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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

............................................ 9 CHAPTER I: The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: Life as a Work of Art ............................................ ...ts of the life of the universe. 13 CHAPTER I The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: Life as a Work of Art ** * * It is impossible to give just ... ...k of Art ** * * It is impossible to give just one definition of Sophia-Analysis that would contain all its complexity and wealth of knowledge. ... ...g even bolder, I could think that the systemic whole containing these four components found in human beings, which is not a simple sum of the various... ...g even bolder, I could think that the systemic whole containing these four components found in human beings, which is not a simple sum of the various... ...down what my definition of a Person is. A Person is: “A unifying spiritual principal that is endowed with its own freedom and identity, it is an end... ... it is a unifying Principle that must reorganize into a whole: A) all the components of the individual human being B) all of the individual’s perce... ...n terms of beauty. Cosmic life and biological life make up a whole that is functional to the ability to create a new form of life that always is and ...

...ion some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Invitation” and then proceeds with “The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: life as a work of art”, “Choral Group Research on life as a work of art”, “The Cosmological vision of Sophia-Art”, “The Cosmo-Art Theorem”, “The Cosmo-Art Myth”, “The Myth of Ulysses contains the Cosmo-Art Myth”, “E...

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

By: L. Stephen Young

...th modern and classical theory, is presented in Sections 3-4. A comparative analysis of the Smarandache quantum paradoxes within context of the two ... ... this is that they are multi-disciplinary, having both physical and logical components. To consider these paradoxes, one needs be as much logician as... ...d by well-defined physical evidence. e.) comparative paradox: a paradoxical component in a theoretical model is noted in comparison with a second, l... ...as interpreted by modern theory. They indicate modern quantum theory lacks a component of logical causality: the absence of shared compositional trai... ...5 Hypothetical 20 8 64 48 132 5.6 Hypothetical 24 13 104 78 206 7.583 The functional relationships listed in Table 2 define the number of octet, fa... ...tio, as, Noble Nucleon: O/I = 2O / (2I + E) . (29) The noble functional relationship (29), corresponding to atomic number and listed i... ...ivistic) momentum (17), here we likewise assume invariant nucleon mass and a functional relationship defining covariant spatial curvature and effecti... ...ons with neutrino products are indicative of the (GDT) weak interaction. The principal difference between the photon and neutrino, then, is that phot... ...t clear to the author why it is not clearly inclusive in modern theory. The principal reason may be the paradoxical situation it raises with respect...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...e, both before and after its decision, created considerable controversy. A principal concern is that the current Copyright Act might be creating a cla... ...ister for Policy and International Affairs, managed the study and was the principal drafter of the Report. Oliver Metzger and Matt Skelton, Attorney... ... the Office of Policy and International Affairs, along with Rob Kasunic, a Principal Legal Advisor in the Office of General Counsel, composed the tea... ...ice of General Counsel, composed the team that performed the research and analysis for the study, and drafted many sections of the Report. David Car... ...y Rasenberger, Policy Advisor for Special Programs, provided research and analysis in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Ha... ... a later date and sued for infringement. The recommendation has two main components: • the threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent search f... ... highly relevant. Under section 102(b), copyright does not extend to the functional aspects of a computer program, only the expression contained th... ...and thus remedies are no longer relevant. The recommendation has two main components: (1) the two threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent se... ...some circumstances, a particular source could become de facto a necessary component of a reasonable search, such that failure to consult it would es...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...e, both before and after its decision, created considerable controversy. A principal concern is that the current Copyright Act might be creating a cla... ...ister for Policy and International Affairs, managed the study and was the principal drafter of the Report. Oliver Metzger and Matt Skelton, Attorney... ... the Office of Policy and International Affairs, along with Rob Kasunic, a Principal Legal Advisor in the Office of General Counsel, composed the tea... ...ice of General Counsel, composed the team that performed the research and analysis for the study, and drafted many sections of the Report. David Car... ...y Rasenberger, Policy Advisor for Special Programs, provided research and analysis in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Ha... ... a later date and sued for infringement. The recommendation has two main components: • the threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent search f... ... highly relevant. Under section 102(b), copyright does not extend to the functional aspects of a computer program, only the expression contained th... ...and thus remedies are no longer relevant. The recommendation has two main components: (1) the two threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent se... ...some circumstances, a particular source could become de facto a necessary component of a reasonable search, such that failure to consult it would es...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...rnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eyed Capitalist XVII. The... ...rds are known to decrease prices by cutting down R&D expenditures and systematizing components. Or, take innovation. It is used not only to differe... ...nflicts between stakeholders (e.g., between shareholders and managers, or between "principals" and "agents"). This modern, narrow definition has th... ...ynamic hedging" - merely compute correlations between predicted volatilities of the components of an investment portfolio. Non-financial companies... ...ovation can be fine-tuned. Appropriate policies, the right environment, incentives, functional and risk seeking capital markets, or a skillful and c... ...Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Also Read The Principal-Agent Conundrum The Green-Eyed Capitalist The Misconcep... ...ngeable by breaking the process of production down to minute - and easily learned - functional units. Only the most basic skills were required. This... ...contained. The same amount of money buys better, more reliable products, with added functionality. The rise in real incomes results in increased de... ...pecific transaction. They will do so by combining "off-the-shelf", publicly traded components. Gains and losses will be determined by arbitrary rul...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Noi Functii in Teoria Numerelor

