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This article analyzes the music of Black female rapper Missy Elliott in order to consider performative challenges to the politics of visibility and visuality of Black queerness in hip hop. While mainstream media lauds the recent increase in and representation of out Black LGBTQ rappers, scholars such as C. Riley Snorton caution such praise for the unique ways visibility and surveillance are entangled formations that render Black queer communities vulnerable to violence. This article draws on Elliott’s songs “Get Ur Freak on” and “Pussycat” to present alternative ways of navigating the violence of visibility for Black queers and queerness. It argues that Elliott musically inhabits, expresses, and produces queerness through a set of cultural practices that this article calls the “musical aesthetics of impropriety.” The musical aesthetics of impropriety are performative expressions that are developed and deployed at the level of the sound recording, and that exploit the gaps and fissures of what qualifies as proper sexual subjects (e.g., LGBT) and how we come to perceive them as such (i.e., “evidence“) in order to produce alternative sexual and sonic formations. It is, thus, through the musical aesthetics of impropriety that we might imagine and articulate racialized queerness in hip hop differently.

This article explores allegations of sexual scandal connected with premodern royal women in Europe and China. It begins by assessing expectations of queenly ideals, particularly the emphasis given to female chastity in European and Chinese culture. This forms a foundation for an extended discussion of tales of sexual impropriety of both real and legendary queens from China in the third century BCE to eighteenth century Europe. This survey highlights three key themes: the idea of dangerous and destructive beauty, the topos of the wanton and promiscuous queen and perceptions of transgressive affairs. Finally, the article assesses the connection between the portrayal of the sexual scandal of royal women in contemporary sources with the way in which these women’s lives are represented in modern media, particularly films and television series. Ultimately, it demonstrates that allegations of sexual scandal could both be a means to attack these women (and their royal husbands) in their lifetimes and could have long lasting negative impact on the memory of their lives, resulting in their political power, agency and activity being obscured by an emphasis on their love lives and supposed affairs. Este artículo explora las acusaciones de escándalo sexual relacionado con mujeres reales premodernas en Europa y China. Comienza evaluando las expectativas de los ideales de la reina, particularmente el énfasis que se le da a la castidad femenina en la cultura europea y china. Esto forma una base para una discusión extensa de historias de conducta sexual inapropiada de reinas reales y legendarias desde China en el siglo III a. C. hasta la Europa del siglo XVIII. Esta investigación destaca tres temas clave: la idea de una belleza peligrosa y destructiva, el topos de la reina lasciva y promiscua y las percepciones de los asuntos transgresores. Finalmente, el artículo evalúa la conexión entre la descripción del escándalo sexual de las mujeres reales en fuentes contemporáneas con la forma en que las vidas de estas mujeres están representadas en los medios modernos, particularmente películas y series de televisión. En última instancia, demuestra que las acusaciones de escándalo sexual podrían ser un medio para atacar a estas mujeres (y a sus maridos reales) en sus vidas y podrían tener un impacto negativo duradero en la memoria de sus vidas, lo que resultaría en su poder político, agencia y actividad. siendo oscurecidos por un énfasis en sus vidas amorosas y supuestos affairs.

The article studies the mainstreaming of the crypto assets’ market legal regulation on the example of Ukraine and Poland. Specifically, the notions “crypto currency” and “virtual currency” are analyzed. On the basis of dialectical method and of critical analysis of research literature, regulatory legal acts, etc. the impropriety of the stated notions’ use is proved, especially as concerns the legislative level; the specifics of the stated categories’ legal status is defined; the necessity and practicality of special regulatory legal acts approval in this sphere on the level of Ukraine and Poland is determined, for effective rights’ exercising of the corresponding relations participants, including constitutional rights. Simultaneously, the article provides the grounds for inacceptability of adoption by Ukraine and Poland of the crypto assets’ market development by means of impelementation of varios benefits (preferences) for this market participants, because this can threaten the ecological, energy, information, and in total, national security of the given states.

In November 2020, Indian celebrity Milind Soman posted a picture of himself on social media, which showed him running naked on a beach. He was charged with obscenity. This article considers the time and place of Soman’s act over the alleged impropriety. The photograph was taken on a beach in Goa, the tropical setting serving as a pleasure periphery to India which annexed the region in 1961. Accordingly, a longer history of states of undress in Indian advertising, filmmaking, and tourism are considered here to apprehend how Goa has been posited in the Indian imagination as a destination for wanton self-gratification while local realities are undermined. The article thus interrogates what it means for Goa, whose economy is overly dependent on tourism, to serve as a vacation spot during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when, in 2020, it had among the highest number of virus-related deaths in the country (Dias, 2020, par. 4). Using the metaphor of the celebrity who has no qualms about running naked and unmasked in Goa, this article enquires into what such events leave unrevealed in the economic requirement that some locales function as holiday destinations, even in the midst of a pandemic.

