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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...brains. The main nerve - similar to our spine - runs along the bottom of the ant's body. Ants smell, taste and touch with their antennas. Their cyl... ...h their antennas. Their cylinder-like heart pumps colorless blood throughout their body. Ants digest only liquid food or food rendered liquid w... ... juices. Ants share digested food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized egg... ....merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section3/chapter25/25e.htm Armenian Genocide The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued we... ...r Henchak, "The Bell") and in 1890 in Georgia (Dashnak or Dashnaktsutyun, "Union"). Mass demonstrations in the Turkish capital (in 1890 and 1895) a... ...claimed 200,000 Armenian lives. In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In ... ...tsawyer/barbie/barb.html http://www.barbiecollectibles.com/whatshot/barbiehistory/index.asp http://www.mattel.com/our_toys/ot_barb.asp Bathory... ...http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/h18-2005-e.html http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&A rticleId=A0000230 Canada, Invasion of T... ...Arrago's Dictionnaire de la Conversation in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chic...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Women with Hiv/Aids

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...re 255 2. Table of Statistics 279 3. Neutrosophy 285 REFERENCES 290 INDEX 312 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 316 5 Preface Fuzzy theo... ...mong rural uneducated women. Last month, Varamanagunda villagers organized a mass child marriage programme involving as many as 18 girls between 1... ...are feasted on by lice in their uncared hair and flies eat the sores on their body. Thus these women lead a life worse than animals and no one is by... ...we were not able to make out how many children she has. She was all alone; no body was around to take care of her. She had been in the hospital, as ... ...rtisements about HIV/AIDS in T.V. She said she had dots all over her face and body. She took treatment for the same from private doctors and has spe... ...h suffer from fever and could not walk or stand or talk. It was just an alive mass of flesh. She then took the child for treatment, in the hospital ... ...165. By whatever further steps the government can take the advts. to the masses to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? : 166.* Now you regret... ...eh, L.A. (1965) Fuzzy Sets, Information and Control, 8, 338-353. 312 Index 3-linked FRM, 23 4-linked FRM, 23 A Acyclic FRM, 21...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

............................................ 82 c. Approval by an Authorized Body (e.g., the Copyright Office)............................................. ...orks are not renewed, a life-plus-50 year term would tie up a substantial body of material that is probably of no commercial interest, but that woul... ...o the Office’s Orphan Works website at http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/. Indexes of the initial and reply comments accepted by the Office are inclu... ...Comment of Joe Lisuzzo, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Photomarketing Association Mass Merchants Council). 32 See, e.g., University of Washington Libraries... ...... ...orks are not renewed, a life-plus-50 year term would tie up a substantial body of material that is probably of no commercial interest but ... ... AAP (R85). 375 Even if the works are displayed, it is also difficult to index them in a way that is meaningful for users trying to locate an image... ... 22. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Photo Marketing Joe Lisuzzo Association Mass Merchants Council * * * APPENDIX D INFORM...

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Noi Functii in Teoria Numerelor

By: Florentin Smarandache

...orld problems 272 Chapter Five SUGGESTED PROBLEMS 279 Bibliography 283 Index 295 About the Authors 301 6 GM... ...) = r ik contains unknown p ij identified only by one particular value of the index i, that is, the unknown p ij distinguished by different value... ...P(X, Y), P j (X, Y), Q(Y, Z), Q j (Y, Z) and R(Z, V) where j takes values in an index set J, the following are basic properties of the Sup-i composi... ...tice researchers have has neglected density variations across each stream. The mass balance equations across each node at steady state can be writt... ...e equation (3), which is generated by applying the principle of conservation of mass to each unit. We assume F 1 , F 5 , F 6 and F 9 are experimen... ... (5) where, P, Q and R are explained. Using principle of conservation of mass balanced equation we estimate the flow rates of the five liquid... ...s or asthma, contributing to cancer or birth defects or perhaps by damaging the body’s immune system which makes people more susceptible to a variet...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...s he. He has the advantage because of his over- developed inner sense." "They memorise body language and can spot a person who might feel a little ... ...eb site: http://samvak.tripod.master.com/texis/master/search/mysite.html Topical Site Index: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/siteindex.html ... ...s urge, the narcissist blindly stumbles from one relationship to another, from one warm body to the next, forever in search of that elusive creature... ...fidence)-men and villains. He is a convincing conjurer of words, signs, behaviours, and body language." The Narcissist's Victims – Sam Vaknin http:... ...nt (stress related) paranoid ideation." Object Relations – The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers - Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/objectre... ...upply. The main element is attention." Object Relations – The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers - Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/objectre... ...Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/objectrelations.html "Terrorists, serial killers, and mass murderers can be phenomenologically described as narcis...

