Russia and Postcolonial Theory: Some Thoughts on the "Subaltern Empire" Concept

the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on the vocabulary retention among iranian intermediate efl learners

this study was an attempt to investigate and compare the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on developing vocabulary retention of iranian language learners. sixty homogeneous students from different intact classes who were being taught as intermediate learners in sokhan english institute participated in this study. they were in different classes. a teacher made test as a pre-test...

Who Needs "Blended Learning"? Some Thoughts on a Political Concept

The paper covers the topic from an e-learning provider’s perspective on the basis of practical experience and discussions with corporate and SME partners. In this paper the author argues that blended learning is superfluous as a pedagogical concept. Its true context is company politics and the conflict between different factions involved in human resource development. Blended learning is a poli...

Some Thoughts on the Quantum Theory of de Sitter Space

This is a summary of two lectures I gave at the Davis Conference on Cosmic Inflation. I explain why the quantum theory of de Sitter (dS) space should have a finite number of states and explore gross aspects of the hypothetical quantum theory, which can be gleaned from semiclassical considerations. The constraints of a self-consistent measurement theory in such a finite system imply that certain...

Some Skeptical Thoughts on the Theory of Induced Innovation

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Some Thoughts on Economic Theory and Artificial Intelligence