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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...e – Narcissism Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...mantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest... ...uy Marcus Trundle, a car salesman. So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is d... ...eters, leading urine from the kidney to the bladder. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/digest/summary/append/ http://kidshealth.org/parent/inf... ...ribers. Strowger died in 1902 but his company still survives as AG Communications Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http:/... ...n the whole pack. SOURCE: Preventive Medicine 2003;36:92-98. http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Resear ch/ http://s... ... history. http://www.corset.dk/ http://costume.dm.net/ Crime Fighting, Computer Systems and Databases As crime globalizes, so does crime fight... ...nts Provides information on the development and implementation of fingerprinting systems for the general public and international law enforcement... ... One fifth of all adult sufferers are men. http://dmoz.org/editors/editcat.cgi?cat=Health/Mental_Health/Disorde rs/Eating Egg A human female is bor...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Women with Hiv/Aids

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...USA e-mail: smarand@gallup.unm.edu Translation of the Tamil interviews by Meena Kandasamy H E X I S Phoenix, Arizona 2005 ... ...ine.com This book has been peer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr. L. Bojilov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. ... ...tantinova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. Copyright 2005 by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache Layout by K... ...out putting in place social supports, such as means of independent living and health care. 10 In many cases in rural Tamil Nadu most men prefer a... ... training of both men and women for mutual negotiation. Unless these support systems are in place, women in relationship with HIV- infected men may ... ...e issues are exacerbated by limited access to personal physicians, inadequate health insurance and a general fear and mistrust of health services, t... ...-ordination strategies that will improve access and connect these women with health care services, earlier in the process. In rural Tamil Nadu we ... ...e adaptable in case of data when we are not in a position to inter-relate two systems but we know they are inter- related indirectly. Such study is p... ...te calculus reasoning techniques used in artificial intelligence (AI) expert systems. It allows us to reason with sets instead of propositions. The...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...aordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns about the use of orphan works. As you know... ...rks whose owners cannot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright T... ...g copyright law creates a limitation on exclusive rights for reproductions by libraries and archives of works during the last 20 years of any term of ... ...rious ephemera of local interest). 37 See, e.g., National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine (654) (describing a policy for conduc... ...ith a firm understanding of both the domestic and international copyright systems. This section, therefore, describes the legal background and exam... ...uals and the like. Much of the value in these works is the facts, ideas, systems, and methods described in them, not necessarily the particular expr... ... system relates to the scope of limitations and exceptions to copyright a country can enact. Under Berne, different limitations and exceptions are ... ... able to bear it: the owner of the copyright. 222 Supporters of formal systems argued and supporters of case- ... ...ion of American Universities Donald A.B. Lindberg/National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine Markham C. Erickson/NetCoalition...

...t addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Even where the user has made a reasonably diligent effort to find the owner, if the owner is not found, the user faces...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility to cover the wide variety of situations that depend on the type of work and type...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...aordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns about the use of orphan works. As you know... ...rks whose owners cannot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright T... ...g copyright law creates a limitation on exclusive rights for reproductions by libraries and archives of works during the last 20 years of any term of ... ...rious ephemera of local interest). 37 See, e.g., National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine (654) (describing a policy for conduc... ...ith a firm understanding of both the domestic and international copyright systems. This section, therefore, describes the legal background and exam... ...uals and the like. Much of the value in these works is the facts, ideas, systems, and methods described in them, not necessarily the particular expr... ... system relates to the scope of limitations and exceptions to copyright a country can enact. Under Berne, different limitations and exceptions are ... ... able to bear it: the owner of the copyright. 222 Supporters of formal systems argued and supporters of case- ... ...ion of American Universities Donald A.B. Lindberg/National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine Markham C. Erickson/NetCoalition...

...t addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Even where the user has made a reasonably diligent effort to find the owner, if the owner is not found, the user faces...

...ission, should make it as clear as possible to the public that the work is the product of another author, and that the copyright in the work is owned by another....