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G-Dimensional Theory & the Smarandache Quantum Paradoxes : Comparative Logic and Modern Quantum Theory

By: L. Stephen Young

...ion (G), as determined by kinetic vector v: (v ≡ v/c) The matter-containing body is modeled as a closed circle in the non-vector 2d plane and so in ... ...[Fig. 1a.] In kinetic reference frame k', the translated parameters of the body, S’, are determined from the angle θ, between the 2d k and k’ plane... ...tor defining the moment sum of inertial and gravitational vectors acting on body S'. Note from (4) that (5) and (5.1) have equivalent values in the S... ...justification in setting ϒ o as the locus of zero potential energy for the mass of S'. Assuming a uniform mass density, the body's center of mass (c... ...ell from the c.o.m. in S' indicates a force of attraction (-ϒ), compels the mass to the site of the potential well, (ϒ o ). -ϒ is thus proportionall... ...hypothesis to be tested within these parameters. In isolated system S’, the mass m, has an internal attractive force acting upon it's c.o.m. locus at... ...itted through a transparent matter field is in accordance to its refractive index (n): | (c n = 1/n); (n ≥ 1) |. Refraction has proportionality to m...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...iption for the same level of pain. Medications can become ineffective as your body grow accustomed to them. Also, with taking medications, you also... ...now this.... Drug medications are chemical substances that are toxins to your body. If left accumulated in your body, they can create harm. The symp... ...s and other natural healing alternatives to treat common ailments afflict the body, mind and spirit. Now, with increased awareness about the harmful... ...ommon problem, physical coordination and motor skills deteriorate, and muscle mass decreases to the extent that the patient is finally confined to be... ...amounts of baking soda and ginger powder in water for having a warm bath. 21. Massage the whole body with warm sesame oil including scalp and the bot... ... Other oils like those of sunflower, coconut, or corn oil can also be used for massage before bath. Have celery and onions- raw or cooked- with meals... ...an important nerve on the hand; it gives sensation to thumb, middle, ring and index fingers. This nerve is protected by carpal tunnel, which is a thi... ...s a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal as per the body mass index, which is calculated from an individual's age, height, and weight... ...ult in obesity and causes health disorders. Obesity is measured by: Body Mass index (BMI), Waist Measurement and Combined Measurements .An obese per...

...or Bed sores 63-66 Home remedies for Bladder infection 67-69 Home remedies for Blood shot eyes 70 Home remedies for Boils 71-72 Home remedies for Body odor 73-75 Home remedies for Bone fracture 76-77 Home remedies for Bronchitis 78-80 Home remedies for Bruises and bruising 81-82 Home remedies for Burns 83-85 Home remedies for Bleeding 86-87 Home remedies for Buli...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... stop it / Jonathan Zittrain. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Internet. 2. In... ...f Generativity: Privacy 2.0—200 Conclusion—235 Acknowledgments—247 Notes—249 Index—329 Contents vi The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It Th... ...mbers generated through the use of calculators, and relational databases put index cards and more sophisticated paper-based filing systems to shame. 1... ...cannot be poached away by other viruses. 63 The growth of virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games provides another eco- nomic incentive ... ...oc- uments found on infected computers—and nothing would stand in the way. A massive number of always-on powerful PCs with high-bandwidth con- The Ris... ...... ...es many of the difficult tasks inherent in having many people work on the same body of code at the same time. Itself an open source project, CVS permits... ...lds, supra note 2. Helminthiasis is an infestation of parasitic worms in the body. See Wikipedia, Helminthiasis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminth... ...iki/Talk:Gracenote (as of June 1, 2007, 09:10 GMT). 80. Dove, Dove Cream Oil Body Wash (online broadcast), http://dovecreamoil.com/ (dis- playing resu...

