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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ands. ... They are known as rural guards. They are necessary because the Christian population is absolutely unarmed and defenceless. To a certain e... ...roblems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christian population: nationalism addressed the immediate problems in thei... ...sources of income were voluntary (and later, less voluntary) taxation of the rural population, bank robberies, train robberies (which won handsome ... ...d Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia). These political Lego games led to enormous population shifts - the politically correct term for refugees br... ...ul, very much present and very Macedonian owners. The Serb authorities coerced the population to speak the Serb language, changed Macedonian names ... ...ed assassins (for 20 dollars a contract). It recruited members among the Macedonian population in the slums of Sofia. Finally, they openly collabora... ...iculture lagged behind its more commercialized and industrialized competitors, the population grew relentlessly and rural debts buried the semi-feu... ...t of the Sandzak, all Kosovo and Metohija and the bulk of Macedonia. Its tax paying population increased by half as much in less than two years. Had... ...fly due to atrocities carried out by Ustasha units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustashas committed their deeds in a bestial mann...

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

...ool of empty properties, in Towns and villages that lost over 20-50% of their population. Property values plummeted and never recovered, leading ... ...d Central Germany today, you see "rust belts", emptying Villages, states were populations have decreased by over 30%, and real long term unemploymen... ...ent levels of over 8 million. 4 By 2030, experts believe the population of Germany could decrease by 20 million, as Germans have lo... ... This system partially works in countries with a high low income population, and is similar to the economic modal of Europe and the USA... ...g firms, in the coming years. 3. Nursing Staff In the Western world, the population is getting older and there is always a demand for nurses. T... ...way the value of their currency. Living costs rise, and the majority of the population end up becoming poorer as inflation eats up their spending ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...Earth for mammals. Mammals in the African Veldt experience more catastrophic population reductions, faster, more often, than anywhere else on Earth.... ...als, all the predators, all the reptiles, all go through cyclic explosions of population and shrunken numbers where only the hardiest are left alive... ... Low class Herd animals, and grazing animals all packed into a single massive population. Mixed up indiscriminately. Without species separating th... ...y: only small, unrepresentative samples. They do not sample the lower income populations, the less educated, the millions of latch-key children, the... ...be raised at home by their mothers. America is steadily dumbing down its own population by this crib-raising process, and is suffering the consequen... ...LITNESS Chapter Four: Modern Human Dynamics 254 nation, and culture, and population becomes so rotten with corruption that it is visited by huge... ...cultural practices… but this did not stop the remorseless dumbing down of its population until there were no more competent soldiers, no more compet... ...; that came out of Central Asia around 25 to 35 thousand years ago. Human population grew at a slower rate before the creation of settlements. A... ...ss the world… and the sparseness of their numbers. As we spread out: our population density rose all over this planet because we used tools bett...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...or profits. Both rely on the "law of large numbers" - that in a sufficiently large population, every event has a finite and knowable probability. N... ...finite and knowable probability. None of them can or will insure tiny, exceptional populations against unquantifiable risks. It is this market fail... ...rce this cooperation. This is often called a Hobbesian dilemma. It arises even in a population made up entirely of altruists. Different utility func... ...current recession. Still, expansions continue to be restricted by the increase in population, net investment and, importantly, technological innov... ...stment and, importantly, technological innovation. The downside is also limited by population increase, government policy on income support and inv... ...serious psychological abnormalities, which already exist in some percentage of the population, seem to be at least superficially appropriate." In ... ... universally recognized as public. It is possible to exclude certain members of the population from being vaccinated, for instance - or from attendi... ... to extend the benefits of national defense selectively and to exclude parts of the population, as the Second World War has taught some minorities a... ...rther exacerbated by the pandemic eruption of mental health disorders - 15% of the population are severely pathologized according to the latest stu...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...s delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the single organism or species. ... ... Moreover, evolution favors organisms whose rate of reproduction is such that their populations expand to no more than the number of individuals tha... ...sented or not- existent in virtually all professions due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaugh... ...n Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the ... ...nnibalize. Cannibalism in nature is widespread and serves diverse purposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and prot... ...trate them. A neurone cell in the brain has no mental states of it own. But when a population of such parts crosses a quantitatively critical thres... ...ns in return for perpetual service bordering on slavery. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval c... ... to carcinogens. Aging and death are definitely the best possible response to over-population. Perhaps the point of view of the single patient is i... ... tolerance, and skyrocketing rates of incarceration - as well as the ageing of the population - have sliced intimate partner violence and other for...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...s delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the single organism or species. ... ... Moreover, evolution favors organisms whose rate of reproduction is such that their populations expand to no more than the number of individuals tha... ...sented or not- existent in virtually all professions due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaugh... ...n Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the ... ...nnibalize. Cannibalism in nature is widespread and serves diverse purposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and prot... ...trate them. A neurone cell in the brain has no mental states of it own. But when a population of such parts crosses a quantitatively critical thres... ...ns in return for perpetual service bordering on slavery. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval c... ... to carcinogens. Aging and death are definitely the best possible response to over-population. Perhaps the point of view of the single patient is i... ... tolerance, and skyrocketing rates of incarceration - as well as the ageing of the population - have sliced intimate partner violence and other for...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... was used in the preparation of this edition, with the following exceptions: population figures are projected for 1 July 1987, with the average annual... ...Corridor) pro- vides direct access to China and separates Pakistan from USSR Population: 14,183,671 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 1.44%; t... ...ic location on Strait of Otranto linking Adriatic Sea to Mediter- ranean Sea Population: 3,085,985 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 2.03% Natio... ...since April 1985) Communists: 147,000 party members (November 1986); 4.9% of population Algeria Member of: CEMA, FAO, IAEA, IPU, ITU, UN, UNESCO, UPU... ...esertification Special notes: second largest country in Africa (after Sudan) Population: 23,460,614 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 3.10% Na... ...her Environment: deforestation, overgrazing Special notes: landlocked People Population: 47,973 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 3.19% National... ...tification Special notes: Cabinda is separated from rest of country by Zaire Population: 7,950,244 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 2.86%; incl... ...ical storms (July to October) Special notes: northernmost of Leeward Islands Population: 6,828 (1987), average annual growth rate 0.69% Nationality: n... ...des many natural harbors Special notes: about 650 km from Puerto Rico People Population: 69,280 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 2.47% National...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...e the "price", or the "value" of one's savings account. More than one fifth of the population of 1983 Israel were involved in a banking scandal of ... ...als took place in Russia and Bulgaria in the 1990's. One third of the impoverished population of Albania was cast into destitution by the collapse ... ...ht of the stock exchange as decoupled from the real economy. Only one tenth of the population was invested - compared to 40 percent today. "The Wor... ...00 passenger cars were sold by American factories, one for every 27 members of the population, a record that was not broken until 1950. Productivit... ... 1923 and 1929, wages crept up only 8 percent. In 1929, the top 0.1 percent of the population earned as much as the bottom 42 percent. Business-fri... ...and Bombay are each single local government units. Yet, they each have much bigger populations than many countries, such as New Zealand, the republ... ...rce this cooperation. This is often called a Hobbesian dilemma. It arises even in a population made up entirely of altruists. Different utility func...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...resonance" - which causes behaviour patterns to suddenly emerged in whole populations. Physicists talked about sudden "phase transitions", the emerge... ...ly guaranteed. Moreover, piracy thrives in very poor markets in which the population would anyhow not have paid the legal price. The illegal product ... ...d not be allowed to write laws that create windfall profits for 1% of the population and take away a million books from all the rest. Q. What does P... ...'t pay for it. For a few years it held somewhat true, but as the Internet population became more experienced, their interests and preferences inevit... ...art of the trend towards online and distance education. The undergraduate population is diversifying and now includes students enrolled in distance ... ... price. As productivity suites go, it is reasonably priced had its target population been adult professional users. But, at $100, it is beyond the re... ... price. As productivity suites go, it is reasonably priced had its target population been adult professional users. But, at $70-100, it is beyond the... ...able to millions of people. If we have reached a mere 1.5% of the world's population, we have already given away a trillion eBooks. Project Gutenb... ...trillion plus eBooks we have given away, based on reaching just 1% of the population, we would have enough to buy out Donald Trump, and the press wo...

