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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...anufactured by the Duryea Power Company. In 1914 he gave up business and became an engineering consultant. http://duryea.ssi.net/links.htm C... ...ive support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the patent is registered to one, E... ...ne market and divested all its other businesses. http://www.nokia.com/ Number Notation The United States does not use the metric system. But... ...todecillion, novemdecillion, vigintillion. In the French and American system of notation, each number is a thousand times the preceding number. ... ...rminals. The Pentagon has its own metro (subway) station. This masterpiece of engineering was designed by George Edwin Bergstrom. Despite its ... ...", both 1481). Most of the sketches and studies for Leonardo's works of art and engineering are found on his shopping lists, personal notes, and...

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Data Recovery E-Book

By: EaseUS

...his marvelous device. Before the disk drive there were drums... In 1950 Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the first commercial ... ... drives (i.e. prior to Windows 95) will refer to a cylinder/ head/ sector notation. A cylinder is formed while all drive heads are in the same positi...

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Data Recovery E-Book

By: EaseUS

...his marvelous device. Before the disk drive there were drums... In 1950 Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the first commercial ... ... drives (i.e. prior to Windows 95) will refer to a cylinder/ head/ sector notation. A cylinder is formed while all drive heads are in the same positi...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...ke your selection’. He clicked again, this time an order form appeared with the following notation: ‘Describe in detail your request’. Brand began ... ...come up with some exceptional aircraft. The rumors are that they were developed from back engineering crashed extraterrestrial spacecrafts. Personall...

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The Art of Anti-War

By: Florentin Smarandache

...jection, transversal concordant ..........66 The maps’ nomenclature in the Gauss projection...................66 The rectangular systemless and its notations ....................67 The numeric scale and the simple graphic scale...................67 The representation of planymetry’s details on the topographic maps. ............68 The unconventional signs ................

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Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion (Collected Works) : Volume 2

By: Florentin Smarandache; Jean Dezert

... on advances and applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) for information fusion collects recent papers from different researchers working in engineering and mathematics. Part 1 of this book presents the current state-of-the-art on theoretical investigations while, Part 2 presents several applications of this new theory. Some ideas in this book are still under curr...

.... . . . . 367 15.3 How to avoid the complexity . . . . . . . . 369 15.3.1 Simpler way to view the DSmT hybrid rule of combination . . . 369 15.3.2 Notation system used . . . . . . . . 371 15.3.3 How simple can it be . . . . . . . . . 373 15.3.4 Optimization in the calculation algorithm . . . . . . 375 15.3.5 Performances analysis . . . . . . . . 381 15.4 Conclusion ...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...the information granules and as follows: and for any and , (31) The summation notation must be interpreted as the sum over all such that (interpre ... ...interpreted as the sum over all such that (interpre tation for other summation notations follows directly by analogy). The orthogonal sum is a proper... ...ng these numbers is exactly the Dedekind’s problem. The choice of letter in our notation to represent the hyper power set of is in honour of the great... ... characterized respectively by their bpa , and their cores , . Following Sun’s notation [66], each source of information will be denoted (42) (43) ... ...sification multi capteurs de cibles”, AGARD Avionics Panel Symposium on Software Engineering and Its Applications, Turkey, April 25 29, 1988. [4] Bayes... ...roFuzzy and Neutrosophic controllers, which would be of great use in financial engineering and risk optimizations and analyzing stock price behavior... ..., A and Non-A, in Neutrosophy Feng Liu Department of Management Science and Engineering Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus) So... ...toward Agent’s Logic Ontology Feng Liu Department of Management Science and Engineering Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus) So... ...omething with flexibility. Our multiagent system has become a sort of software engineering or system engineering of fresh forms, failing to implement...