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Veritas Neo: The New Vision for a New Reality

By: Kee

...g. When people come to us, they find not only words of truth and justice by a man walking here among you in the world that goes only by one name - ... ..._______________________ Neo, Between Worlds: My own small vision, inspired by one of Neo's sermons. by Kee (Maryland, USA ) __________________________... ...d the scorning jeer Of the masses who simply refuse to hear. Shielded only by his few close friends And spurred by his mission which never ends He rar... ...wrong, black and white, a citadel of society’s expectations… and like all systems, it is self- perpetuating. Human nature, from its earliest origins,... ...this concept. Not for love, not for money, not for my own satisfaction or health or karma. We are here to keep this cycle from devouring itself agai... ...ize or freeze base on -- brand names, secret user passwords, or operating systems... a "universal plug-in" that would simply help each machine recog... ...ething that's happening down the street or around the block or across the country or over the ocean. It happens next door, the next street over, it ... ...icle 25 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothi... ...escribes himself as "a 28 year old fun-loving person. I have a variety of health problems, but I do try my best to live each day as best I can, alth...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...nt Self-love: Narcissism Revisited http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ... the two over-riding themes of the antisocial personality disorder (still labelled by many professional authorities "psychopathy" and "sociopathy")... ... an overwhelming dysphoria and an even more overweening drive to assuage this angst by belonging. The psychopath is an unhappy person. He is besieg... ...eable to maintain a close correlation between the physical state of the human (his health and age) and his consciousness of the passage of time. Th... ... representations. The payment should be either in kind (as in more ancient justice systems) or in cash (as in modern Western civilization). The ... ...certain that robots will fully and always implement the three laws? Only recursive systems are predictable in principle, though, at times, their co... ...es the Laws from a few vantage points: philosophy, artificial intelligence and some systems theories. An immediate question springs to mind: HOW wi... ...and newsweeklies). 2008- Member of the Steering Committee for the Advancement of Healthcare in the Republic of Macedonia Advisor to the Minister ... ...c Relationships Study List, and the Links and Factoid Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe categories in va...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSL... ... A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I ... ...DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII ... ... England, in one of the maritime towns of which he was residing for the recovery of his health, when he heard the report of the doctrine which I was ... ...d to stir up the greater part of my flock to exhort me by all means, as I valued my own health and their well-being, to remove a little from the bus... ...d and to his church during these weeks of retirement. For I was well convinced that the health which I most needed was the healing water of the Holy ... ...ty of sentiment amongst such differently constituted minds, and differently constituted systems, with respect to the one great point of the place at ... ...lace, shall first take an estimate of the comparative usefulness, and profit of the two systems; the more willingly as my good author, being a textua... ...at is, the orthodoxy of the question. CHAPTER I. THE COMPARATIVE USEFULNESS OF THE TWO SYSTEMS. THE two views of the second advent which our author...

...CONTENTS DEDICATION...1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE......

