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... The author of this paper is convinced that the Platonic theory of ″reminiscence″ is not a mere speculation, and the meaning of the... ...r optimistic- poised approaches. Related to the novel character of a new theory, the physicist Niels Bohr said: <For a theory to be true, it shoul... ...″internal perfection and external confirmation″ should be selected>. This theory assumes scientific responsibility for its assertions and tries to fu... ...k. In the ″History of Ancient Thought″, Athanase Joja states that <.… the theory of reminiscence is purely Platonic. The idea that science exists as... ...l essence of spirituality, to the effect that the monads are, come to be, information carriers. If this was not already stated, it is now the time t... ...was not already stated, it is now the time to state that the monad is the ″informational unit″. As regards the intellect, one can state that its mai... ...ic explanations for this phenomenon, we prefer to classify such pieces of information as false or to assign them to some conjunctural affective condi... ... even controlled cataleptic conditions. Based on some occultist pieces of information there have been speculations on the possibility of extrasensor... ...he case of sensory communication (printed matter, video or audio recorded information, archaeological artifacts, etc. 26 are not finally subject ...

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... Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo va... ...e is the increasing lockdown of the PC itself. PCs may not be competing with information appliances so much as they are becoming them. The trend is st... ...side will change. But the core battle will remain. It will be fought through information appliances and Web 2.0 platforms like to- day’s Facebook apps... ...tary networks and the Internet, and a corresponding fight between specialized information appliances like smart typewriters and the general-purpose PC,... ...ift away from the original chaotic design that has given rise to the modern information revolution. This counterrevolution would push mainstream user... ...ativity, but it lacks accessibility. 11 The Generative Pattern 77 Affordance Theory Fields such as psychology, industrial design, and human-computer i... ...ble options are as obvious and inviting as possible to the intended users. A theory of affordances can also be used to predict what various people migh... ...he damage that they can inadvertently do. Yet unlike generativity, affordance theory does not focus much on systemic output. Instead, it takes one obje... ... and delineates its possible or likely uses. More recent incarnations of the theory suggest that the object’s designer ought to anticipate its uses an...

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...ssions have been made, the authors apologize and would appreciate relevant information so that acknowledgments can be included in future editions. Bib... ...IMENSION 10 To explain the family tree in Figure 1, some basic historical information is required. On the first level we find Egyptian religion of ap... ...ears later did a scientist in the West propose a different explanation—the theory of genetics. (Even so, many intelligent thinkers in the East believe... ...than in most religious traditions. In his remarkable application of Jung’s theory of psychological types to the classification of religions, Toynbee s... ... carefully worded and made into creeds. In Toynbee’s application of Jung’s theory of psy- chological types, Christianity is defined as an extroverted,... ...cades after his death. They are, however, of limited value with respect to information about contemporary historical events, since their content is la... ...ristianity are also com- pletely lacking. For this reason, a great deal of information about Jesus comes from later centuries, and from a historical p... ... which the quotations above have been taken, Carl Jung was formulating his theory of complexes, which had grown out of detailed observations of a youn... ... important paper titled “Orenda and a definition of religion,” which gives information of major importance about how the Iroquois actually used the te...

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...ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 ... ...se two algebras heavily exploits the concepts of vector spaces and matrix theory we do not venture to approach Smarandache Lie algebras or Smarandac... ... way. This book is distinct and different from other non-associative ring theory books as the properties of associative rings are incorporated and s... ...of orthogonal ideals. This notion will find its place in algebraic coding theory. Now we proceed on to define the concept of Smarandache orthogonal ... ...tive and new concepts and notions which can be developed into a very good theory. 5.1 Basic properties of Jordan Algebras In this section w... ... it as a matrix structure. For the main reason is that Smarandache matrix theory and Smarandache vector spaces and Smarandache linear algebras are y...

