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...ten for the general reader with no knowledge of economics. I clearly explain why monopolies are always the result of government regulation and not as socialists claim the result of the free market. I have postgraduate studies in economics, but I am not a specialist on the subject, and this essay represents the knowledge I gathered in an attempt to answer my own questions. ...

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...In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the literature which discusses new phenomenon associated to social network. One of the well-known phenomenon in this regards is known as ‘six degrees of separation’ [1], which implies that one can always keep a communication with each other anywhere within a six-step. A number of expe...

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... all contributors, including ITS Global, GED Advisory, Institute for Economic and Social Research, and Alicia Say et al. We are also grateful for th... ...to utilize information and communications technology to drive economic growth and social development. The principles for the work of the ECSG are se...

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...mic stimulus programs tailored toward job creation; gave tax incentives; reformed the Social Security Act to increase the amount of retirement savin... ... retirement savings that could be withdrawn by the unemployed; and provided temporary social security coverage for those suffering from job loss. ... ...; • Discretionary Spending: Discretionary spending will decline as a share of GDP; • Social Security: Social Security lacks sufficient dedicated rev... ...he principal causes of rising government deficit: mandatory spending programs such as social security, Medicare, and Medicaid (reforms needed which ... ...ntific, and technical services Construction Manufacturing Retail trade Health care and social assistance Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 201...

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...inable growth and equitable development in the Asia-Pacific region, to reduce economic disparities among members, and to improve overall economic and social well-being. ...

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...government has not yet achieved its goals of women’s equality, elimination of child poverty and optimal national productivity due to an oversight in social policy that neglects the unpaid caregiving sector. The care of the sick, elderly, handicapped, dying and the young has been historically a female role and as women have moved into paid labor, this role has been devalue...

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...ell-being. The result was a powerful exchange of current findings, recent data, and new challenges from areas including health, medicine, education, social work, economics, government, law, and culture. This issue of Hulili features three essays from invited speakers, eight articles based on conference presentations, and two additional articles. We thank the members of...

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..."Overall, IAC discourse delegitimizes any social constellation and political project that involves a conception of human beings which differs from ‘rational and self-interested’. [...] These negations of different social structures and political projects are related ...

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...Abbreviations Figures Acknowledgements Quotes Introduction 1 Corruption as a social construction – implications for an analysis of international anticorruption efforts The fight against corruption – an intrinsically good project? Positivist research on corruption – corruption as a fact ...

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...nt to complain that this is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly a great part of our ails. The summer, in some c... ...Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any ... ... much as mathematics. If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is me... ...s one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. I was more 34 Walden independent than any farmer in... ...is moment stopping at some brilliant station house in town or city, where a social crowd is gathered, the next in the Dismal Swamp, scaring the owl a... ...nd of new eternity; and between us we manage to pass a cheerful evening with social mirth and pleasant views of things, even without apples or cider, ... ...rom the other side of the town, and the catching of the dinner was as much a social exercise as the eating of it. Hermit. I wonder what the world is d...

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...W. B. VASANTHA KANDASAMY FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THE... ... To Rural Tamilnadu In India XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEO... ...ese 60 HIV/AIDS infected migrant labourers so that people from different social and cultural backgrounds follow our analysis. The last chapter give... ...ricts like Namakkal. Thus we are justified in studying the psychological, social and economic status of these HIV/AIDS infected migrant labourers a... ...we derived from the interviews when we looked into gender- stereotypes and socialization patterns. Such conventional beliefs about male (hetero)sexu... ...986) 65-75. 59. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Entropy and Conditioning,” Information Sciences, 40 (1986) 165-174. 60. Kosko, B., “Hidden Patterns in Combined a... ... Spread of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infections,” Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 91 (1994) 2407- 2414. 77. Raka, Sharon, Indian Women Workers...

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...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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...onstitutes "just killing" is a matter for an ethical calculus in the framework of a social contract. But does A's right not to be killed include the... ...ght to euthanasia, to have one's life terminated at will, is restricted by numerous social, ethical, and legal rules, principles, and considerations... ...but this right is not automatic, nor is it all-encompassing. III. Abortion and the Social Contract The issue of abortion is emotionally loaded and ... ...he negative. The contract between a mother and her fetus is derived from the larger Social Contract. Society – through its apparatuses – stands for ... ...hese rights and leaves others unmentioned because of the presumed existence of the Social Contract. The typical contract assumes that there is a so... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... .... This is true in every sphere of life: the economic, the social, in the arts, the sciences. Neurotic Adaptive versus Normally Adaptive Cultures T... ...humanize disease. By imposing upon issues of health the pretensions of the accurate sciences, we objectified the patient and the healer alike and ut... ...y an external object (the Other). It is the equivalent of resonance in the physical sciences. But we have NO WAY of ascertaining that the "wavelengt...

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...onstitutes "just killing" is a matter for an ethical calculus in the framework of a social contract. But does A's right not to be killed include the... ...ght to euthanasia, to have one's life terminated at will, is restricted by numerous social, ethical, and legal rules, principles, and considerations... ...but this right is not automatic, nor is it all-encompassing. III. Abortion and the Social Contract The issue of abortion is emotionally loaded and ... ...he negative. The contract between a mother and her fetus is derived from the larger Social Contract. Society – through its apparatuses – stands for ... ...hese rights and leaves others unmentioned because of the presumed existence of the Social Contract. The typical contract assumes that there is a so... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... .... This is true in every sphere of life: the economic, the social, in the arts, the sciences. Neurotic Adaptive versus Normally Adaptive Cultures T... ...humanize disease. By imposing upon issues of health the pretensions of the accurate sciences, we objectified the patient and the healer alike and ut... ...y an external object (the Other). It is the equivalent of resonance in the physical sciences. But we have NO WAY of ascertaining that the "wavelengt...