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Fuzzy Relational Maps and Neutrosophic Relational Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...cts 164 Chapter Two SOME APPLICATIONS OF FRE 2.1 Use of FRE in Chemical Engineering 167 2.2 New FRE to estimate the peak hours of the day... ...es of binary relations such that R = P ° Q. We can then write using this matrix notations [r ij ] = [p ik ] ° [q kj ] where r ij = k max mi... ...n are replaced with the min and max operations respectively. We shall give the notational conventions. Consider three fuzzy binary relations P (X, ... ... solving p ° Q = r we need to introduce some additional concepts and convenient notation. First let ℘ denote the set of all possible vectors. p = {... ... 1) n = 2, 3,… where R is a fuzzy relation on X 2 and R (1) = R. Using this notation the reader is expected to prove the following theorem: T... ... distinguished by the suffix λ. Like as p λ and x λ * (a set of λ is finite in engineering application, but this restriction is not needed in theor... ...eral of the applications of fuzzy relational equations in studies like chemical engineering, transportation, medicine etc. The fuzzy relational equa... ...to special problem. [81, 85, 100-101,111, 114] 2.1 Use of FRE in chemical engineering The use of fuzzy relational equations (FRE) for the fi... ... of genetic algorithms in chemical problems. 4.11.1 Use of NRE in chemical engineering The use of FRE for the first line has been used in th...

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Noi Functii in Teoria Numerelor

By: Florentin Smarandache

...cts 164 Chapter Two SOME APPLICATIONS OF FRE 2.1 Use of FRE in Chemical Engineering 167 2.2 New FRE to estimate the peak hours of the day... ...es of binary relations such that R = P ° Q. We can then write using this matrix notations [r ij ] = [p ik ] ° [q kj ] where r ij = k max mi... ...n are replaced with the min and max operations respectively. We shall give the notational conventions. Consider three fuzzy binary relations P (X, ... ... solving p ° Q = r we need to introduce some additional concepts and convenient notation. First let ℘ denote the set of all possible vectors. p = {... ... 1) n = 2, 3,… where R is a fuzzy relation on X 2 and R (1) = R. Using this notation the reader is expected to prove the following theorem: T... ... distinguished by the suffix λ. Like as p λ and x λ * (a set of λ is finite in engineering application, but this restriction is not needed in theor... ...eral of the applications of fuzzy relational equations in studies like chemical engineering, transportation, medicine etc. The fuzzy relational equa... ...to special problem. [81, 85, 100-101,111, 114] 2.1 Use of FRE in chemical engineering The use of fuzzy relational equations (FRE) for the fi... ... of genetic algorithms in chemical problems. 4.11.1 Use of NRE in chemical engineering The use of FRE for the first line has been used in th...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant increase... ...ve been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need of ... ...denote the combined FCM adjacency matrix by E = E 1 + E 2 + …+ E p . NOTATION: Suppose A = (a 1 , … , a n ) is a vector which is passed into a d... .... Before defining the cognitive structure of the relationship, we give notations to the concepts involved in the analysis as below. C 1 - Fr... ...tial version of FCM matrix can be built as in Table 1. The description of notations is given below: • • : Market Share +1 : Positive cause-and... ...mercially available FCM tools: Fuzzy Thought Amplifier from Fuzzy Systems Engineering (Poway, CA) or RTFCM (Version 2), developed by Taber and Ring ... ...(r) = {Affects, Requires, Multiple_relationship, Stop-relationship} The notation used for each type of relationship (causal) is shown in the follow... ...edge and experience. These are functions of the expert's common sense and engineering judgments. Moreover the parameters are tunable in FCMs flexibl... .... Fuzzy Thought Amplifier. The Fuzzy Cognitive Map Program, Fuzzy Systems Engineering, USA. http://www.fuzzysys.com/ftaprod.html 37. Georgopoulous, ...

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Basic Neutrosophic Algebraic Structures and Their Application to Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Models

