Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights: ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryptation program by Robert Vaagan, Wallace Koehler

“…., utilitarian) or de-ontological reflection, and also on which side of the digital gap is to be accorded most weight. …”
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PHILOSOPHEME OF SYMBOL AND CONCEPT OF THE MEANING: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS by P. V. Kretov

“…Scientific novelty is represented by the postulating such predications of symbolic structures of language and consciousness as multipanorama and transfinite, justification of the ontological status of symbol and symbolism. The symbolic functioning character of language metaphor in scientific discourse and especially the symbolic dimension of semantic field of language and culture, as well as their symbolic association was fixed. …”
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Franz Kafka's 'The Castle': Postmodern discourse in contemporary Austrian literature by E.M. Shastina, G.A. Frolov

“…The comparative methodology has been used to reveal the mechanism of reception of the “Kafkaesque discourse” in contemporary Austrian literature, as well as to draw conclusions about the ways the authors treat ontological questions. Particular emphasis has been placed on the narrative strategies of Austrian literary avant-gardism, postmodern discourse of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, typological similarity of the analyzed novels, which seems productive for understanding of the influence of literature during the period of modernism on the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the German-speaking literary space.…”
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The case of the preferred worker - three guidelines to a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work by GUSTAVO SANTOS DIAS BARRETO

“…This essay presents three guidelines for establishing a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work: examining the dynamics of acceptance and re-existence against the preferred worker archetype, revealing the voices of subaltern individuals about what work means to them, and expanding the ontological structure of meaningful work. Through these guidelines, scholars can examine how subalterns are oppressed in the organizational milieu and their strategies of acceptance or re-existence. …”
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Uncertainty of Images of the Future and Peculiarities of Modern Social Thinking by Viktor Shcherbyna

“…The author states that in social philosophy and theoretical sociology, there has been a new «ontological turn» – the desire to think about reality as it exists outside the established ways of social thinking. …”
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Shariah-Compliant or Shariah-Based? The Changing Discourse of Islamic Finance by Ali Reza Ramrouz, Mohammad Reza Simiari

“…The principle of authenticity deals with the three concepts of historical authenticity, authentic connection to the real economy and ontological transparency. Concepts in the welfare principle include risk-sharing, protection of the poor, and welfare-oriented business operations. …”
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Cultural Integrations for Organisational Performance: Synthesising Western Liberal, Sinocentric and Ubuntu perspectives in South African Career Management Services by Shereen Sikwela, Melvin Diedericks

“…These findings underscored the necessity of weakening and integrating strong ontologies through panentheism to enhance economic and employee development, societal order, hierarchy, and communal well-being through structured governance, pluralist choice, collective fingers and societal order frameworks. …”
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METAPHYSICAL REVOLUTION OF DESCARTES AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROJECT by Anatolii M. Malivskyi

“…The subject of attention of the thinker is the tension between sensuality and intelligence, need for truth and tendency to delusion, ontologic tension between Life and Nothing etc.…”
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METAFORA KAIP KULTŪROS MODELIS by Tomas Kačerauskas

“…The author builds on Ricæur who foregrounds the ontological and visual aspects of metaphor. Furthermore, analysing the ethical aspect of metaphor, the author invokes the work of Lévinas. …”
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The African Nationalist Idea of Africa by Tlhabane Mokhine Dan Motaung

“…African nationalism was a response to this ontologically debilitated condition of African personhood resulting from the violence of self-serving European colonial modernity, which created a structured subjugation of the African ‘other.’ …”
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METAPHISICAL BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY by D. Y. Snitko

“…To study the problem of relations between scientific and technical thinking, and metaphysics the author tries to clarify the nature of the scientific and technical thinking, analyze the appropriateness of instrumental or ontological approaches for understanding technology and its metaphysical foundations. …”
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The Limitless Zawiya and the Infinite Library. Rethinking the Epistemology of Contemporary Sufism and Digital Islamic Thought by Antonio de Diego González

“…This study will employ an interdisciplinary methodology that combines physical and digital collaborative ethnography, symbolic hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion. The ontological turn in anthropology is a key consideration in the ethnographies presented in these texts and their subsequent analysis. …”
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THE DRAMATIC APPROACH OF I. HOFFMAN IN STRUCTURING THE SPACE OF FASHION by E. V. Skalatskaya

“…Dramatic approach allows us to trace the dynamics in the space of fashion for disclosure of its ontological characteristics which are associated with space and time. …”
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Exploring the intersection of utilitarianism and sustainability in business: A conceptual analysis by Artur Yetvart Mumcu

“…Theoretical contribution: This study contributes to the existing body of literature by critically examining the definitions of critical terms and interrogating the ontological validity of the assumed linkage between sustainability initiatives and the anticipated benefits. …”
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DNA-Encoded Chromatin Structural Intron Boundary Signals Identify Conserved Genes with Common Function by Justin A. Fincher, Gary S. Tyson, Jonathan H. Dennis

“…We found that (i) NOL scores reveal a sequence-based feature at the introns on both sides of the intron-exon boundary; (ii) this feature is not part of any recognizable consensus sequence; (iii) this feature is conserved throughout metazoa; (iv) this feature is enriched in genes sharing similar functions: ATPase activity, ATP binding, helicase activity, and motor activity; (v) genes with these functions exhibit different genomic characteristics; (vi) in vivo nucleosome positioning data confirm ontological enrichment at this feature; and (vii) genes with this feature exhibit unique dinucleotide distributions at the intron-exon boundary. …”
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Enabling Semantic Technology Empowered Smart Spaces by Jussi Kiljander, Arto Ylisaukko-oja, Janne Takalo-Mattila, Matti Eteläperä, Juha-Pekka Soininen

“…The proposed solutions include ontologies, system models, and guidelines for building smart spaces with the M3 semantic information sharing platform. …”
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Entre sacrificios y esperanzas: análisis de conflictos socioambientales en Bogotá desde una perspectiva de ecología política by Mariluz Nova Laverde, Milton Piñeros Fuentes, Jaime Edison Rojas Mora

“…This research contributes to critical geography, rural studies, and environmental justice by incorporating relational ontologies and a decolonial and ecofeminist perspective.…”
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Biophilosophical knowledge through the prism of philosophical-educational approaches by Галина Берегова

“…It is determined in the work that biophilosophical knowledge contains a potential opportunity to form a worldview in a person with the prevailing ideas of the value and significance of life, to provide a deep awareness of the unity of man and living nature, and therefore to contribute to the comprehensive disclosure of the epistemological, ontological, methodological and axiological foundations of life, on which life is built biological picture of the world. …”
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Arguments for the Existence of God in Ibn Sīnā’s Metaphysics: An Evaluation of the Problems of Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse by Tugay Taşçı

“…These arguments demonstrate Ibn Sīnā’s belief in the necessity of a being whose existence and essence are identical, countering Kantian critiques by emphasizing an ontological foundation rather than rational judgments alone. …”
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Human capital for digital economy modernization by V. Y. Afanasyev, E. P. Grabchak, M. A. Korytny, S. V. Mishcheryakov, A. V. Cherezov

“…Using the formed systems, it has been proposed to provide digital modernization of the main didactic processes with guaranteed achievement of specific diagnosed learning outcomes in accordance with the order.For new competencies it is possible to develop ontological models of employee professional activities. …”
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