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Historical, Biopsychosocial and Legal Aspects Related to Cannabis Use
No full textTwo main aspects related to the psychoactive use of hemp can be distinguished in the analysis of cannabis policy. The political-legal approach examines the situation through the prism of historical events that shaped public attitudes and influenced the development and implementation of relevant policies regulating the legal status of cannabis over the past two millennia. Modern scientific approaches allow us to analyze the main theories on this subject from the perspective of social psychology, which is closely connected to current discoveries about the biochemistry of processes in the human body related to cannabis use
Legal Framework for Testing of Automated Vehicles in France
No full textMovement of experimental automated vehicles on public roads naturally raises serious concerns over safety of the participants in the road traffic, as well as of surrounding movable and immovable property. Therefore, the establishment of clear rules is necessary which aim to minimize the risks associated with the experiment and the potential damages caused. In the last ten years the French lawmaker developed an overall legal framework of experiments with automated vehicles with the highest level of automation. The present article analyzes the legal regulation laid down in France which encompasses the safety requirements as well as the criminal liability associated with testing of automated vehicles in real conditions
Justifiable Defense as a Civil Right
No full textThe current article focuses on the matter of the Civil Law characteristics of justifiable defense, the latter being mainly the subject of Criminal Law researches. Its regulatory framework, which is placed in art. 12 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Bulgaria, provides its principal features which are discussed from the point of view of Civil Law, in order to find out whether justifiable defense is a civil right. Then, established classifications of the types of civil rights are used so that a complete legal specificity of justifiable defense for the purposes of Civil Law can be achieved
Who dropped the sword of Stalingrad?
No full textOn November 29, 1943, at a ceremony at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill presented Marshal Stalin with a Sword of Honour as a gift from King George VI to the 'steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad'. According to an ‘enduring legend’ (Higgins, 1993), Stalin was surprised by the sword’s weight and dropped it on the floor after he took it from Churchill. This article investigates this ‘legend’ to see whether the sword was dropped and, if yes, who dropped it. In doing so, available memoirs, visuals, and newspaper sources are used. Autobiographical subjectivity is discussed in view of the conflicting accounts from the people who were at the center of the ceremony and close to it, i.e. Winston Churchill, the British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb, Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and the interpreters Arthur Birse (UK), Hugh Lunghi (UK), Charles Bohlen (USA), and Valentin Berezhkov (USSR). An unambiguous answer to the research question is given by two items of video footage taken during the ceremony, despite the obvious efforts to edit out the embarrassing moment
Emotional void and identity fragmentation: madness and narcissism in “Lady Audley's Secret” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1862).
No full textThis research aims at investigating the psychological dimension of the protagonist Lady Audley on the grounds of the dialectic of alleged madness and assumed narcissistic personality disorder related to psychoanalytic literary methodology and criticism. In the light of the first Freudian studies of the first decade of the twentieth century and the subsequent outcomes, we attempt the hypothesis of female identity construction onto typically narcissistic features, in the perspective of Freud’s unconscious anticipated by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in her prose generating not only a sensation novel but also an innovative psychological plot depicting the double nature of Victorian society from the perspective of a woman labeled as insane
New insights into interpreting studies. Technology, society and access - Book review
No full textBook Details
Title: New Insights into Interpreting Studies. Technology, Society and Access
Volume Editors: Agnieszka Biernacka, Wojciech Figiel
Publisher: Peter Lang, 304 pages
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN:9783631884850 (hardcover),
9783631907139 (ePub),
9783631907122 (PDF
A woman is no man. A translator is (no) author? Resisting the shared subordination of women and translators through translatorhandling
No full textThis article proposes translatorhandling as a conceptual framework to theorize the intentional and strategic interventions made by feminist translators across textual, peritextual, and epitextual realms. It aims to expand the current understanding of translator visibility and reframe the role of the feminist translator within the evolving field of Feminist Translation Studies (FTS). This study argues that through translatorhandling, feminist translators not only 'womanhandle' texts to amplify silenced women's voices and make language speak for women but also assert their creative agency and professional visibility primarily through epitextual channels. Etaf Rum's A Woman is No Man and its Turkish translation, Kadının Sesi Yok ['A woman has no voice'] by Arzu Altınanıt, constitute the case of this research. Thematic analysis of Altınanıt's blog, Bir Çevirmenin Dünyası ['A Translator's World'], and her X (formerly Twitter) posts demonstrates how she engages in translatorhandling as a form of dual resistance: amplifying women's voices and challenging the systemic invisibility of translators. The findings reveal how she publicly claims interpretive agency, contests the industry's erasure of translators, and positions herself as a co-creator. Mapping this emerging practice, the article highlights translatorhandling as a powerful feminist intervention that transcends textual boundaries, positioning translator's voice as a force of solidarity and transformation in public discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics in empirical research: A systematic literature review
No full textMotivated by the long-standing connection between Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this paper presents the first systematic literature review of the most frequent and productive linguistic features from SFL that are applied in practice by CDA analysts. Guided by PRISMA 2020 and following the SALSA framework, 4 databases (Wiley, Scopus, Sage Publications, and ProQuest) were searched, from which 78 papers were extracted and statistically analyzed with the TexMiLAB tool. The linguistic features that are most productive in CDA are lexical choices and evaluative lexis at the lexico-semantic level; while at the grammatical level, it is the type of processes and type of participants, together with the analysis of other linguistic elements, such as metaphors and quotations. The systems of Transitivity and Modality, and Appraisal theory are more recurrent over the remarkably underused Theme system. It could be argued that, to a large extent, SFL remains central to CDA research, although some CDA practitioners do not seem to follow a systematic methodology when applying SFL to their analysis
New Requirements for the Provision of Public Sector Information in Bulgaria
No full textThis research is a review of the amendments and additions to the Access to Public Information Act, which are in force from the end of 2023, and which ensure the introduction into Bulgarian legislation of the requirements of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information. The expanded scope of a basic concept of the matter, namely that of re-use of information from the public sector, the corresponding changes in the circle of obliged subjects and the introduced new principle for re-use of information of “openness by design and by default” have been examined. The analysis of the adopted legislation emphasizes the new requirements for public sector organizations in the provision of public sector information. These include obligations to publish research data, dynamic data, high-value datasets, practical arrangements facilitating the search for documents available for re-use, and reporting on progress in the field