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ice. Before defining the cognitive structure of the relationship, we give notations to the concepts involved in the analysis as below. a b c ... ... in which at least one edge is an indeterminacy denoted by dotted lines. NOTATION: The indeterminacy of an edge between two vertices will always ... ... 3.3.1: The graph given in the figure is a strongly neutrosophic graph. NOTATION: V N (G) will denote the vertices of the neutrosophic graph wit... ...atrices of binary relations such that R = P ° Q. We write this using matrix notation [r ij ] = [p ik ] o [q kj ] where r ij = min max k (p ik , q... ...s performance assessment, In Prof. of Int. Conf. on Advances in Industrial Engineering – Applications and Practice II, Jacob Chen and Anil Milal (e...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...same time, the neutrosophic logic value NL(paradox) = (1, i, 1), but this notation cannot be used in determining the fuzzy logic value FL(paradox), ... ...oenfinkel, Haskell Curry, 1920s) is a system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathematics, or functional language to a sequence of mo... ...cture. Temporal Logic is an extension of Predicate Calculus that includes notation for arguing about when (at what time) statements are true, and em... ...inacy-, and false-neutrosophic connectors. Let's reconsider the previous notations. 108 2.12. Neutrosophic Topology. A) Definitions: - Le... ...] Kasabov, N., Foundations of neural networks, fuzzy systems and knowledge engineering, MIT Press, 1996. [84] Kathwaroon, Maggie, Society for Techni...

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Today's Take on Einstein's Relativity

By: Homer B. Titon and Florentin Smarandache

...ou Can't Exceed the Speed of Light Jim Malmberg Dept. of Mathematics and Engineering Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 E. Irvington Rd./T... ...the problem. What we need is the fact that any equation written in tensor notation, correct in one frame, is also correct in any other frame of re... ... Light Can Be Changed Greg Holmberg AKA B. Bash Dept. of Mathematics and Engineering Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 E. Irvington Rd./... ...o Faster than Light: However... Homer B. Tilton Dept. of Mathematics and Engineering Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 E. Irvington Rd./... ...e paper in absentia. Disciplines represented; astronomy, computer science, engineering physics and mathematics. Papers came from Russia (paper pre... ...006 to Homer B.Tilton, Conference Chairman Department of Mathematics & Engineering Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 East Irvington Roa...

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Applications of Bimatrices to Some Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Models

By: Florentin Smarandache

...12 ⎡ ⎤ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎣ ⎦ n n mm m n aa a aa a aa a ‘ ∪’ is just the notational convenience (symbol) only. The above array is called a m ... ...c bimatrix). Just for the sake of clarity we give some illustrations. Notation: We in this book denote a neutrosophic bimatrix by A N = A 1... ... bimatrix). Just for the sake of clarity we give some illustration. 18 Notation: We denote a fuzzy bimatrix by A F = A 1 ∪ A 2 . Examp... ...1.1: In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant inc... ... have been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need... ...We denote the combined FCM adjacency matrix by E = E 1 + E 2 + …+ E p . NOTATION: Suppose A = (a 1 , … , a n ) is a vector which is passed int... ... 42. Fuzzy Thought Amplifier. The Fuzzy Cognitive Map Program, Fuzzy Systems Engineering, USA. http://www.fuzzysys.com/ftaprod.html 43. Gel'fand,... ...ess performance assessment, In Prof. of Int. Conf. on Advances in Industrial Engineering – Applications and Practice II, Jacob Chen and Anil Milal ... ...cement of Algebraic Linear Equations by Fuzzy Relation Equations in Chemical Engineering, In Recent trends in Mathematical Sciences, Proc. of Int. ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ng a long-kept secret An insect we relate more to its sting than to its engineering skills now flies into this InfoTech tale‘s nest. Paper wasp... ...ecried Archimedes‘s failure two millennia earlier to adopt the convenient notation for the powers of ten built into the zero. Gauss asked sorrowfull... ...done it.‖ When he became fourteen, this precocious boy wanted to study engineering, but his father could not afford to send him to a university. ... ...pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 The pencil managed to survive against such form... ...and Computer (ENIAC). Built at the University of Pennsylvania‘s School of Engineering, it was the prototype from which most other modern computers e... ...fts College in just three years and in 1917 received a joint doctorate in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univers...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...king a long-kept secret An insect we relate more to its sting than to its engineering skills now flies into this InfoTech tale‘s nest. Paper wasps ... ...ecried Archimedes‘s failure two millennia earlier to adopt the convenient notation for the powers of ten built into the zero. Gauss asked sorrowfull... ...s done it.‖ When he became fourteen, this precocious boy wanted to study engineering, but his father could not afford to send him to a university. ... ...pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 The pencil managed to survive against such formid... ...and Computer (ENIAC). Built at the University of Pennsylvania‘s School of Engineering, it was the prototype from which most other modern computers e... ...fts College in just three years and in 1917 received a joint doctorate in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univers...

