Symmetry – An International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Open Access Journal by Shu-Kun Lin

“…As the publisher of MDPI journals, I am pleased to launch Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994), an international and interdisciplinary open access scientific journal. …”
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Where Not to Look For Fictional Objects by Elisa Paganini

“…There is a test—quite widespread among philosophers—to settle the matter: if fictional objects are required to give an adequate semantic/pragmatic analysis of either intra-fictional or extra-fictional sentences, then we are committed to them; if we can account for this analysis without them, we are not so committed. I am going to consider this test and I will claim that on its own it cannot be considered a definitive test. …”
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Race, beyond Fact and Fiction by Amade M'charek

“…Instead of debunking or trivializing biological race, it wants to attend to race and investigate how it is made relevant in practices. I am interested in what it is made to be in them. …”
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The Maturing of Medieval Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies by Fred M. Donner

“…But, since turning the award down would not change the reality of age attained, I am most pleased and honored to accept it. Thank you all very much.…”
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OCLC PICA: a European Library Membership Organisation by Janet Mitchell Lees

“…As always it is a great pleasure to attend a LIBER conference and be once again at the University of Graz. I am sure this past year has been a busy one for you – it certainly has for me in terms of the creation of the new OCLC PICA organisation. …”
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Letter from the New Editor-in-Chief by Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto

“…With my experience as Executive Editor, Senior Editor and Guest Editor of so many successful special issues (some of them in MDPI journals [1–6]), I am committed to making the journal a success, with the launch of exciting special issues, publication of high quality papers, as well as inclusion of the journal in major indexing and abstracting services. …”
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Nurse to Know: Linda Watson by Linda Watson

“…</strong></p><p class="p2">I am currently the Lead of Person Centred Care Integration within CancerControl Alberta. …”
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Digital Visualisation in Classics Teaching and Beyond by Matthew Nicholls

“…This sort of visualisation lends itself to many applications in diverse fields: I am currently using it for research work into illumination and sightlines in the ancient city, have licensed it for broadcast in TV documentaries and publication in magazines, and am working with a computer games studio to turn it into an online game where players will be able to walk round the streets and buildings of the entire city (when not engaged in trading with or assassinating one another). …”
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Descartes as an Ethical Perfectionist by Frans Svensson

“…Descartes’s moral philosophy, as I understand it, thus constitutes a form of ethical perfectionism. While I am not the first to interpret Descartes as an ethical perfectionist, there is as of yet no detailed account in the literature of what his particular form of ethical perfectionism would then entail. …”
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Nurse to Know: Charrisa Cordon by Charrisa Cordon

“…</strong></p><p class="p2"><span class="s1">I am currently a Collaborative Practice Leader at St. …”
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The aesthetics of the city–image by Maria POPCZYK

“…Essentially, I will focus on the positions of the two practitioners, Kevin Lynch and Juhani Pallasmaa, who are an urban planner and an architect respectively, in order to confront two very different approaches to the ‘image’; namely, an empirical approach and a phenom‑ enological one. I am interested in what the city becomes when it is looked upon as an image and I will reflect on the experiences of the city‑image in its various aspects. …”
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Archives Undone: Towards a Poethics of Feminist Archival Disruptions by Erin E Wunker

“…<p>This article uses archive theory and Joan Retallack's notion of the poethical wager to read Rachel Zolf's <em>Janey's Arcadia </em>as an interruption and disruption of the ongoing violences of settler-colonial forms of archival narrative. Specifically, I am interested in Rachel Zolf’s poetic irruptions of the settler-colonial representations of Indigenous peoples and lands in her experimental feminist collection <em>Janey’s Arcadia: <span lang="EN-US">Errant Ad^ent$res in Ultima Thule.…”
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Romanticism reconsidered: Fanon, reciprocity and revolution (on Fanon’s ninetieth birthday) by Nigel C. Gibson

“…Questioning the idea of Fanon as a romantic with an a priori set of ideas that he simply applied to new situations, I discuss the importance of contextualising Fanon’s work historically and dialectically. In addition, I am interested in how Fanon’s psychiatry papers, written while he was practising as a doctor in North Africa, provide another terrain to help elucidate Fanon’s active involvement as a situational critique. …”
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Un autre regard sur la répartition des rôles entre as et like dans la construction de la comparaison by Emmanuelle Roussel

“…N) is to be expressed. Consequently I am going to study the principles of equation and location again. …”
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Corruption in the European Union and the Responsibility of European Institutions by Liviu RADU

“…But justice is like a surgeon who iscutting but is hardly putting something instead.Therefore, I am advocating that an emphasisshould be placed on the development of a soundcivil service that will ensure an improved ethicalconduct in the public service.…”
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Speed of the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening session ot the 13th international AIDS conference by Revista Jornal Brasileiro de Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis

“… On behalf of our government and the people of South Africa, I am happy to welcome you to Durban and to our country. …”
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‘Used and Amused’ by Sue Spaid

“… On the occasion of this special issue focused on Models and Sitters, I am presenting what Dawn Kanter (in this issue) terms a 'textual account of the sitter'. …”
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Ambivalence of Disgust: Aurel Kolnai on the Significance of the Secondary Intention by Tomas Šinkūnas

“…By highlighting and elucidating the connections between Kolnai’s account of ambivalence, double intention and life and death, I am able to evince several key misconceptions of his theory, and thereby comprehensively account for the unitary structure of disgust. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Trust in the Healthcare Industry by Khadijeh Moulaei, Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy

“…I am writing to express my views on the topic of digital trust in the healthcare industry. …”
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The Mystery of Education by SÁNDOR KARIKÓ

“… In this paper, I shall shortly investigate if some kind of guiding principle, general message, or fascinating buzzword can manifest in philosophy or pedagogy (in their theory and practice). The question which I am interested in is whether the pedagogical and philosophical aspects can meet in education. …”
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