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...om: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm... ... untouchability and the caste-system of Hinduism using Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. In studying untouchability, we have chosen to view it throug... ...te is based on the 8 mind, it is appropriate to use Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. In Chapter Two we use the opinion of several experts to anal... ...that gives the hidden pattern of the situation. As we have a very well known theory, which states that the strength of the data depends on, the num... ...ons will be illustrated/ applied in the later sections of this chapter. Fuzzy theory only measures the grade of membership or the non-existence of a... ...I + F = 1. (B). But to refer to intuitionistic logic, which means incomplete information on a variable proposition or event one has T+ I+F <1. (C)... ...cally referring to Paraconsistent logic, which means contradictory sources of information about a same logical variable, proposition or event one ha... ... 1 Wendy Doniger, The Laws of Manu, Penguin, 1991. 2 For more biographical information refer p.103-113 of this book. 42 Respect Movement, was ... ...7-8-1930] Simon Commission By the polices of the Simon Commission and the information given by Chakravarthy, the cruelties of caste differences,...

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... outcomes. Risk takers tend to make fast decisions based on relatively little information. Leaders with different levels of risk-taking propensity w... ...licting evidence. Dogmatics make decisions quickly based on relatively little information and are confident in those decisions. Dogmatics like to f... ...This creates more mild-mannered, and Leaders that listen more. 3. A need for Information When subordinates and people lack knowledge about the task... ...d, needs. And chances are, they themselves may have something you need. So in theory, exchanging goods for the equivalent value of another, does not... ...ness, Space has already generated for Governments. 81 Innovations in Information Technology No matter what happens in our economies in the ...

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...ons of the latter - revived the fledging KLA outfit. Contrary to typically shallow information in the media, the KLA has been known to have operate... ...C. Fred Alford (in "Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalytic Theory", Yale University Press, 1988) enumerates the symptoms: ... ...rything is harmonious and smooth and evil is banished. They react with rage to any information to the contrary and block it out instantly. This typ... ... deliberately taken for a premeditated ride by the narcissist. He feeds them false information, manipulates their judgment, proffers plausible scen... ...it unacceptable if the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiabl... ...ucation I, along with millions of my fellow students, had to study Marxist-Leninist theory and even had to pass exams in the knowledge of "the only ... ...h was out to get our motherland one way or another". The only source of accredited information was the official propaganda. It depicted the world a... ... to feed their families. Despite an almost absolute lack of alternative sources of information, we did not believe the official propaganda. Moreove... ...available through the Library of Congress. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts...

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... Pg 1398 Midas and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Retrogression Pg 1400 The Information Age Pg 1404 The Cunning of Evil Pg 1408 In Conclusion ... ... in size. The largeness of the Universe is Actually Infinite. This is not a theory or a supposition. This is a fact. Not only that… the smallness... ...light behaves. Light goes around objects directly in its path naturally. No theory of gravitational pull is needed to explain this phenomenon. To... ... The Universe 26 Not only that, but Einstein’s attempt to scrap his entire Theory of General Relativity by introducing what he called a ‘Cosmolog... ...cing what he called a ‘Cosmological Constant’ and further introducing another theory called ‘Special Relativity’ was a conscious attempt to sabotag... ...Triality of our Universe can be described not as split segments of scientific information, but as a Process of Causality. We can look at it as a Ca... ...ask the question of what preceded the Big Bang. It is only in our new Age of Information where many sources of knowledge from many different disci... ...ance humanity any further. In order to make sense out of scientific data and information: the specialized Fields of Science must be interconnected ... ... organic explanation as I have done here; it will remain a mass of fragmented information which cannot be understood by anyone because it is not put...

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... is ingenious, beautiful and elegant. It is an interpretation based on the theory of Cosmo-Art, which unites heaven and earth, life and death, men ... ...e our life and our destiny (see A.M. “Teoria dell’inconscio esistenziale” {Theory of the Existential Unconscious}, Published by Costellazione di Ari... ...at operates within us and for us, even when we are unaware of it (see A.M. Theory of the Person and Existential Personalistic Anthropology, publishe... ...to enter into the paternal one. Travelling by land and sea to try to find information about his father, without telling his mother about this voyag... ...ond what Freud, Jung and Reich have already said, I described in my book: “Theory of the Person and Existential Personalistic Anthropology” (publish... ... learn to transform them. The Christian ascetics do not agree with this theory but I prefer Indian wisdom and the wisdom of Homer when dealing wi... ...ravel through infinite spaces 205 is born. This light carries energy and information that produce a new type of beauty that does not yet exist. U...