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Utility, Rationality and Beyond – from Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

...amework. The Black-Scholes framework is the most efficient framework for engineering this type of synthetic portfolio insurance as it has ingrained... ...] / [1 - Σ A∩B = φ m 1 (A) m 2 (B)] ... (1.9) The summation notation Σ A∩B=C is necessarily interpreted as the sum over all A, B ⊆ Θ ... ...plied side. Indeed it is not too far-fetched to envisage direct financial engineering applications of our extrinsic utility model whereby custom-mad... ...Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Idaho, U.S.A., 3-7 August, 2002: 328-338. Allen, J. and S.... ...stified: Using Financial structured products. Wiley Series in Financial Engineering, N.Y.: Wiley, U.S.A., 1997. Candeal, J. C., J. R. De Miguel,... ... Human Learning and Memory 4, 1978: 551-578. Lyuu, Yuh-Dauh. Financial Engineering and Computation – Principles, Mathematics, Algorithms. Cambr...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...n area, volume, hypervolume units or Clifford-bits. In compact multi-index notation X=X M Γ M one de- notes for each one of the components of the targ... ...in their works on general relativity employ a mathematical formulation and notation which is much simpler from that of purely mathematical or mathemat... ...derivative”. In modern, math- ematically oriented literature more explicit notation such as D γμ or ∇ γμ is used. However, such a notation, although m... ...ponents vanish, i. e., when μ=0,S μν =0 andπ μ =0. This justifes using the notation m for mass. This is basically the distinction between the mass in ... ...ifford (geometric) algebras, with applications to physics, mathematics and engineering. Edited by W. E. Baylis. Birk- hauser, Boston, 1997. 51. Somaro...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ntrol consumers, an attempt which should be a valid target for legal reverse engineering. He has a point. There were indeed other ways to copy DVDs wh... ...by human beings. T rue, it is an abstract form of communication—like musical notation and mathe- matical algorithms. But those are clearly protected b... ...on decreed that the rel- evant publication was not of the record, but of the notation. If the record were pressed and sold without a copyright notice,... ... 168 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 168 tific and engineering innovation. The formulae, algorithms, and scientific dis- cove... ...rocess of one-off creations, developed with customized techniques, to a true engineering discipline, using processes and parts that are as standardize... ...nts. This is the dream of one group of synthetic biologists: that biological engineering truly become engineering, with biological black boxes that pe... ...boxes that perform all of the standard functions of electrical or mechanical engineering—measuring flow, reacting to a high signal by giving out a low ... ...rton, 2006)) is full of examples of borrowing and influence—whether of style, notation, musical conventions, or melody itself. But it is Burkholder’s b...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

... with the original owner and runs to the present owner. Chains of title include notations of deeds, judgments of distribution from estates, certifi... ...ility services for development of the Property. Lillian R. Villanova 90 XXXV. ENGINEERING PLANS AND STUDIES: Upon the execution hereof, Seller sh... ... PLANS AND STUDIES: Upon the execution hereof, Seller shall furnish to Buyer all engineering plans, drawings, surveys, artist’s renderings and econo... ...to determine the elevation, grade, and topography of the Property and to conduct engineering and soil boring tests as the Buyer deems necessary in o...

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Automorphism Groups of Maps, Surfaces and Smarandache Geometries

