The concept of transparency is now an unescapable reference in public, professional, and private life. As transparency-making has recently transmuted from a progressive instrument to counter corruption into new universal ideological formation, it time problematize the its uses. In this article, I consider not as moral principle or static ideology but terrain political struggle over meaning prac...

Cognitive semio-linguistics studies the relations between signs and language, between semiological and linguistic structures, as expressions of, and as causes of, the cognitive activities involved in thinking, here called epistemic activities. This short essay displays a leveled analysis of the relations holding between semio-linguistic and epistemic structures active in the human mind. 1. Semi...

Metamnemonic judgments are influenced by the retrievability of the target memory in question but also by the familiarity of the cue used to elicit such judgments. However, there have been few suggestions as to what factors moderate the influence of these different sources of information on metamnemonic judgments. In this experiment, I examine the interactions between prediction time pressure an...

The study pertains to the investigation of the effect of embedment on the load carrying capacity and settlement of strip foundations on sand reinforced with geogrids. Geogrid being an inextensible reinforcing material is widely used all over the world mainly for retaining walls, abutments slope protection and below the foundation in poor soil. Some research works have been done the investigator...

In their article "A Survey of Electronic Literature Collections" Luis Pablo and María Goicoechea describe characteristics and functions of collections of electronic literature and analyze descriptors used and the way information can be accessed. Based on their observations, Pablo and Goicoechea advocate a database structure which is flexible and can produce a dynamic archiving model as texts ar...