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This book deploys real-life examples from the health sector to delineate the principles of data representation, including concept-based indexing. It is thus a vital guide for professionals with responsibility for systems implementation in healthcare settings.

In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon. These insights produce a tension between colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formation. This reconceptualization of capital is pursued through the notion of muri, which the Japanese thinker Uno Kōzō deployed to designate a bold non-western pathway to reading Capital. The article elaborates and formulates three conceptual and terminological landmarks to unthinking capital for a global social theory.

In contemporary astronomical literature, there is no uniform definition of the term asterism. This inconsistency is the consequence of differences between the traditional understanding of the term constellation, from the standpoint of the naked eye astronomy, and its contemporary understanding from the standpoint of the International Astronomical Union. A traditional constellation is a recognizable star configuration with a well-established name, whereas the International Astronomical Union defines a constellation as an exactly defined sector of the cosmic space that belongs to a particular traditional constellation. Asterism is a lower rank term in comparison to constellation, and as such it may not denote a whole traditional constellation, as these terms would become synonymous and parts of constellations would become "asterisms of asterisms". Similarly, asterism cannot define a macro configuration composed of the brightest stars in more constellations, thus, the Summer Triangle and other sky polygons are not asterisms. Therefore, asterisms are neither constellations nor sky polygons, but the third - easily recognizable parts of traditional constellations with historically well-established names, including separate groups of smaller stars that belong to star clusters (autonomous asterisms). Forms and names of asterisms may or may not be consistent with the parent constellation, and accordingly asterisms can be divided into compatible and incompatible. If asterisms have outlived the exact division of the celestial sphere and remained irreplaceable celestial landmarks in the naked eye astronomy, then it is high time for the International Astronomical Union to agree on the definition of asterism and to compile their official list.

In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon. These insights produce a tension between colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formation. This reconceptualization of capital is pursued through the notion of muri, which the Japanese thinker Uno Kōzō deployed to designate a bold non-western pathway to reading Capital. The article elaborates and formulates three conceptual and terminological landmarks to unthinking capital for a global social theory.

For a language to remain contemporary and vital, it has to be able express the modern world in all of its complexity and diversity. With the rapid technological development, every year thousands of new ideas and terms appear from every single areas of the human opus to which names should be assigned in order to be understood. In that way, the professionals from certain areas should be able to communicate in their own language, the translators should translate properly all of the specialized terms in the adequate field, and the speakers could, in a certain language, to acquire quickly and more efficiently the new concepts that are most often very complex. On the account of these basic linguistic directions, the French language also need to be enriched with new terms from all significant areas with which he can express the contemporarity appropriately. In fact, the enrichment of the French language is one of the characteristics of the contemporary language politics in France. The aim of this paper is, in short terms, to explain the modern administrative system for enrichment of the French language on the basis of legal acts (the Law from 4th august 1994 for the usage of the French language and the decree of 3rd July 1996 for the enrichment of the French language). The system for enrichment of the language represents a symbiosis of the work of the General commission for terminology and neologisms, the specialized ministry commissions for terminology and neology that are in a close relation with the Ministry of culture and Communications, i.e. the General commission for French language for the languages in France, the French academy, francophone partners and other similar institutions that give their contribution in the terminological enrichment of the French language.

For a language to remain contemporary and vital, it has to be able express the modern world in all of its complexity and diversity. With the rapid technological development, every year thousands of new ideas and terms appear from every single areas of the human opus to which names should be assigned in order to be understood. In that way, the professionals from certain areas should be able to communicate in their own language, the translators should translate properly all of the specialized terms in the adequate field, and the speakers could, in a certain language, to acquire quickly and more efficiently the new concepts that are most often very complex. On the account of these basic linguistic directions, the French language also need to be enriched with new terms from all significant areas with which he can express the contemporarity appropriately. In fact, the enrichment of the French language is one of the characteristics of the contemporary language politics in France. The aim of this paper is, in short terms, to explain the modern administrative system for enrichment of the French language on the basis of legal acts (the Law from 4th august 1994 for the usage of the French language and the decree of 3rd July 1996 for the enrichment of the French language). The system for enrichment of the language represents a symbiosis of the work of the General commission for terminology and neologisms, the specialized ministry commissions for terminology and neology that are in a close relation with the Ministry of culture and Communications, i.e. the General commission for French language for the languages in France, the French academy, francophone partners and other similar institutions that give their contribution in the terminological enrichment of the French language.