Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

This paper reflects on the change of relations among participants in nanotechnology governance through their participation in governance processes such as stakeholder dialogues. I show that policymaking in practice-that is, the practice of coming and working together in such stakeholder dialogues-has the potential for two-fold performative effects: it can contribute to the development of trust ...

The concept of Public Relations (PR) is widely applied in a great diversity of institutions or organizations and it is considered as a powerful instrument to gain the mutual understanding and reciprocal benefits from stakeholders. This paper attempts to offer the certainly important principles and objectives of Islamic Public Relations (IPR), as well as to explore its features and characteristi...

This paper synthesises recent research examining how families live with genetic risk and the processes of genetic decision-making and disclosure among family members who have or are at risk of transmitting a familial genetic condition. Its aim is to generate substantive theory that can inform our understanding of the interactional processes at work in the distribution of mutual knowledge and aw...

Fundamental relations between information and estimation have been established in the literature for the discrete-time Gaussian and Poisson channels. In this work, we demonstrate that such relations hold for a much larger class of observation models. We introduce the natural family of discrete-time Lévy channels where the distribution of the output conditioned on the input is infinitely divisib...

Previous research of inter-organizational relations suggests that they are too complex to grasp in terms of simple, linear effects from independent on dependent variables. Many variables are involved, and most of them influence each other, in circular causality. The central reason for this is that enduring, fruitful relations are based on interaction and mutual dependence. This paper employs th...

This paper addresses the problem of acquiring lexical semantic relationships, applied to the lexical entailment relation. Our main contribution is a novel conceptual integration between the two distinct acquisition paradigms for lexical relations – the patternbased and the distributional similarity approaches. The integrated method exploits mutual complementary information of the two approaches...

Starting from discussions on the validity of the classical assimilation concept, a general model for the explanation of different structural outcomes of interethnic relations is developed. The core of the model builds on the assumption that different outcomes are the often unintended and situation-logic results of (mis-)investments in and with ethnic and non-ethnic capital. Central initial cond...

I propose that the characteristics of the scope disamhiguation process observed in the literature can be explained in terms of the way in which the model of the situation described by a sentence is built. The model construction procedure I present builds an event structure by identifying the situations associated with the operators in the sentence and their mutual dependency relations, as well ...

The present study is based on research carried out in 2021 the city of Techirghiol, a small town with approx. 8,300 inhabitants Contanța county (Dobrogea region) which we sought to explore ethnicity, diversity and social relations. After description historical socio-demographic context populations inter-ethnic relations were structured Dobrogea, presented methodology analyzed collected data. wa...