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The impact of multinational banking on domestic banking
2006
Post-Keynesians have made endogenous money a central argument in their theory of output. Indeed, production cannot be undertaken if access to finance, usually meaning bank credit, does not exist. Such access is needed if wages are to be paid, and inputs of production purchased. In a monetary economy, therefore, money is created at the demand of borrowers, supplied by banks.
Reports of the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposia
2010
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the 2009 Fall Symposium Series, held Thursday through Saturday, November 5–7, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The Symposium Series was preceded on Wednesday, November 4 by a one-day AI funding seminar. The titles of the seven symposia were as follows: (1) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, (2) Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, (3) Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural and Social Sciences, (4) Manifold Learning and Its Applications, (5) Multirepresentational Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence, (6) The Uses of Comp…
Some Insights on the Changing Architecture of the World’s Top 100 Multinationals
2016
Abstract Premise: globalization represents both the fertile background and the accountable foreground that accompanies the evolution of TNCs/MNEs, within a self-enforcing spiral of co-evolution which gratifies the winners and discards the losers. Argument: UNCTAD’s Top 100 non-financial TNCs/MNEs gathers together, since 1993, some of the most prominent winners of the above mentioned processes, making this instrument one of the best indicators and benchmarks in terms of both globalization and transnationalization – when analyzed at a given moment in time (for a particular year), and even more relevant when analyzed dynamically and by comparison. Context: two major global shifts have occurred…
The Changing Role and Contribution of Social Science to Nuclear Waste Management in Finland
2008
This article explores both the social and political usage of social science research and its effectiveness, as perceived by experts, in the process of planning and decision-making in the context of Finnish nuclear waste management. The argument is that public participation in the process is important, but to reach some kind of public acceptability the actors in charge of “solving” the nuclear waste problem have to govern the societal process and respond to the claims and the needs of the public. This requires the integration of social science research into the process responsible for developing the nuclear waste management model. In trying to understand the uniquely positive nuclear waste …
De las copulativas identificativas a las justificativas con 'es que'
2021
Las construcciones encabezadas por es que se utilizan, entre otras cosas, para justificar lo dicho, el acto de habla realizado, la réplica que se introduce, etc. Estas construcciones justificativas se formaron a partir de copulativas identificativas del tipo lo que ocurre / el problema es que... en contextos en los que no se explicita el sujeto y emerge una inferencia de causalidad. La construcción empieza a documentarse en el siglo xvi e inicialmente se usa para introducir una explicación o una justificación de lo dicho. A este significado se añade muy pronto un valor contrastivo, sobre todo en contextos de réplica, y más tarde, coincidiendo con la gran difusión de la construcción en la le…
Software Startup Practices -- Software Development in Startups through the Lens of the Essence Theory of Software Engineering
2020
Software startups continue to be important drivers of economy globally. As the initial investment required to found a new software company becomes smaller and smaller resulting from technological advances such as cloud technology, increasing numbers of new software startups are born. Typically, the main argument for studying software startups is that they differ from mature software organizations in various ways, thus making the findings of many existing studies not directly applicable to them. How, exactly, software startups really differ from other types of software organizations as an on-going debate. In this paper, we seek to better understand how software startups differ from mature so…
Viisiportaisen menetelmän kehittäminen kuvallis-tekstuaalisen argumentaation analysoimiseksi pragma-dialektisessa viitekehyksessä : esimerkkianalyyse…
2016
Kuvallis-tekstuaalinen argumentaatio on kommunikoitu osin kuvien ja osin tekstin avulla. Tässä pro gradu-tutkielmassa tehtävänäni on selvittää, miten kuvallis-tekstuaalista argumentaatiota voidaan analysoida systemaattisesti ja selkeästi pragma-dialektisessa viitekehyksessä. Tutkimustehtävään vastatakseni kehitän työni ensimmäisessä osassa viisiportaisen menetelmän kuvallis-tekstuaalisen argumentaation dialektisen ja osin myös retorisen ulottuvuuden analysoimiseksi. Menetelmän pohjana toimi pragma-dialektiikan standarditeoria sekä laajennettu pragma-dialektiikka ja sitä kehittäessäni ammennan aineksia ja ideoita myös retoriikan tyyliä koskevasta tutkimuksesta, visuaalisen argumentaation ja …
The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time: Comments on Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich, ‘The Thought Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man A…
2020
AbstractThis is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of the flying man: instead of the question of what the soul is, I argue that the argument is designed to answer the question of whether the soul exists independently of the body. The second objection concerns the expected result of the argument: instead of knowledge about the quiddity of soul, I claim the argument yields knowledge about the soul's existence independently of the body. After the objections, I turn to the masked man fallacy, claiming that although the Adamson-…
Von (pragma-)semantischer Valenz zu Frames in der Beschreibung der Argumentstruktur (von Transferverben)
2019
International audience; An ausgewählten - auffälligen – Beispielen aus dem Bereich der Transferverben (Besitzwechselverben) geht der Beitrag der Frage nach den potentiellen Übergängen von valenz-basierten zu frame-semantischen Beschreibungsansätzen von Argumentstrukturen nach. Es werden dabei die folgenden drei Thesen zur Diskussion gestellt:(i)Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen (pragma-semantischer) Valenz und Frame-Semantik können noch ausgebaut werden (Ziem/Lasch 2013: 110-142).(ii)Die semantische Dimension kann nur holistisch erfasst werden (Busse 1995, 2008, 2012).(iii)Eine Zurückführung auf abstraktere Konstruktionen ist immer möglich (oder gar wünschenswert!). In einem ersten Teil werde…
Argumentation in Secondary School Students' Structured and Unstructured Chat Discussions
2012
Joint construction of new knowledge demands that persons can express their statements in a convincing way and explore other people's arguments constructively. For this reason, more knowledge on different means to support collaborative argumentation is needed. This study clarifies whether structured interaction supports students' critical and elaborative argumentation. The study compares the quality of secondary school students' argumentation during structured and unstructured chat interaction. The data consist of 16 dyadic chat discussions: 8 discussions concerned vivisection and 8 gender equality. Half of the discussions were carried out through structured chat, and the other half through…