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in the appraisal of immoral behaviours and cognitions compared to non-religious individuals. This effect could occur due to adherence to prescriptive and inviolate deontic religious-moral rules and socio-evolutionary factors, such as increased autonomic nervous system responsivity to indirect threat. The latter thesis has been used to suggest that immoral elicitors could be processed subliminally by religious individuals. In this manuscript, we employed masking to test this hypothesis. We rated and pre-selected IAPS images for moral impropriety. We presented these images masked with and without negatively manipulating a pre-image moral label. We measured detection, moral appraisal and discrimination, and physiological responses. We found that religious individuals experienced higher responsivity to masked immoral images. Bayesian and hit-versus-miss response analyses revealed that the differences in appraisal and physiological responses were reported only for consciously perceived immoral images. Our analysis showed that when a negative moral label was presented, religious individuals experienced the interval following the label as more physiologically arousing and responded with lower specificity for moral discrimination. We propose that religiosity involves higher conscious perceptual and physiological responsivity for discerning moral impropriety but also higher susceptibility for the misperception of immorality.

Text recycling (hereafter TR), sometimes problematically called “self-plagiarism,” involves the verbatim reuse of text from one’s own existing documents in a newly created text – such as the duplication of a paragraph or section from a published article in a new article. Although plagiarism is widely eschewed across academia and the publishing industry, the ethics of TR are not agreed upon and are currently being vigorously debated. As part of a federally funded (US) National Science Foundation grant, we have been studying TR patterns using several methodologies, including interviews with editors about TR values and practices (Pemberton, Hall, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019) and digitally mediated text-analytic processes to determine the extent of TR in academic publications in the biological sciences, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences (Anson, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019). In this article, we first describe and illustrate TR in the context of academic writing. We then explain and document several themes that emerged from interviews with publishers of peer-reviewed academic journals. These themes demonstrate the vexed and unsettled nature of TR as a discursive phenomenon in academic writing and publishing. In doing so, we focus on the complex relationships between personal (role-based) and social (norm-based) aspects of scientific publication, complicating conventional models of the writing process that have inadequately accounted for authorial decisions about accuracy, efficiency, self-representation, adherence to existing or imagined rules and norms, perceptions of ownership and copyright, and fears of impropriety.

This research evaluates whether felony disenfranchisement is compatible with international human rights law. The objective is to highlight the clearly outdated and illegal practice of felony disenf...

O trabalho em tela tem como fundamento apresentar as perspectivas jurídicas disposta na lei de improbidade administrativa (Lei nº. 8.429/92), principalmente no que concerne à aplicabilidade da remessa necessária nas sentenças de improcedência proferidas em ações de tal natureza. É importante lembrar que a remessa necessária não possui previsão legal na Lei nº. 8.429/92. Contudo, há discussão no âmbito doutrinário e jurisprudencial referente à aplicação do instituto nas ações de improbidade administrativa com sentença de improcedência. De início, o trabalho busca apresentar alguns aspectos da Lei de Improbidade Administrativa. Por conseguinte, em breves linhas, irá expor sobre a finalidade da remessa necessária e, por fim, demonstrará as divergências sobre a sua aplicação ou não nas ações proveniente de improbidade administrativa.

En este artículo, se reúnen los resultados de la investigación de mi tesis acerca de la relación de dos errores léxicos: la imprecisión y redundancia léxica en la coherencia del texto argumentativo de universitarios de los primeros ciclos. Se define la coherencia como la construcción de una unidad de sentido sin ninguna contradicción entre sus partes, lo que contribuye a la interpretación del texto a partir de la vinculación léxica con el desarrollo del contenido del texto desde espacios menores a nivel de microestructura, relación entre oraciones, así como de estas con el texto en general a nivel de macroestructura. En el estudio, se tuvo como objetivo principal analizar cómo la imprecisión y la redundancia léxica generan consecuencias semánticas en la coherencia de los textos de los estudiantes de la muestra. La investigación tuvo un enfoque cuantitativo, ya que primero se contabilizó la cantidad de errores para vincularlos estadísticamente, mediante el programa SPSS, con la coherencia textual. El diseño del estudio es no experimental y explicativo, ya que no existe manipulación de las variables. Los resultados de la investigación se pueden sintetizar en que hay una relación positiva entre la presencia o ausencia de la imprecisión, impropiedad, redundancia léxica y coloquialismos, y la coherencia de los textos argumentativos de la muestra. Es decir, conforme incrementaba el número de errores léxicos, los textos se volvían menos coherentes.

Substantial research recognizes the importance of understanding employee-customer interactions in order to optimize the customer experience. While most retailing and services research focuses on frontline employees' handling of customer complaints, the present studies take an inverse approach by examining a relatively unexplored phenomenon: customers' perceptions of frontline employee complaining. First, a pilot study confirms two commonly overheard types of employee complaints - complaints about the company and customers. Next, Study 1 provides empirical support for the effects of overhearing employee complaining on relevant customer outcomes and identifies perceived impropriety as the mediating mechanism underlying these effects. The results of Study 2 indicate that soliciting customers' feedback about their experience attenuates the indirect effects of one type of employee complaint - complaints about the company. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and provide practical suggestions to retailers and service providers for reducing the harmful effects of overheard employee complaints.