By: Florentin Smarandache

...lem using FRE 196 2.6 Data compression with FRE 196 2.7 Applying FRE to Threat Analysis 196 2.8 FRE application to medical diagnosis 197 2.9 A fuz... ... Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (http://gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/NCMs.pdf) and Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living With HIV/AIDS... ...ns of the form J j∈ min max (p ij , q jk ) = r ik . When two of the components in each of the equations are given and one is unknown the... ... we can only provide the decision maker with the Pareto optimal set for further analysis. For a problem with multiple linear objective functions, th... ...roposed genetic algorithm is reduced. Due to the requirement of x o A = b, some components of every solution vector may have to assume a specific va... ...components of every solution vector may have to assume a specific value. These components can therefore be set aside from the problem. The genetic ... ... (1) Rule Based Systems, (2) Fuzzy relational systems and 198 (3) Fuzzy functional systems. Let ‘o’ denote the max-min composition operato...

...tatelor obsinute: - in ul timul capitol se aduc contribusii la studierea unei- funsii cunoscute in teoria numerelor (totient sau phi a lui Euler), in principal referitoare la conjectura lui carmichael. [Exist! referinse particulare dup! fiecare paraqraf (articol), iar referinse generale in finalul tezei.)...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics, Volume 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

... thenarmis@yahoo.com The black hole, which arises solely from an incorrect analysis of the Hilbert solution, is based upon a misunderstanding of the s... ...tion The variabler has given rise to much confusion. In the con- ventional analysis, based upon the Hilbert metric, which is almost invariably and inc... ... functions. I emphatically remark that the geometric relations between the components of the metric tensor of (2a) are precisely the same as those of ... ...a great thoroughness that it defes rational belief. Obviously, the spatial component of (1) describes a sphere of radius r, centred at the point r 0 =... ...alue is suppressed in (1) and (7a)). The geometrical relations between the components of the metric tensor are inviolable. Therefore, in the case of (... ...f the gravi- tational wave problem, but none of them are satisfactory. The principal objective of this research is to extract that which is common to ... ...δ (k) (l) . (100) Keeping in mind the symbolic system (100), we denote the functionalτ asx (k) and call it the anholonomic coordi- nate. We call the r... ...Quantum System (HQS). There we arrived at a HQS by deco- nstruction of the functional integral formulation of quantum feld theories retaining only tho... ...e we carry the deconstruction one step further by exploiting the fact that functional integrals can be thought of as arising as ensemble averages of W...