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Fuzzy Relational Maps and Neutrosophic Relational Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...orld problems 272 Chapter Five SUGGESTED PROBLEMS 279 Bibliography 283 Index 295 About the Authors 301 6 GM... ...) = r ik contains unknown p ij identified only by one particular value of the index i, that is, the unknown p ij distinguished by different value... ...P(X, Y), P j (X, Y), Q(Y, Z), Q j (Y, Z) and R(Z, V) where j takes values in an index set J, the following are basic properties of the Sup-i composi... ...tice researchers have has neglected density variations across each stream. The mass balance equations across each node at steady state can be writt... ...e equation (3), which is generated by applying the principle of conservation of mass to each unit. We assume F 1 , F 5 , F 6 and F 9 are experimen... ... (5) where, P, Q and R are explained. Using principle of conservation of mass balanced equation we estimate the flow rates of the five liquid... ...s or asthma, contributing to cancer or birth defects or perhaps by damaging the body’s immune system which makes people more susceptible to a variet...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...aucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European settlers, so technically, Caucasians... ... “ ” retort, like a smart @ss. As long as the face is protected, 'cause the body doesn't really “ matter. We all know how important faces are here i... ...le-reinforced concrete walls, stain-glassed windows the size of truck bays, massive marble columns shouldering the mirrored ceiling of the church en... ...s during the early part of this century. These Korean girls work as young — masseuses in fronts set up as massage parlors, or night spas, as many joh... ...lem for him, all he needs to do is drink massive amounts of water, then his body will have no choice but to pee, even with people around. Do it enoug... ...ually cause you to lose face and the — head, the arms, the legs, the entire body into tiny, little pieces.) The most disheartening is the fact that A... ...hut up now. Seizing the moment, I lift my right hand to her face, running my index finger across her left cheek and down softly to her chin, curling ... ... You know why I'm not laughing? Gabriel asks moronically. He points his left index “ ” finger at me, holding a stern look in his eyes and exclaims, B... ...ft my head with a stern look in my eyes, as I point to Gabriel with my right index finger and say to him, "You're right." I know I'm right. I'm alway...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