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...XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eye... ...d with mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sens... ...c theory. Government is alternately cast as a saint, seeking to selflessly maximize social welfare - or as the villain, seeking to perpetuate and in... ...n may be entitled to some kind of safety net - but not so its managers. Laws - and social norms - that protect the latter at the expense of the for... ...ible or inhospitable health care system (in terms of cost or an absence of adequate social welfare mechanisms), or because of racial, gender, sexual... ... can all enhance and channel innovation. The wrong cultural context, discouraging social mores, xenophobia, a paranoid set of mind, isolation from... ...er them increasingly irrelevant. Return Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press In... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...they foster - are all products of proper schooling. 12. Irrational beliefs, pseudo-sciences, and the occult rushed in to profitably fill the vacuum...

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...e from their mother’s breast or grasp their father’s little finger. Then, social skills such as a smile or a frown emerge. Eventually, they develop ... ...sused our achievements, ever widening the gaps between us and increasing social injustice. It is no one’s fault that human societies are deformed a... ...onnectedness. This is the underlying motive behind the massive growth of social networks on the Internet. People need to connect because they alrea... ...e world. And here is a really interesting concept: f ace- book, the online social network, has 175 million active users worldwide. If f acebook were ... ...el bad about ourselves, hide our actions or even modify them to suit the social norm. In other words, because it is so important for us to feel goo... ...single- celled creatures. The same applies to physics and to all the hard sciences. with humanities, it will be truly refreshing to examine human hi...

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...ecurities industry worldwide is constructed upon the quicksand of self-delusion and socially-acceptable confabulations. These serve to hold together... ...f sales and marketing including: market penetration targets, profiles of potential social and economic categories of clients, sales promotion metho... ... the national economy and the very fabric of society and incur grave political and social costs. There are two types of bubbles. Asset bubbles of ... ...re separate corporate bodies, or legal persons. But in Russia, and in other former socialist countries, they have often been granted "de jure" (leg... ...s education, health, and welfare), and services that the community, for economic or social reasons, seeks to subsidize (such as urban transport). Le... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...regulator - the market. Return Winners of the 1997 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences The Pricing of Options The Royal Swedish Academy of Sc... ...Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Robert C. Merton... ...ntries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to Me: palma@...

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...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...sions of Creative Com- mons that I helped to set up which concentrate on the sciences and on educa- tion, respectively. The practical experience of bu... ...rlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The work of Richard Sta... ...tion of the petunia farmer. Pause for a moment and think of what a brilliant social innovation this is— at least potentially. Focus not on the incenti... ...ates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. The allocation of social resources to particular types of in- novation is driven by guesses... ...But we do not condemn the scientist who notes that they are both “mammals”—a socially constructed category—so long as he has a reason for focusing on ... ...s to write? The answer to all of these questions is “not exactly.” Like most social institutions, intellectual property has an altogether messier and ... ...son argues that “stable own- ership” of even tangible property is “a gift of social law.” Intellectual property, then, has still less of a claim to so... ...hase III drug trial? Again, my guess is that the increasing migration of the sciences toward data- and processing-rich models makes much more of innov...

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...in a brief formula, what the science is, and wherein it differs from other sciences, so, it might be supposed, did the framing of such a formula natur... ...y scien- tific treatises. The definitions which those works furnish of the sciences, for the most part either do not fit them—some being too wide, som... ...ald Stewart had in view, when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is jus... ...f the human mind. The observation is just; and the first principles of all sciences, including the defini- tions of them, have consequently participat... ...ibution of wealth in all states of mankind, but only in what is termed the social state; nor so far as they depend upon the laws of human nature, but ... ...n a somewhat looser sense, laws of society, or laws of human nature in the social state. These laws, or general truths, form the subject of a branch o... ...ect of a branch of science which may be aptly designated from the title of social economy; somewhat less happily by that of specu- lative politics, or... ...istinguished from the art. This science stands in the same relation to the social, as anatomy and physiology to the physical body. It shows by what pr... ...establish themselves among human beings as the ordinary consequence of the social union; what those which are different in different states of society...

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...SIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SOCIETY 104 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT108 USING GOD’S LAWS FOR SOCIETY 112 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS 114 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 115 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY117 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS 119 RETIREMENT PENSIONS 125 HEALTH CARE128 HEALTH CARE AND AGING ...

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................................................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social... ... our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philosophy but we knew each other social... ...y approach to life is quite different. The motivations for these people may be the same as for mentally healthy people, they just behave anti-social... ...n control our own destinies. This is what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate scienc... ...eve it because people deny that they don‘t have control over their behavior, except in court then they are looking for excuses for their anti-social... ...e up so many absolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start with evidence, like any science. But unlike the ‗hard‘ scienc... ...haven‘t bothered to ground their beliefs in a deeper knowledge of their religion. As you know, most of the more educated people in the natural scienc... ...hage and become masters of the provinces of North Africa. ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of scienc...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Individual rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Social harmony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Checks and balances 11 3.1 Acceptable personal risk and responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...ration Flood Programme Dairy co-operative development under Operation Flood Dairy co-operatives in other tropical countries Bangladesh Sri Lanka Social impact Conclusion Suggested reading Chapter 21: Successful smallholder dairy projects S.R. Na Phuket Introduction Experience in smallholder dairy development projects and programmes Features Project perfo...

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................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................

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................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................