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...A SET OF NEW SMARANDACHE FUNCTIONS, SEQUENCES AND CONJECTURES IN NUMBER THEORY Felice Russo AMERICAN RESEARCH PRESS Lupton USA 2000 Wrongness of n ... ...universe is undoubtedly very fascinating and is halfway between the number theory and the recreational mathematics. Even though sometime this univers... ...Even though sometime this universe has a very simple structure from number theory standpoint, it doesn't cease to be deeply mysterious and interesting... ...lems, new Smarandache type sequences and new Smarandache Notions in number theory. Moreover a chapter (IV) is dedicated to the analysis of Smarandach... ...the analysis of Smarandache Double factorial function introduced in number theory by F. Smarandache ("The Florentin Smarandache papers" special colle... ...of integers out of infinite number of them. Anyway we can get some further information from experimental data about the validity of this conjeture. In...

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...ook can be ordered in microfilm format from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) ... ...s: J. Dezert (France), Charles Le (US), I. Stojmenovic (Canada). For more information on neutrosophics see the below links: • 0. Introduction: ... ... and instability of stable systems. Let's note by <A> an idea, or proposition, theory, event, concept, entity, by <Non-A> what is not <A>, and by <A... ... to measure the truth, indeterminacy, and falsehood. My hypothesis is that no theory is exempted from paradoxes, because of the language imprecisio... ...ssible unlike myopic algorithms that look at each iteration only at very local information as with steepest descent method. As in non-monotonic logi... ...f this: what would happen if a non-p conclusion occurred? The inconsistence of information shows up in the result, if not eliminated from the beginn... ...eria and the complementarity of various sources. For example, the Possibility Theory (Zadeh 1978, Dubois, Prade) gives a better approach than the F... ... Theory (Zadeh 1978, Dubois, Prade) gives a better approach than the Fuzzy Set Theory (Yager) due to self-improving connectives. The Possibility Th... ..., The AI Magazine, 81-83, 1984. Combination of paradoxical sources of information within the neutrosophic framework Dr. Jean Dezert Abstrac...

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...t XVI. The Distributive Justice of the Market XVII. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XVIII. The Spectrum of Auctions XIX. Distributions to Pa... ...rincipal Conundrum XXII. Trading in Sovereign Promises XXIII. Portfolio Management Theory XXIV. Going Bankrupt in the World XXV. The Author Intr... ...ing sellers meet there to freely negotiate deals of stock purchases and sales. New information, macro-economic and micro-economic, determines the v... ...y ignore the fundamentals of the company. Such models assume that all the relevant information is already incorporated in the price of the stock an... ...• The strengths and weaknesses of the competitors relative to the firm. • Missing information regarding the markets, the clients and the competito... ...esolve all the personnel issues. 4. To secure the unobstructed flow of relevant information and the protection of confidential organization. 5... ...ge with its fair "value" in the long term; 3. That the fair value responds to new information about the firm and reflects it - though how effici... ...often bewildering marketplace. As opposed to the assumptions underlying the classic theory of portfolio analysis - investors do remember past prices... ...are not swayed. Studies cited in Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere show that a filter...