The deviation of continuous and discrete complex random variables from the traditional proper and symmetric assumption to a generalized improper and asymmetric characterization (accounting correlation between a random entity and its complex conjugate), respectively, introduces new design freedom and various potential merits. As such, the theory of impropriety has vast applications in medicine, geology, acoustics, optics, image and pattern recognition, computer vision, and other numerous research fields with our main focus on the communication systems. The journey begins from the design of improper Gaussian signaling in the interference-limited communications and leads to a more elaborate and practically feasible asymmetric discrete modulation design. Such asymmetric shaping bridges the gap between theoretically and practically achievable limits with sophisticated transceiver and detection schemes in both coded/uncoded wireless/optical communication systems. Interestingly, introducing asymmetry and adjusting the transmission parameters according to some design criterion render optimal performance without affecting the bandwidth or power requirements of the systems. This dual-flavored article initially presents the tutorial base content covering the interplay of reality/complexity, propriety/impropriety and circularity/noncircularity and then surveys majority of the contributions in this enormous journey., Comment: IEEE COMST (Early Access)

From the intrinsic limits of §§. 39-42 of the work Being and Time, this research paper seeks to thematize the Selfhood of Dasein understood as a non-thingness wisdom of self, the which is correlative of the existentiality and facticity of this entity. This searching is carried out from the mode of appearing of existential Care, precisely this existential word is responsible for endowing of unit and / or structural totality to the constitutive moments of the being-in-the-world as such. This analysis also is exercised in order to enhance a possible link between Care and Selfhood, where, as it seems, the Selfhood is constituted as a neccesary and sufficient condition of Care. This Selfhood is responsable for not only to favor the unity of Care, but the transition from impropriety to existential property of Dasein.

The matter of Gerolomou Constructions (Pty) Ltd v Van Wyk (2011 (4) SA 500 (GNP)) alludes to two rather problematic aspects of the law of contract: on the one hand it demonstrates that practically speaking the question of what constitutes an enforceable agreement of compromise is still no easy matter (see further Ismail "Contentious Issues Arising from Payments made in Full and Final Settlement" 2008 PER 154; and cf Zeffertt "Payments 'In Full Settlement'" 1972 SALJ 35), and despite the sound judgment delivered recently by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Be Bop A Lula Manufacturing & Printing CC v Kingtex Marketing (Pty) Ltd (2008 (3) SA 327 (SCA)), it seems that the judiciary's interpretation as to when an offer of compromise exists remains difficult to predict. On the other hand the Gerolomou decision deals with improperly obtained consensus by way of undue influence, whereas the facts actually fit more comfortably into the niche of so-called economic duress, a form of procedural impropriety that has yet to be recognized as an independent ground for setting aside a contract in our law. This case note examines these issues against the backdrop of the manner in which the case was pleaded.

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter discusses the grounds for judicial review. These include procedural impropriety, which means breach of the rules of natural justice, and failure to comply with statutory procedural requirements. This chapter looks at the definitional elements of the rules of natural justice, whether the rules of natural justice apply in principle, the extent to which the rules of natural justice apply, disciplinary hearings, licensing cases, pecuniary and personal bias, whether or not a fair trial has taken place, and the right to be given reasons for a decision. This chapter also considers legitimate expectation as a ground for judicial review.

Much of the debate over the use of transvaginal mesh for incontinence and prolapse has been conducted on social media, in the tabloid press and through a very public Senate inquiry. It has been a very emotionally charged debate with surgeons variously accused of scandalous behavior, financial impropriety, surgical experimentation and misogyny. What really happened, how did we get here and what can we learn from these complex events?

In the itself poetic closing chapter of this edited collection, Heather H. Yeung describes ecopoetics as a creative and critical practice of ‘impropriety’. She argues that ‘[t]he gesture that re-ma...

Recent theories of community (Nancy, Agamben, Esposito) aim to think the term beyond its definition as the ownership of shared identity, language, culture or territory. For Esposito, to reduce community to a property whose possession distinguishes members from non-members undermines the commonality the term implies. The common opposes what is proper or one’s own; it belongs to everyone and anyone. Rather than securing identity and belonging, community, defined by its impropriety, disrupts them so that we are in common. While his work successfully illustrates the incompatibility of the common and the proper, it leaves unanswered the question of how communities come to experience their impropriety. Through a comparison with Ranciere’s improper community, we can identify and gesture beyond this limit. Its members intervene in proper communities by exercising the right to decide on common matters despite officially having no right to do so. Their actions, by demonstrating the openness of the common to anyone and everyone, turn its privatisation into a shared wrong that connects community with non-community. By supplementing Esposito’s work with Ranciere’s, we see how communities relate to what they have deemed improper in a way that both challenges and revitalises their sense of commonality.

So-called improper signals, i.e., signals which are correlated with their complex conjugates, can occur in many signal processing applications such as communication systems, medical imaging, audio and speech processing, analysis of oceanographic data, and many more. Being aware of potential impropriety can be crucial whenever we model signals as complex random quantities since an appropriate treatment of improper signals, e.g., by widely linear filtering, can significantly improve the system performance. After a brief introduction into the fundamentals of improper signals, this article focuses on the problem of quantifying the impropriety of complex random vectors and gives a survey of various impropriety measures in both the composite real representation and the augmented complex formulation. Unlike in previous publications, these two frameworks are presented side by side to reveal the differences and common points between them. Moreover, their applicability is compared in several practical examples. As additional aspects, we consider the problem of testing for impropriety based on measurement data, and the differential entropy of Gaussian vectors as an impropriety measure in information theoretic studies. The article includes a tutorial-style introduction, a collection of important formulae, a comparison of various mathematical approaches, as well as some new reformulations.