By: Linfan Mao

...withloopsormultipleedgesandgroupsarefiniteinthecontext. For terminology and notation not defined in this book can be seen in [33],[34] and [35] for grap... ... if its underlying graph is a complete graph. For a connected graph Γ, the notationsE O (Γ),E N (Γ) andE L (Γ) denote the embed- dings of Γ on the ori... ...worker from 1982 to 1987 and then an engineer in China Construction Second Engineering Bureau First Company until March,1999. After that, he become a ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...1.1: In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant inc... ... have been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need... ...e engineers. Using an expert's opinion we study the effect of such unemployed engineering graduates in the society. An expert spells out the five ma... ...We denote the combined FCM adjacency matrix by E = E 1 + E 2 + …+ E p . Notation: Suppose A = (a 1 , … , a n ) is a vector which is passed int... ...NCMs adjacency neutrosophic matrix by N(E) = N(E 1 ) + N(E 2 )+…+ N(E p ). NOTATION: Let (a 1 , a 2 , … , a n ) and (a' 1 , a' 2 , … , a' n ) be t... ... Dalit and Sudra students find it difficult to enter any professional course: engineering, medicine, law or architecture. At times, even if they qua... ...ntage enrolls for higher education they are denied seats in medical colleges, engineering course and for certain bachelor degrees. They are bluntly ...

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleges have been approved and started. The resultant increas... ...e been approved and started. The resultant increase in the production of engineering graduates in these years is disproportionate with the need of ... ...enote the combined FCM adjacency matrix by E = E 1 + E 2 + … + E p . NOTATION: Suppose A = (a 1 , … , a n ) is a vector which is passed into a ... ...n which at least one edge is an indeterminacy denoted by dotted lines. NOTATION: The indeterminacy of an edge between two vertices will always be... ... adjacency neutrosophic matrix by N(E) = N(E 1 ) + N(E 2 )+…+ N(E p ). NOTATION: Let (a 1 , a 2 , … , a n ) and (a' 1 , a' 2 , … , a' n ) be two ... ...l,” SICE Joint Symposium of 15 th System Symposium and 10 th Knowledge Engineering Symposium, (1989) 99-104. 34. Gray N. Powell, Handbook of Gend...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...y day. There was so much to sing about. I played my lira da braccio. Made notations. As a VOICES FROM THE PAST 236 boy, I thought seriously o... ...eir cartoons) 15,000 Bronzes 15,000 Dissections and Anatomy Studies 10,000 Engineering Projects (canals, locks, swamps) 20,000 Architecture, Music, Ho... ...together the meaning inherent in my studies, my optics, my hydraulics, my engineering work. Dreams...dreams... It is evening, and the kite comes....

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

... consecutive work impossible also gave unprecedented opportunities for quick notation. The world since 1914 has been like a house on fire. All the lodg... ...n the way of municipal order, state administration, agricul ture, forestry, engineering, and the whole harmonious running of the vast national machin...

...its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work impossible also gave unprecedented opportunities for quick notation. The world since has been like a house on fire. All the lodgers are on the stairs, in dishabille. Their doors are swinging wide, and one gets glimpses of their furniture, revelations of their habits, and whiffs of th...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ur mathematical teaching. Professor Perry, in his open- ing address to the Engineering Section of the British Asso- ciation at Belfast, expressed an o... ...e pretence in teaching geom- etry, that algebraic formulae and the decimal notation are not yet invented, little boys of nine may be got to apply quad... ...l industries with a view to business direction, into special study for the engineering trades, for the profession of soldiering,* or for the naval and... ...ur years after eighteen or twenty-one, special schools of medi- cine, law, engineering, psychology, and educational science, economics and political s...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Bin Ladin operative known as Abu Hafs the Mauri- tanian—who appeared to be engineering some of the plots—or in Kandahar, to capture Bin Ladin himself.... ...brother, another future al Qaeda member. KSM earned a degree in mechanical engineering in December 1986. 3 Although he apparently did not attract atte... ...ney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple ... ...olling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harb... ... abruptly switched his intended course of study from dentistry to aircraft engineering—at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. His motivation ... ...apartment assumed as a center for the group, as he would write on them the notation “Dar el Ansar,” or “house of the followers.” 82 In addition to Att...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...may become expert in technical philosophy, or philology, or mathematics or engineering or financiering, and be inept and ill-advised in his action and... ...onstituent parts of this strange world. Probably the most conspicuous con- notation of the word knowledge for most persons to-day 195 John Dewey is j... ...ns are exhibited in special schools and courses for the pro- fessions, for engineering, for manual training and com- merce, in vocational and prevocat... ... an interest, intellectual and social, in the things which have to do with engineering and has decided to make that his calling. At most, this only bl...

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