We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...

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In April, 1367, Pope Urban V left Avignon for Rome, ending the "Babylonian captivity" of almost sixty-three years. Before his departure Urban received a diplomatic mission from the king of France, Charles V. Headed by Ancel Choquart, a professor of Canon Law at the University of Paris, this mission added the young king's personal pleas to the already weighty voices of the French party among the...

"I met profesor Luhmann in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1992; he was there to talk about his theory. He was so kind to all of us. I can't forget his smile and his powerful arguments about the theory of systems and Autopoisis. By that time I was a student in the University of Guadalajara. After the seminar of a WHOLE WEEK, he spent some time talking only with 6 of us during two hrs. He talked about his ...

We present a practical course in corpus linguistics meant to provide students with a humanities background with the necessary knowledge and skills for an empirical study as basis for term papers, BAor MA-thesis. The course is part of a new Bachelor program and is combined with a theoretically oriented course on corpus linguistics. The challenge is to provide students with the necessary understa...