... # 86: Narcissists, Love and Healing FAQ # 87: Vindictive Narcissists FAQ # 88: Narcissists as Mass and Serial Killers FAQ # 89: Narcissists, Narc... ...e Narcissist) Chapter VI: The Emotional Involvement Preventive Measures The Author Online index Go here: http://samvak.tripod.com/siteindex.h... ...gardless of the facts of brain science. Moreover, correlation is not causation. Deviant brain or body biochemistry (once called "polluted animal spi... ...Greenberg, Jay R. and Mitchell, Stephen A. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1983 10. Grunberg... ..." [James Michener, Author] The narcissist ages without mercy and without grace. His withered body and his overwrought mind betray him all at once... ...enial of reality, by his obdurate refusal to grow up, an eternal, malformed child in the sagging body of a decaying man. It is the fable of the gras... ... defences"). This often leads to anti-social behaviour, cover-ups, and criminal activities on a mass scale. • The group as a whole, or members of t...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that “our life is wonderful”, but in real... ...gin selling a new drug which will totally “dry up” the urine produced by the body for a period of up to thirty hours; and to allay the fears of thos... ...alu on põhjustanud. Inimesed on üksikisiku seisukohalt hirmus jõud. Üleolev mass/ kamp/ kari võib oma enneolematust intellektuaalsusest tingitud ee... ...époque de la dictature dans son pays natal, la Roumanie. En effet: “dans les mass-média l’on proclamait que ’notre vie est merveilleuse’, mais en ré... .... html - in rumänischer Sprache unter: http://www.geocities.com/ghniculescu/index.html - in Portugiesisch unter: http://www.geocities.com/dacosta_... ... this is precisely what poetry does and so this non-poetry is poetry. - The index and the individual titles of this treatise of nonpoetry are quite... ...ll HOPE Awaiting doesn’t matter As there is no other go RESTLESSNESS Body needs rest When brain is helpless TRANQUILLITY Flame stands st... ...doxism.html - in linguaggio rumeno a: http://www.geocities.corn/ghniculescu/index.html - in portoghese a http://www.geocities.com/dacosta_teresinh... ...this treat. We only hire the finest, and serve the finest! Shaped like a hot body, your sex hungry teeth will dig right into her! *all entrees com...

...sed on contradictions? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that “our life is wonderful”, but in reality “our life was miserable”. The paradox flourishing! And then we took the creation in derision, in opposite sense, in a syncretic way. Thus the paradoxi...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

.... These deviations will be found mentioned at the appropriate places in the body of. the book. On the whole, however, the rules are designed to gov... ...6 (Set to the right, with one em's indention, and in smaller type than the body of the letter.) MY DEAR MR. SMITH: (Set fluh, followed by a colon,... ... MY DEAR MR. SMITH: (Set fluh, followed by a colon, in the same type as the body of the letter, and in a separate line, unless preceded by another ... ... type as the body of the letter or article.) HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Mass. (Set to the left, with two ems' indention, in smaller type.) (If ... ...r such titles. References to the Preface, Introduction, Table of Contents, Index, etc., of a specific work, should be set with capitals, without qu... ...The Appendix occupies a hundred pages;" but: "The book has a very complete index." 73. Names of ships : the U. S. SS. "Oregon.', 74. Titles of wo... ... towns, with the usual exceptions, as follows: Ala. La. Alaska Me. Ariz. Mass. Ark. Md. Cal. Mich. Colo. Minn. Conn. Miss. D. C. Mo. Del. Mo... ...r or algebraic matter, where figures would be likely to cause con- fusion. Index figures in the text should be placed after the punctuation marks: ...

...l of Style, published in 1906. Now in its fifteenth edition, The Chicago Manual of Style--the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers in any field--is more comprehensive and easier to use than ever before. Those who work with words know how dramatically publishing has changed in the past decade, with techn...

...ages in print or more than two thousand hyperlinked paragraphs online—has become the authoritative reference work for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers. This hundred-plus-year evolution has taken place under the ongoing stewardship of Chicago’s renowned editorial staff, aided by suggestions and requests from the Manual’s many ...