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

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ersity of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA 0.1 Introduction to Non-Standard Analysis. In 1960s Abraham Robinson has developed the non-stan... ...s Abraham Robinson has developed the non-standard analysis, a formalization of analysis and a branch of mathematical logic, that rigorously defines t... ...0, 1 + [ = - a and sup ] - 0, 1 + [ = b + . 0.2 Definition of Neutrosophic Components. Let T, I, F be standard or non-standard real subsets of ]... ...re subsets. But dynamically, looking therefore from another perspective, the components T, I, F are at each instance dependant on many parameters,... ...: The proposition "Tomorrow it will be raining" does not mean a fixed-valued components structure; this proposition may be say 40% true, 50% indet... ...61: "propositions may take many values beyond simple truth and falsity, values functionally determined by the values of their components"; Lukasiewi... ...ion between fuzzy numbers and fuzzy functions convexity, Itinerant seminar on functional equations, approximation and convexity, Cluj-Napoca, 1987,... ...ht is verified, modified and substantialized. When the novel thought takes the principal role (dominant position) in the conflict, we should have a r... ...eason that majority of people hold it (e.g., Darwin’s evolution theory and the functional difference between left and right brain—both are controvers...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... 5 BEYOND MONEY: THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL PRICE 60 PRICE 60 The Monetary And Social Components Of Price 60 FOUR TYPES O F SOCIAL PRICE 61 Time 61 E... ...but often social prestige factors, convenience and satisfaction are also important components. It matters little whether the innovation has a great ... ... A typological model is developed and proposed as an integrative framework for the analysis of all types of offerings. (The author begs license for... ... accurately be called a "quasi- typology.'') It will thus serve too as a basis for analysis for those particular commodities highlighted in this boo... ...ler was intended to accrue; the bottom row lists exchanges in which profit was the principal motivation. The first column takes in tangible commodi... ... 10-11, in Carlson 1975, p. 43). Unfortunately, most marketers of public opinion, principally the news media, select for distribution those views t... ... behavior. Economists provide cogent arguments pointing to social pressure as the principal force motivating consumers to adopt the idea of philant... ...The program will lead to modification or manipulation of one or more marketing-mix components. In other words, the newly identified segments should ... ...usiness with a product to sell, with a rigid hierarchy, established policies, much functional specialization and so on. Even the job of maintaining...

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

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

... our approach in breaking down total utility into intrinsic and extrinsic components is that while one may choose whatever appropriate paradigm to mo... ...ition by the experts. That reasoning that we advance has two basic components – a linear feedback process containing no looping and a non-lin... ...e in I and f% false in F then T, I, F are referred to as the neutrosophic components. Neutrosophic probability is useful to events that are shrouded... ... cash flows equal to interest at a predetermined fixed rate on a notional principal. The second party agrees to pay the first party cash flows equal... ...arty cash flows equal to interest at a floating rate on the same notional principal. Both payment streams are denominated in the same currency. Anot... ... chromosomes from the previous generation will be reproduced based on the principal of natural selection. Following the reproduction function, 2(x –... ...avior of the option writer will compel him or her to find out the optimal functional values of p t at every t so as to minimize the total error. ... ...is some uniformity in views among economists as well as physicists that a functional correspondence exists between the formalisms of economic theory ... ...ne Learning. Singapore: Pearson Education, 1989. Goldberger, A. S. Functional Form & Utility – A Review of Consumer Demand Theory. Westview...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...t. If he is a stranger to me ... it will be hard for me to love him." (p. 5) Agent-Principal Problem In the catechism of capitalism, shares represe... ...the moral tale, they are booted out mercilessly. This is one manifestation of the "Principal-Agent Problem". It is defined thus by the Oxford Dicti... ...ther words, do not behave as owners of the firm - they behave as free-riders. The Principal-Agent Problem arises in other social interactions and ... ...compounded phenomenon. It has dispositional properties, expressive and motivational components, situational and individual variations, cognitive and... ...mitive, maladaptive, pent up. Anger is a primitive, limbic emotion. Its excitatory components and patterns are shared with sexual excitation and w... ...ng rights, whether is it a morally significant person. The degree of figurative and functional likenesses decide whether one deserves to live, pain-... ... is it immoral because of the pain it causes, or supposed to inflict? Are all three components (needle sticking, a sensation of pain, brain activity... ...bout the origin by a crude perusal to the product? Mostly observable structural and functional traits and attributes. We cannot learn a thing about ... ...one through "framework applications" which match the two elements structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called b...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...t. If he is a stranger to me ... it will be hard for me to love him." (p. 5) Agent-Principal Problem In the catechism of capitalism, shares represe... ...the moral tale, they are booted out mercilessly. This is one manifestation of the "Principal-Agent Problem". It is defined thus by the Oxford Dicti... ...ther words, do not behave as owners of the firm - they behave as free-riders. The Principal-Agent Problem arises in other social interactions and ... ...compounded phenomenon. It has dispositional properties, expressive and motivational components, situational and individual variations, cognitive and... ...mitive, maladaptive, pent up. Anger is a primitive, limbic emotion. Its excitatory components and patterns are shared with sexual excitation and w... ...ng rights, whether is it a morally significant person. The degree of figurative and functional likenesses decide whether one deserves to live, pain-... ... is it immoral because of the pain it causes, or supposed to inflict? Are all three components (needle sticking, a sensation of pain, brain activity... ...bout the origin by a crude perusal to the product? Mostly observable structural and functional traits and attributes. We cannot learn a thing about ... ...one through "framework applications" which match the two elements structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the brain is sometimes called b...