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...ECRET INGREDIENTS FOR INNER STRENGTH Famous Amos THE OWER IN OU by Wally Amos and Gregory Amos f)I..I:' DONALD I. FINE, INC. ~ NEW YORK... ...Gregory Amos f)I..I:' DONALD I. FINE, INC. ~ NEW YORK Copyright © 1988 by Wally Amos and Gregory Amos All rights reserved, including the right of... ...n whole or in part in any form. Published in the United States of America by Donald 1. Fine, Inc. and in Canada by General Publishing Company Limite... ...eriences have been imprinted in our minds-it's difficult to change belief systems immediately. But just think, if you change now, you will have so ... ...verything begins with self-esteem, every­ thing-a fantastic job, excellent health, a great marriage and family life. If you think nothing of yoursel... ...tential I had. When I moved to New York City as a teenager, I felt like a country boy moving to the big city. I was a country boy moving to the big... ... was okay to be skinny. As a matter of fact, I discovered it was actually health, ier. I didn't physically change but instead, and more importantly... ... inferiority. When I began to let go of negative attitudes and old belief systems and analyze my actions and thoughts, I discovered how detrimental... ...tiful statues in your life, whether your statues take the form of better health, a job change, a new car, your own business, a more fulfilling rela...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM TH... ... A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume II ... ...REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume II PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON FLEET STREET, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS E... ...ording to the orders of his divine Father, had to depart immediately into a far country, in order to receive a kingdom to himself and return, (Luke x... ...y generations.” Isa. lx. 1.15. The same to whom it is said, “For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord... ..., the Sun of righteousness, who in his wings or glorious light, shall bring you health: —otherwise thus; the Sun of righteousness shall arise, who sh... ... of righteousness shall arise, who shall give you wings, and, by means of them, health. Of these wings we shall speak by-and-bye. It is the same in s... ...r. This is so evident and clear, that, according to the different principles or systems, there have been derived two different conclusions; and thou... ...eholding every thing by itself, will compare the explanations according to both systems, and after weighing them in a faithful balance, pronounce an...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

... everything, including his nome - and turned adversity into opportunity *by court order WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into ... ...rder WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, Californi... ...milla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, California U.s.A. Published by AsIan Publishing P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 F... ...rs and the flight crew. Word of the delicacies spread to each part of the country I flew to. On one flight to New York, as the airplane landed the p... ...able trend in Hollywood to a supermarket basic and fa­ vorite all over the country and in some parts of the world. I knew that chocolate chip cookies... ... officer of Nature's Gateway, an extremely profitable company which sells health products. After leaving Nature's Gateway, Portola set up a ven­ tur... ...ia and I got divorced, it was obvious that our rela­ tionship had not been healthy. For me to have remained in it for the sake of the kids didn't mak... ...ids, too. A home with nothing but anger and hate and frustration is not a healthy environment for anyone to live in. I was determined not to do that... ...e, Kiyosaki shows the root fallacies on which everything from our grading systems to our school hours are based, and demonstrates that we must make ...

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God Prophecy

By: Dr. Paraskev

...e Frodo in each of us has already taken sides in the battle, too. And step by step, the Fellowship against the Ring is formed in our world. On the oth... ...oo, have already made their choice. Period 2 : 2200-2500. Integration age. By the end of this period the level of technologies (energy-, electronic-, ... ... religious revolutions take place in some of us (not many). And thus, step by step, part 2 of God’s Plan is realized in us. Although invisibly. Theref... ...smoothly (through its inner interdependent control, compromise and concord systems) that almost no social or political conflict could possibly appear.... ...ore, to realize this the individual must have the absolute right of: life, health, labour, just remuneration for that labour, property, privacy, indiv... ...re in love with themselves only. Some are in love with an idea, with one’s country, with money, with fame, some are in love with a dream. Some are in ...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) ... ...onCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transm... ...nditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they end... ...s and with the world. 29 This type of strategy inevitably transforms a healthy symbiosis into an unhealthy, sadomasochistic one, where sadomasoc... ...ce them to live so as to satisfy your needs that have not been satisfied? Health, money, attachment to the family and a good reputation: are these t... ...ce them to live so as to satisfy your needs that have not been satisfied? Health, money, attachment to the family and a good reputation: are these t... ...f a politician is like during a campaign, when they are going all over the country, twenty-four hours a day, so as to get votes for their candidacy.... ...as continued to exist and develop and it never dies, whereas philosophical systems do. What is the great mystery we are dealing with here? For me, ... ...as continued to exist and develop and it never dies, whereas philosophical systems do. What is the great mystery we are dealing with here? For me, ...