...otes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofreaders Hints to Copyholders Proofreader’s Marks Index Specimens of Types in Use...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...x's classification ("call") numbers and science descriptors, arranged in a massive directory available in the "RealSci Locator". The Locator can be a... ...ite. It was taken as an article of faith that a certain percentage of this mass will inevitably and nigh hypnotically reach for their bulging pocketb... ...lked about sudden "phase transitions", the emergent results of a critical mass reached. A latter day thinker, Michael Gladwell, called it the "tippin... ...or and a pioneer of hyperlinked-like textual design. It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically arranged series of in-depth es... ... Fall and Fall of the P-Zine By: Sam Vaknin http://home.wuliweb.com/index.shtml http://www.pshares.org/ The circulation of print magazi... ...e-Reader's Digest Funds). Every title Ploughshares has ever published was indexed (over 18,000 journal pages digitized). In all, the "website will o... ...ilable free of charge on the internet. The FOS movement singles out this body of literature not because it is useful (because other kinds of litera... ... of minions. Even when (rarely) the offending content is removed from the body of an article it remains available in its history pages. The Wikiped... ...tem. The Internet fulfils all the functions of the Nervous System in the body and is, both functionally and structurally, pretty similar. It is dec...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... FOR CONCEPTS 77 An action network. 77 INTERMEDIARY DISSEMINATORS OF CONCEPTS 78 Mass Media 78 INTERPERSONAL CHANNELS 81 THE CONSUMER'S PLACE IN ... ...iefly in Chapter one to provide a context for ideas. There exists a large and rich body of literature on the subject of social change (for example, ... ...timately to conclusions {Figure 1.1 ). Societally, that is, aggregatively {macro), mass adoption of an idea frequently brings about social change. Al... ... Littering prevention Mainstreaming Manpower programs March of dimes Marriage Mass transportation Mental health Metric system Military recrui... ...the criterion upon which the segmentation scheme is to be based. There is a large body of literature dealing with the choice of segmenting criteria... ...The adoption of innovations in a variety of nonagricultural fields also built up a body of theory and research. The work of William Fielding Ogburn... ...roots in other social science literature. The indices are: The decision worth index: attempting to measure relative attitude toward the two focu... ...by asking "How much time and effort is the purchase decision worth ? The diffusion index: a measure of group influence asking for the number of peopl... ... similar measure in a family planning study (p. 555). The confidence in judging index: appears in one form or another in most buyer behavior model...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... they poured opprobrium and sweet delusions on the eagerly duped, naive, bewildered masses. The deceit was evident to the indigenous cynics - but i... ...tering regional governments still pay lip service to the values of Capitalism, the masses are enraged and restless and rebellious and baleful and a... ... entrusted with absolute power.'' As would Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses, 1932): "A characteristic of our times is the predominanc... ...d on its erstwhile allies and either conquered or otherwise absorbed them into its body politic. Roman commanders and procurators meddled in the i... ...7% p.a. (India - 5.8%), and it was rated 3.4 (India - 3.7) on the economic freedom index. After a dip in 1999 (3.1%) - growth picked up again to 4.... ..., to turn a blind eye. Pakistan habitually trails the The UNDP's Human Development Index (which takes into account the quality of life - things lik... ...ent. But the country is in the throes of a deflationary cycle. The producer price index was down 0.8 percent last year. Year on year, it decreased... ... willing", are hesitant. Japan contributes close to one fifth of the international body's regular budget. Yet, disillusioned by its inability to ga... ...media mogul, has it in recent interviews? Or, paradoxically, has this international body been strengthened by its faithful depiction of resistant wo...