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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
24,292 Views
13 Pages

7 December 2022

To examine the sophists and their legacy, it is necessary to reconsider the relation between Socrates and the sophists. The trial of Socrates in 399 BCE seems to have changed people’s attitudes towards and conceptions of the sophists drasticall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,704 Views
14 Pages

25 May 2022

Following insights by Pierre Hadot, I suggest that although explicit discussions of practices of breath control and other psychosomatic techniques of contemplative attention management are conspicuously absent in early Greek thought, there are some s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
23,523 Views
23 Pages

14 November 2017

Coniine, a polyketide-derived alkaloid, is poisonous to humans and animals. It is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist, which leads to inhibition of the nervous system, eventually causing death by suffocation in mammals. Coniine’s most famou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
789 Views
29 Pages

16 October 2025

The Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) was an aircraft-based campaign (15 January–26 February 2018) that deployed in situ probes and remote sensors to investigate low-level clouds over the Southern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,599 Views
15 Pages

9 April 2015

A long-standing debate among moral philosophers centers on the question of whether ignorance is always at the root of moral wrongdoing, or whether, in certain cases, wrongdoing stems from something else—namely akrasia. This paper is a discussion of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,660 Views
16 Pages

3 September 2018

Read theologically, Plato’s Symposium is an exercise in doxology: how Eros is to be praised. Pausanias observes that, since Eros is not one, a unitary praise will be inadequate. Proposing a focus on praxis, he classifies erotic praxes, and prai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
752 Views
16 Pages

Fostering Student Engagement and Learning Perception Through Socratic Dialogue with ChatGPT: A Case Study in Physics Education

  • Ayax Santos-Guevara,
  • Osvaldo Aquines-Gutiérrez,
  • Humberto Martínez-Huerta,
  • Wendy Xiomara Chavarría-Garza and
  • José Antonio Azuela

24 January 2026

This classroom-based case study examines how an AI-mediated Socratic dialogue, implemented through ChatGPT, can support students’ engagement and perceived learning in undergraduate thermodynamics. Conducted in a first-year engineering physics c...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,793 Views
10 Pages

25 August 2025

In this paper, a hybrid flipped classroom–Socratic method (HFC-SBM) is proposed as an active and effective method of teaching and learning to enhance the success rate in the subject of electrical machines. The proposed method was applied in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,943 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2022

The development and application of modern technology are an essential basis for the efficient monitoring of species in natural habitats to assess the change of ecosystems, species communities and populations, and in order to understand important driv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,016 Views
9 Pages

12 January 2024

This article provides a critical examination of the Socratic Dialogue method, exploring its potential benefits and pitfalls in fostering intercultural and interreligious understanding in the classroom. Drawing on postcolonial theoretical perspectives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,473 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2023

Socrates’ use of performative contradiction against sophistic theories is a recurrent motif in Plato’s dialogues. In the case of Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias, Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras’ homo mensura doctrine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,023 Views
14 Pages

This paper is about the notion of conflict in the work of John Dewey. Special attention is given to Democracy and Education (1916) because of its centennial and its acclaimed status of “magnum opus”. After depicting “conflicts as gadflies” that stir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,802 Views
28 Pages

Socrates: A Novel N-Ethyl-N-nitrosourea-Induced Mouse Mutant with Audiogenic Epilepsy

  • Elena G. Varlamova,
  • Ekaterina V. Borisova,
  • Yuliya A. Evstratova,
  • Andrew G. Newman,
  • Vera P. Kuldaeva,
  • Maria S. Gavrish,
  • Elena V. Kondakova,
  • Victor S. Tarabykin,
  • Alexey A. Babaev and
  • Egor A. Turovsky

4 December 2023

Epilepsy is one of the common neurological diseases that affects not only adults but also infants and children. Because epilepsy has been studied for a long time, there are several pharmacologically effective anticonvulsants, which, however, are not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,639 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2021

This paper explores the models of the providential-erotic descent in Neoplatonism and Christianity and the ethical consequences that these two models entail. Neoplatonic representative is an excerpt from Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,217 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2024

Generative Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), powered by advanced language models like GPT-4, represent a transformative approach to personalized education through real-time adaptability, dynamic content generation, and interactive learning. This s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,918 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2019

In this article, I examine the possible thought experimenting qualities of Søren Kierkegaard’s novel Fear and Trembling and in which way (if any) it can be explanatory. Kierkegaard’s preference for pseudonyms, indirect communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,455 Views
16 Pages

For novice students, developing disciplinary literacy in literature courses in English as a Foreign Language education (EFL) at university entails mastering a number of skills. The purpose of this small-scale action research study is to investigate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,429 Views
24 Pages

SOCRAT: A Dynamic Web Toolbox for Interactive Data Processing, Analysis and Visualization