...A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention 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...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... PUBLISHERS THE ZOHAR Rav Michael Laitman, PhD THE ZOHAR Copyright © 2007 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publis... ........................................................73 Who Created These (by Eliyahu) .................................................................. ...here were many kinds, but those kinds and families could not exist unless by entering the ark. …Thus the righteous will enter the secret of the Light... ... parallel to the pure one. Our world is located under these two spiritual systems. Our world is also called egoistic and impure, but its forces and ... ...ter’s properties, as the Creator created two precisely balanced, opposing systems of pure and impure forces, this reveals the letter’s inability to r... ...e the souls of the world of Atzilut, for the Creator created two opposite systems in the worlds BYA: the system of darkness and bitterness opposite ... ...ho loves the Creator in order to gain riches, live a long life, have many healthy children, and rule over his enemies—he receives everything he want... ...tached? Love is 387 THE SECOND COMMANDMENT good when it brings goodness, health, sustenance, and life from the Beloved One. And it is here that fea... ...ally does—because of his upbringing or for a reward in this world (money, health, luck, peace, and so forth) or in the world to come (the best that ...

...isdom and the basis for all Kabbalistic literature. Since its appearance nearly 2,000 years ago, it has been the primary, and often only, source used by Kabbalists. For centuries, Kabbalah was hidden from the public, which was considered not yet ready to receive it. However, our generation has been designated by Kabbalists as the first generation that is ready to grasp ...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

... 3 Fixing Global Finance Fixing Global Finance was first published in 2010 by Madhyam and SOMO. Madhyam 148, Maitri Apartments Plot No.28 Patparganj D... ... midst of a severe crisis. The housing market meltdown which was triggered by sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US quickly snowballed into a global fin... ...d to fraud to regulatory failures. Some analysts have explained the crisis by Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis while others view it as ... ...eir society. In the US, the number of people living in poverty and without health insurance is rapidly rising. The statistics compiled by US Census Bu... ... 2009 was the highest since 1994. Besides, the number of Americans without health insurance jumped to 50.7 million in 2009 from 46.3 million in 2008. ... ...n and out of companies as the market demands (rather than as the long-term health of the companies requires). Private equity firms tend to buy compani... ..., there are serious weaknesses in the internal control and risk management systems within the banks and institutions involved in financial derivatives... ...g capital flows which could pose a threat to their economies and financial systems. In October 2010, Thailand imposed a 15 percent withholding tax on ... ...bate on global financial reforms is focused on strengthening the financial systems of the developed economies – the epicenter of global financial cris...

...30s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic activity throughout the world. The crisis has highlighted that financial markets are inherently unstable and market failures have huge economic and social costs...

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Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work

By: Ion Soare

...800-521-0600 http://www.umi.com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2001 by American Research Press and the Author Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322,... ...www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm Frontcover painting by Florentin Smarandache, from his cycle intituled: Kachina, the Gre... ...tten about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the... ...scu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarc... ...relation between postmodernity and the level of civilization and culture of a country; and this relation remains identically available if the first t... ... compels recognition more and more, such a child not just waited, but full of health and originality, which asks for his rights! “Demonstrated” and... ... mentioned cycles, in which shine nuggets of popular wisdom, intelligence and healthy humor. 36 The paradoxes of a popular structure are recogniz... ...is creations, indifferent of genre or species, it could write many pages. His healthy, “blue”, or bitter laugh has helped Smarandache to change the e... ...use the inner contradictions of the objects, phenomena, ideas, communication systems aso., will exist practically for ever, even though in a perman...

.... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarchila, Doru Motoc and even... Ion Rotaru) declared ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...dles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the senior orators, Hin-... ...de reached President Hoji- kina' housn on the return marol). when a charge by the sophomores upset things. Most of the trans- [jaroncios informed 1900... ...nt. He is in the laboratory trying to register an earthquake shock, caused by Clough walking across the camp- us. If Herzfeld had not stopped talking ... ...e start of football operations in the fall. V A combination of old ami new systems will possibly tie made, for it is probable that an alumnus will off... ...5 have been in town. Rogers '10 has resigned college on account of the ill health of his father. He leaves for his home in Oak Park, III., to-day. The... ...ion, and among other things is accredited by many medical men as being the healthi- est form of exercise. Thus we feel that water sports present a str... ...ere will not contain the com- pulsory elements whicli feature in the other systems; thus for the present there can be conjured up no bug-bears to the ... ... At*. Special WILLIAMS Boxen AT EDDIE DEMPSEY'S AMan's Face has a right to health and comfort. It cannot havd these unless he insists upon WILLIAMS' S... ...the vari- ous non-athletic activities are conducted in general under three systems,—the lirst being that in which the financial arm of the or ganizati...

