Concept Of Witness Research Articles

The Body, the Earth. The Participation of Disabled People in the Environmental Discourse

The essay aims to challenge the position of disability within environmental analyses and activism. I explore the broad environmentally focused discourse: namely, I will refer to the sociocultural texts, ideologies and worldviews that are implicated in the accounts of the environmental crises provoked by climate change. Which subjects have a voice, and which tend to remain in the background? Should the environmental discourse be understood as “neutral”, because of what is at stake on a global level? I will consider these concerns through the lens of disability. Firstly, I will explore how disability usually functions as a signpost for two issues: (I) disabled people are represented as victims of the precarious living conditions exacerbated by climate change and environmental devastation and, (II) disability is employed as a cautionary tale regarding the outcomes of environmental devastation. Secondly, I will examine a performance called “The Mermaid”, by Australian artist Hanna Cormick, which addresses the intersection of disability and environmental damage. I will read Cormick’s work through Donna Haraway’s concept of witness, proposing an update of environmental discourses. The aim behind this new framework is to positively situate disabled people: they should play an active role in addressing toxicity, capitalist extractivism and the entangled nature between the human subject and the environment.

The Church as a Court

U Novome zavjetu, Crkva je opisana raznim slikama, a ovaj članak ukazuje na to kako jedna od slika Crkve, koja je implicitno prisutna u Novome zavjetu, jest slika Crkve kao „suda“ ili „zajednice suđenja“. To se može tvrditi zbog toga što, prije svega, Jahve – Bog Biblije – je Stvoritelj, Kralj i Sudac. To znači kako je Jahvina zajednica, u skladu s Njegovim otkrivenjem, dužna održavati čistoću svojih članova u svim aspektima života. Drugo, u Novome zavjetu nalazimo primjere gdje Crkva funkcionira kao sud. No pitanje je podržava li biblijska zapovijed o „dvama ili trima svjedocima“ također tvrdnju da bi Crkva trebala djelovati kao sud? Svrha je ovog članka identificirati mjesta na kojima se pojavljuje zapovijed o „dvama ili trima svjedocima“, pratiti njezin razvoj i vidjeti kakvu ulogu i mjesto ima u Crkvi. Time bismo pokazali da je prisutnost ove odredbe u Novom zavjetu dodatni dokaz kako bismo na Crkvu ponekad trebali gledati kao na „sud“. Prvi dio članka objašnjava kako je kontekst za koncept svjedočenja Mojsijev savez te on ujedno predstavlja i temeljnu postavku koja upravlja zapovijedi o „dvama ili trima svjedocima“. Drugi dio članka analizira pojavu i korištenje ove zapovijedi u Starome zavjetu. Treći dio članka utvrđuje kako je Crkva uistinu zajednica koja sudi i ta se tvrdnja temelji na promatranju odabranih primjera iz Novog zavjeta koji nam pokazuju da Crkva ponekad djeluje kao sud te praćenjem razvoja odredbe o „dvama ili trima svjedocima“ u Novom zavjetu. Na kraju, na temelju poduzetog istraživanja, članak završava refleksijom i zaključkom.

Witnessing Together – Who, What and to Whom? The Concept of Witness in Together Towards Life and The Church: Towards a Common Vision

‘Witness’ belongs to the central vocabulary of contemporary ecumenism. Despite its ecumenically significant role the concept has not been defined in ecumenical dialogues, neither analysed in academic research. Already a rough mapping of dialogue documents shows that the concept is used in various ways and contexts but not in a coherent or conscious way. This article studies the meaning of ‘witness’ in two ecumenical documents issued by the World Council of Churches, ‘Together towards Life. Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes’ (2012) and ‘The Church: Towards a Common Vision’ (2013). Both documents see witness as the characteristically Christian way of participating in the mission of the Triune God but give it different roles in the life of the church.

