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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...s Imprint, Skopje 2005 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2005 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. Th... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...tern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or He... ...herto claimed to have been fighting for independence. When the war was over, he established a private militia, under his commend - the People's ... .../inventors/blpotatochip.htm Microchips The Journal of Environmental Science and Technology published study according to which 1.6 kilograms of ... ...954 and The Nobel prize for Peace in 1962. http://www.nobel.se/ Nokia Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was fou... ...ery company Maillefer. It proceeded to become the largest Scandinavian information technology company by digesting Ericsson's data systems division... ...ing the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in ...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...print, Skopje 2010 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-10 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...memory - don't we already presuppose the existence of a "remembering agent" with an established self-identity? Moreover, we keep talking about "di... ...ion - surely, we should feel entitled to invade his brain and extract it? Once such technology is available - shouldn't authorized bodies of inspect... ...? (See: "On Empathy"). And if property rights to one's brain and mind were firmly established - how will telepathy (if ever proven) be treated leg... ...at the brain and its flesh-and- blood container were once united, before science or technology had them sundered. But what about a human brain that ... ... Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ... ...ncy of Privatization, by the Stock Exchange, and by the Ministry of Trade. 1999 to 2002 Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Mace...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...nnot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act o... ...er Menell, Robert Barr and David Grady at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology of the University of California – Berkeley, Boalt Hall School o... ...s, such as photographs. Some commenters proposed that user registries be established in which a user would file a notice that he intends to use a wo... ...sion and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • record companies (e.g., Recording Industry Association of America); • rights ad... ... • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of America); • software companies (e.g., Entertainment Software Association, Microsoft, Software a... ...a–Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology for hosting the roundtable in Berkeley, California. 22 Transc... ... Royalty Panel (CARP), P.O. Box 70977, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024–0977. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery ...

...m 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 uncertainty – she cannot determine whether or...

...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 t...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...nnot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act o... ...er Menell, Robert Barr and David Grady at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology of the University of California – Berkeley, Boalt Hall School o... ...s, such as photographs. Some commenters proposed that user registries be established in which a user would file a notice that he intends to use a wo... ...sion and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • record companies (e.g., Recording Industry Association of America); • rights ad... ... • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of America); • software companies (e.g., Entertainment Software Association, Microsoft, Software a... ...a–Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology for hosting the roundtable in Berkeley, California. 22 Transc... ... Royalty Panel (CARP), P.O. Box 70977, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024–0977. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery ...

...m 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 uncertainty – she cannot determine whether or...

... and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course of using a work for which he has not received explicit permission, 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...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...vska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002-7 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 20... ...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ... creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet... ...quitous Project Gutenberg XXXII. The Media Downloader’s Profile Web Technology and Trends Thoughts on the Internet’s Founding Myths I. B... ...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...keting, branding and advertising once a product's first mover advantage is established. Economic laws of increasing, rather than diminishing, returns... ... BookCrossing.com. On the face of it, it presents no profound challenge to established publishing practices and to the modern concept of intellectual...

... dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Eviden... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...ty and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subject matter. Yet readers ... ...r daily actions you scrupulously ob- served the rights—all the rights—of the companies that have interests in the texts, tunes, images of celebrities,... ...uld be made, but subsequent changes would be harder and harder as people and companies built their activities around the rules that had been laid down... ...al process was going to be particularly vulnerable to problems of capture by established industries, many of whom would (rightly) see the Internet as ... ... to use their service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have... ...ne the freedom to add to it, and she did—“My Life.” Changed. On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...NNY TAKEISHI, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SOEST), CYANOTECH. PHOTOS ON PAGE 3, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: D... ...a solar llc , university of hawai ‘i school of ocean and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone ... ... and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper us... ...offset by carbon credits. is part of This special edition of was produced in cooperation with the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee. PUBLISHER David ... ...s 13 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESOURCE LIST Contact information for companies and agencies in this magazine CLEAN ENERGY Cellana www.cellana.co... ...nique test-bed for clean, renewable energy.” It’s no wonder that energy companies in Hawai‘i have jumped quickly from great ideas to commercial s... ...scale version of an electrical distribution and storage system, will be established to ensure reliability and secure backup power will fow to mil... ...al look” for resort hotels around the globe. IN 1960, the U.S. Congress established in Honolulu a unique place for study, research and cooperatio... ...aboratories in the ofce building nearest to the new Honolulu campus. “In 2002, we told the medical school that we would build the lab even before ...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...cean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Place for Global Meetings -- 78 Checklist for Your Next Conference -- 82 Sustainability, Harmony Built Into Hawaiian Culture -- 86 What A...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2003 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. Th... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...VII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality of Child Labor XXXIX. Law and Technology XL. The Author Economics - Psychology's Neglected B... ...ptive Powers – The theory must yield policy prescriptions, much like physics yields technology. Economists must develop "economic technology" - a se... ...able television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today, a pending deal would leave three companies in ... ...of risk are booming industries. Governments, capital markets, banks, and insurance companies have all entered the fray with ever- evolving financial... ... Enough to mention Enron and its accountants, the formerly much vaunted Andersen. Established economic theory - pioneered by Merton in 1977 - show... ...erations to future ones. Export and credit insurance schemes - such as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... .... It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in... ...unterparts. The Apple II was a blank slate, a bold de- parture from previous technology that had been developed and marketed to per- form specific task... ...e man, the revolutions that they inaugurated are radically different. For the technology that each inaugurated is radically different. The Apple II was ... ...the Generative Net 14 The business world took up PCs slowly—who could blame companies for ignoring something called “personal computer”? In the early... ...i- ers to generative tinkering with the machines. If the hobbyist PC had not established the value of tinkering so that the PC could enter the mainstr... ...In such a world, people would use smart typewriters for word processing from companies like Brother: all-in-one units with integrated screens and prin... ... technological innovations are consistent with the performance trajectory of established market leaders—that is, when they are a more efficient way of d... ... the debate, see Marjory S. Blumenthal, End-to-End and Subsequent Paradigms, 2002 L R. M. S. U.-D C. L. 709, 717 (describing end-to-end ...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...al Report Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies APEC Study ... ... August 2011 Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies ii ... ...……………………………………………………….. 48 3.9 Insurance………………………………………………………………………… 48 3.10 Finance Companies Activities…………………………………………………... 49 3.11 Pension Fun... ... to the Global Financial Crisis……………... 54 3.13 Resume of Mexican Economic Indicator, 2002 – 2010………………………… 56 3.14 Economic Indicators External Sec... ...xternal Sector, 2002 – 2010…………………………….. 59 3.15 Economic Indicators Monetary Sector, 2002 – 2010…………………………… 59 3.16 Growth and Ratio of Debt (Perce... ...y by bridging surplus spending units (savers) to deficit spending units (individuals, companies, governments) who need more funds in excess of their... ...nded by insufficiently trained, poorly numbered, poorly equipped with information and technology compared with financial Contributing to Efforts ... ...arket Condition II.1.1 Economic Cooperation among APEC Member Economies APEC was established in 1989, in response to the growing interdependence... ...1 members rank among the top 40 exporting economies in the world, and since APEC was established the member economies’ total trade with the world ha...

