The starting point is the idea that critical thinking can help promote intellectual autonomy and prevent the appearance of knowledge imposition. However, different critical approaches seem to do this in different ways, depending on their different conceptions of critique and critical thinking, and on the particular strategic choices they make. An examination of these conceptions and strategies ...

1 M.D., Professor of the Forensic Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Social and Work Medicine Department of Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Ph.D. in Odontological Sciences Professor of Universidade Santa Cecília, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Ph.D. in Preventive Odontology– Professor of post-graduation in Forensic Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo – USP, São P...

The paper dwells upon peculiarities of regulation financial services markets in Ukraine, considering the state regulators’ redistribution powers. It was revealed that significant factors positive perception quality and efficiency are operational reliability, flexibility, publicity, information activity, response to external challenges, predictability actions implement restrictions liberalizatio...

Oil spills from tanker or oil well have detrimental effects on environment and economy. One of the most economical and efficient methods for oil spill clean-up is mechanical extraction by sorbents which are not only the safest methods but also the least expensive of spill control. The potential use of agricultural by-products such as corn silk for adsorbent of crude oil from water systems was p...

this study aims at investigating the impacts of mandatory audit firm rotation (mafr) on audit fees and audit market compeition among firms listed on tehran stock exchange (tse). since 2007 firms listed on tse are not allowed to use services of any single audit firm for more than 4 consecutive years. we tested our hypotheses using multivariate regression analysis and mean comparison test. our sa...

Sealed hemoglobin-free erythrocyte vesicles have been isolated. Imposition of transmembrane cation gradients increases the intensity of Raman scattering in the CH3-stretching region as observed with unsealed ghosts at temperatures greater than 38 degrees C and pH less than 7.0 [Verma, S. P. & Wallach, D. F. H. (1976) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73, 3358--3561]. Modifications in the amide I and a...