Machining with Flexible Manipulators: Critical Issues and Solutions

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

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Towards the Establishment of a Prisoners Transfer Legal Regime in South Africa: Failed Attempts, Available Options and Critical Issues to Consider

African Journal of International and Comparative Law ◽

10.3366/ajicl.2012.0034 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 281-300

Author(s):

Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Legal Regime ◽

Critical Issues

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Introduction

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Colin Gardner ◽

Patricia MacCormack

Keyword(s):

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

The Future ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Dividing Line

In spite of becoming-animal being a key concept in Deleuze and Guattari, this is the first volume to address the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrating all of Deleuze’s work. Contemporary applications of animality in Deleuze in film, television, music, gaming and art are collected alongside critical issues of ethics, activism and ecology in consideration of the future of our understanding of life and the animal as both the kingdom of which the human is part and the first dividing line of identity within the anthropocene. The Introduction provides summaries of all 16 chapters, tying them to common threads in Deleuze and Guattari’s writings as well as establishing innovative trajectories for future readings of animality in Deleuze in a variety of fields.

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