...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions that foster financial market stability to enhance integration of financial markets across the region; and 2) drawing on the findings of the r...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2006 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. Th... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...eas are impossible to suppress. Already, militant Islam is far more widespread and established that any Western government would care to admit. Hi... ...crative contracts and sinecures once the sponsored candidate attained office. Long-established, prominent families - political dynasties - increase... ...ources and to extend its influence towards the Indian Ocean. Two Saudi Arabian oil companies were also involved. During the same years, the Taliba... ...nomically crucial diasporas in the united States. They admire and consume American technology and pop culture. Trade with the USA and foreign direc... ... denied by President Vladimir Putin in a phone call to Bush - and ridiculed by the companies ostensibly involved. Russia exported c. $5 billion of ... ...sia and the United States have continually exchanged barbs over the sale of fission technology to Iran. In retaliation, Atomic Energy Minister, Alex...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...t Singh 3 Fixing Global Finance Fixing Global Finance was first published in 2010 by Madhyam and SOMO. Madhyam 148, Maitri Apartments Plot No.28 Patp... ...one: 91-11-43036919 Email: madhyamdelhi@gmail.com Website: www.madhyam.org.in Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on ... ...rise NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NBFCs Non-Banking Financial Companies NGOs Non-Governmental Organizations NIM Net Interest Margin NPAs ... ...stors across the world, including investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and pension funds, who buy them so as to receive in return a regu... ...ts as promised under the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development (2002). Post-crisis, aid commitments are under severe pressure due to econom... ... have attracted more interest than traditional sectors such as information technology, information technology-enabled 41 Fixing Global Finance servic... ...t and 38 percent in East Asia. Since 2005, more than 10 new SWFs have been established as a result of record commodity prices leading to rapid accumul... ...s of SWFs. In 2009, International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds was also established to oversee the implementation of Santiago Principles. However, ... ...ector and would encourage domestic banks to adopt “best practices” and new technology. The processes involved in the banking sector liberalization in ...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the wo...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk 6. Global Financial Crisis and India 7. Guid...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...print, Skopje 2009 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2009 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. Th... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...t - and so were privatizers in developing countries. What price should state-owned companies have fetched? This question is not as simple and strai... ...sales. New information, macro-economic and micro-economic, determines the value of companies. Greenspan testifies in the Senate, economic figures a... ...lic), on the management in place (committed or mobile), on the product (new or old technology) and a myriad of other factors. It is almost impossib... ... One type supplied firms with capital. The other type supplied them with know-how, technology, management skills, marketing techniques, intellectua... ... this onerous decree, entrepreneurs and religious figures in Egypt and in Pakistan established "Islamic banks". These institutions pay no interest ... ... exempt from "old rules and archaic modes of thinking". Productivity has surged and established a steeper, but sustainable, trend line. Information ...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...onal – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-7 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or an... ...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ...he USA. In the USA, in 1932, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established to tackle nature conservation work for the young and unmarried ... ...and France, which reduced the minimum wage payable to young people. Spain established two classes of workers with an increased bargaining power gran... ... its experience to France, for instance. The LOI ROBIEN prescribes that companies should be spared social security obligations for 7 years if they... ...of whom 121,666 were women). In the economic sector: 235,206 (72359) In companies with social ownership: 185522 (70,094), of which 121,663 were in... ...ologies. Thailand established in 1997, within the National Science and Technology Development Agency, a 2.2 billion baht project called "Reverse ... ...rseas to help in the Development of Thailand, particularly in science and technology." The OECD ("International Mobility of the Highly Skilled") ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...nto a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potential and actuality. The destruction of ... ... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...alism and some forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. ... ...echnology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. Yet, globalization, technology, (and capitalism) are as much in opposition to the cl... ...elf-regulating organizations of free individuals whose functions parallel those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradual... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...ecies. Eugenics may be based on a literal understanding of Darwin's metaphor. The 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say: "D...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...nto a person with consciousness and free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potential and actuality. The destruction of ... ... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...alism and some forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. ... ...echnology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. Yet, globalization, technology, (and capitalism) are as much in opposition to the cl... ...elf-regulating organizations of free individuals whose functions parallel those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradual... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...ecies. Eugenics may be based on a literal understanding of Darwin's metaphor. The 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say: "D...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India E-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in ... ...e of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India E-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of N... ...nity Mobilization and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Inform... ...om Peer reviewers: Sukanto Bhattacharya, School of Information Technology, Bond University, Australia; Dr. Jean Dezert, ONERA (French Nat... ...gure 1.3.11. They will also verify the correctness of the cognitive model established in the paper. Any behavior that cannot be accounted for in Fig... ...onal Advanced Robotics Program (IARP) held in Roma, Italy between Nov 6-9 2002, it is said as follows: "FCMs are applicable for modeling the operati... ...ents. Edges of the map capture regulatory and metabolic relationships are established by a domain expert, the biological literature, and extracted f... ...e to consider as the final strategic direction depends on COMMUNICATION COMPANIES OR IN GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS "CUSTOMERS SWITCHING COSTS" EAS... ...C. Introduction to Neutrosophic Logic, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2002. http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/IntrodNeutLogic.pdf 5. Axel...

...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has re...

