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The Polish political elite favours further EU enlargement. They support to different degrees the European aspirations of individual countries. The priority is the EU enlargement eastwards and the strategic goal of the accession of Ukraine. It is argued that the Polish position on the prospects of the accession of that country to a large extent determines the attitude towards the whole process of EU enlargement. It is unlikely that this general support will change in the near future. However, it cannot be ruled out that the attitude of the Polish political elites towards the EU membership of individual states (especially Turkey and the Balkan countries) may be redefined. Adapted from the source document.

In this interview, Chomsky addresses issues of human nature & moral behavior as well as political community & globalization. Chomsky suggests that the nature of free will is likely to be incomprehensible because of the complex nature of human evolution. People do, however, seem to have an innate moral sense. In response to political questions, Chomsky asserts that the nation-state system seems to be evolving in conflicting directions because of its multidimensional nature, & its future is largely unknown. Further, he comments on the human nature to bond by exclusion & expounds his idea that collectivist legal organizations, eg, private companies & institutions, have largely arrogated rights meant to reside in individuals. 18 References. Adapted from the source document.

Data from a cross-national survey (N = 801) of young adults in Australia, the Philippines, South Korea, and the U.S. (Guam, Hawaii, Continental U.S.) were analyzed to explore the relationships between the three subcomponents of the immersion motivation of video game play—discovery, role-play, and customization (Yee, 2006)—creative self-efficacy, and political participation. Findings reveal role-play and creative self-efficacy are positively associated with political participation; discovery and role-play are positively associated with creative self-efficacy. Furthermore, discovery, role-play, and customization had small indirect effects on political participation via creative self-efficacy.

Is "the field of management's devotion to theory too much of a good thing?" [Hambrick, D. C. 2007. The field of management's devotion to theory: Too much of a good thing? Acad. Management J. 50(6) 1346–1352]. In his paper, Hambrick criticizes the practice employed by many journals in the management field that requires that papers submitted for publication make a strong theoretical contribution. I argue that part of the problem is caused by the misunderstanding and misuse of the term "theory." To clarify the status of theory, I review three modes of research formulation in the organizational sciences: theories, models, and conceptual frameworks. Language plays an important role in scientific research. I therefore discuss two research languages that are used in research in management that appear to be the farthest apart: mathematics, which is the language of precision; and narratives, which is the language that provides rich data. I provide a discussion of the use of mathematics in theory development and the use of narratives in research development. The two languages and three modes of research formulation are needed for contribution to knowledge, which should be the main goal of research in organization science.

Internal control. A moral obligation to medical progress ; A moral need for epistemic filters -- External control. Medical ethics in a modern society ; Experimenting with humans -- Public accountability. The contested rise of the ethical expert ; Public governance in a pluralistic society.

"In the fall of 1962, at the height of the Cold War, officers representing the three main military services, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, arrived at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington. The officers were from the Desert Test Center, a new military installation in Fort Douglas, Utah. The chapter describes how these officers outlined a biological survey of various Pacific islands that they wanted to be undertaken. They were not forthcoming with their motives in wanting the survey, but Smithsonian officials volunteered to perform the survey using their own scientists and others to be hired as needed"--

Intro -- Prologue 'Do you think we're going to be okay?' -- Population and Progress -- Chapter One Pessimism -- Chapter Two Hope -- Energy -- Chapter Three Pessimism -- Chapter Four Hope -- Food -- Chapter Five Pessimism -- Chapter Six Hope -- Climate -- Chapter Seven Pessimism -- Chapter Eight Hope -- Economics -- Chapter Nine Pessimism -- Chapter Ten Hope -- Epilogue Pessimism -- Epilogue Hope -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- The Indigo Press.

"Only one hundred years ago, in even the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers―of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Throughout history, culture has been shaped by these deaths; diaries and letters recorded them, and writers such as Louisa May Alcott, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Eugene O'Neill wrote about and mourned them. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape: of Abraham and Mary Lincoln's four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that―for the first time in human memory―early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life" --