DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.4
Nicoleta Stanca
{"title":"Elements of Nation Branding at the Embassy of Romania in Dublin (2021-2023)","authors":"Nicoleta Stanca","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes elements of nation branding, i.e., cultural activities employed by the Embassy of Romania in Ireland in the recent context of the term of the current Romanian Ambassador (2021-2023). It will be proved that the Embassy operates between tradition and novelty, keeping already established connections in Ireland and forging new ones. Also, the formal institution representing Romania has been working with “informal ambassadors” (the diaspora, associations, churches, businesses, schools, art institutions, etc.) for the benefit of bilateral relations.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139199860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.5
Yung-Fou Chen, Paul Kuei-chi Tseng
{"title":"The Boundary of Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Science","authors":"Yung-Fou Chen, Paul Kuei-chi Tseng","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize forensic science by enhancing evidence analysis and aiding in crime-solving. This paper explores AI applications in forensic fields, focusing on DNA mixture analysis, the cause of death diagnosis, and the challenges AI faces in forensic science. It addresses the limitations of AI in forensic science, emphasizing the necessity for transparent AI systems used ethically. Forensic errors are often not due to misclassification by forensic scientists but stem from incompetence, fraud, weak scientific foundations, or organizational deficiencies, resulting in wrongful convictions. Systemic issues like dependence on presumptive tests and inadequate defense contribute to errors. Inconsistencies plague various domains of forensic science, including fingerprint and DNA analysis. Establishing standardized analytical procedures can enhance consistency and credibility in forensic science. AI applications in forensic anthropology, pathology, genetics, and statistics are explored, with a focus on their potential and challenges.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139205266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.10
H. C. Ransford
{"title":"A Spiritual Case for Transhumanism?","authors":"H. C. Ransford","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Under both Western and Eastern worldviews, a key justification for anyone spending a lifetime on Earth must be the spiritual growth they are able to achieve while here, through exposure to manifold life situations and experiences. Yet, for a variety of reasons, some people may already be at a point of diminishing returns, whereby their achievable progress on Earth would be too inconsequential to justify their presence here. This paper looks at whether the advent of transhumanism and other life-expanding technologies could push back the limits beyond which a lifetime on Earth would be, for some, spiritually needless.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139207646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.7
Paul Kuei-chi Tseng
{"title":"The Metaphysics of Globalization in Gadamer: A Case Study of Contemporary Taiwan","authors":"Paul Kuei-chi Tseng","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript introduces Gadamer’s metaphysical concept of fusion of horizons as a key to solving the conflicts arising in global capital, cultural, and religious issues. The globalization of contemporary Taiwan is discussed as a case study that covers three aspects: capital, cultural, and religious. TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), war tension across the Taiwan Strait, and local evangelism are explored separately to illustrate the present scenario of Taiwan’s globalization. In conclusion, the author calls for a fusion of horizons in solving capital interest conflicts, international political tension, and diverse religious beliefs.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139200158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animal Rights and Technology: An Empirical Study","authors":"Gerasimos Filippas, Kostas Theologou, Spyridon Stelios","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Animal rights are a contentious issue that frequently causes ethical quandaries in modern civilization. To better understand the parameters that determine the human-animal relationship from an ethical standpoint, an empirical study was conducted as part of ongoing research using a new and original questionnaire with one main research question: How are animals identified in relation to technology? Another question concerns humans' ethical treatment of animals. We gathered information on the perceptions and levels of familiarity of postgraduate students in the Humanities and Science Engineering on this topic. On a second level, the relationship between animals and technology was examined, as technology is a component of civilization. Initial findings indicate that the respondent's background influences their response to the topic of whether animals have technology and civilization. This is significant because it (re)defines how we should treat animals ethically. The findings also suggest that the use of experimental animals is permitted for scientific objectives rather than commercial ones.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139202203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.10
S. Edwards
{"title":"Global consciousness and cosmic significance of lines from Wordsworth’s poem Tintern Abbey","authors":"S. Edwards","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Mystical, panentheistic lines from Wordsworth’s poem, Tintern Abbey, constitute inductive case study material to introduce HeartMath science’s Global Consciousness Project (GCP). This case study provides a temporal dimension along which to view the cosmic significance of Wordsworth’s “felt sense”, Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere” and the GCP. A heuristic phenomenological method is employed. This method facilitates discussion of previous South African research with traditional healers that led to collaboration with the HeartMath Institute, based in California, and establishment of an African Global Coherence Initiative Magnetometer. This latter magnetometer is one of six GCI planetary magnetometers, with the other five currently operating in in California, Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, Canada and New Zealand. The present study introduces GCP2, an update, expanded version of the Global Consciousness Project, which complments GCI. Previously operating from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), GCP2 is now harmoniously housed by the HeartMath Institute, where its data complements both GCI and Tree Rhythm projects in amplifying interconnectedness science and global healing practices. Contemporary, endemic, planetary contexts of chaos, pollution, mindless destructiveness and war, provide urgent argument for GCP2.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89095624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.14
