Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

1 Department of Natural and Synthetic Polymers, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Prof. Dr. Docent Dimitrie Mangeron Road, No. 73, 700050 Iasi, Romania 2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Machine Manufacturing and Industrial Management, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Prof. Dr. Docent Dimitrie Mangeron R...

Abstract Unexpected catastrophic transitions are often observed in complex systems. However, the prediction of such is difficult practice. Here, we find a special kind extreme events with dragon-king probability distribution that occur just prior to transition and, hence, can serve as its precursor. To illustrate application dragon kings precursor, consider practical experimental thermo-fluid s...

Since its inception, ALife has moved from producing large numbers of highly-idealised, theoretical models towards greater integration with empirically collected data. In contrast, demography — the interdisciplinary study of human populations — has been largely following the principles of logical empiricism, with models driven mainly by data, and insufficient attention being paid to theoretical ...

BACKGROUND Determination of physico-chemical (weight, length, diameter, stomatal density, respiration rate, colour, soluble solids concentration, titratable acidity, chlorophyll and betacyanin content) and structural changes of red-fleshed dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus (Weber) Britton & Rose) was carried out from 5 to 35 days after pollination (DAP) in order to explain their growth, devel...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...