This research is motivated by a "unique" phenomenon from of the role of the profession internal auditors. For Internal auditors of Internal Control Unit (SPI) in a non-profit organization, especially in an Higher Education Institution , the uniqueness has the potential to place it in a situation of independence dilemma. The purpose of this study is to understand the reality of the independence dilemma faced by SPI auditors as a result of the conditions and work environment. In order to explore the auditor's understanding of SPI, phenomenology is employed as methodology, under interpretive paradigm as the umbrella of this research. Exploration of understanding and awareness is done using Epoche. The results of the study revealed that the SPI auditor faced a situation of independence in various forms: (1) the negative auditing stigma in the form of the awarding of "kambing hitam" to SPI raises a dilemma for auditors and disturbs the working spirit of the SPI auditor, on the other hand if implemented improperly will be contrary to the obligation and further aggravate the negative stigma already attached; (2) there is a phenomenon of impropriety (abuse) on audit guidelines that has not been fully implemented and not evaluated to provide ethical consideration in the future; (3) the existence of obedience pressure in the form of "suspension" the rector signs the SPI examination report . d ue to the term audit conception that has not been agreed upon.

The rise of online media makes us now everyday are bombarded by a number of online news content which are sometimes unethical and illogical. Without considering the adverse effects it causes, the media continue to treat news consumers with inappropriate content. News consumers as if hypnotized to 'dance' following the rhythm of that impropriety. How do news consumers, especially in Indonesia, think and behave towards the issue? This paper captures the voices of consumers and reviews their judgements regarding the ethical and logical discourse of the news provided by online media. Research was conducted in two stages. The first stage was a qualitative approach through in-depth interviews with five active online news readers. The results identify three aspects related to unethical content: verbal, visual and news styles. Meanwhile, three other aspects concern issues of unethical news context, namely placement, links and news layout. The aspects related to illogical news refer to the issues of accuracy, coherency, and manipulation. The findings in the first stage serve as a basis for examining which aspects are the most concern for consumers in the second stage through a quantitative-descriptive approach involving 287 respondents. The results show that verbal and news styles, links and manipulation are the most dominant issues among consumers. Responding to the inapropriate news, consumers tend to perceive the media negatively, label it 'abal-abal' or fake and unprofessional, even blacklist it as prohibited media. Keywords: Online news, online media, unethical news, illogical news, Indonesian consumers.

The Discourse on Inequality disputes the human–animal hierarchy in its denunciation of social inequality as unnatural. Stripping away social artifice, it reveals a deep physical continuity between man and animals. As embodied creatures, they share mortality and vulnerability. Human animality does not, however, negate human difference. Man differs from animals through perfectibility: the freedom to change. That difference comes from the lack of any specifically human property, thereby challenging rather than confirming anthropocentric hierarchies. Any properties seen to distinguish man from animals are in fact improper, contingent and artificial. Human impropriety renders man always dependent on external relations for his development. Compassion, vital for a Rousseauian approach to animal ethics, allows man to experience this relationality, transporting him towards others as he identifies with their suffering as recalling the finitude and vulnerability shared by all creatures. For Rousseau, human difference, it is argued, enables rather than blocks identification with animality.

This paper examines the syntactic, informational, discursive, and metadiscursive functions of the SOV construction in heated parliamentary dialogic discourse. Syntax and information structure coincide in the SOV construction, creating a tripartite structure, in which the initial subject is topicalized, the medially positioned object contains defocalized topical material, and the reduced object-less VP constitutes a narrowed down focus domain, containing the newsworthy element. Discursively, the subject and the newsworthy element stand in contrast with parallel elements in a paired sentence, which is often only implicit. Metadiscursively, the SOV construction is employed in the heated parliamentary arena for an emotively accentuated expression of propriety/impropriety.

Concerns about electoral integrity have increasingly become the focus of political science analysis in recent years, but there has been very little systematic research on the strategic use of alleg...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the possibility of excep­tionally making an composition/Agreement in the area of Administrative Improbity, in spite of the prohibition expressed in § 1 of art. 17 of Law 8,429 / 93. It was considered that, due to the delays in the judgment of public civil actions by an act of impropriety, the public interest is impai­red, considering the absence of reimbursement to the Public Treasury of values misappropriated or appropriated illicitly. It was sought to make explicit that an agreement previously concluded (pre-procedural phase) or during the course of action (judicial), can constitute an effective tool and instrument, in cases of administrative improbity, so as to ensure a quick compensation of the damages caused to the public purse, thereby protecting the public interest. It was demonstrated that Paragraph 1 of art. 17 of Law 8,429 / 93 was implicitly revoked by art. 36, § 4 of Law No. 13.140/2015 (Law on Mediation). It was concluded that, in recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in the Brazilian legal system that favors the conflict-self-modeling model, with institutes for alternative conflict resolution within the multiport system (article 5, LXXVIII of the Federal Constitution of 1988, established the principle of celerity and reasonable duration of the process, Code of Civil Procedure, establishing new conciliatory benchmarks, guiding the instrumentalization of the process. In addition, it was verified the implementation of agreement in other Public Ministries of the States, proposing its implementation in the Cearense Public Ministry.