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Trade Facilitation through Customs Procedures: Assessment of Apec's Progress

By: Its Global

... Sub- Committee on Customs Procedures (SCCP) for his strong support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessaril... ...ADING ACROSS BORDERS SURVEY.................. 65 ANNEX C: ACTIONS ON CUSTOMS PROCEDURES IN INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLANS, 2006 TO 2009....................... ...velop baseline measures, if the Leaders’ 5% goal was to have any practical meaning (CTI 2002). Following the conclusion of the Plan, the Final Rev... ...imported or exported and to review border clearance procedures used in the process (WCO 2002). Its Time Release Survey (TRS) methodology aims to ide... ...ated among APEC members. In August 2009 the Sub-Committee on Customs Procedure (SCCP) established the AEO Working Group (AEO WG) to assist APEC ec... ...ncluding predictability, transparency, the leveraging of information and communications technology. It also outlines best international practice in ... ...ents, show a lack of coordination at the border and impose burdens on private logistics companies. It found that operators in economies with the bes... ...aper documentation, the extent that any replacements for paper documents were media and technology neutral. B. ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF TFAP... ... of Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Peru and Singapore. Of those that had not established full electronic processing, most handled over 90 ...

...perspectives — the specific objective that was set for their sub-area of the Plan and their contribution to the overall goal for the Plan of a 5% cut in trade transaction costs....

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...the top, currently the leading country in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country... ...ok place after the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and today's modern development culture was created... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...at least seven cinemas, and it was also common practice for pharmaceutical companies to tour the villages with their cinema vans to show free films on... ...00a. 16. Newspaper reports e.g. Bangkok Post 22.10.2001; 4.11.2001; 26.10.2002; 26.11.2002. 17. In Thailand, a group of researchers put out the fir... ...rntisart 2000. Phongpaichit - Baker 1998; 2001. Mills 2001. Tanabe - Keyes 2002. McCargo 2002. 19. Steward 1955. Bennet 1976. D’Andrade 1997. Shore ...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...nnot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act o... ...er Menell, Robert Barr and David Grady at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology of the University of California – Berkeley, Boalt Hall School o... ...s, such as photographs. Some commenters proposed that user registries be established in which a user would file a notice that he intends to use a wo... ...sion and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • record companies (e.g., Recording Industry Association of America); • rights ad... ... • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of America); • software companies (e.g., Entertainment Software Association, Microsoft, Software a... ...a–Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology for hosting the roundtable in Berkeley, California. 22 Transc... ... Royalty Panel (CARP), P.O. Box 70977, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024–0977. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery ...

...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 uncertainty – she cannot determine whether...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ...ace for utopian settlements to be developed?” —“No, not with our present technology—the possibility just isn’t there. We have to solve our popula... ... humanitarian citizens of the world. “But more, the modern level of technology requires a more intelligent citizen to provide for the needs ... ...rogram ever on television.” 21 —“Me too. In the old days all the movie companies had lots here. See that mountain across the lake? That’s the o... ...s by the ‘do good’ countries. If they don’t steal it outright, they own the companies that service the firms founded on foreign money—the cleaning s... ..., mothers began chasing their babies from their nests— before trust could be established. Dominant males got tired of protecting t heir territories an... ...nting to me that my country was one of the last to sign on, and that was in 2002. “Then Article 28 requires the various countries to provide...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...print, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-6 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This b... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... Disorders The Genetic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcis... ...ay even search for conflict to relieve the pain and intense suffering of the poorly established self, the pain of the discontinuous, fragmenting, u... ...y imagined - but no one knows when this "window of plasticity" shuts. What has been established is that the brain is physically impressed with abuse... ...ho Was Raised as a Girl". HealthScoutNews cited a study published in the November 2002 issue of "Child Development". The researchers, from City Un... ...ychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, acade... ...its. Education Graduated a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Ph... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...entral Europe Review Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-4 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This b... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...ished a poem "Macedonian Fairy" in 1878. The Young Macedonian Literary Society was established in 1891 and started publishing "Loza", its journal a... ...to fight the wolf. The original "Macedonian Revolutionary Organization" (MRO) was established in Sofia. The distinction between being a Macedonian... ...s. It was granted favourable export conditions by Hitler's Germany and many of its companies participated in cartels established by German corporat... ...ined by God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's lebensraum colonial mo... ...iberal democracies were expected to contribute to their own demise with the sale of technology, know-how and, above all - with injections of hard cu... ... simply wrong. Modern terrorism - multinational, amorphic networks, with access to technology - is at least 50 years old. The only "new" element is...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ... DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 2002)] Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is exacerbated by the ons... ...assets liberally, and to be cynically exempt from the rules that he himself established (if such violation is pleasurable or gainful). In extreme ca... ...inst the "old ways": against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic ... ...God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's Lebensraum colonial movement - ... ... subvert modernity (in other words, Progress itself) by using its products (technology) to exclude and kill "outsiders", all in the name of servicin... .... Education Completed a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – ... ...viv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief A...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...print, Skopje 2010 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2010 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. Th... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...phical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.htm... ...philosophical complications. Consider life. In human (artificial and intelligent) technology, every thing and every action has a function within a... ...dd). 7. Finally, mathematics is useful: it works. It underlies modern science and technology unerringly and unfailingly. In time, all branches of ... ...s in 6 dimensions (the other 4 curled and the five-brane wrapped around them) was established and then dualities between strings from the 5 string... ...tory), the ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception) research outfit at Princeton University, established in 1979, closed down in February 2007. The argument... ... Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ... ...ncy of Privatization, by the Stock Exchange, and by the Ministry of Trade. 1999 to 2002 Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Mace...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...print, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-6 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This b... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...The Metaphors of Mind – The Brain VII. The Metaphors of Mind - Psychotherapy VIII. In Defense of Psychoanalysis IX. Metaphors of Mind – The Dialog ... ...ychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, acade... ...and daring imagination, a Herculean feat of model- construction, and a challenge to established morals and manners. It is now widely considered noth... ...Principle – The initial state of a human subject in an experiment is usually fully established. But both treatment and experimentation influence th... ...don't seem to be goal oriented, they have no discernible objective. In this age of technology and precision, efficiency and optimization - dreams s... ...its. Education Graduated a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Ph... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

