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Argumentation in political interviews: analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency
No full textIn Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the accusation that the position they currently hold is inconsistent with a position they advanced before. The politicians’ responses to such charges are examined for their strategic function by concentrating on a number of concrete cases and explaining how the arguers try to enhance their chances of winning the discussion. In addition, the soundness criteria are formulated for judging properly when the politicians’ responses are indeed reasonable.This book is important to argumentation theorists, discourse analysts, communication scholars and all other researchers and students interested in the way in which language is used for the purpose of persuasion in a political context
The ethics of qualitative research in argumentation
No full textThis chapter will bring into discussion a number of ethical salient concerns and problems that we need to consider in argumentation studies. The main purpose of this chapter is to explain different approaches currently taken in this study area as concerns ethics, how we can place these approaches within the larger discussion on ethics in the humanities, and potentially suggest some recommendations embodying ethical principles that could guide our field
Smartness of Learning Ecosystems and its bottom-up emergence in six European Campuses
No full textEach year a considerable amount of money is spent on the productionof several national and international University rankings that may deeplyinfluence the students’ enrollment. However, all such rankings are based almostexclusively on numerical indicators weakly related to the quality of the learningprocess and do not consider the perceptions of the “end users”: the learners.Recently, as part of the activity promoted by the Observatory on the Smart CityLearning, we have produced an alternative approach to benchmark the learningecosystems based on the satisfaction of the needs described by the Maslow’sPyramid and on the achievement of the state of “flow” by the actors involved inthe learning processes. Here we report on the first validation of such abenchmarking approach that has been tested in six European Campusesinvolving more than 800 students. The critical analysis of the outcomes allowedus, among other results, to identify the set of the most relevant indicators out ofthose that were initially proposed and the identification of a “smartness” axis onthe plan of the first two principal components derived from a PrincipalComponent Analysis (PCA) applied to the collected data
Measuring the Performance of Corporate Knowledge Management Systems
No full textWhereas knowledge management systems (KMS) continues to gain popularity as a corporate most advanced information systems, the acceptance of standardized KMS assessment approaches has logged. Developing metrics to assess a corporate KMS is inherently problematic due to the intangible nature of knowledge-based resources, and for the fact that measurement is a precursor to improvement. This is true for knowledge management capabilities of an organization. Nonetheless, assessment is of vital importance for valuation purposes as well as to help managers determine whether particular KMS are effective working. The main focus of this paper is to explain the value of knowledge management and provide a general overview of measurement approaches. Finally, developing an improved measurement system for corporate KMS is considered the key to the competitive success of the organization.Corporate Knowledge, Knowledge Management Systems, Measuring the Performance
Analysis of the Romanian Offer of ERP Solutions
No full textThis article tries to make an analysis of the actual Romanian offer of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions. In the first part of the article the level of ERP adoption by Romanian companies having as main sources two studies published in 2006 about the ERP market in Romania, namely: "ERP Romania 2006" by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) and the second one made by the media company Agora Media and the market research company Sensimark. In the second part of the article a comparative analysis of the first seven best placed ERP products on the Romanian market will be made. In order to accomplish this analysis a synthesized table has been included with all 7 products together with the analysis criteria grouped in three categories: function, technical characteristics, and market segment that it addresses.ERP, accounting software, ERP software provider
The Need to Adapt to New Financial Accounting Technologies Information in the Context of Global Economic Crisis
No full textToday, accounting is a necessity and not a desire. Concerns for the improvement of accounting practices are necessary, especially in Romania, where these activities are strengthened with the progress of the Romanian economy integration into the structures of the European Union. This paper carried an objective analysis of how the web report is now being made by financial and accounting information, presents the disadvantages of this approach to reporting introduced, but the potential benefits that could be created by the rapid adoption of international standards for reporting financial information website, too. At the same time, the paper tries to create new opportunities as soon as possible regarding the adoption of intelligent technologies, which, coupled with language Web reporting financial information.economic crisis, web reporting, intelligent financial-accounting systems
Pragmatic Argumentation in European Practices of Political Accountability
No full textIn this paper, the author examines the use of pragmatic argumentation in European practices of political accountability in which the politicians explain and justify a future course of action which they plan to undertake in order to solve an existing problem. The author explains some vital institutional characteristics of the practices under discussion and demonstrates how these institutional characteristics constrain the use of pragmatic argumentation. In addition, the author shows which criteria arguers commonly invoke in practices of political accountability to make their pragmatic arguments acceptable to critic
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Analysis of the Romanian offer of ERP solutions
No full textThis article tries to make an analysis of the actual Romanian offer of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions. In the first part of the article the level of ERP adoption by Romanian companies having as main sources two studies published in 2006 about the ERP market in Romania, namely: “ERP Romania 2006” by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) and the second one made by the media company Agora Media and the market research company Sensimark. In the second part of the article a comparative analysis of the first seven best placed ERP products on the Romanian market will be made. In order to accomplish this analysis a synthesized table has been included with all 7 products together with the analysis criteria grouped in three categories: function, technical characteristics, and market segment that it addresses.ERP, accounting software, ERP software provider
Maneuvering with the burden of proof: Confrontational strategies in dealing with political accountability
No full textIn this paper, the author examines the burden of proof in the argumentative confrontations taking part in practices of political accountability. She does so by explaining how politicians maneuver strategically with the burden of proof in an attempt at winning the discussion in which they are involved. After making clear the role of the burden of proof in defining the difference of opinion in argumentative confrontations, the author outlines the constraints imposed by practices of political accountability on the burden of proof. Finally, she analyzes in detail a concrete case in which a politician maneuvers in such a way that his burden of proof is significantly diminished
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