Different approaches to the interpretation of the concept “error in speech in a non-native language” are analyzed: psychological, psycholinguistic, linguistic, methodical. The possibility to use the results of the analysis of errors in speech in a non-native language to study the processes of learning the language is proved. It is emphasized that the conclusions should be taken into account when developing a complex of productive and receptive lexical exercises. The conclusion about the impropriety of dividing errors in foreign speech to “communicatively significant and insignificant” is made. The most frequent lexical errors in the Russian speech of Greek students and deviations from the lexical norms of the Russian language are revealed. The features of the influence of errors on the nature of communication are described. The article deals with the types of lexical errors that Greek students make when mastering the system of the Russian language. The classification of lexical errors in the Russian speech of Greek students is made on the basis of two criteria: the reasons for the deviation from the lexical norm and the consequences of the deviation. Recommendations for the prevention of lexical level errors when teaching the Greeks the Russian language are given.

There is an increasing use of algorithmic or machine learning-based intelligence analysis in the UK policing context. Two of the most high-profile types of intelligence retention and analysis practices used by the Metropolitan Police have recently been found to be unlawful. Notably, these were i) the indefinite retention of a peaceable individual’s records on a specialist domestic extremism database, and ii) the overly-lengthy retention of disproportionately BAME citizens in London on a ‘Gangs Matrix’. These two findings, from the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, respectively, have been indications that forces that would heed the call of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary in 2018 to devote more resources toward investment in ‘AI’ for policing purposes must do so carefully. Indeed, the new National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS) project, based within West Midlands Police, has recently been the subject of critical ethical scrutiny on a number of fronts. The West Midlands force has had its own offering of a data-driven ‘Integrated Offender Management’ tool delayed by the demands for more clarity from a bespoke ethics committee. This has possibly headed off a later finding of unlawfulness in the courts, as there could possibly have been a challenge by way of judicial review on administrative law principles as well as data protection law and human rights and equality law. As a result, this chapter seeks to draw out lessons for policymakers from these early skirmishes in the field of ‘predictive policing’. This piece also concludes with some observations about the need for a set of minimum standards of transparency in a statutory authorization process for algorithmic police intelligence analysis tools (APIATs), in a mooted Predictive Policing (Technology) Bill.

The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly used, well studied, and controversial pesticides on the planet. Much of the controversy involves the effects of atrazine on wildlife, particularly amphibians, and the ethically questionable decision making of members of industry, government, the legal system, and institutions of higher education, in most cases in an effort to "bend science," defined as manipulating research to advance economic, political, or ideological ends. In this Critical Perspective I provide a timeline of the most salient events in the history of the atrazine saga, which includes a multimillion-dollar smear campaign, lawsuits, investigative reporting, accusation of impropriety against the US Environmental Protection Agency, and a multibillion-dollar transaction. I argue that the atrazine controversy must be more than just a true story of cover-ups, bias, and vengeance. It must be used as an example of how manufacturing uncertainty and bending science can be exploited to delay undesired regulatory decisions and how greed and conflicts of interest-situations where personal or organizational considerations have compromised or biased professional judgment and objectivity-can affect environmental and public health and erode trust in the discipline of toxicology, science in general, and the honorable functioning of societies. Most importantly, I offer several recommendations that should help to 1) prevent the history of atrazine from repeating itself, 2) enhance the credibility and integrity of science, and 3) enrich human and environmental health. Environ Toxicol Chem 2021;40:1544-1558. © 2021 SETAC.

Resumo “A gente escreve o que ouve e nunca o que houve”, essa frase de Oswald de Andrade, recuperada na epígrafe do livro Delírios de damasco de Veronica Stigger, nos provoca a um redimensionamento do que entendemos das escritas literárias. Do mesmo modo, convoca uma prática de escrita não coincidente consigo mesma. A essa não coincidência, chama-se, aqui nesse texto, inespecificidade, noção da autora Florencia Garramuño, que nos serve de aproximação à leitura do poema “Sessão” de 2017, de Roy David Frankel. Esse encontro, que centraliza o debate do texto, traz uma série de provocações às práticas literárias recentes e ao atual cenário político brasileiro figurado desde o golpe de Estado em 2016. O esforço é de tomar as práticas literárias atuais como espaço possível de construção política, sob a forma da impropriedade e da impertinência. Abstract “We write what we hear and never what happened”, this phrase by Oswald de Andrade, retrieved in the epigraph of the book Delírios de damasco , by Veronica Stigger, invites us to reconfigure what we understand about literary writings. Likewise, it calls for a writing practice that does not coincide with itself. This non-coincidence is called here in this text ‘unspecificity’ a notion by the author Florencia Garramuño, which serves as an approximation to the reading of the poem “Sessão” (2017), by Roy David Frankel. This encounter, which centralizes the debate in the text, brings a series of provocations to recent literary practices and to the current Brazilian political scenario figured since the Coup d'état in 2016. The effort is to take current literary practices as a possible space for political construction in the form of impropriety and impertinence. Resumen “Escribimos lo que oímos y nunca lo que sucedió”, la frase de Oswald de Andrade recuperada del epígrafe del libro Delírios de damasco de Veronica Stigger, impulsa un redimensionamiento de lo que entendemos sobre la escritura literaria. Asimismo, exige una práctica de escritura que no coincide consigo misma. Esta no coincidencia, en este texto, se denomina inespecificidad, noción de la autora Florencia Garramuño que sirve de aproximación a la lectura del poema “Sessão”, de Roy David Frankel (2017). Este encuentro, que centraliza el debate en el texto, trae una serie de provocaciones a las prácticas literarias recientes y al actual escenario político brasileño figurado desde el Golpe de Estado de 2016. El esfuerzo es el de tomar las prácticas literarias actuales como un posible espacio de construcción política, en forma de impropiedad e impertinencia.