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...t XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII. Market Impeders and Mark... ... far better results. The outcome has been an embarrassing divorce between economic theory and its subjects. The economic actor is assumed to be con... ...f-interest" as the pursuit of the fulfillment of preferences is a tautology. The theory fails to predict important phenomena such as "strong reci... ...n accordance with the predictions of basic economic theories, such as the standard theory of utility and the theory of general equilibrium. Irritat... ...fects prevail). Thus, current economic thinking is woefully inadequate to deal with information monopolies (such as Microsoft), path dependence, and... ...e seems to have a clear answer. Advertising is concerned with the dissemination of information. Yet it is also a signal sent to consumers that a ce... ...graph, the telephone, electricity, the train, the car, the agricultural revolution, information technology and, now, biotechnology have all increase... ...to yield optimal results. Markets are supposed to regulate scarcity by storing information about our wants and needs. Markets harmonize supply ... ...upply and demand. They do so through the price mechanism. Money is, thus, a unit of information and a conveyor or conduit of the price signal - as w...

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...anctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the utilitarian theory. It calls for the maximization of utility (life, happines... ...es. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian theory - I agree with its practical prescriptions. In this cont... ...tween aborting a fetus and destroying a sperm and an egg? These two contain all the information (=all the potential) and their destruction is philos... ...or falsified. Attaining an achievement involves the construction of an ad-hoc mini theory. Reality has to be thoroughly surveyed, models constructe... ...at the incentives are. That economists pretend otherwise - in "optimal contracting theory" - just serves to demonstrate how divorced economics is f... ...ve doubt. Markets are perceived as self-organizing, self-assembling, exchanges of information, goods, and services. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" ... ...gnore the future consequences of their actions. In other words, their attention and information processing faculties are distorted, skewed in favour... ...element of an idiosyncratic, non-communicable, language - we have no access to any information regarding it and, therefore, we are in no position t... ...about our health and imminent demise? Not likely. But why? What is the relevance of information about the future (our own looming death) when one is...

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...ACTIONS IN SOCIAL MARKETING 28 Marketing as Exchange and Exchange as Marketing 28 Information and education dissemination 29 Gossipmongering 29 Ru... ...7 PREFACE The objective of this work is to investigate meeting grounds where the theory and practice of marketing overlap with processes of dissem... ...rigorous … (but) specialized and narrow" (p. 60). This book attempts to bridge the theory /practice gap, first by postulating concepts such as a pre... ...ized into a new pattern. Infusion. Inculcation, indoctrination or instillation of information into one or more people. Interest. A feeling of conc... ... Usually the carrier (medium) is not paid, nor is the sponsor identified. Rumor. Information that is neither substantiated nor refuted, including g... ...signed, manufactured, packaged, wholesaled, delivered and priced. At various times information about them was communicated to prospective buyers.ln ... ...upon which their wishes 11 safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our constitution. (Oliver Wendell Holmes [ 1919) in Abr... ...rs are sequenced to suit the reader having little or no familiarity with marketing theory. Those with some grounding in the subject might first perus... ...ler sees "large numbers of workers (are) involved in moving intangible symbols and information rather than physical goods" (1980, p. 25). Toffler pr...

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...dered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 ... ...hingOnline.com Peer reviewers: Sukanto Bhattacharya, School of Information Technology, Bond University, Australia; Dr. Jean Dezert, ONERA... ...ntion here that the Neutrosophic logic is a further generalization of the theory of Fuzzy Logic. In this book we study the concepts of Fuzzy Cogn... ...Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age writes that fuzzy theory can offer more choices and blur the hard lines of power that define... ...f our age. We have, in our effort at introducing indeterminacy into Fuzzy theory, and by our construction of neutrosophic structures of modeling, on... ...ting to these concepts. An almost exhaustive bibliography relating to the theory of FCMs completes the book. Some of the varied applications of F... ...functions and for feature selection. 4. Use of a decision engine to fuse information from different types of detection modules in order to make dec... ... Conditions = – 0.3 VIII: Competitor’s advertisements = +.5 32 This information can be organized into stimulus input vector: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0.3, ... ...wing theorem is suggested by Kim H.S. and Lee K.C. and for more elaborate information refer [50]. THEOREM [50]. When a concept C i is (Q i ∩ M ...

