In his consideration of thought development, Auguste Comte proposed a three-stage model, in which the mechanism of development may lead to new types of thought. So the process that led to a philosophy of science may be repeated to create a new type of thought. The thought development is attributed to a process of accumulation of challenged but unanswered questions, followed by a decline of inte...

Reporting on an unusual research approach of heuristic inquiry, I use a conversational writing style to describe a five year project investigating technicism and discourse in a failed teaching reform of a university information systems course. The reform failed because I acted unethically due to my underlying technicist agendas As part of the self dialogue component of heuristic research I cond...

a Chaire industrielle CRSNG-UQAT-UQAM en aménagement forestier durable, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 445 boul. de l'Université, Rouyn-Noranda (QC), Canada J9X 5E4 b Department of Earth Sciences, 200 Traphagen Hall, Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717, USA c Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1133, USA d Centre for Bio-Archeology and Ec...

A quick consideration of the recent decade reveals the implosion of sociology. Several sociology departments have been merged with those from other disciplines, and as the number of undergraduate sociology majors has declined, some even have been eliminated. The discipline’s research openly assumes an ideological tone palatable to only the most liberal of scholars or ignorant of laymen. Clearly...

This paper focuses on a puzzling asymmetry which arises when the Italian approximative adverb quasi ‘almost’ modifies the temporal connectives prima ‘before’ and dopo ‘after’. By looking at naturally occurring data, we observe that A quasi prima che B ‘A almost before B’ can be used to convey that an Aeventuality occurs early, only a little bit after a B-eventuality occurs. Consider the sentenc...

Emergency contraception with EllaOne, an over-the-counter drug dispensed without a prescription
 SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Contraccezione di emergenza e libertà coscienza: profili generali 3. La determina del Direttore generale dell’AIFA dell’8 ottobre 2020 che ha eliminato l’obbligo della prescrizione medica per la dispensazione vendita anche alle minorenni dell’Upristal acetato (Ell...

It is now mandatory for healthcare organizations to specify and publish their privacy policies. This has made privacy management initiatives in the healthcare sector increasingly important. However, several recent reports in the public media and the research community about healthcare privacy [1, 2] indicate that the use of privacy policies is not necessarily a strong indication of adequate pri...

Jerome wrote Epistula prima probably during the decade of 366–376. Little is known about this stage in his life, but it was apparently then that as a young man he became interested asceticism and at end period time finally decided to become monk. However, ascetic ideas are not main theme Ep. 1. The letter tells story falsely accused woman who subjected torture survived seven strokes executioner...