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...f possible. But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sust... ...ystems, the Right to Life supersedes all other rights (including the right to one's body, to comfort, to the avoidance of pain, to property, etc.). ... ...de to kill the fetus by adding to the mother's right to life her right to her own body and thus outweighing the fetus' right to life. IIB. The Di... ...dehumanization I call "exclusionary conscience". The most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in N... ...eich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Isra... ...n of economic resources. The vast majority of people are rent-seekers. Witness the mass demonstrations that erupt whenever governments try to slash... ...e shift is from HTML (whose tags are concerned with visual appearances and content indexing) to languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language, ... ...e scope of these exchanges. Additionally, exchange participants have to agree on an index: how many books for how many oranges? This is the price of... ...any oranges? This is the price of oranges in terms of books. Money - the obvious "index" - does not solve this problem, merely simplifies it and f...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...f possible. But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sust... ...ystems, the Right to Life supersedes all other rights (including the right to one's body, to comfort, to the avoidance of pain, to property, etc.). ... ...de to kill the fetus by adding to the mother's right to life her right to her own body and thus outweighing the fetus' right to life. IIB. The Di... ...dehumanization I call "exclusionary conscience". The most recent examples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in N... ...eich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Isra... ...n of economic resources. The vast majority of people are rent-seekers. Witness the mass demonstrations that erupt whenever governments try to slash... ...e shift is from HTML (whose tags are concerned with visual appearances and content indexing) to languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language, ... ...e scope of these exchanges. Additionally, exchange participants have to agree on an index: how many books for how many oranges? This is the price of... ...any oranges? This is the price of oranges in terms of books. Money - the obvious "index" - does not solve this problem, merely simplifies it and f...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts - is merely a branch of psychology. It deals with individual behaviour and with mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its... ...ople are badly disposed to react to zero marginal costs. The new economy caused a massive disorientation and dislocation of the market and the pri... ... proposed yet another dimension of risk: "The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX index, a measure of traders' expectations of share price gyratio... ...cies or realities, or with the emergence of new information - and a lot to do with mass psychology. How else can we account for the crash of Octobe... ...onsumption basket underlying the CPI in America as late as 1998. The consumer price index in the USA may be overstated by one percentage point year ... ...w does one determine market concentration to start with? The Herfindahl-Hirschmann index squares the market shares of firms in the industry and add... ...perfections and, by their very actions, enhance them. A vicious cycle ensues: the body economic gives rise to parasitic agents who thrive on its i... ...er, aggression, money, or social status. Narcissistic women are likely to emphasise body, looks, charm, sexuality, feminine "traits", homemaking, ch... ...pecuniary needs of high-level and, therefore, expensive, salespersons. Setting up a body of volunteers under the supervision, guidance, and trainin...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