The purpose of this study is to analyse how shocking marketing communication is perceived by consumers and how it influences their intention to spread positive and negative word-of-mouth (WOM). Theoretical analysis revealed that in order for consumers to spread WOM they need to form an attitude towards the communication and the attitude is influenced by perceived level of shock and norm violation. Data collected from 322 respondents in Lithuania and Azerbaijan shows that chosen set of factors has a significant impact towards WOM. Moreover, two different appeals were chosen for research in order to analyse the impact of communication content to consumer’s perception: moral offensiveness and impropriety. Research reveals that morally offensive communication is more effective in the case of WOM than communication containing impropriety components. Nevertheless, results show that it is more likely that negative WOM would be shared instead of positive WOM.

Corporate governance principles were incorporated after the financial impropriety of the owners/managers increased at a rampant stage whereby innocent stakeholders were left without a remedy. The governance structure and distribution of rights of different participants in the corporation and their equally accountable duties were necessary in the modern corporation to prevent siphoning of funds or oppression and mismanagement. Post Ketan Parekh and Satyam Scams, India has come to more intricate questions of Cyrus Mistry where the law is unable to demystify the complex board structures and lack of transparency and accountability in such corporate structures. The exploitation comes to the forefront when the company is in financial distress and is being led towards insolvency. The Promoters/Board members generally try to maximize profits and bonus payments even in the eventualities of distress. At the time of scrutiny before adjudicatory authority in process of declaration of insolvency the problems come to the forefront and increase manifold. Group structures, shareholder responsibilities, payment of dividends and director duties are some of the key problems that have taken the shape of big corporate issues. This leads to corporate governance issues, which the business world is tackling for long. OECD in 2014 has laid down G20 principles to promote best practices in the world. The authors in this paper will analyze these key principles and issues in corporate governance as enunciated by OECD and IOSCO. The authors also propose to scrutinize various cases of insolvency passed in the Indian jurisdiction which entrench on corporate governance practice. The paper will also argue the role of directors and promoters bidding during resolution process and its impact on insolvency proceedings. It is proposed to suggest various measures to improve the status quo to make corporate governance and insolvency as stable as possible to increase the investor sentiment and economic development of the country.

The research aims to analyze the Ombudsman institute as an advocate for the rights of the population to supervise the Public Administration and as a guardian of legality against impropriety and abuses of power in the exercise of administrative activity. With the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazil resumed the traditional way of Democracy and Rule of Law. However, despite the democratic climate established, the National Constituent Assembly rejected the proposal that would establish the figure of the Ombudsman in the country. The method used is the hypothetical-deductive, based on legislation, doctrine and jurisprudence. It is concluded that the Ombudsman, as an external body of the Public Administration, although not expressly provided in the Major Law, has the mission of impartial inspection of Public Administration in defense of fundamental rights, all in light of the Federal Constitution and the principles and norms that govern the Brazilian Democratic State of Law

Camera based assistive technologies such as smart glasses can provide people with visual impairments (PVIs) information about people in their vicinity. Although such ‘visually available’ information can enhance one’s social interactions, the privacy implications for bystanders from the perspective of PVIs remains underexplored. Motivated by prior findings of bystanders’ perspectives, we conducted two online surveys with visually impaired (N=128) and sighted (N=136) participants with two ‘field-of-view’ (FoV) experimental conditions related to whether information about bystanders was gathered from the front of the glasses or all directions. We found that PVIs considered it as ‘fair’ and equally useful to receive information from all directions. However, they reported being uncomfortable in receiving some visually apparent information (such as weight and gender) about bystanders as they felt it was ‘impolite’ or ‘improper’. Both PVIs and bystanders shared concerns about the fallibility of AI, where bystanders can be misrepresented by the devices. Our finding suggests that beyond issues of social stigma, both PVIs and bystanders have shared concerns that need to be considered to improve the social acceptability of camera based assistive technologies.