  • Alexandr A. Kalinin,
  • Selvam Palanimalai,
  • Junqi Zhu,
  • Wenyi Wu,
  • Nikhil Devraj,
  • Chunchun Ye,
  • Nellie Ponarul,
  • Syed S. Husain and
  • Ivo D. Dinov

19 November 2022

Many systems for exploratory and visual data analytics require platform-dependent software installation, coding skills, and analytical expertise. The rapid advances in data-acquisition, web-based information, and communication and computation technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,803 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2024

This paper addresses the current state of civic education legislation in higher education. While state-level legislation that aims to improve civics in colleges and universities in the United States is laudable, such laws run the risk of meeting stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,413 Views
19 Pages

Tools and Technologies for Sustainable Territorial Development in the Context of a Quadruple Innovation Helix

  • Danila Parygin,
  • Natalia Sadovnikova,
  • Leyla Gamidullaeva,
  • Anton Finogeev and
  • Nikolay Rashevskiy

25 July 2022

The study of the problem of sustainable development of urban areas led to the understanding of the important role that population involvement plays in solving the issues related to forming a comfortable urban environment. It is normal practice to tak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,002 Views
20 Pages

25 July 2025

This study explores the Bonaventurian synthesis of the human being as imago et similitudo Dei, highlighting its anthropological and existential implications. Against the backdrop of contemporary reductionist approaches that fragment the understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,680 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2021

The intensive and systematic scholarly interest in the relation of Patočka’s phenomenology to religion and Christianity is recent and has only intensified over the last ten years. Thus far, the topic has mainly been studied from philosophical and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
791 Views
15 Pages

15 December 2025

Educational chatbots are increasingly deployed to scaffold student learning, yet educators lack scalable ways to assess the cognitive depth of these dialogues in situ. Bloom’s taxonomy provides a principled lens for characterizing reasoning, bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,796 Views
15 Pages

30 November 2021

COVID-19 vaccines are crucial for achieving sufficient immunisation coverage to manage the pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy persists. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and determinants of vaccine hesitancy in adults and in parents for vac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,077 Views
21 Pages

25 September 2023

Antilogies, or pairs of symmetrically opposed speeches or arguments, were generally ignored by Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, and Diogenes Laertius, and, later, by Eduard Norden, Hermann Diels, and most modern scholars of antiquity. As a conseq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,325 Views
11 Pages

12 August 2024

Mathematician and philosopher Charles Howard Hinton posited a plausible correlation between higher-dimensional spaces, also referred to as ‘hyperspaces’, and the allegorical concept articulated by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,184 Views
19 Pages

Rethinking the powers of the imagination, Søren Kierkegaard both anticipates and challenges contemporary approaches to a descriptive philosophy of religion. In contrast to the reigning approaches to religion in his day, Kierkegaard reconceives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,197 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2018

The moral and ethical challenges of living in community pertain not only to the intersection of human beings one with another, but also our interactions with our machine creations. This article explores the philosophical and theological framework for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,696 Views
22 Pages

28 April 2022

Using document analysis, religion and philosophy pre-service teachers’ reflections on argumentation and in-class argumentation practices, which were received online, during the Special Teaching Methods course were examined. These documents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,802 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2024

Traditional Chinese philosophy has always paid much attention to the cultivation of one’s body and mind, speeches and behaviors. The contemporary rise of philosophical practice, especially in the context of philosophical counseling, presents an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,341 Views
22 Pages

Critical thinking (CT) is one of the most important 21st-century skills that employers believe will grow in prominence. However, many higher education (HE) graduates often lack it. This is also true for graduates in computer science (CS) and related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,359 Views
19 Pages

While pharmacy education successfully employs various methodologies including case-based learning and simulated patient interactions, providing consistent, individualized guidance at scale remains challenging in team-based learning environments. Arti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,289 Views
22 Pages

12 December 2025

The Ancient Greeks foresaw non-human automata and the power of dialogic learning, but Generative AI and AgenticAI afford the prospect of going beyond interlocutor to co-creator in an empowering partnership between learner and AI agent to address &lsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,315 Views
9 Pages

Plasma P-Tau181 for the Discrimination of Alzheimer’s Disease from Other Primary Dementing and/or Movement Disorders

  • John S. Tzartos,
  • Fotini Boufidou,
  • Christos Stergiou,
  • Jens Kuhle,
  • Eline Willemse,
  • Lina Palaiodimou,
  • Ioanna Tsantzali,
  • Eleni Sideri,
  • Anastasios Bonakis and
  • George P. Paraskevas
  • + 5 authors

10 August 2022

Blood phospho-tau181 may offer a useful biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease. However, the use of either serum or plasma phospho-tau181 and their diagnostic value are currently under intense investigation. In a pilot study, we measured both serum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,111 Views
16 Pages

Structural Insights into the Role of β3 nAChR Subunit in the Activation of Nicotinic Receptors

  • Petros Giastas,
  • Athanasios Papakyriakou,
  • George Tsafaras,
  • Socrates J. Tzartos and
  • Marios Zouridakis