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Smarandache Fuzzy Algebra

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy

...only if χ z : R → L is a prime fuzzy ideal. THEOREM 1.4.76: Let R be a principal ideal domain (PID). If P : R → L is a prime fuzzy ideal and P P ... ...→ P are PG-fuzzy correspondences and P is a partially ordered set, of the functional equation A(x,B(y , z ) =C(D (x, y),z) for given PC-fuzzy corresp... ...ned f(A E ) = E and g : F C → F defined by g(C E ) = E. Solutions of the functional equation A ( x , B (y, z)) = C(D (x, y), z) are PG-fuzzy corres... ... theorem and example given by [90]. THEOREM 1.11.36: All subsets of the functional equation of generalized associativity. A ( x , B( y , z ) = C(D... ... Proof: Refer [83]. For p a prime A (p) is the Smarandache p-primary component of A. Now we proceed on to define Smarandache divisible fuzzy se... ...ne as in case of subgroups. Now we proceed on to define a Smarandache p-component of a S-semigroup G. DEFINITION 2.3.30: If A is a S-T-fuzzy sub... ...y order as a power of a prime p with respect to A is called Smarandache p-component (S-p-compotent) of P ⊂ G with respect to A and it is denoted by ... ...e x r is a fuzzy point of the S-groupoid X is 269 called a Smarandache principal fuzzy ideal (S-principal fuzzy ideal) of X. (P ⊂ X; P is a semig... ...S-fuzzy bi-ideal) of X. A S-bigroupoid X is said 278 to be a S-fuzzy principal bi-ideal bigroupoid if every S-fuzzy bi-ideal of X is a ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...Strategic Investor V. The Myth of the Earnings Yield VI. Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis of Stocks VII. Volatility and Risk VIII. The Bursting ... ...rs and Shareholders XX. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk XXI. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XXII. Trading in Sovereign Promises XXIII. ... ...disinterested party). This is true especially when agents (management) are not also principals (owners). Owing to its compensation structure, invar... ...tors. It is almost impossible to objectively quantify or formulate this process of analysis and decision making. In telecommunications, the range o... ...sh flow to equity. Its CFCE must be adjusted to reflect the preferred dividends and principal repayments of debt (MINUS sign) and the proceeds from ... ...ead: The Myth of the Earnings Yield The Friendly Trend - Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis The Roller Coaster Market - On Volatility and Risk Ret... ...and suppliers; 3. Minimizing the costs of infrastructure by deploying proprietary components and planning; 4. The provision of corporate guarantee... ...s will be nothing short of cataclysmic: more than ever, governments are relying on functional primary and secondary bond markets for their financin... ...pecific transaction. They will do so by combining "off-the-shelf", publicly traded components. Gains and losses will be determined by arbitrary rul...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...as been used to study real-world situations as varied as stock-investment analysis to supervisory system control, and child labor to community mobil... ...on engine is to investigate the results generated by the misuse detection components that look at signatures of known attacks. For misuse detection ... ...human needs and desires as opposed to technologies which meet exclusively functional task specifications. OP#1 lives in a technological niche and in... ...actually use to make decisions. […] "This Article seeks to provide more functional models of judicial decision-making. Normally, formalists and an... ...ts. The example that follows develops an FCM virtual world based on the principal question in Deprizio: “whether the Trustee may recover from an o... ...ee’s simple FCM is shown in Figure 1.4.6. The creditor’s argument on the principal question relies on a two-benefit/two-transfer theory. The credit... ...del Easterbrook’s reasoning on both arguments. Easterbrook approaches the principal question using textualism and economic theory. These are represe... ...l connected neutrosophic subgraph of G is called a neutrosophic connected component or simple neutrosophic component of G. Thus a neutrosophic graph... ...ic component of G. Thus a neutrosophic graph has atleast two neutrosophic components then it is neutrosophic disconnected. Even if one is a componen...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...ies by geographical location which is Asia, Australia, and America. Secondary data analysis and field studies conducted on the four APEC economies... ...xican Banking System and Securities Regulation …………………………... 68 3.20 Developments and Components of US Capital Flows………………………….. 