...as founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of i...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ting & Finance, Griffith University, Australia. Copyright 2003 by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, and Xiquan, 510 E. Tow... ...their interactions with different ideational spectra. This was introduced by one of the authors, Florentin Smarandache. A few of the mentionable cha... ...s the uninterpretable; regards, from many different angles, old concepts, systems and proves that an idea which is true in a given referential syste... ...and far-reaching consequences as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. Prof. Bart Kosko, the guru of fuzzy logic, introduced the Fuzzy C... ...ear 1986. It was a fuzzy extension of the cognitive map pioneered in 1976 by political scientist Robert Axelrod [5], who used it to represent knowle... ... has been explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in ... ...t types of detection modules in order to make decisions about the overall health of the network. We now recall from Siraj. A. et al [89] the desc... ...fuzzy rules are used to support FCMs has been used for risk assessment in health care see Smith and Eloff [95]. Carvalho and Tome [19-23] report tha... ... and Margaritis [107] in connection with it. An FCM concerning the public health with 7 nodes C 1 , C 2 , …, C 7 is given, for example, concept C 1...

...sophy that studies the origin, nature and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. This was introduced by one of the authors, Florentin Smarandache. A few of the mentionable characteristics of this mode of thinking are [90-94]: It proposes new philosophical theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas and movements; it reveals ...

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Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar : Risk Reduction in Natural Resource Management

By: Dr. John Espie Leake

...between 1950 and 1959 ($38 billion at 1998 values) The human cost is also high: over the 1984–2003 period, more than 4.1 billion people were affected by natural disasters. The number affected has grown, from 1.6 billion in the first half of that period (1984–93) to almost 2.6 billion in the second half (1994-2003), and has continued to increase. Although disasters caused b...

...isasters 11 Resilience 12 Systems Thinking 13 Self-organising Systems 18 A System for Disaster Risk Reduction ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...guide.html http://economics.cjb.net http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...IX. Law and Technology XL. The Author Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International... ... way to continue making money, to continue growing and keeping your profit margins healthy, is to constantly come up with new ideas." Return The ... ... more daringly. Governments would like to maintain the stability of their financial systems. The common interest is overwhelming - and moral hazard... ...in their NBER paper titled "Are Invisible Hands Good Hands?": "Moral hazard due to health insurance leads to excess consumption, therefore it is no... ...on is second best optimal. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect competition in the healthcare market may constrain this moral hazard by increasing ... ...ut within the same market. Hal Varian of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California in Berkeley summarizes t... ...local safety and health standards, price controls, quality of internal distribution systems, the size of the order, the size of the market, and so o...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ....html http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...e Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaini... ...olonial state of mind. Backward natives come cheap, their lives dispensable, their systems of governance and economies inherently inferior. The whi... ...m" is only the latest round in a millennium-old war between Islam and other "world systems". Such interpretation of recent events enrages many. Th... ... sciences. This war is about world domination. Two incompatible thought and value systems compete for the hearts and minds (and purchasing power) ... ...pled and income per capita has doubled. But it still spends more on defence than on health and education combined and less than most developing coun... ...ed cities led to reverse migration back to the villages. In the long term it was a healthy trend. Paradoxically, the collapse of the central state ... ...) granted $8 million to the U.N.'s Children's Fund (UNICEF) to pay for sanitation, healthcare and potable water schemes in Iraq as well as for micr...

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