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"Gli Etruschi nell’area dello Stretto”, in C. Malacrino – M. Iozzo – B. Arbeid (edd.), Le nuvole e il fulmine. Gli Etruschi interpreti del volere divino, catalogo mostra Reggio Calabria 2023-2024, Milano 2024, pp. 208-220

"Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide. In other words, 90 percent of start-ups fail because the founders get bored, discouraged, or something else, and they move on to other things, not because of some catastrophe. No matter how dark it is today, things will always better tomorrow."-Justin Kan, Justin.TV.Startup businesses have always played an important role in the global economy, but recently their importance has grown significantly. For this reason, governments around the world have amended regulation and created incentives to encourage their development. However, statistics shows that startups have an extremely high mortality rate, often due to a lack of strategic planning, wrong marketing investments or inefficient resource allocation. This paper is the success story of an Indian startup, Ola Cabs. As the competition in the Radio Taxi market is increasing at a very faster rate where several brands are providing cabs to the customers as per the requirements, this paper is designed to study the success story of Ola cabs which has the greatest market share and provides services in an efficient manner along with customer satisfaction. The Marketing strategy and promotion strategy adopted by Ola Cabs is discussed briefly in this article.

a) Kish seal (IM 1822) reported by Mackay in 1925; b) M-228 Seal The two seals are NOT from the same mould. This is evident from the facts 1) that 'standard' in front of the two 'unicorns' are different in shape; and 2) that 'middle sign' on text script are distinctly of different orthographic style; on Kish seal the splinter strokes are vertical while on Mohenjodaro seal the splinter strokes are slanted. Kish seal (IM 1822); source: Sumerian Connexions with Ancient India by Ernest MacKay The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 4 (Oct., 1925), pp. 697-701 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25220818

Oxford Literary Review, 1998

2024

The present reality of the Cessationists position is evident in the public forum where John Macarthur held a conference called “Strange Fire”, who’s goal was to speak out against the aberrant practices of the Pentecostal and Charismatic us of glossolalia, miracles, and divine healing, while at the same time, affirming non-revelatory Spiritual Gifts as being valid. The church is clearly divided in this issue, creating an actual enemy of the Charismatic and Pentecostals, to the supposed true Christian faith. Those who experience the glossolalia affirm a positive subjective understanding that enhances their walk with the Lord. The Cessationsist attribute the phenomenon as a false spectacle and practice from satan to lead people into error. This essay will explain the cessationist arguments and review current responses to the argument presented by Pentecostals and Charismatics and offer a critical analysis in response.

(*) Este documento fue originalmente publicado como el Capítulo 10 de La Política de las Políticas Públicas. Progreso económico y social en América Latina (IPES). Informe 2006. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. El libro se puede adquirir en http://shop.iadb.org/iadbookstore. El PREAL agradece la autorización del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para reproducir este capítulo en la Serie PREAL Documentos. Las opiniones vertidas en este trabajo son responsabilidad del autor y no comprometen a PREAL ni a las instituciones que lo patrocinan.

2024

The pursuit of scientificity in linguistics, originating in the early 20th century, notably through Saussure's foundational speculations, has posed a pivotal challenge. The imperative for linguistics to emerge as an autonomous science gives rise to an essential ‘epistemology of linguistics’, where the distinct object of linguistic study is delineated. However, in this endeavor to establish a science for language, we confront an apparently paradoxical situation—the science itself is a product of language. From this reflective perspective, an incursion into general epistemology becomes necessary, giving rise to a potential ‘linguistic epistemology’. Our study navigates this exploration, beginning with Saussure and progressing to his rigorous successor, Louis Hjelmslev. Saussure begins by raising a negative inquiry: why hasn't linguistics attained the status of a science, and what aspects lack scientific rigor in prior language studies? He argues that language as a whole cannot be the object of a scientific inquiry. It is too diverse, too heterogeneous. His positive response introduces the concept of ‘langue’, securing the authentic scientific object of linguistics. This concept forms the basis for an epistemology specific to linguistics, extendable to Saussure's proposed broader science, semiology. Our investigation transcends the CLG to present a comprehensive view of this concept. Turning to Hjelmslev, we witness a profound evolution in master’s ideas. Scrutinizing his critique of the concept of langue, we delve into how he addresses the question of scientificity within Glossematics. For Hjelmslev, the question of language and science are deeply intertwined, demanding a reflective invasion into general epistemology. In fact, Glossematics proposes, above all, a new epistemology. The criterion of scientificity is in fact anchored in the single principle of his theory –i.e. the so-called ‘Empirical Principle’ (EP). This principle, as understood within the framework of immanence –the overarching characteristic of Hjelmslevian epistemology– provides an alternative to the well-established approaches to the matter of scientificity, which are rather based on criteria such as confirmation, verification, falsifiability, etc. We explore this distinctive rationality, revealing critical implications at both epistemological and theoretical levels. Finally, by investigating the classification of glossematic objects (semiotic, metasemiotic, meta-(scientific semiotic), semiology, etc.), we explore the potential for it to serve as a novel foundation for a taxonomy of sciences.