20 July 2022

The β3 subunit of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) participates in heteropentameric assemblies with some α and other β neuronal subunits forming a plethora of various subtypes, differing in their electrophysiological and pha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,300 Views
15 Pages

Will the Effects of COVID-19 on Commuting and Daily Activities of the University Students Be Maintained? Evidence from a Small Town in Sicily

  • Tiziana Campisi,
  • Kh Md Nahiduzzaman,
  • Andreas Nikiforiadis,
  • Nikiforos Stamatiadis and
  • Socrates Basbas

10 May 2022

As many studies have already shown, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the daily routines of people all over the world. University students form one of the most affected groups of people, since they have had to interrupt many of the acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,337 Views
23 Pages

The Anticipated Use of Public Transport in the Post-Pandemic Era: Insights from an Academic Community in Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Despoina Tsavdari,
  • Vasileia Klimi,
  • Georgios Georgiadis,
  • Grigorios Fountas and
  • Socrates Basbas

3 September 2022

This paper investigates how the travel behavior relating to Public Transport (PT) changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which are the expectations about the extent of PT use post-pandemic. A revealed preferences questionnaire survey was distribut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,227 Views
18 Pages

Slotted Monopole Patch Antenna for Microwave-Based Head Imaging Applications

  • Abdulrahman Alqahtani,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam,
  • Md Siam Talukder,
  • Md Samsuzzaman,
  • Mohsen Bakouri,
  • Sofiene Mansouri,
  • Thamer Almoneef,
  • Socrates Dokos and
  • Yousef Alharbi

23 September 2022

A modified monopole patch antenna for microwave-based hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke recognition is presented in this article. The designed antenna is fabricated on a cost-effective FR-4 lossy material with a 0.02 loss tangent and 4.4 dielectric cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,045 Views
12 Pages

Impact of Cassava Starch Varieties on the Physiochemical Change during Enzymatic Hydrolysis

  • Fabiola Cornejo,
  • Pedro Maldonado-Alvarado,
  • Sócrates Palacios-Ponce,
  • David Hugo and
  • Cristina M. Rosell

18 September 2022

The enzymatic modification of starch extends its industrial use to flavor delivery and probiotic encapsulants, among other uses. However, it is not known how starch from different cassava varieties responds to enzymatic hydrolysis. Starches from two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,199 Views
17 Pages

Life-Space Mobility and Objectively Measured Movement Behavior in Older Adults with Hypertension after Receiving COVID-19 Vaccination

  • Rodrigo A. V. Browne,
  • Ludmila L. P. Cabral,
  • Gledson T. A. Oliveira,
  • Geovani A. D. Macêdo,
  • Júlio Sócrates,
  • Raíssa de M. Silva,
  • Maria B. F. Araújo,
  • Yuri A. Freire and
  • Eduardo C. Costa

This study examined the changes in life-space (LS) mobility and objectively measured movement behavior in older adults with hypertension after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and their associations with housing type. A total of 32 participants were in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,527 Views
15 Pages

Wear Resistance of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings on Ti-6Al-4V Eli Alloy Processed by Additive Manufacturing

  • Pedro Bell Santos,
  • Victor Velho de Castro,
  • Estela Kerstner Baldin,
  • Cesar Aguzzoli,
  • Guilherme Arthur Longhitano,
  • André Luiz Jardini,
  • Éder Sócrates Najar Lopes,
  • Antonio Marcos Helgueira de Andrade and
  • Célia de Fraga Malfatti

23 June 2022

The additive manufacturing (AM) technique can produce Ti-6Al-4V ELI (extra low interstitial) alloy for personalized biomedical devices. However, the Ti-6Al-4V ELI alloy presents poor tribological behavior. Regarding this, coatings are a feasible appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,685 Views
16 Pages

The Role of Personal Identity Attributes in Transport Mode Choice: The Case Study of Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Nikoleta Senikidou,
  • Socrates Basbas,
  • Georgios Georgiadis and
  • Tiziana Campisi

1 December 2022

People make numerous trips every day for a variety of purposes. Transport mode choice directly impacts travel time, congestion, and environmental conditions. It also depends on various economic, social, environmental, and personal related factors. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,518 Views
12 Pages

A Comparison of Two Analytical Approaches for the Quantification of Neurofilament Light Chain, a Biomarker of Axonal Damage in Multiple Sclerosis

  • Anna Pafiti,
  • George Krashias,
  • John Tzartos,
  • Socrates Tzartos,
  • Christos Stergiou,
  • Eftychia Gaglia,
  • Irene Smoleski,
  • Christina Christodoulou,
  • Marios Pantzaris and
  • Anastasia Lambrianides

Neurofilament light chain (NfL), is a neuron-specific cytoskeletal protein detected in extracellular fluid following axonal damage. Extensive research has focused on NfL quantification in CSF, establishing it as a prognostic biomarker of disability p...

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