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

By: L. Stephen Young

...false. Nevertheless it is common practice in both scientific and pure logic systems to measure the comparative validity of conflicting statements in... ...vailable recourse in determining the relative value of competing theoretical systems. Thus, the scientific paradox is a valuable source of informatio... ...atural world ―thus enabling the successful prediction of events in physical systems. The recurring patterns indicate logical causality, i.e.: it is ... ...all other factors being equal). Comparative resolution in scientific logic systems is based on the assumption that the above traits are characteris... ...Returning to the example of the ε - metal plate, suppose we isolate it in a vacuum with an ε + charged plate a short distance away. The excess elec... ... ε - plate until the electric field is sufficiently charged to overcome the vacuum's resistance to the electrons' passage. When you think about it, ... ... When you think about it, vacuum resistivity appears baffling; why should a vacuum resist the motion of an electron? However, analyzing this problem ... ...itive mass of the plates is much greater than their negative mass; thus the vacuum has a positive gravity field. The electrons then require sufficie... ...climb out" of their g- well. This also explains why current flow across a vacuum is "congregated" as in an electrical spark ―the electrons bring ...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... 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... ...ian, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) dealt with the completeness and consistency of logical systems. A passing acquaintance with his two theorems would have... ... no such things as solid objects (remember the physicist's desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about). To reconc... ...ry. Reality can be successfully described and captured by alternative mathematical systems and geometries. Additionally, we often confuse complexit...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...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, ... ...ssible potentials emerge. 106 According to quantum physics, a quantum vacuum is the ability to contain packets of energy, but at an unfathomabl... ...ts of energy, but at an unfathomable level of condensation. Thus a quantum vacuum is an infinite ability to maximum concentration of packets of ene...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... 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 ... ...tate (AHP). One who perceives a Higher Spiritual Level as an unattractive vacuum, rather than a state full of Light, does not receive from the Highe...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Religious Belief Systems Versus An Emotional Response To God Religion As An Organized System... ...o God Religion As An Organized System An Example Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Be... ...assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been ... .... As far as I could see the content hardly seemed to matter. Three thought systems, with three different sets of symbols, but for all that, with littl... ...that we have done. The one feature which I have found in all the religious systems I have studied is the theme of being at one with the reality in whi... ...tieth century. People in the West and East had always known that religious systems other than their own existed. Westerners were well acquainted with ... ...it to say that no religious tradition originates or flourishes in a social vacuum. The degree to which social and political involvement determines its... ...s also at this time a new doctrine in international law, called the law of vacuum domicilium, holding that those people who do not use their land must...

...ay school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuri...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...nts, from scientific notions up to drawings, signs and the lack of these, vacuums. Then it benefits by a specific nonlimitation of means. May all th... ...xceptions, impregnation by extravagance, assimilation of the nothingness, vacuum of the transcendence, innocence, destructive imagination, dissonant ... ...ntial distinction between the cues of the absurd theater and the derisory vacuum of the decomposition of verses? Thinking more, still in an akin mod... ...oken by nonlinear pictures, metaphoric equations of the unusual, abstract systems of thinking, one second breathings...” (Mathematical literature). ... ...aunching non-plays with non-characters. NonNovel realizes a cycle of the vacuum. It is the physiology and the hermeneutic of absence, but not an ab... ...e, the philosophy is an amalgam of counterposed ideas naming antagonistic systems. With one consent and brought to the essence, the paradox develops... ...m. We are requested the awakening from the dogmatic sleep of the imposing systems and styles: to become capable to understand that there is a truth ... ...eans also the restudying of the whole philosophy, the reevaluation of all systems, theories, theories, ideas, contributions of the personalities. The... ... the internal contradictions of objects, phenomena, ideas, communication systems etc. will last, practically, for ever, even though in a permanent ...