...“naturally” dismissed as a “witch”, who, at will, could leave her physical body and wander wherever she fancied as a free entity. This is the p... ... The first stage consists of awareness of no longer being in the physical body whilst still retaining sentience and a sense of self. This part is ... ... sense of peace. There is also a sense of still being in some type of body, albeit very unlike the physical one. Some people describe it as a m... ...ft between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Furthermore, the mass and the force charges of the elementary particles, previously unexpl... ... 61 62 6. Hitching a Ride on a Reality. In Newtonian physics, the mass of an object quantifies the matter it contains. Moreover, mass is c... ... quantifies the matter it contains. Moreover, mass is conserved, i.e. the mass, hence the total matter content, of any system whatsoever must alway... ...n. The Quantum Self Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall. 154 Index. Argand Plane.............P.80 Astral Projection.......P.13, 5...

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

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

... f(X) > X. Speculative trading in derivative securities like stock index futures with a highly leveraged position could indeed have unfortuna... ... writer as a premium for the put option on the asset (or a representative index in case of a portfolio of assets) which effectively imparts a downsid... ...estment account to be invested in high-risk high-return assets e.g. stock index futures. At the end of the investment horizon the amount invested in... ...atics rather than being merely normative or speculative. The main body of the work is divided into four relevant chapters. The first chapter ... ... the last chapter is proposed as a seminal contribution to the collective body of knowledge that is referred to as Computational Finance. In Appendi... ...inue to speak against the prevailing groupthink, this could result into a mass cognitive dissonance calling for reinforcing self-rationalizations to ... ...blem of a map m (.): D Θ → [0, 1] may be defined associated with a given body of evidence B that can support paradoxical information as follows: ... ...ral conceptualization of the market anomaly primarily as manifestation of mass cognitive dissonance, the joint neutrosophic probability denoted by N... ...e extent to which an unstable rationalization loop has formed out of such mass cognitive dissonance that is causing the market price to deviate from...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... proposed yet another dimension of risk: "The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX index, a measure of traders' expectations of share price gyratio... ...cies or realities, or with the emergence of new information - and a lot to do with mass psychology. How else can we account for the crash of Octobe... ...ormation (i.e., uncertainty). Excessive volatility is irrational. The confluence of mass greed, mass fears, and mass disagreement as to the preferre... ...eable and so frequent that price volatility (as measured, for instance, by the VIX index) has increased to an all time high. Speculators have benef... ...r loans, crowded into stocks of exciting "new technologies", such as the radio and mass electrification. The bull market - especially in issues of ... ...value of their output rose from $60.8 billions to $68 billions. The Federal Reserve index of industrial production which had averaged only 67 in 192... ...ssion in the USA, at least with regards to public companies, from a self-regulatory body licensed by the states, into a national regulator. Under A... ...lanced budgets, without resort to borrowing to cover current deficits. A corporate body (legal person), whether a private or a public sector entity... ... corporate name. Typically, its formal decisions are by resolution of its managing body (board or council). Written documents are authenticated by...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...hould be periodic, regular, and predictable. I recommend to oblige the mass media by law to dedicate at least an hour weekly (could be broken to ... ...ecurity, hiring and firing procedures, social and unemployment benefits, indexation of wages and benefits, the right to strike and the level of sal... ...f education. This surprising result has emerged from many studies. The massive retraining and re-qualification programs needed to combat unemploy... ...reneurship, management, and quality control techniques – both through the mass media or directly, through educational schemes and institutions, both... ...mber of the self employed in Macedonia is larger than reported. If the index representing total employment in Macedonia in 1989 was 100.3 – it wa... ...emand failure might be described as "a failure to communicate." (see also Index: labour economics) The failure of the market system to communicate ... ... sectoral unions. It is a "global union" - a cross-country, cross-sector body of representatives. Its natural counterparts are multinationals and I... ...rance, pluralism, multiculturalism, and peace. But there is no definitive body of evidence that links it to economic growth. It is easy to point at ... ...hild labor surface periodically. Children crawling in mines, faces ashen, body deformed. The agile fingers of famished infants weaving soccer balls ...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

... Mallove and Matloff, page 109: [1] Bussard...found that for a starship mass of 1000 tons ... the craft could accelerate almost indefinitely at on... ...an factor may prove to be the real limitation [to high speeds]. The human body is ill- adapted to the physical and psychological effects of supersoni... ...ore?) is that no energy from a light signal would be returned to us from a body receding faster than that. But in the end, it all comes down to a ma... ...ront at an angle of Arccos(c/(nv)) to the particle path in a medium whose index of refraction is n. See cover illustration or a physics text. ... ...hat "the motor travels with the ship" the KE [kinetic energy] for a given mass "ship" at a given velocity will increase if relativity is correct or ... .... . The KE will be dependent only on the v 2 and not on the relativistic mass (m) for Tilton to be correct. (March 2004) ----------------- Profe... ... light: "The velocity c...can neither be reached nor exceeded by any real body." Nearly everyone picked up on that reality theme, and ever since it... ...eed of light is understandably reduced according to 1/ √(µ ε) to give the index of refraction (as of glass) of √(µ/µ 0 ) √( ε/ ε 0 ). Also now b... ..." Annalen der Physik, Leipzig, 1905, pp. 891-921. [7] We speak of the index of refraction, n, of glass, the ratio of c to the speed of light insi...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page v -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___... ...e way pop- ular choice gets formed, you prefer it to some government funding body or coterie of art mavens. At the same time as you are developing you... ...of politics celebrates the power of an informed citizenry. Admit- tedly, the massive conflicts between Jefferson’s announced principles and his actions... ...the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England w... ...matter of social “will and convenience” without “claim or complaint from any body.” • Third, intellectual property rights are not and should not be pe... ...entical in its effects to the newspaper stamp taxes. 52 This was a time when mass literacy and mass education were the hotly debated corollaries to th... ...ral surplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef... ...IT Registry of Standard Biological Parts supports this goal by recording and indexing biological parts that are currently being built and offering syn... ...l property rights were simply irrelevant—much of the information sharing and indexing on the Web falls within this category. In some cases they were u...

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