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Apec Brochure

By: Apec 2011 Hawaii Host Committee

...VATIONS. A Center of Research & Advancement Hawai‘i’s ethnically diverse population, tropical climate, and research excellence have made the State... ...sh, Hawaiian (‘¯ olelo Hawai’i) STATEHOOD 50th State of America since 1959 POPULATION 1.36 million, 70 percent of which resides on the island of O‘a... ...percent are fuent in more than one language. Hawai‘i’s ethnically diverse population also enjoys strong, multi-generational ties to other APEC comm... ...t Bank, as named by Forbes magazine for 2010 and 2011 EDUCATION Hawai‘i’s population ranks well above the national average in high school and colleg...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...s delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the single organism or species. ... ... Moreover, evolution favors organisms whose rate of reproduction is such that their populations expand to no more than the number of individuals tha... ..., we can foresee (with a great measure of accuracy) what will happen if to a large population of particles (where will they be found, for instance)...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...n many changes in my lifetime. Electricity came about three years ago. The population today is about 200 families. About ten cars, two or three police... ...diArabia. I don't know how many. Nine. Wait, I'll get the extract from the population register for the house. From my first marriage I have six childr... ... total area of 12,500 square kilometres, less than 15% is arable land. The population is in excess of 800,000, of whom about 250,000 live within the p... ...ber of houses had almost doubled since the beginning of the 1970s, but the population remained almost the same. The village is densely built up, and a... ...and 850 inhabitants, by 1998 the number of houses had grown to 280 and the population is now about 1,000. In this village, too, the number of houses h... ...he fields are quickly invaded by biocide-resistant insect pest and disease populations, and farmers must obtain new repellants or increase the quantit... ...he rice farmer cannot be ignored in this country where the majority of the population still lives in villages. (17 During the recession, Dr. , a disse... ...so affected family structure. Thailand was also one of the countries where population multiplied manyfold in the 20th century. When I went to Thailand... ...tiplied manyfold in the 20th century. When I went to Thailand in 1972, the population was 35 million, a couple of decades later it had risen to approx...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ark against oppressive governments who wish to monitor their Internet-surfing populations. As many scholars have explored, whether one is for or agains... ...of the telecommunications services giants— to a combination of widely diffuse populations around the globe, and the market ac- tors that will build the... ... the globe, and the market ac- tors that will build the tools that make this population better able to produce its own information environment rather ... ... U S: 1984, at 9 tbl.1 (1988), available at http://www .census.gov/population/www/socdemo/computer/p23–155.html. But over 50 per- cent of ad... ...   U S: 1989, at 1 (1991), available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/ socdemo/computer/p23-.html. And although children were st... ...Use at Home by People 18 Years and Over: October 1997, http://www.census.gov/population/ socdemo/computer/report97/tab07.pdf. By 2003, 89 percent of h...

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Kingshuk: New War for Integrity & Sovereignty

By: Rukunuddin Ahmed

...was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan. Although the population of the two zones was close to equal, political power was conce... ...Indian states and union territories with a significant percentage of the population in these states speaking Bengali West Bengal: 85.34%, Tripura... ...though the Ben- gali language was spoken by the ma- jority of Bangladesh's population, Urdu was legislated as the sole na- tional language. On Februa...