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Today's Take on Einstein's Relativity

By: Homer B. Titon and Florentin Smarandache

... URSS, Moscow, 2001, 84 pages. 4. Borissova L.B. and Rabounski D.D. Fields, vacuum, and the mirror Universe. Editorial URSS, Moscow, 2001, 272 pages... ...ey form the base space of a principle fiber bundle so that a new model of a vacuum can be created within the fiber group, is the basic structure of ... ... picture. This is a sign of a non- linear system. There are many physical systems whose descriptions are quite inadequate when described in terms ... ...ysical basis for a model of a mind, or more generally for a model of mental systems. 8. Solar system stability 45 9. What the sun's energy... ... do mutate to the other families. 10. Dark material of galaxies and other systems. This list contains elementary, fundamental physical systems th... ...an invariant, though Hamiltonian methods can be adapted to other coordinate systems. 2. Maxwell's equations and Special Relativity are invariant wi... ...ysical and spectral systems. The coherence of such systems depends on a new vacuum in the space's fiber group. In each dimensional metric space, t... ...f the world, is within a fiber group which is related to a new model of the vacuum. Namely, the vacuum is the set of all spectral possibilities whic... ...Typical is this from Zimmerman & Zimmerman (1993): "The speed of light in a vacuum is the limit at which anything - matter or energy - can travel." ...

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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

... 2 CONTENTS S. J. Crothers On the Geometry of the General Solution for the Vacuum Field of the Point-Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . 63 S. J. Crothers On the Generalisation of Kepler’s 3rd Law for the Vacuum Field of the Point-Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 S. J. Crothers On the Vacuum Field of a Sphere of Incompressible Fluid. . . . . . 76 E. Harokopos... ...OGRESS IN PHYSICS Volume 2 On the Geometry of the General Solution for the Vacuum Field of the Point-Mass Stephen J. Crothers Sydney, Australia E-mail... ...e point-mass. In my previous papers [1, 2] on the general solution for the vacuum feld, I proved that r is neither a radius nor a coordinate in the gr... ...y (Scotland) [9] and other laboratories around the world. The experimental systems used in these attempts were more sensitive than those of the Weber ... ...in which numerous variables are linked by relationships (6.13) and (6.14). Systems such as this cannot be solved analytically in general, but we can o... ...undergo changes through the action of a wave of the space curvature. These systems are described by the world-lines deviation equation — the Synge equ... ...ng Constants of Nature Carlos Castro Center for Theor. Studies of Physical Systems, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30314, USA E-mail: cza...

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

By: Florentin Smarandache

... . . . . . . . . . 65 S. J. Crothers On the General Solution to Einstein’s Vacuum Field and Its Implications for Relativistic Degeneracy. . . . . . . ... ... have, analogously to antimatter, utility in medicine and may be stored in vacuum in traps which have the required confguration of electric and magnet... ...hys. A: Math. Gen., v. 37, 2004, 931. 4. Nottale L. Computing Anticipatory Systems. CASYS’03 — Sixth International Conference, Li` ege, Belgique, 11–1... ...SS, Moscow, 2001, 84 pages. 4. Borissova L. B. and Rabounski D. D. Fields, vacuum, and the mirror Universe. Editorial URSS, Moscow, 2001, 272 pages (t... ...fed Newtonian Dynamics Carlos Castro Center for Theor. Studies of Physical Systems, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, USA E-mail: czarlosromanov@yaho... ...ffect (creation of radiation/matter) due to the ac- celeration w. r. t the vacuum frame of reference. For reviews on the alleged variations of the fun... ...e is in accelerated motion (a non-inertial frame of reference) w. r. t the vacuum. Our proposal shares similarities with the previous work of [6], [3]... ...os Castro and Matej Pavˇ siˇ c † Center for Theor. Studies of Physical Systems, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, USA E-mail: czarlosromanov@yaho... ...olume 1 are given an active interpretation: they relate the objects or the systems of reference in relative translational motion. Analogously also the...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...ur customers a net advantage vis-a-vis their opposite numbers. This means that we have to devise systems for particular applications that the oppositi... ...hat some TOP SECRET messages may have close to infinite worth, though; and for these. we provide systems with resist­ ance that you cantalk ofin terms... ...the business we're in and some insights on why we make the kinds of choices we do among the many systems and techniques ru be talking to you about dur... ... happened to start out in this business as a cryptanalyst and a designer of specialized man­ ual systems not long after World War n. It seemed to me i... ...n those days that the job was a simplistic one-purely a matter of examining existing or proposed systems and, if you found anything wrong, fix it or t... ...It wu used over the transatlantic cable for communication between Washington and London. It used vacuum Nbes by the thousands. and had a primiti"'e vo... ...dot code. The fonowing illustration portrays these relationships: The AFSAY-816 used a primitive vacuum tube key pnerator with bank after bank of shif... ...in unsecured. Ioexpensive and quickly available commercial voice equipments milbt move into this vacuum and - even thoulb they may BCoeraBy ofl'er leu...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

