The Other, the New, and the Old. Three Images of Leith in Irvine Welsh’s Porno by Deividas Zibalas

“…Multiperspectivity becomes the mode Welsh employs to project a nuanced image of Leith, as seen from the subjective perspectives of five internal narrators. What I am interested in exploring is not the identity of Leith per se, but the different images of Leith that emerge through the way the narrators identify with the neighbourhood. …”
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Teacher candidates in the urban Canadian classroom: Rereading the digital citizenship paradigm through atom Egoyan’s Adoration by Linda Radford

“…As a teacher educator who is part of the Urban Communities Cohort (UCC) team, one of the five different streams incoming Bachelor of Education students choose upon entering the program at the University of Ottawa, I am interested in exploring the concept of currere as it applies to digital citizenship and asking why it matters to urban schools in Ottawa. …”
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Reconstruction of the family house's memory and sources of interest in over-personal tasks by Zofia Remiszewska

“…I formulated the main research problem in the form of a question: What is the significance of the family in shaping prosocial attitudes among those who perform over-personal tasks? I am also looking for answers to the following questions: Can you find sources of interest in social issues within your and your family biography? …”
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Christianity and Darwinism: The Journey Is More Important Than the Destination by Michael Ruse

“…Showing my debt to my Quaker heritage, I am theologically apophatic. I can say only what I do not know. …”
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SELF-IMAGE OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY by A. Avdeeva, Yu. Safonova

“…Diagnostic research complex included interview methods, questioning, observation, analysis of documents and the author’s projective drawing technique «I am a student». According to the results of the empirical research, 1) such five types of images, as elitism, cognition, integration, difficulties, forcedness have been highlighted; 2) the interpretation of self-image of first-year students by the type of drawing has been carried out.…”
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The impact of technological progress on the labour market by Matteo ZANELLATO

“…Of course, these arguments doesn’t mean that technological progress should stop or that I am against technological progress, especially because there are areas where innovations are lifesaving, or reducing casualties in the battlefield or reducing car incidents. …”
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From Anonymous, Objectified Images to Subjects Mirroring Multiple Identities by Viora, Angela

“…The objects analysed in this essay are the images of those dead migrants’ bodies covered by white cloths on the Italian and Greek shores. I am Italian and I have been on some of those shores. …”
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L'espace identitaire dans le roman féminin : à propos de quelques romancières belges by Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka

“…Using examples of several novels by Belgian female writers – Bordouxhe, Gevers, Harpman, Rolin – I am trying to describe certain space type to be defined as proper for feminine literature, specifically in its identity aspect. …”
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Cycles of Protest and the Consolidation of Democracy by Donatella Della Porta

“…As the same time, looking at effects of social movements in terms of democratization can help broadening social movement studies, that have rarely addressed this type of effects. I am in particular interested in linking reflections (and empirical evidence) on effects of social movements to the typology on paths towards democratization that I have developed in other works. …”
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Quine on Logic, Propositional Attitudes, and the Unity of Knowledge by André Leclerc

“…Finally, I consider Quine’s thesis of the unity of knowledge, the thesis that there is continuity from ordinary to scientific knowledge. If I am right about the use of logic and the presence of the propositional attitude idiom in ordinary knowledge and social sciences and humanities, I think there is a problem of consistency in Quine’s system, and that Quine himself pointed to a part of the solution.…”
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DEATH IDEAS IN PLATH’S SELECTED POEMS AND ITS RELATION TO POET’S SUICIDE: FORENSIC LINGUISTICS STUDY by Vicha Faradika

“…This article describes death ideas which occur in Sylvia Plath’s selected poems entitled “Full FathomFive”,“I am Vertical”, “Ariel” and “Edge” which focused on their relation to poet’s depression evidence before committing suicide. …”
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Age Differences in Perceptions of the Future from Adolescence to Adulthood by N.P. Shilova

“…We use the method of I.S. Cohn "I am in 5 years" and the method of unfinished sentences Zh. …”
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"Marxism in Contemporary Western Archaeology", Bruce G. Trigger in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5, edited by Michael B . Schiffer. Tucson, Unver... by James A. Delle

“…In this article Trigger demonstrates his thorough knowledge of both Marxist theory and the social history of archaeology (here I am following Trigger's convention by capitalizing "Marxist"). …”
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On the Scientific and Applied Practice of Behavior Analysts by Y.M. Erz

“…Readers will learn about studies that evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioral analytic intervention for changing socially significant behaviors by the implementation of single-object design: about the evaluation of the effectiveness of the use of direct and generalized conditional reinforcement (tokens); about the experimental evaluation of the impact of the PECS alternative communication system on the vocal initiatives of children with autism; about functional communication skills-based training (SBT), as well as about a new approach to assessing and correcting behavioral problems — functional analysis of synthesized contingencies based on interview (IISCA). I am confident that this issue of the journal is of interest to professionals and parents of children with problem behavior, and will contribute to the further development of research and practical activities of Russian behavioral professionals.…”
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The Portrayal of Abbasid Rulers in Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor by Błażej Cecota

“…Cecota, Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography, “Studia Ceranea” 2, 2012, p. 97–111). I am limiting myself here to discussing only those source remarks which directly concern one of the Abbasid Caliphs, or alternatively, to narratives structured in such a manner that they implied certain traits of a ruler. …”
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Vybrané otázky restorativní justice v České republice by Tereza Konečná

“…Quality is much more important than the quantity. I am worried about these provisions, because there is a countertrend. …”
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The Universal Light, or the Only Way to the Father? Universalism and Exclusivism in John’s Provocative Christology by Paul N. Anderson

“…And yet, Jesus also declares in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me!” …”
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No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films by Maciej Stasiowski

“…Denis Villeneuve, 2017), Captive State (dir. Rupert Wyatt, 2019), I Am Mother (dir. Grant Sputore, 2019), or Transcendence (dir. …”
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Re-scaling Governance in Berlin’s Creative Economy by Bastian Lange

“…The core question is: What are the spatial-organizational driving forces of creativity in Berlin - can they be steered by public administration? I am using Berlin as a reference case to articulate the gap between ’stateled planning’ on the one hand and the organisational practices of self-governed creative scenes on the other. …”
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<p>«The horror of that countenance» from <i>Frankenstein</i> to <i>Duckenstein</i></p> by Marina Guglielmi

“…The examples to which I am referring to are taken from publications of Italian Disney, that from 1935 has been made autonomous from US production and has given birth to the Italian Disney. …”
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