Thinking the African Paradigm with Pierre Mutunda Mwembo
Thinking the African Paradigm with Pierre Mutunda Mwembo
Jean Willy Biayi
This special issue, composed for Pierre Mutunda Mwembo on the occasion of his admission to emeritus, attempts - as is customary - to address one of the preoccupations of the man to whom we pay tribute.
We have therefore chosen to prod...
Read the paperContext of Use of the Harmonic Average
Alain Lukoji Tshibangu
The harmonic mean is well known only by its mathematical formula and the context of its use is not known by the majority of scientists. On the other hand, for many, finding an average means calculating the arithmetic mean. In this article we wi...
Read the paperThe Future is Our Business: A Guided Tour of Foresight Research
Mutunda Mwembo Pierre Professeur Emérite
This text confirms the locomotor role of foresight in interdisciplinary research. He specifies that this science does not want to blend into prophecy, divinatory art, rigid and inflexible prediction... In addition to being rational, methodical ...
Read the paperOn the Identification of Rainfall Variability in the Subequatorial Zone Case of Rainfall Observed in the Ngandajika Region in the South-Central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Alphonse Kambi Dibaya Okito
In the intertropical region, precipitation varies from one year to another. The annual series of these precipitations is a chronological series. To identify the variability of this series, it is recommended to use rigid statistical tests. The p...
Read the paperGender-indexing phoric elements in idioms
Francis Ngoyi Créqui Tshimanga
Although some elements of idioms are more or less fixed, phoric elements seem to be the most flexible since they are interpretable only with consideration of their coreferential antecedents whose features they mirror. Among the most mirrored fe...
Read the paperThe Democratic Republic of Congo between abolitionism and retentionism of the death penalty
Charles Kazadi Bengankuna Kanyinda Ph.D
The Democratic Republic of Congo teeters between abolitionism and retentionism of the death penalty. Indeed, at the same time as it enshrines in article 215 the primacy of international public order, the Congolese DR constituent restricts, in a...
Read the paperThe elections of November 28, 2011 and their socio-political and economic consequences
Moïse Kalenga Tshiananga
The presidential and legislative elections organized in the Democratic Republic of Congo on November 28, 2011, were the subject of much criticism and protests throughout the world. This is why, with the aim of trying to seek light on this subje...
Read the paperInvestigating the Effectiveness of the Techniques Applied to Teach Vocabulary in MbujiMayi
Franklin Tshimanga Bukasa PhD Student
This paper is about the mismatch between vocabulary (its nature and importance in language) and the techniques used for teaching it. It is obvious that vocabulary is not solely a given meaning of a word; it is actually the study of the words of...
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