...ate of a system which evolves unaffected by other quantum states in other systems. Hopefully, I haven’t lost you already (!), but just in cas... ...in an attempt to warm up slightly a cold universe. 109 Even weather systems on our own planet attempt to achieve this state of equilibrium, a... ...um, air flowing into areas of low pressure in an attempt to even pressure systems out. You no doubt get the picture! But despite the physical ... ...r. The smaller the compartment, the lower the entropy of the physical systems represented by that region of phase space. The larger the compar... ... Everything is thought to originate from what physicists call the quantum vacuum, a potential field from which everything (bosonic and fermionic) ... ...ermionic) arises. Relating this to string theory, perhaps the quantum vacuum is synonymous with the six dimensional Calabi-Yau spaces which are... ... book, some physicists are proposing that one of the fields in the quantum vacuum is a Bose condensate, which you will recall comprises the ground ... ... the Calabi-Yau realm. Some daring souls even posit the idea that the vacuum itself is conscious, and furthermore, that it has an ultimate goal... ...sional Calabi-Yau realm, what physicists would prefer to call the quantum vacuum, an ocean of possibilities. I stated earlier in the text that ...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ugh it emerges as a main property of the whole, as an extensive parameter of macro systems. In my doctoral dissertation (Ph.D. Thesis available on ... ...econd Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precis... ... order is often fighting disorder for dominance. In other words, in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, ... ...to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Personally, I believe otherwise. Some physical systems increase disorder, either by decaying or by actively spr... ...increase disorder, either by decaying or by actively spreading disorder onto other systems. Such vectors we call "Entropic Agents". Conversely, som... ... and quintessence fields are merely other names for entropy and are not related to vacuum energy. Thus, a Big Rip as the outcome of cosmic acceler... ...d their preservation is an expression of longing and desire for things past. The vacuum left by the absence of positive emotions is filled by neg...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...he technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data... ...abor, and commodities—came trade and the need to keep accounts. Judicial systems built upon oral decrees rested upon shaky mnemonic foundations. I... ...eties demanded. So they translated spoken words into symbol-shape writing systems. In the beginning, symbols, such as those of animals and farm c... ...scope to governmental actions across space and time. Other shape-symbol systems developed elsewhere While writing with cuneiform continued under... ...th cuneiform continued under development in Mesopotamia, other pictograph systems began appearing in India and as far away as China. In nearby Eg... ...oll into the capsule, and shoves it into the outgoing pneumatic tube. Vacuum swishes it out to the back shop. (In 1949, on the second floor of th... ...ther modern computers evolved. A grotesque thirty-ton monster with 19,000 vacuum tubes instead of microchips, it incorporated almost everything foun... ...c drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...he technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data... ...abor, and commodities—came trade and the need to keep accounts. Judicial systems built upon oral decrees rested upon shaky mnemonic foundations. I... ...eties demanded. So they translated spoken words into symbol-shape writing systems. In the beginning, symbols, such as those of animals and farm com... ...scope to governmental actions across space and time. Other shape-symbol systems developed elsewhere While writing with cuneiform continued under d... ...th cuneiform continued under development in Mesopotamia, other pictograph systems began appearing in India and as far away as China. In nearby Egyp... ...croll into the capsule, and shoves it into the outgoing pneumatic tube. Vacuum swishes it out to the back shop. (In 1949, on the second floor of th... ...ther modern computers evolved. A grotesque thirty-ton monster with 19,000 vacuum tubes instead of microchips, it incorporated almost everything foun... ...c drums for internal storage of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...tachment, self-control, etc., characteristic of the Oriental philosophical systems, that out of conservatism and suspicion we prefer not to understan... ...f his method: <… I understand not so much a critique of books (ideas) and systems, but of the reason′s capability…> and <… I call transcendental any... ...hysical nothing is of a monadic nature and thus, what is currently called vacuum is in fact an area of the spatiotemporality characterized by that ″... ...nsic property of the zero entropic level medium, further on called cosmic vacuum. If it is natural to suppose a particularly great force of attracti... ...erial and anti-material bodies has another explanation. Within the cosmic vacuum – the zero entropic level medium, the monads, in their permanent mo... ... matter concentration). In the case where two bodies ″submerged″ in vacuum, the actions exerted ″between″ (in the medium between) the two bodi... ...lace, but it is equally true that this also means a drawing-apart of the systems one from another – the universal expansion. Contrary to the appare... ...cosmologic constant, new terms have been advanced, such as: black energy, vacuum energy, black matter, said to be ″an alternative type of substance″ ... ...ch the celestial bodies, the cosmic matter and, what is more obvious, the systems of bodies, contract. Since it is a local, sequential contraction, o...

