When talking about unfair competition, business ethics has to be involved, which means to judge whether the competition is fair or not is very much ethical debate. And its connotation is also evolving along with the development of social economy, so in this sense, defining “fair competition” or “unfair competition” is very difficult. Therefore, whether it is related to international conventions...

This paper examines Augustine’s account of understanding and its attainment in De Magistro. Following Myles Burnyeat,1 it is often held that Augustine is especially concerned with explanatory understanding (a complex cognitive state characterized by its synoptic nature and awareness of explanatory relations) and that a principal thesis ofDe Magistro—that there is no learning from words—should b...

In this paper, we present a novel approach that models the mutual reinforcing relationship among papers, authors and publication venues with due cognizance of publication time. We further integrate bookmark information which models the relationship between users’ expertise and papers’ quality into the composite citation network using random walk with restart framework. The experimental results ...

Most urban Blacks consult witchdoctors for diverse reasons. The potent effects of their herbal medicines can result in damage to almost any part of the gastro-intestinal tract, and the outcome may be fatal. Diseases induced by witchdoctors therefore constitute an important facet of the disease spectrum of recently urbanized Blacks. Possible reasons for the strong influence of the witchdoctor ar...