84 3.21 Size of Cap... ...ilities) and net disposable income (earnings minus consumption minus debt service and principal payments). Net assets and net disposable earnings can... ...s dominate the securities market, comprising over 90 percent of trading activity. The principal money market instrument is the Mexican Treasury Bill,... ...l mandate is to supervise and regulate, within its competence, the financial entities component of the Mexican financial system, in order to ensure ... ...w (Figure 3.22 and Figure 3.23). The low interest regime continues to be an important component of the Federal Reserve expansionary monetary policy c... ...IMF (2011) remarks. This is because effective measures should entail dealing with the principal causes of rising government deficit: mandatory spend... ...hat has emerged from Wallis is the creation of a new regulatory structure based along functional lines (one regulator for each of the types of market... ...t by financial market licensees and issuers of investment products. 2. There is now a functional regulation across products instead of a product-base...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...improve typewriters or render them obsolete with word processors, or develop functional voice recog- nition software, or just concentrate on making so... ...ial dislocation. In a wonderfully bizarre passage he argues that sheep are a principal cause of theft. Sheep? Why, yes. [Y]our sheep that were wont to... ...ts—the transaction costs caused by myriad property rights over the necessary components of some subsequent innovation—as “the tragedy of the anticommo... ...stand-alone works such as books, poems, songs. Now it was being applied to a functional product whose eco- nomics depended strongly on “network effect... ...rk with them) and a legal accident (copyright was now being used to regulate functional articles of commerce: “machines” made of binary code). The dif... ...rect code, otherwise they would not work in Lexmark printers. Static Control Components is a North Carolina company that manufactures chips whose main... ...ne the boundaries of legitimate competition. We used to assume that this was principally the function of patent and trademark law, less so of copyrigh... ...tate table” that tells the machine where it is in the process. These are the component parts of Turing machines—or as we know them better, computers. ... ...change in current law and a great surprise to the industry.) Second, are the principal beneficiaries of the database right in Europe pro- ducing databa...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...wnership of Firms XIV. Making Your Workers Your Partners XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. Battling Society’s Cancer XVII. To Grow Out of... ...tc.? The Statistics Bureau must be instructed to make the gathering and analysis of data regarding the unemployed (through household surveys and c... ... The minimum wage is an obstacle to the formation of new workplaces (see analysis in the next chapter). It needs to be reformed. I propose a scal... ...ent practices, opportunities, market requirements, etc. should be a prime component of the activity of the Employment Bureau. It must transform itse... ...yment practices, opportunities, market requirements, etc. will be a prime component of the activity of the Employment Bureau. It will transform itse... ...cation times as well as time dedicated to family and friends as important components in a balanced life - no less important than the time they spend ... ... managers of special projects. This - coupled with a dramatic increase in functional life expectancy - may well erode the very concept of retirement... ...verted into shares already held by other shareholders. Also Read: The Principal-Agent Conundrum The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Owne... ...onundrum The Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership The Agent-Principal Conundrum By: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Also published by United Press I...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...-quality screen Apple had ever pro- duced; a phone, with cleverly integrated functionality, such as voice- mail that came wrapped as separately access... ...ed to add pro- grams to the all-in-one device that Steve Jobs sells you. Its functionality is locked in, though Apple can change it through remote upd... ...e at the time the computer was purchased. PC makers were sell- ing potential functionality as much as they were selling actual uses, and many makers c... ...ctronic Project Kit,” which was a piece of cardboard with lots of electronic components attached to it. 11 Each compo- nent—a transistor, resistor, ca... ...a budding Hollerith could quickly attach and detach wires linking individual components to one another, reconfiguring the board to imi- tate any number... ...Battle of the Networks 19 As the price of computer processors and peripheral components dropped precipitously from the days of mainframes, it became e... ...ATURES OF A GENERATIVE SYSTEM What makes something generative? There are five principal factors at work: (1) how extensively a system or technology lev... ...han Zittrain (Mar. 16, 2007, 22:12:20 EDT) (on file with the author, who is a principal investigator of the StopBadware project). 89. Niels Provos et a... ...e 2, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/ hi/world/americas/5040372.stm. 8. I am a principal investigator of StopBadware. 