The interaction between science and technology is highly relevant in recent times of
global crisis accompanied by the revision of the ideological principles of universal culture.
Modern technological advances and their broader application in human activities naturally lead
to the formation of technical complexes. The growth of these complexes…[Read more]

The article aims to study the problem of the peculiarities of the communicative
functions of interrogative sentences. The relevance of the problem is connected
with the rich pragmatic fullness of these linguistic units. The issue of
communicative functions of interrogative sentences was considered from the
theory of speech acts, in which they…[Read more]

The article discusses the problem of identifying a global intercultural discourse
of communication participants, characterizes its parameters, and reviews
strategies for its actualization. The purpose of the article is to build and justify
a model of this discourse. The methods used in work include discourse analysis,
modeling method…[Read more]

The article discusses the linear cohesion regularities of the blogger’s initiating
message and the respondent’s subsequent reaction, which in the process of
forming the integral text replace each other based upon the relay principle.
Special attention is paid to the cohesive frames, which are treated as the relay
structures, revealing the sta…[Read more]

The cultivation of political fears of the state and radical change of attitudes in
the minds of people is possible in certain socio-political and economic
conditions and massive propaganda in the mass media. The concept of political
fear is insufficiently studied in psycholinguistics. This article is dedicated to
exploring the political fears…[Read more]

This paper examines the framing of Kashmir conflict in the editorials of three
PakistaniEnglish newspapers, The Nation, The Nation, and Dawn during dictatorial
(Musharraf regime, 2005-2007) and the democratic regime (Zardari regime (2008-
2010). It argues that in case of conflict press conforms to the government policies,
change in governments…[Read more]

This research investigates the practice of resounding the archival material of voice, when translating the sound object from analogue to digital. The author is focussing on the voice as spoken word, when the archival voice has been temporarily overlooked but preserved. Since technological progress allowed us to record, we have been accumulating…[Read more]

This chapter presents a comparative analysis of four Lebanese films in order to understand how they portray Muslim and Christian coexistence in midst of war.

Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, Eugenia Paulicelli, Drake Stutesman, and Louise Wallenberg, Editors, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, United States, 2017, Acknowledgements, Index, 47 Black and White Illustrations, 231 pages, Softback, £27.99.

Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and…[Read more]

En 1974 la administración del Partido Popular bajo el gobernador Rafael Hernández Colon adquirió exitosamente la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), cuyo dueño previo había sido el conglomerado International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT.). El estudio busca entender las causas y consecuencias de lo que se consideró ser un cambio monumental en la…[Read more]

Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]

The Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]

Science and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a predictor…[Read more]

When the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]

Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]

Biology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]

Abstract: In Star Wars Episode I: Racer (1999), players choose between several different podracers (including Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba), and compete in racing tournaments on several planets. While the game currently holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game of all time and was re-released for Nintendo Switch in 2020,…[Read more]

El spot televisivo de bien público ha sido poco fundamentado desde la literatura científica publicada en cuanto a su estructura y funciones. Predominan las teorizaciones en torno al spot televisivo con enfoque comercial. Se planteó como objetivo del estudio fundamentar la estructura y funciones del spot de bien público. Para la obtención de resu…[Read more]