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

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ox We assume that the three diseases are equally likely to occur in the patient population but there is some evidence that phlegaria and pinpox are th... ...ed on DFS one can perform an extraordinary fuzzy inferencing as battle between populations of copies of contradictory statements. It has been observ... ...or reproduction and all ignored in the one-dimensional biological practice of 'population genetics'. These form a complex of what I shall call ‘prim...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...r otherwise unable to move volitionally cannot move on their own. This is the population at risk for developing bed sores. For someone who cannot mo... ...t it is believed that at almost any given time at least twenty percent of our population is afflicted with the problem. Canker sores can affect alm... ...eat and cold.Dandruff is a common scalp disorder affecting almost half of the population at the pre-pubertal age and of any gender and ethnicity. In... ...gher risk of gallbladder disease developing among Native American or Hispanic populations. Patients with sickle cell anemia are also at a risk of de... ...t difficult to control of all skin diseases, affecting about 2 percent of the population. It affects men and women equally, and usually appears betw... ...associated with a previous history of acne. It affects about 5 percent of the population, mostly women who are menopausal and in their forties, espec... ... the ears when no external sound is present. It affects 1 in 5 of the World's population, and touches over 33% of the elderly community. It may be i... ...ose veins. Varicose veins are very common and affect approximately 10% of the population. More women than men are affected. In some cases if varicos... ...ly on both sides of the body. Vitiligo affects approximately 1 percent of the population. The condition is more common in dark-skinned people and, w...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ose succession: "There are thirty-eight cities in the United States with a population of ~oo,ooo or over;" "a fifty-yard dash;" "two pounds of suga... ...0"); "a thesis of about three thousand words" (but: "of about 2,700"); "The population of Chicago is approximately two millions" (but: "~,po,ooo"). ... ... nations hitherto at variance, or at war, dirtracted by reslon of con- - In population, in government, in lsnpwe, in traditions, would nm be dlmcted ... ...ons hitherto at variance, or at war, distracted by reason of con- trasts in population, in government, in language, in traditions, wonld now be dire... ...tions hitherto at variance, or at war, distracted by reason of contrasts in population, in government, in language, in tradi- tions, would now be di... ...ons hitherto at vari- ance, or at war, distracted by reason of contrasts in population, in government, in language, in traditions, would now be dire... ...ns hitherto at variance, or at war, distracted by reason of con- trasts in population, in government, in language, in traditions, would now be dire... ...ons hitherto at variance, or at war, dis- tracted by reason of contrasts in population, in govern- ment, in language, in traditions, would now be di... ...ons hitherto at variance. or at war, distracted by reason of con- trasts in population, in governmeat. in language, In traditions, would now be direc...

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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

... The public credit registry coverage in APEC, measured by the percentage of adult population listed in a public credit registry with information on ... ... for the private bureau coverage in APEC, measured by the percentage of the adult population listed in a private credit bureau with information on re... ...g from the past five years, this indicator shows that more than half of the adult population in APEC is listed in a private credit bureau. Only OECD ... ...ion. The expansion of private credit bureau coverage as a percentage of the adult population and the improvement of the Depth of Credit Information I... ...urred in Starting a Business and Enforcing Contracts; and the percentage of adult population listed in credit bureaus. Progress in APEC industrializ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

... using the hotel's room service. No, L.A. was not his kind of place. But with a population of over eight million people, someone must like it, he th... ... demic proportions." "Define epidemic, Doctor." "At least forty percent of the population is affected with ter­ minal cancer or serious immune respo... ...al cancer or serious immune response illnesses. At the present rate, the entire population of Richland and the sur­ rounding areas will be completely... ...toxic leaks, serious illnesses and even deaths are occurring to the surrounding population." Benjamin went into a state of shock. He had not been pr... ...s into the environment have had a negligible effect on the environment and the population. All emissions, accidental or otherwise, have been within... ... 197 "Let me just say, Mr. Chairman, that if I were aware of any danger to our population, or the environment, I would have act­ ed swiftly. I'm sur... ...hreat­ ened lives by the millions. The thought of wholesale slaughter of entire populations seized the world by the throat. The nuclear waste that n...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...q, the hectoring and hypocritical West itself made no distinction between peaceful population and combatants. Lately, it took to invading or threat... ...e. It functions due mainly to inertia and lack of better or clear alternatives. Its population is disgruntled, hostile, and suspicious. Other countr... ...also an ethnic Pashtun one. The Pashtuns are a bit less than half of Afghanistan's population, but in Pakistan there are 16 million resident Pashtu... ...rained by the KGB. The culture of terror and the horrible persecution of the civil population continued without a pause from the communist takeover... ...led forces ravaging Afghanistan and infiltrating Pakistan through the large Pashtun population, the conflict over Kashmir, and Pakistan's own inter... ...ed, growth collapse to 2.6% in 1995-2000, barely enough to sustain the increase in population. The usual IMF prescription (austerity) served only t... ... an economy of subsistence agriculture and trading, millions (up to one third of a population of 27 million) have been internally displaced or rend... ...ed workforce of 11 million - may well exceed 50%. Poverty is rampant, food scarce, population growth unsustainable. The traditional social safety n... ...nefits, the EU is in dire need of young immigrants. According to the United Nations Population Division, the EU would need to import 1.6 million mig...

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