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This paper introduces several new guiding ideologies in “the Principle of Computer Organization” course reform, based on the purpose of application-oriented personnel training, namely teaching according to the students aptitude, focusing on students’ capacity-building, emphasizing both theories and experiments. In the practice of curriculum teaching, we focus on the training and enhancing of st...

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

In this paper I first aim to identify, from a perspective mindful of both analytic and Continental traditions, the central normative issues at stake in the various debates concerning commodification in law. Although there now exists a wealth of thoughtful literature in this area, I often find myself disoriented within the webs of moral criteria used to analyze the increasingly ubiquitous practi...

Research overemphasises the facilitative role of institutions in cluster formation. It overlooks collective actions by microentrepreneurs when confronting issues microentrepreneurship a weak institutional environment. Drawing from social embeddedness perspective entrepreneurship, we analyse mechanisms underlying their methods self-organisation for action, particularly Interviews involving 19 ru...

Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms asks: “Why has nationalism proved to be such a potent, protean, and durable force in the modern age? Why nation-state established itself as central organizing mode of social political life last two hundred years? is still dominant form collective subjectivity?” (8) The author draws from several disciplines tackle these questions, including sociology, sci...

Conspiracy theories on social media have been suspected of contributing to mobilization and radicalization. Yet, few studies examined the prevalence psychological variables that may serve motivate normative non-normative collective action in this material. Drawing from “social identity model action,” current study uses a mixed-methods approach examine cues conspiracy theory-endorsing spaces. To...