Tina Lindhard
{"title":"Modern-Day Globalization: its Murky Underpinnings and its Even More Unsavory Future","authors":"Tina Lindhard","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.14","url":null,"abstract":"By spelling out the link between Transhumanism, the 4th Industrial Revolution, and globalism, which together form the economic thrust of mankind’s projected future, this paper invites a rethink about the direction envisaged by modern-day society. The underlying linking factor of these enterprises is the Humanist movement that, like Transhumanism, shares a Utopian view of the world and supplies the relative ethical underpinning for these ‘so-called’ new advances. Three Manifestos lay out the objectives of the Humanist Association, describing it as a religion that is supposed to replace other older deity-based religions. Its progressive philosophy of life without theism or other supernational beliefs leads to a break with the past and affirms humans’ “ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good.” Nevertheless, can we live ethical lives where the accent is on fulfilling only our personal desires, which include the right to unrestricted contraception, abortion and divorce and death with dignity eg. Euthanasia and suicide? Ethical relativism is taken to a new extreme by Transhumanism, which rests on the idea that humans should embrace self-directed human evolution using technology to transcend their current natural state and limitations, ie disease, ageing, and even death. According to this author, it is time we moved beyond the limited materialist view, not through global movements like Humanism and Transhumanism, but through exploring and discovering our spiritual nature and the spiritual underpinning of reality. Through this endeavor, we can learn to live in harmony with each other and nature, where the accent is on service to others. Based on experience, we soon realize that our happiness depends on others being happy and includes looking after the weak, the aged, and the infirm. Ethical relativism and lack of clear values will not get us there; on the contrary, they will probably lead to hell on earth.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90059490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.9
Mihaela Dragomir
{"title":"A Paradigm Shift in Public Health: Yoga and Meditation for Prevention","authors":"Mihaela Dragomir","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"In all its paradigms, the ideal modern public health systems should have eradicated by now the spreading of the most fatal diseases, like cancer or cardiovascular disorders. Not only it has not, but these diseases are actually growing, showing the limits of the modern public health and the need of a paradigm shift. Using a narrative review, this paper aims to emphasize the limits of curative modern medicine and the benefits of yoga and meditation practices as prevention for the most common diseases, recognizing them as an important tool in public health systems. The relationship between yoga practice and the health status of individuals shows that they are strongly interdependent, being able to correct destructive behaviors and improve the quality of life. The spiritual practice of yoga is a way of restoring the “factory settings” by returning to essence, tradition, ancient knowledge and thus creating the mental and emotional environment for healing and thriving in human beings.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80813259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.4
F. Nalaskowski
{"title":"\"Covid-19 Aftermath for Educational System in Europe. The positives \"","authors":"F. Nalaskowski","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"\"The COVID-19 pandemic has presented severe challenges for European education, forcing an adjustment to distance learning and physical school closures. Many students have encountered problems with online learning, such as a lack of access to appropriate equipment and tools. Nevertheless, the pandemic has also been an opportunity to improve the education system and introduce new, more effective solutions. These changes concern not only the material side of learning but also the psychological one. The introduction of remote learning meant the need to adapt school statutes, expenditures, and educational strategies. Many European countries have introduced additional financial support. However, many others had to cut back on their education spending, which led to financial difficulties for schools and may harm the quality of teaching. Online learning has become a mainstream teaching method but has drawbacks, such as a lack of direct contact with the teacher and peers, technical difficulties, and social isolation. Nevertheless, research shows that the effectiveness of online learning is comparable to traditional teaching, and in some subjects, it may even prove to be better. For example, studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic have not shown significant differences in teaching outcomes in Poland.\"","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87143070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.13
T. Ciocan
{"title":"The role of Religious and Spiritual assistance to people in palliative care. Theoretical overview","authors":"T. Ciocan","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.9.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"This is a follow-up to the practical research on hospice healthcare patients that proved they need either ‘Spiritual’ or/and ‘Religious’ assistance and that these needs are basic, natural, and almost standard. Since that research with direct involvement in palliative care greatly helps the multidisciplinary team develop an improved intervention plan, I thought additional explanations are necessary. In this regard, I have written this article to further interpret my observations on palliative care over the last couple of years. To conclude most straightforwardly, the research draws a demarcated line between how people in ‘total suffering’ relate to Spiritual vs. Religious assistance as these two ways are very similar on the surface, but when engaged, they start building distinct, self-sustaining paths. Why is that, and how can each assist hospice - this is the target of the current text.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"571 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77555528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}