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Breathe Smart : The Secret to Happiness, Health and Long Life-2Nd Edition

By: Aaron Hoopes

...s actually happening is that the extension of the stomach muscles creates a vacuum which draws the lungs deeper down into the chest cavity allowing... ... couple of simple things you can do to reverse the problem. There are two systems that control the internal functioning of the body: the parasymp...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... more daringly. Governments would like to maintain the stability of their financial systems. The common interest is overwhelming - and moral hazard... ...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... ...e implementation of anti competition legislation – many countries have fostered the vacuum within which financial crises breed. The third lesson i... ...istic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalizes alternative value- systems. From an early age, children are taught to avoid self-cr... ...goods. The introduction of advanced "on the fly" identification and billing (toll) systems reduced transaction costs so dramatically that privately... ...rrational beliefs, pseudo-sciences, and the occult rushed in to profitably fill the vacuum left by the crumbling education systems. These wasteful ... ...mpasses and consists of its function or use. Yet, can a vinyl record be defined in vacuum, without incorporating the record player in the definiens...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...in's sweeping generalization as is usually done: "The speed of light in a vacuum... is the fastest that anything in the universe can travel." A bald... ...5 paper by W. G. V. Rosser: 1. The laws by which the states of physical systems undergo change are not affected, whether these changes of state ... ...whether these changes of state be referred to the one or the other of two systems of coordinates in uniform translatory motion. 2. Any ray of ligh... ...cenario of special relativity, and special relativity deals with inertial systems not with accelerated systems, that's why it is special; but the acc... ...egulating law that outranks any special law of nature and on p.76: The systems to which the physicist must refer natural phenomena...owe their eff... ...ighly esthetic but also highly impractical in terms of present propulsion systems and other technology, and they do not well fit the needs of the sp...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other rights (includin... ...said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political systems, as Michael Bakunin suggested. Governments should theref... ...y to communicate (manipulate vocal-verbal-written symbols within structured symbol systems). Yet, we ignore the fact that using the same symbols do... ...econd Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precis... ...ompasses and consists of its function or use. Yet, can a vinyl record be defined in vacuum, without incorporating the record player in the definiens... ... no such things as solid objects (remember the physicist's desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about). To reconc... ...and then did not own up to them. Expectations and anticipation can develop in total vacuum, in a manner unsubstantiated, not supported by any observ... ...ve without assimilating the experience of past generations? Can innovation occur in vacuum, discontinuously and disruptively? Isn't intellectual co... ...ve without assimilating the experience of past generations? Can innovation occur in vacuum, discontinuously and disruptively? Isn't intellectual co...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other rights (includin... ...said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political systems, as Michael Bakunin suggested. Governments should theref... ...y to communicate (manipulate vocal-verbal-written symbols within structured symbol systems). Yet, we ignore the fact that using the same symbols do... ...econd Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of physical closed systems ("entropy"). Arguably, the Universe as a whole is precis... ...ompasses and consists of its function or use. Yet, can a vinyl record be defined in vacuum, without incorporating the record player in the definiens... ... no such things as solid objects (remember the physicist's desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about). To reconc... ...and then did not own up to them. Expectations and anticipation can develop in total vacuum, in a manner unsubstantiated, not supported by any observ... ...ve without assimilating the experience of past generations? Can innovation occur in vacuum, discontinuously and disruptively? Isn't intellectual co... ...ve without assimilating the experience of past generations? Can innovation occur in vacuum, discontinuously and disruptively? Isn't intellectual co...