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The role and importance of functioning institutions of justice in fighting crime

Xhevdet Halili · Faculty of Law, University of Pristina, Kosovo
Justice authorities are one of the main pillars on which rests the basis of the functioning of most other institutions within a state. As is known the justice authorities, but that within their authority to have the preservation of public peace and order, have and fighting and preventing crime in ge…
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The Rising of the Cosmopolitan Personalities

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
This short essay wants to look at beat literature as a medium that has re-introduced in popular feelings the possibility to change the world, transforming its social rules by using new technologies as instruments for emancipation. Stating this, the essay links the beat movement to hipster’s hopes of…
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A Critique of the Philosophical Underpinnings

Seth Oppong · University of Botswana: Gaborone, South-East District, …
The progress of the social science disciplines depends on conducting relevant research. However, research methodology adopted and choices made during the course of the research project are underpinned by varying ontological, epistemological and axiological positions that may be known or unknown to t…
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What should Marxism propose to International Relations?

Egni Malo · Metropolitan University, London, UK
To argue for the acknowledgment of the importance of historical materialism today when the cold-war and communism have for more than two decades ceased to exist it might create the perception of appearing dejected. Yet such a task which we attempt to take in this work is possible, if only because of…
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Rorty on Language and Social Practices

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…
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Artificial neural networks in forecasting tourists’ flow, an intelligent technique to help the economic development of tourism in Albania.

Dezdemona Gjylapi, Veronika Durmishi · University “Pavaresia” Vlore, Albania
Tourism plays an important role in many economies and contributes greatly to the Gross Domestic Product. In the past eight years, the number of tourist arrivals in Albania has increased rapidly, which resulted in increasing the number of tourist nights and revenue from tourism. Tourism also provides…
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The integrity of elections in Albania as a duality between the law and their administration. Electoral management body in the circle of cause – effect for elections performance

Monika Kryemadhi, Lefteri Luzi · Member of the Parlament of the Republic of Albania
It is important to note that at the end of the election process there is a question laying before to all stakeholders: Did these elections meet the international standards of electoral integrity? Countries around the world have a challenge in common. They are challenged to meet international standar…
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Contractual Obligations under the Private International Law in Albania.

Ervis Çela, Maks Qoku · Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania
This theoretical and practical part is related to the analysis and studies of the contractual obligations under the private international law. This work is divided into three parts, where respectively, the first part deals with the general part of the contractual obligations; the second part deals w…
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Economic crisis impact on Remittances and Migration level in Albania

Adela Shera, Ardita Shehaj · Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, Albania
Remittances of international migrants as the second largest flow of incomes contribute to the well-being of their households of origin and also have an impact at macro-economic level. Out-migration is an effective means for low-income households to quickly overcome shortages of income. The sustenanc…
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Corruption and innovation in the Albanian public procurement system

Reida Kashta · Public Procurement Agency, Tirana, Albania
This paper examines the measures and means used to fight against corruption in public procurement in Albania. Because public procurement is one of the key areas where the public sector and the private sector interact financially and this interaction is based on public money, it is a prime candidate …
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Relations between organizational commitment and demographic factors: a research in banking sector

Nizamettin Doğar · Çukurova University, Turkey
Aim of this research is to answer if organizational commitment changes according to demografic factors. Inputs gained from 200 person sample group from banking sector. According to the analysis it is found that affective and continuance commitment increases with age and job experience, and all compo…
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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…