Unakrsno ispitivanje svedoka u krivičnom postupku

This paper analyses the cross-examination of witnesses in criminal proceedings, mentioned first in the Constitution of 2006 and finally introduced into our legal system by the Code of Criminal Procedure of 2011. This concept of examination implies the right of a party party to criminal proceedings to examine a witness proposed by the other party. As this phase of examination of witnesses is typical for adversarial model of criminal proceedings, the paper explains the basics of witness testimony in adversarial, but also in the mixed type of criminal proceedings, followed by explanation of the characteristics of the criminal proceedings in our country, with reference to the present Code of Criminal Procedure. In order to grasp this problem in full, the paper deals with the concept of witnesses in criminal proceedings as well as the cross-examination of the witnesses, through the most important domestic and international legal sources. Lastly, the goals and types of cross-examination of witnesses are explained and practical advice for examiners is given.

Pojęcie świadka w kanonicznym i polskim postępowaniu karnym

The aim of this article was to show both similarities and differences in defining a witness in canonical criminal proceedings as well as in Polish criminal procedure. The witness’s testimony is one of the most frequently used types of evidence in both kinds of proceedings. It is also one of the most important sources of evidence in these legal orders. The concept of witness, his rights and obligations and individual cate­go­ries of witnesses in Polish criminal proceedings and under canon law are not identical. More­over, the 1983 Code of Canon Law does not provide for specific forms of inter­ro­ga­tion, such as: identity parade or interrogation during an inspection or experiment, as is the case in the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure .

Jednota a poslání: podněty k reflexi o vztahu mezi ekumenismem a misijním působením církve

In the apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis expressed his conviction concerning the profound link between the ecumenical efforts and the mission activity of the Church. This impulse, which remains fully in continuity with the magistery of the Catholic Church and with the initial incentives of the modern ecumenical movement as well, is deserving of special reflection. A missionary imperative brings us into the focus of all kinds of struggles to become closer to the disciples of Christ, which is the high priestly prayer of Jesus (cf. John 17:21). The article pays attention to the inner connection between the missionary and ecumenical dynamic, considering the concept of witness as the essence of the Christian missio. A witness open towards martyrdom is an effective manifestation of God's self-giving love for the world, which lies at the nature of the Church as a communion of love. The fundamental features and principles of the ecumenical effort as a whole arise from this source.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for bipartite entanglement

Necessary and sufficient conditions for bipartite entanglement are derived, which apply to arbitrary Hilbert spaces. Motivated by the concept of witnesses, optimized entanglement inequalities are formulated solely in terms of arbitrary Hermitian operators, which makes them useful for applications in experiments. The needed optimization procedure is based on a separability eigenvalue problem, whose analytical solutions are derived for a special class of projection operators. For general Hermitian operators, a numerical implementation of entanglement tests is proposed. It is also shown how to identify bound entangled states with positive partial transposition.

Bit-Parallel Witnesses and Their Applications to Approximate String Matching

We present a new bit-parallel technique for approximate string matching. We build on two previous techniques. The first one, BPM (Myers, 1999), searches for a pattern of length m in a text of length n permitting k differences in $O(\lceil m/w \rceil n)$ time, where w is the width of the computer word. The second one, ABNDM (Navarro and Raffinot, 2000), extends a sublinear-time exact algorithm to approximate searching. ABNDM relies on another algorithm, BPA (Wu and Manber, 1992), which makes use of an $O(k \lceil m/w \rceil n)$ time algorithm for its internal workings. BPA is slow but flexible enough to support all operations required by ABNDM. We improve previous ABNDM analyses, showing that it is average-optimal in number of inspected characters, although the overall complexity is higher because of the $O(k \lceil m/w \rceil )$ work done per inspected character. We then show that the faster BPM can be adapted to support all the operations required by ABNDM. This involves extending it to compute edit distance, to search for any pattern suffix, and to detect in advance the impossibility of a later match. The solution to those challenges is based on the concept of a witness, which permits sampling some dynamic programming matrix values to bound, deduce or compute others fast. The resulting algorithm is average-optimal for m ≤ w, assuming the alphabet size is constant. In practice, it performs better than the original ABNDM and is the fastest algorithm for several combinations of m, k and alphabet sizes that are useful, for example, in natural language searching and computational biology. To show that the concept of witnesses can be used in further scenarios, we also improve a recent variant of BPM. The use of witnesses greatly improves the running time of this algorithm too.

The Concept of Witness in the Christian Tradition. From its Origin to its Institutionalization

The Concept of Witness in the Christian Tradition. From its Origin to its Institutionalization

Book Review: The New Testament Concept of Witness

Book Review: The New Testament Concept of Witness