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

By: Florentin Smarandache

...FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ...ress Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ... inventors are also handicapped by language, poor living conditions, less technology for doing research. In histories of arts, literature, science y... ...ists, for example, in the American academic media (Dana Gioia). The more technology extends, the less culture flourishes. A new event in culture do... ...e spiritual doctrines - although, in its turn, this becomes intrinsically established as another doctrine(!)... for and, at the same time, against ... ...y are they necessary, how they improve, how they interact with for-profit companies. H) New Types of Philosophies: a) Object Philosophy: a buildin... ...Multiple-Valued Logic / An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, 297-384, 2002. 6. Florentin Smarandache, Neutrosophic Set, Probability and Statisti... ...Multiple- Valued Logic / An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, 385-438, 2002. This whole issue of this journal was dedicated to Neutrosophy and Ne...

...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”....

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...—who must find their rewards in discovering truths or otherwise advancing technology. ―Modern American youth have been told repeatedly that ... ...Moore on August 14, 1800, he wrote that ‗The clergy, by getting themselves established by law, and ingrafted into the machine of government, have bee... ...eople. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy to be convenient auxiliaries‘ ―John Adams seemed ... ...ecause we are allowed to make money in nearly any endeavor-- pornography, technology, purveying violence in the media, selling guns and many other m... ...ur government is often directed by rich special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that lar... ...f oil increases by $5 a barrel? What effect will that have on large steel companies, on every utility, on the local baker, on pension fund interest o... ...nomies. Workers in the Czech Republic, for example, put in 1,980 hours in 2002 - despite hefty 146 decreases in the work week in recent years - ...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...Mourning the Narcissist The Inverted Narcissist Torture, Abuse, and Trauma – In Fiction and Poetry Nothing is Happening at Home Night Terror A Dream C... ... DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 2002)] Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is exacerbated by the ons... ...assets liberally, and to be cynically exempt from the rules that he himself established (if such violation is pleasurable or gainful). In extreme ca... ...binson wrote this [in "Occupational Effects of Stalking", Can J Psychiatry 2002;47:468–472]: "… (B)eing stalked by a former partner may affect a vi... .... Education Completed a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – ... ...viv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief A...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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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

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law 107-306, November 27, 2002). Our mandate was sweeping.The law directed us to investigate “facts a... ...and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology. 97 NORAD perceived the dominant threat to be from cruise missil... ...CC to request a fighter escort. 111 The Herndon Command Center immediately established a teleconfer- ence between Boston, New York, and Cleveland Cent... ...ing pattern and set a course direct for Manhattan.They arrived at 9:25 and established a combat air patrol (CAP) over the city. 136 Because the Otis f... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ...Commissioner in 1993, she found an agency seri- ously hampered by outdated technology and insufficient human resources. Bor- der Patrol agents were st...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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