9. This distributed approach to re...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...e, both before and after its decision, created considerable controversy. A principal concern is that the current Copyright Act might be creating a cla... ...ister for Policy and International Affairs, managed the study and was the principal drafter of the Report. Oliver Metzger and Matt Skelton, Attorney... ... the Office of Policy and International Affairs, along with Rob Kasunic, a Principal Legal Advisor in the Office of General Counsel, composed the tea... ...ice of General Counsel, composed the team that performed the research and analysis for the study, and drafted many sections of the Report. David Car... ...y Rasenberger, Policy Advisor for Special Programs, provided research and analysis in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Ha... ... a later date and sued for infringement. The recommendation has two main components: • the threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent search f... ... highly relevant. Under section 102(b), copyright does not extend to the functional aspects of a computer program, only the expression contained th... ...and thus remedies are no longer relevant. The recommendation has two main components: (1) the two threshold requirements of a reasonably diligent se... ...some circumstances, a particular source could become de facto a necessary component of a reasonable search, such that failure to consult it would es...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Its system, though far from flawless, was considered superior - both morally and functionally - to anything ever conceived by Man. Such unrealis... ...tates is impelled by its economy and values to world dominion, claimed last week an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in t... ...w autonomous pockets of resistance in its eastern fringes. One of these anti-Mongol principalities (in the northwest) was led by Osman I. Osman's w... ...rincipalities (in the northwest) was led by Osman I. Osman's was not the strongest principality. Its neighbour to the east, the Germiyan principali... ...hristian Byzantium - the Serbs, the Italians, and the Bulgarians. Orhan became the principal ally of the young and dynamic Byzantine politician (la... ...o Indonesia. But once the institutions of democracy are in place and more or less functional, the people can and must rest. They should let their ... ...tinues to pursue it program of weapons of mass destruction. It is in the market for components and materials for nuclear bombs, warned the "Washingt... ...ould be diligently applied in Iraq. The involvement of a long-term active military component intended to guarantee basic law and order is crucial. ... ...s ("integration"). Thus, virtually overnight, Germany came to dominate the Western component of the anti-German containment master plan, while the ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ical and religious explanations. At the center of scientif- ic thinking was an analysis of reality, and the search for scientific answers to age-old ... ...tled The User Illusion. Norretranders notes an intriguing point regarding the functional- ity of the unconscious and what it contains. It appears tha... ... the plea- sure that motivates this desire to operate. These are the only two components on all levels of reality—the pleasure and the desire to rec... ...l entity can exist in several states simultaneously. The computer consists of components that are based on “bits,” and contains an enormous amount o... ...the Yale University laboratory, we have built a device that contains 400 such components. This may seem like a relatively small number, but such a d... ...o highlight different aspects of the relationship between them. Here are the principal attributes we can ascribe each of them: Creator Creature Uppe... ...n behaviour and the laws of nature. The contents present the es- 219 sential principals of the Kabbalistic approach and describe the wisdom of Kabb...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...e at the slightest scrutiny. Many evidently mentally ill people are rather happy and reasonably functional. Some scholars reject the concept of "no... ...proach, taking in the patient in his or her entirety, as well as his milieu. The members of the functional school regard mental health disorders as... ...ease with himself (ego- dystonic) or making others unhappy (deviant) – is "mended" when rendered functional again by the prevailing standards of his ... ...titute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998 19. Kohut M. The Analysis of the Self. New York, International Unive... ...ged validates his pivotal role in the scheme of things. Only vital, weighty, crucial, essential principals are thus bullied and intimidated, followe... ...etin, Bouchard, Lykken, et al., 1990]. A review of the literature demonstrates that the genetic component in certain personality disorders (mainly t... ... of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... spreading there from somewhere other than Western countries. In the final analysis, what is