El artículo discute la noción de Ge-stell planteada por Heidegger en su filosofía tardía de la técnica. Tal idea se entiende en una doble posibilidad: como dispositivo de control tecnológico al modo de una imposición, es decir, como la esencia de la técnica moderna, o como destinación otorgante de la salvación, esto es, como desocultamiento de la verdad del ser. Como Jano bifronte, el Dasein se encuentra permanentemente en la encrucijada de elegir mantenerse en el modo de la impropiedad y, por lo mismo, perder su autonomía ante la omnipotencia tecnológica del Ge-stell, o bien, decidirse por una existencia desde la propiedad y proyectar su ser a partir de la posibilidad de la intercambialidad ontológica del Ge-stell, resguardando de este modo su autonomía de la dictadura metafísica del dispositivo.

As two key concepts in the Article 102 framework, competition on the merits and special responsibility suffer from a lack of concretization. As a result, the competition on the merits concept may lead the abuse assessment into an illusion of inherent impropriety, whereas the special responsibility concept is susceptible to expansive interpretations that undermine the pivotal role of dominance in the Article 102 paradigm. These issues are shown in cases concerning exclusive dealing and exclusivity rebates. This article suggests using the as efficient competitor rationale — complemented by the no economic sense rationale — to distinguish competition on the merits and abuse with respect to exclusionary conduct. The distinction can be expressed as “efficiency-based versus non-efficiency-based exclusions”. Nonetheless, the limitations of the as efficient competitor test necessitate some calibrations. To that end and to give content to the special responsibility concept, this article spotlights the notion of minimum efficient scale, which has been somewhat overlooked and mis-characterized in the law enforcement. This concept deserves more appreciation in producing more coherent theories of harm under Article 102.

Women who seek or find themselves in positions of influence and power are constructed as problematic and potentially dangerous in George R.R. Martin’s fantasy universe A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. The world of A Song of Ice and Fire features Queens like Rhaenyra Targaryen and Cersei Lannister whose sexual impropriety is reflected in their unstable and violent reigns. Some characters, like Mirri Maz Duur, Melisandre, and Maggy the Frog, give advice tainted by their status as witches, while male advisors, like Varys and Qyburn, are presented as dangerously feminised.

My university – George Mason University – has announced a Task Force on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence. I gave a lecture about the discourse of those advocating such agendas. The lecture draws on Adam Smith and suggests that improprieties riddle such discourse. I treat improprieties of the discourse, not improprieties of the agenda measures themselves – that would be something else again. Drawing on Adam Smith, I offer a distinction between calling loudly and proffering coolly. I realize that these two expressions use different metaphors – “loudly” is about sound and “coolly” is about temperature – but such terminology follows Smith’s talk of calling loudly and reflecting coolly. The impropriety of calling loudly lies in the great distance and tenuous, complex, and highly contested interpretive connections between lower things and higher things in the moral worlds of human beings and in the meanings they make in life. Related to calling loudly are the improprieties of controversial and even outlandish presuppositions and, most of all, abuse of language. The discourse treated often violates semantic conventions and often leaves its key words ill-defined or undefined. I remark on the words diversity, inclusiveness, bias (as used for example in “unconscious bias” and “implicit bias”), anti-racism, and social justice. I present Adam Smith’s tri-layered justice and discuss the unjustness of the discourse treated. I suggest that behind the agenda is an impetus to reduce dissent from leftism. That impetus could well be subconscious.

This paper approaches the question concerning the “human character” of science. Recent controversies over particular scientific endeavors have led some commentators to assert the impropriety of imposing moral, political, or religious limits on scientific inquiry. In such claims, I suggest, we also have an attempt to minimize the “human character” of science, and, in particular, of “good science.” I want here to look more closely at the relationship between science – “good science” – and morality. This relationship exists, I shall argue, on at least three axes which I shall call the external ethics of science, the social ethics of science, and the internal ethics of science. Of these, only the first – the external ethics of science – suggests that good science may not necessarily be good morally. If good science has the characteristics I describe in this paper, then the project of science “populated and exercised by machines” is chimerical. Good science as science is and must be a human activity permeated by human concerns and norms.

The study argues that Kenyan Pentecostalism’s overt and/or holistic activities have equally come with the baggage of infidelity, hitherto unknown. Spouse-swapping is one such bizarre case that has found its way into sects that claim to have their roots in Afro-Pentecostalism. Indeed, there are cases where Afro-Pentecostal leadership has been accused of all manner of immorality, which includes financial impropriety, sexual perversion, con artistry, political gerrymandering, and marital challenges, among others. Methodologically, the chapter begins by retracing the background that encourages ecclesiastical immorality, especially among its leadership. The information in this chapter was gathered through oral interviews with key Afro-Pentecostal church leaders, ecclesiastical leaders from the mainline churches, and through extensive readings of relevant materials.

