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Attitudes toward e-recruitment. An explorative study in Romania

Laurentiu Tiru, Mădălina Mohorâta · West University of Timisoara, Romania
This paper uses a measurement scale to identify the vision of individuals in relation to online recruitment. The main objectives seek to identify what sources of recruitment respondents prefer, whether their opinions are differentiated by gender and age; the occupational status is an important varia…
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John Dewey: A Look at His Contributions to Curriculum

Latasha Holt · University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
This article provides a thorough analysis of John Dewey and his theory experimentalism. John Dewey was a leader in education and philosophy of his time. Still today his ideologies have a place in educational curriculums across the globe. John Dewey believed that students learn from human experiences…
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Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Choices Among Short Term Efficiency and Preserving the Future

Alda Miftari · Applied Social Sciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, …
This paper focuses the attention on the biodiversity of production system of farmers and the social impact in the environment process related on the economy scale. Farmers in Italian regions are growing fast and are developing new paradigms on sustainable agriculture for the development and eco-frie…
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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…
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Mercadona - A successful business Case

Jorge Hernando, Jorge Colvin, Javier Román · University of Nebrija, Spain
Mercadona is currently the largest Spanish distribution company, and one of the food companies with the highest turnover in southern Europe, able to grow and adapt to the circumstances of each moment, in what has been considered an unique business model. Juan Roig is its founder and owner, creating …
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Media strategies in lobbying process. A literature review on publications in 2000-2018.

Markus Mykkänen, Pasi Ikonen · University of Jyväskylä, Finland
This study examines how the media and journalists are used in lobbying processes. To explore the topic a systematic review of the literature in peer-reviewed journals published between January 2000 to June 2018 was undertaken. The findings of this paper indicate that lobbyists and interest groups en…
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On the Globalization of Political Power and the Added Relevance of Institutions in Contexts of Multifaceted Populism

Pedro Alves Ribeiro · School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) Univers…
This paper is an essay on the problematic of the globalization of political power and on the increased relevance of institutions in contexts of multifaceted populism. A case study of the Portuguese justice system was used to illustrate the arguments presented. First, the Troika intervention in Portu…
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Quine on the Dogmas of Empiricism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In his works the American philosopher Willard van Quine constantly rejects the analytic/synthetic distinction claiming that it is not justified. This happens because, in his opinion, human statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but as a corporate body, w…