Corneal ectasia is a rare complication involving the visual function. The disease starts sometimes insidiously with a long delay before clinical presentation; it is irreversible with pejorative prognosis (it may be an indication for a corneal graft). These characteristics make it a dreaded complication and give it an adverse and pernicious dimension. It can be caused by thermal burn. We report ...

We present an economic model of media bias and media mergers. Media owners have political motives as well as profit motives, and can influence public opinion by withholding information that is pejorative to their political agenda — provided that their agenda is not too far out of the political mainstream. This is true even with rational consumers who understand the media owners’ biases, because...

This study explores the dynamics of multiculturalism in Singkawang, most tolerant city Indonesia. It surprises every scholar studying conflicts as can adequately manage conflicts. was evidenced by cessation deadly conflict, Sambas 1999 city, and establishment ethnocultural groups inherited since Dutch colonialism that generated pseudo-multiculturalism, which all ethnic religious communities hav...

The existence of Salaf pesantren which is suspected to be affiliated with jihadists lately has strengthened the presence a new traditional typology namely Salafi-jihadis. Typology are considered vulnerable radicalism and terrorism. This article reveals resilience Salafi jihadi literacy culture allegedly radical jihadist groups. was done determine extent salaf-jihadis literacy. majority people q...

For many in the West, paternalism manifest as state interference carries a pejorative connotation, it is often taken to entail unjustified restrictions on autonomy and self-determination frequently believed precipitate bureaucracy, corruption, inefficiency. Meanwhile, uncritical deference policies which individual liberties remain essentially unchecked by oversight has faced renewed scrutiny si...

The article examines how English and Russian speakers perceive going beyond the boundaries of ethno-cultural ethno-racial identity, specifically in relation to pejorative vocabulary related conceptual field hybrid which includes names for subjects results hybridization. study used online Racial Slur Database (rsbd.org) as source English-language material, while Russian-language material was col...

The most complete characterization of film discourse as a sign system is given below:1. Film refers simultaneously to optical (perceived by sight) and auditory hearing) systems. 2. non-biological (cultural) natural semiotics, the occurrence which not planned or organized.3. complex multi-level semiotics. It has subsystems signs that form certain hierarchy. Signs in such semiotics are combined a...

Since 2001 Australia’s offshore processing regime has turned asylum seekers into one of the country’s main destitute groups. No seeker trying to reach Australia by boat is allowed settle in country. If their intercepted Australian Navy waters, they are forced turn back, or forcefully transferred and indefinitely held Nauru Papua New Guinea until refuge applications processed. This article focus...

This article analyzes Nietzsche’s poem “The Song of Melancholy,” which later appeared in the Dionysus Dithyrambs under title “Only Fool! Only Poet!”. While Nietzsche scholars have noted that outlines a new poetic program this valorizes commonly devalued terms “lie” and “robbery,” question poet’s relationship to truth remains controversial. Existing interpretations tend read phrase “only poet” a...