The coronavirus outbreak is currently scrutinised by professional philosophers from different traditions and geographical areas. By focusing on several contributions European academic philosophers, this article assesses whether such philosophical works manifest reproduce, consciously or unconsciously, neocolonial Eurocentric understandings of the Covid-19 pandemic. Particular attention will be ...

Learning motivation is an impulse that arises from within a person consciously or unconsciously to take action with specific purpose. Selection of appropriate learning media consider the needs students and learning. Kahoot game one suitable ICT-based because it easy use platform supports distance activities. This study examines learner's perspective on English using game. uses quantitative desc...

This paper claims that the patriarchal system establishes inequalities between bodies, power relationships and social dynamics among homosexual men living in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, due to a misogynous, androcentric heteronormative local logic. Through theoretical framework based on theory of imaginaries methodology includes direct participant observation, in-depthinterviews discus...

The aim of this literature review is to systematically summarize the existing knowledge and theories on subject decision-making behavior in general particular, when doctors have decide for or against insurance their own practice.Publications decision psychology, behavioral economics, consumer modern brain research were evaluated. Special interest was paid studies with regard demand regulatory f...

This paper tackles the cultural patterns in Abu Firas Hamdani's captivity poetry, namely Ra’iyyah poem. The poet, who is normally a part of ideological, cultural, or social paradigms, represents and regenerates, consciously unconsciously, patterns, especially those represented by his predecessors their literary works, whether prose verse. Antonyms displacement, many other linguistic tools, allo...

EARLIDS is a wearable device enabling the semi-voluntary control of auditory gain. Artificial “earlids” represent to the ears what natural eyelids are to the eyes: a fast and efficient reflex mechanism for protecting delicate sensory organs. Externally, the device presents itself as an ordinary pair of closed headphones, but hidden under each ear-cup we find EMG electrodes that monitor the cont...

The traditional method of single stimuli for measuring perceptual illusions and context effects confounds perceptual effects with changes in the observer's decision criterion. By deciding consciously or unconsciously to select one of the two response alternatives more than the other when unsure of the correct response, the observer can shift his or her psychometric function in a manner indistin...

The difficulty faced (by many) in reading a large fraction of the scientific literature is not, as is generally perceived, due to the complexity of scientific concepts, but is due to these difficult-to-read documents being poorly written. Scientific documents, however, need not be difficult to read, or even to write. In the rest of this article, we attempt to provide some insight into what goes...

This paper reports research that examined use of Facebook to (consciously or unconsciously) create an online identity. An online survey (N=752) was conducted during Phase 1 of the research. Results of Phase 1 informed Phase 2 where 18 active Facebook users (aged 21-57) engaged in interviews and verbal protocols. The qualitative component is reported here to give voice to active Facebook users a...

The formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. This is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. This may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. But it's important t...