reality both in Western countries and elsewhere? Which pa... ...rovince. In my previous study (1979) I applied non- parametric statistical analysis, but the present project contains only frequency data reflecting t... ...y of Forestry, and headmaster (1997-1999); he had retired from the post of principal of the McKenzie School, Lampang's oldest secondary school, but wa... ...l the old dynasties of South-East Asia have emerged on plains of their own principal river, they have been related cultures and arch-enemies, separat... ...in the village, and it has become the largest employer in the village. Its principal products today are also ceramic building products. With expansion... ...ercial breaks, increasingly skilful mind engineers create illusions of the components of good modern living.(30 The consciousness industry distorts th... ...on to belief in development. scientific-technological knowledge and skill functional in our cultural environment. In modern state cultures, the futur... ...reafter also the other cultural systems) changes the structure of all its components. In the component theory a new integrated nutritional chain eme... ... of the cultural ecosystem changes all its economic, social and individual component structures change. 2. When a local ecosystem becomes delocal, th...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...complexity of contradictory feelings, logic, and sensory input like partly functional gages and gears that he manipulated and was manipulated by to mo... ...uld nonetheless seem to have never been. If he were to accept the defining components of marriage as the masses defined it, he was never married at a... ...e in his mouth. Experience (he smiled again, for as much as this ceaseless analysis of the intricacies of his life might seem morbid to others were th... ...ho no doubt needed it. But apart from putting into practice an egalitarian principal which gave him some satisfaction (pleasure always being the posit... ...ertain; but as it was an adventure; at least it had the pleasantry of this component, which was sought most ardently by those who could not rest in th...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...d and Perfection Pg 527 Tool Principles vs. Human principles Pg 529 Linear Functionality Pg 540 Tool-functioning vs. Human Functioning Pg 541 ... ...f DNA so they can be duplicated and replicated by assembling living molecular components and connecting them to one side of the separated, uncoiled ... ...s. No. 3: Then there is the splitting-up of the human psyche into various components, aspects, qualities, identities, personalities, and persona... ...scination with dead things, the fear of dying becomes a universal unconscious component of all settled-sedentary-civilized existence. What happens... ...which resulted from their accumulations of excess and waste. What is the principal of one-sided accumulation? It is part of a vicious cycle. ... ... dynamic of civilization with, no perspective to evaluate it by. Linear Functionality Throughout human history: all of human technology has ... ...s been justified and rationalized by linear logic, linear rationality, linear functionality, linear purpose and linear goals… they are basically all ... ... its old Royal Family with a new one; by importing a German King from a small principality in Germany to be their new ruler. Unfortunately their cho... ...rinciples… Not details. Why do you think the head of a school is called a principal? Because that is what he or she should teach. Morons. Sc...

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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

... September 11, 2001 285 9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon 311 9.4 Analysis 315 vi Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page vi 10. WARTIME 32... ... impact time is supported by previous National Transportation Safety Board analysis and by evidence from the Commission staff ’s analysis of radar, th... ... organi- zation’s structure included as its operating arms an intelligence component, a military committee, a financial committee, a political committ... ...mericans were killed, and 372 were wounded.The opera- tion was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an organization that ... ...ion.The Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have their own intelligence components that collect information, help them decide what weapons to acqui... ...eau of Intelligence and Research in the State Department; the intelligence component of the Treasury Department; the Energy Department’s Office of Int... ...lines” for action. 104 Clarke also was awarded a seat on the cabinet-level Principals Committee when it met on his issues—a highly unusual step for a ... ... the United States or in an Arab country. In early 1998, the cabinet-level Principals Committee apparently gave the concept its blessing. 9 On their o... ...g his seat on the Principals Com- mittee on terrorism issues, Kurtz saw no functional change in Clarke’s status. Paul Kurtz interviews (Dec. 16, 2003;...

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