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...h Jeffrey Harrow X. The Case of the Compressed Image XI. Manage IT – Information Technology at a Crossroads The Internet and the Digital Divi... ...rnet surfers are used to free content. They are very reluctant to pay for information (with precious few exceptions, like the "Wall Street Journal"'... ...illion in "invisible" databases), provides many free substitutes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (su... ...es are published in both print and electronic formats), as more versatile information taxonomies (like the Digital Object Identifier) are introduced,... ...ing virtual neighbourhood (even if they are not made privy to the customer information collected by Amazon). The Honour System looks suspicio... ...is case be more readily tolerated as a marginal phenomenon. This is the theory. But the facts are tellingly different. The less the cost of product... ...is not the main function of the advertising dollar. Modern economic signal theory has cast advertising in a new and surprising - though by no means c... ...prising - though by no means counterintuitive - light. According to this theory, the role of advertising is to signal to the marketplace the adverti... ... (CEE). Broadband and e-commerce are distant rumors (ISDN is available in theory but not so in practice - DSL and ADSL are not available at all). Ra...

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...y listed companies, private equity firms are not legally bound to disclose information about their operations or those of the companies in which they ... ...oin hands to buy a target company, the significant flow of price sensitive information creates considerable potential for market abuse. The Boom and B... ...ment sectors have attracted more interest than traditional sectors such as information technology, information technology-enabled 41 Fixing Global Fi... ...,” CDSs are in effect bets on the credit-worthiness of a company. For more information, see Nicholas Hildyard, A (Crumbling) Wall of Money: Financial ... ... There is a paradox between the gains of capital account liberalization in theory and in practice. The arguments supportive of capital account liberal... ...much fewer in comparison with huge economic and social costs. Conventional theory suggests that if there are no restrictions on capital mobility, capi... ... witnessed in the ECA region during the financial crisis, the cross-border information sharing was squarely missing among the supervisory bodies of ho... ... the late 1970s. There is a paradox between the use of capital controls in theory and in practice. Although mainstream theory suggests that controls a... ...Great Crash 1929, Houghton-Mifflin, 1997. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1936/1...

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... the system. Why was I slow in grasping the obvious? I have explained my theory to some but was often rebuffed and yet when I told her—using my dra... ... studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is spotty. Tomorrow we will begin with item 1. ... ... shout for a boy to bring me the morning paper. How do I obtain accurate information? I learn that two million dollars have disappeared from our na...

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...on the enumeration of isotone Boolean functions . . . 51 3.2.2 Ordering based on the DSm cardinality . . . 52 3.2.3 Ordering based on the intrinsic informational content . . . 56 3.3 Conclusion . . . . . 59 3.4 References . . . . . 60 4 Combination of beliefs on hybrid DSm models 61 4.1 Introduction . . . . . 61 4.2 On the independence of the sources of evidences ....

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...This second book devoted on advances and applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) for information fusion collects recent papers from different researchers working in engineering and mathematics. Part 1 of this book presents the current state-of-the-art on theoretical investigations while, Par...

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...Preamble iii Prefaces v Part I Advances on DSmT 1 Chapter 1 Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules for Information Fusion 3 by Florentin Smarandache and Jean Dezert 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 The principal rules of combination . . . . . . . 6 1.2.1 Notion of total and partial conflicting masses . . . . . ...

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...Applications demonstrate the power of the DSmT framework. In this third Volume, DSmT is applied to the entire spectrum of the Information Fusion that would interest any reader in data, sensor, information, and mathematical fusion topics. Highlighted in Figure 1 are the contemporary issues that include the links between (1) data conditioning and info...

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...nality . . . . . . 46 1.6.3 The Generalized Pignistic Transformation . . . 47 1.7 The DSmP transformation . . . . . . . 48 1.7.1 The Probabilistic Information Content (PIC) . . . 49 1.7.2 The DSmP formula . . . . . . . 50 1.7.3 Examples for DSmP and BetP . . . . . . 51 1.8 Fusion of qualitative beliefs . . . . . . . 54 1.8.1 QualitativeOperators . . . . . . . 54 1....