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Metaphors of the Net VII. The Solow Paradox VIII. Decision Support Systems Author: Sam Vaknin Contact Info: palma@unet.com.mk; samvaknin... ...s Suite101) use the Dewey decimal system. Others invented and implemented systems of their making. Additionally, one click publishing technology (su... ...-alone, instant self-publishing and self-assembly system. Self-publishing systems do exist (for instance, Purdue University's) - but they incorporat... ...entists from UC Berkeley. Whereas digital rights and asset management systems are geared to prevent piracy - plagiarism.org and its commercial a... ...cs (guides) became identified with specific applications - really, expert systems -which incorporate their knowledge and experience. Most volunteer-... ...the West) and the emergence of telework and e-commerce. The technological vacuum makes the CEE countries receptive to state of the art technologies.... ...d consists of its function or use. Yet, can a vinyl record be defined in vacuum, without incorporating the record player in the definiens? After al...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...urning Macedonia to Turkish rule. Turkey obligingly accepted a "one country, two systems" approach by agreeing to a Christian administration of t... ...no time in joining resistance movements against the Nazis and the NDH. Anyhow, the vacuum created by Macek's surprising passivity and by the Church... ...ere effected by the war (though their activities never really ceased) and into the vacuum gushed Albanian organized and ruthless crime. But cont... ...the secular political elites in Thrace, Bulgaria, Serbia and Albania. The resulting vacuum of leadership was filled by the Church. Thus, paradoxical... ...tion of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and fundamentalist religious ideologies (such as the on... ..." is only the latest round in a millennium-old war between Islam and other "world systems". Such interpretation of recent events enrages many. The... ... sciences. This war is about world domination. Two incompatible thought and value systems compete for the hearts and minds (and purchasing power) ... ... feudalism endured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of... .... Now, they had to find alternative sources of finance. Nature does not tolerate a vacuum. Other paymasters were found. The ultimate source of mone...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...be shaped by Impetus. In other words, Nothingness is not an absolute void or vacuum: it is made out of an even more Basic Condition which is a Forml... ... cannot survive in the Medium of Space doesn’t mean that Space is an absolute vacuum. It just means it is a Medium which we are not designed to liv... ...A fish taken out of water perceives the Medium of Air to be just as much of a vacuum with nothing there, as humans perceive the medium of Space to b... ...cuum with nothing there, as humans perceive the medium of Space to be a total vacuum with nothing there. As far as understanding the true nature of... ...as long as there is no friction… is also constant. If it travels through the vacuum of intergalactic space, the speed of a baseball is also constan... ... molecular structure would be completely different. This would force weather systems to change their dynamics also. This would force other cycles to... ...niverse, and our organic world, and living human beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical his... ... molecular structure would be completely different. This would force weather systems to change their dynamics also. This would force other cycles to... ...niverse, and our organic world, and living human beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical his...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...omic sectors and act to support them. The education and higher education systems will be re-directed and encouraged to produce the skills needed by... ...nomic sectors and act to support them. The education and higher education systems will be re-directed and encouraged to produce the skills needed by... ... help satisfy some of the skill needs [in the EU]. Reforms of tax benefit systems may be necessary to help people make up their minds to move to a l... ...they can get a job...while ensuring that the social objectives of welfare systems are not undermined." In Hong Kong, the "Admission of Talents S... ...turing sector will be squeezed by "just in time" inventory and production systems and by labor-intensive imports. An ageing population and life-prol... ...beliefs, pseudo-sciences, and the occult rushed in to profitably fill the vacuum left by the crumbling education systems. These wasteful preoccupati...