The conventional view of Rule 48(a) dismissals distinguishes between two types of motions to dismiss: (1) those where dismissal would benefit the defendant, and (2) those where dismissal might give the Government a tactical advantage against the defendant, perhaps because prosecutors seek to dismiss the case and then file new charges. In United States v. Flynn, the Department of Justice argues that Rule 48(a)’s “leave of court” requirement applies exclusively to the latter category of motions to dismiss; where the dismissal accrues to the benefit of the defendant, judicial meddling is unwarranted and improper. In support, the Government relies on forty-year-old dicta in the sole U.S. Supreme Court case interpreting Rule 48(a), Rinaldi v. United States. There, the Court stated that the “leave of court” language was added to Rule 48(a) “without explanation,” but “apparently” this verbiage had as its “principal object . . . to protect a defendant against prosecutorial harassment.” But the Government’s position—and the U.S. Supreme Court language upon which it is based—is simply wrong. In fact, the “principal object” of Rule 48(a)’s “leave of court” requirement was not to protect the interests of individual defendants, but rather to guard against dubious dismissals of criminal cases that would benefit powerful and well-connected defendants. In other words, it was drafted and enacted precisely to deal with the situation that has arisen in United States v. Flynn: its purpose was to empower the Judiciary to limit dismissal in cases where the district court suspects that some impropriety prompted the Executive’s decision to abandon a case. To be clear, there may be good reason for the district court to grant the Government’s motion to dismiss in United States v. Flynn. But the fiction that Rule 48(a) exists solely, or even chiefly, to protect defendants against prosecutorial mischief should be abandoned. This brief Essay recounts Rule 48’s forgotten history.

The relationship between quantum entanglement and classical impropriety is considered in the context of multi-modal squeezed states of light. Replacing operators with complex Gaussian random variables in the Bogoliubov transformations for squeezed states, we find that the resulting transformed variables are not only correlated but also improper. A simple threshold exceedance model of photon detection is considered and used to demonstrate how the behavior of improper Gaussian random variables can mimic that of entangled photon pairs when coincidence post-selection is performed., Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure

Resumo Este estudo analisa a Resolução n. 179/2017-CNMP, que regulamentou, no âmbito do Ministério Público, a tomada de compromisso de ajustamento de conduta. Discute-se a natureza, o objeto, a competência e o impacto desse mecanismo de solução extrajudicial de conflitos diante do problema da crise da jurisdição existente no Brasil. Também se avalia a Resolução no que se refere à expressa possibilidade de sua utilização em matéria de improbidade administrativa, em aparente contrariedade à Lei n. 8.429/1992. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica e do emprego do método dedutivo, conclui-se o artigo apontando-se as possibilidades e os limites do ato do CNMP. Abstract The study examines the Resolution n. 179/2017-CNMP, which regulates, within the scope of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the commitment to conduct adjustment. The nature, object, competence, and impact of this out-of-court dispute resolution mechanism is studied in the face of the crisis of jurisdiction in Brazil. The Resolution also evaluates with regard to the manifest possibility of its use in matters of administrative impropriety, in apparent contradiction to Law n. 8.429/1992. From a bibliographical research and the use of the deductive method, the study concludes pointing out the possibilities and the limits of the act of the CNMP.

Grotesque and vulgar, the masked character Gongoli upends the codes of Mende decorum in his madcap pursuit of laughs. His impropriety goes so far as to allow his mask to fall, comically revealing the identity of his dancer and subverting the anonymity so elemental to his fellow spirits’ vaunted status. Yet despite such transgressions, he stands among the most beloved figures of Sierra Leone's rich performance traditions. Gongoli's popularity hinges on his irreverence towards the fundamental laws of masked dance, laws that also regulate the balance between individual agency and communal responsibility, between internal desire and external restraint. The only quality necessary to play Gongoli is shamelessness (ngufe baa), and the greatest performers are acrobats braving risks that are not physical, but social. This article follows Siloh, an itinerant performer whose celebrity inheres in his uncanny similarity to the Gongoli he often plays. The composite figure Siloh Gongoli exemplifies a comic aesthetic relished throughout Sierra Leone in storytelling, ritual, festivals, videos and radio shows. Although mobilized for different ends, each of these conventions undermines principles of self-effacement, gerontocratic privilege and esoteric power by shamelessly playing with and within the existential tensions between interior and exterior selves.

This article proposes that the tragic intensity of Henry James’s major phase—an intensity marked by highly recursive nuances of represented psychology, by a frankness about the power of erotic love both to redeem and to destroy, and by elaborate metaphoric conceits that in their mysterious richness remain unrivaled in the history of the novel—is always accompanied by, is indeed deeply enmeshed with, a contrary tendency that is bawdy, unserious, low. It isolates the obscene double entendre as the linguistic device by which James most directly conducts the bawdy countercurrent in his late fiction, a countercurrent the article reads in terms of Jamesian camp. Combining the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser with recent work in affect theory—specifically Sianne Ngai’s work on tone—the article offers readings of James’s The Sacred Fount (1901) and The Golden Bowl (1904) in terms of the strategic unseriousness enacted by his use of the double entendre. Engaging with recent queer-theoretical scholarship on James, the article suggests that the category of “camp” can help clarify James’s mischievous recourse to bawdy double entendres across his corpus and especially in his late work. Camp, it suggests, names an interpretational hesitation between generic frames like comedy and tragedy. In his bawdy double entendres, James provides a kind of resting place from what Susan Sontag has called the “excruciating” tonal textures of his major phase.