Aims: This study aims to analyze the scene represented in the Izapa Stela 5 from the Gadamer’s aesthetic, to unveil the link between myth and logos in the horizon of understanding of the Mayan civilization. Study Design: Philosophical research. Place and Duration of Study: The fi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38247
The question of how potent negotiation is in ending violent terrorist campaigns has remained unanswered. This is because terrorist negotiation is morally repugnant as it is politically necessary. This study investigated the pros and cons of Nigerian government and BK negotiation....
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/37236
Women in remittance earning household have to perform various sorts of roles and responsibilities in and out of their house. The present study investigated the socio-economic characteristics of remittance earning household as well as the part of women in remittance-earning househ...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38316
This essay presents a review on Brian Swimme’s 3-DVD set of lecture series in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. In the eleven 45-minute episodes of a systematic 9-hour immersive program, a set of 12 intercorrelated cosmological powers is prop...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38313
Trickster-like Dharma teachings in Tibetan Buddhism behave as a kind of shortcuts in the approach to leading people along the path of enlightenment. This essay collects three such teachings of different levels towards destroying illusions, i.e., Buddha’s silence, Guru’s paradox,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38108
The objective of this paper is to investigate the empirical effect of public debt on economic growth, using a sample of six Central African Economic and Monetary Community countries over the years from 2000 to 2016. The Hausman's test suggests that the fixed-effects model is pref...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39080
Block argued against functionalism. The argument was metaphorized by building a normal body but with the brain of a homunculus. A review of the metaphorization exposes that the argument is inadequate to avoid the weakness of the functionalist doctrine.
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38093
As retail chain store business is gaining popularity very quickly, people engaged in this sector should pay special attention to the growth of this sector. The present study elucidates the direct and associated factors influencing the growth of supermarket activity in Sylhet dist...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38593
This article introduces Hegel's Eurocentric philosophy of dialectics in the 19th century and its transformation to Kelly’s planetary paradigm at the turn of the 20th-21st century. The new theory develops Hegel’s thesis—antitheses—synthesis to identity—difference—new-identity whic...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38314
The challenges facing measurement experts and researchers in the social sciences field is ensuring that measurement scales operate equally across different sub-populations. Measurement invariance across gender for example means that males and females conceptualize and interpret t...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2017/38973