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...es no "values" or "preferences". It simply exists. WE, humans, introduce our value systems, prejudices and priorities into our activities, science ... ...tion of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and fundamentalist religious ideologies (such as the on... ... The latest evolutionary phase in programming is OOPS (Object Oriented Programming Systems). Objects are modules which encompass both data and inst... ... the subject matter in unambiguous terms), logically rigorous (make use of logical systems shared and accepted by the practitioners in the field), ... ...es no "values" or "preferences". It simply exists. WE, humans, introduce our value systems, prejudices and priorities into our activities, science ... ...the appropriation, or the confiscation of someone else's self in order to fill the vacuum left by the absence of a functioning Ego. While some Ego ...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...ic drugs and alcohol. Human environment contains ever more risks, security systems, iron fencing. In cities, almost half of all marriages end in divor... ...pinion polls (Table 5A). A couch, cabinets with glazed doors, stereo sound systems, television and refrigerator appeared downstairs; the upstairs beca... ...ng machine, the women see to that. The villagers have not been enthused by vacuum cleaners, as it is easy to sweep out the pillar houses; a tiger gras... ...er, like self-sufficient agrarian villages everywhere. Local environmental systems created a culture that included shared events of the farming season... ...f rice farming are structurally diametrically opposite cultural-ecological systems. Traditional, 'soft' farming methods are adapted to local natural e... ...contact with recreated commercial animals raised in centralized production systems. Of animals, too, only top performers, world's best racehorses, wil...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...l cause of fluoridation. The same may be said for a marketer of pollution-control systems to industry. 27 Grey Areas in the Model ... ...vironment. In many cases compliance has necessitated large expenditures by school systems for equipment, structural modification in buildings and sp... ... a third world country. He replied, "You can't sell sound nutrition practice in a vacuum; you must package it together with such ideas as clean wate... ...ieties and to "cut-off' segments of other societies, but not to most modern social systems. The fmal pattern suggested by Rogers is the multistep... ... promotion bandwagon. Without an overall marketing plan, advertising resides in a vacuum. One of the most successful uses of mass media in social ... ...creasing productivity -- something that all businesses are eager to buy. Economic systems throughout history have set improved productivity as an i... .... Channel theory highlights the reality that the social marketer operates not in a vacuum, but within a network of other community-based organizatio... ...in favor of legalized gambling are likely to be made up of individuals whose value systems include a get-rich-quick component, while adherents of th...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...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) ... ...as a (largely underground) vibrant though impromptu private sector which fills the vacuum left by the nefarious public sector. Many ostensibly pu... ...han $400 million in Russian annual military exports to Iran, including air defense systems and fighter jets. Russia is also increasingly involved... ...emical, and biological armaments. According to Stratfor, "Iraq is procuring weapons systems - such as advanced conventional weapons rather than nuc...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...onarch-subjects, friends, etc. It is the natural rule, not regulations or systems, nor schools or doctrines. Individuals conforming to it are said to... ... explanation. In practice we have to assume that for incomplete knowledge systems as in ordinary humans, one can regard the truth as existing in rel... ... that some philosophers grope and stumble. They don't have clear ideas or systems, or even precise directions on a subject. What one asserts toda... ...efore, they are not necessarily antagonized.) “It looks like the great systems started to lose their influence, because they vainly slide over the... ... in a move: more moves We meet, as such, within a system in other systems; and so on... sub-universe sub-spac... ...mic justice. (Morality is not the problem of logic. How can we bombard the vacuum with artillery?) Man is infinite in his interior, and finite in ...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...l interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and fundamentalist religious ideologies (s... ...l example is a narcissist who changes numerous workplaces, a few careers, myriad hobbies, value systems or faiths. At the same time, he maintains (... ...s profound implications. Communication through unequivocal, unambiguous, information-rich symbol systems is such an integral and crucial part of our... ...arcissist is best described by Heidegger's phrase: "Being and Nothingness". Into this reflective vacuum, this sucking black hole, the narcissist att...

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