done to understand religion as a natural phenomenon, which could be framed in the language of science. In this paper, I forward a sui generis approach to the naturality of religion, where religion is explained a…
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10 Years of Academicus International Scientific Journal - The story of contribution in the research in 20 Issues.

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A delightful scientific journal which, since its birth in Albania, has quickly learned the ways of the world, bringing Balkan matters and issues abroad, to the East as well as to the West, but also conversely, making known in the Land of Eagles which were the main topics of reflection and study, suc…
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Organisms and Environments as Combined Systems

Elena Gagliasso · Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, …
The present paper aims at exploring the relation between organisms (Life) and environments (Earth), and at showing that nowadays we need new conceptual categories to account for such a relation. Over the last thirty years, indeed, the boundaries of what is meant by “environment” and “organisms” have…
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Science, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this essay is that sciences can be seen as belonging to two broad categories: a) demonstrative; b) interpretative. Demonstrative, or «tough», sciences are «natural» sciences; interpretative sciences are philosophy, history, all the social sciences, different as thy are (for in…
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Poetry & Not - Notes on the Political and Social Significance of Poetry Inside Modern Cities

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
This short essay will treat metric and free verse, with the awareness of the anachronistic quality of these topics. Notwithstanding, this is the purpose of this short essay which dares to start from the astral consideration of the meaning of poetry. Through this way, coming back to its inner metric …
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The influence of demographic indicators on corruption perception in Slovenia

Matic Borošak, Štefan Šumah · Ostria llc, Ljubljana , DCT-Qlin Life Clinic, Begunje, …
The attitude to corruption and the perception of it (as well as the acceptance or rejection of corruption) depends largely on the customs and traditions in a particular country, with the causes of corruption deriving from the political, economic, social conditions of a particular country and from th…