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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... ... Australia. Dr. G. Lakshma Reddy, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Copyright 200... ...ese 60 HIV/AIDS infected migrant labourers so that people from different social and cultural backgrounds follow our analysis. The last chapter give... ...or war and the consequent persecution or in some of the cases because of environmental degradation. In between these two diverse classifications, t... ...hi (1992). 6. Ankrah, E.M., “AIDS and the Social Side of Health,” Social Science Medicine, 32 (1991) 967-980. 7. Aral, S.P., and Holmes, K.K., “Sex... ...llective Computational Abilities,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 79 (1982) 2554-2558. 40. Hunter, N.D., and Rubenstein, W.B., AID... ...ical system, 42 Economic factors, 7 Edge values, 38 Edge weights, 41 Environmental degradation, 7 Equilibrium of the system, 105 Equilibrium s...

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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 ... ...ed, the term anarchism has been trivialized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant revolutionaries, and techn... ... 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... ...ohn Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, asserted that "environmental and animal rights extremists who have turned to ar... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ... of the species (for instance, if the individual is sick, weak, or evil). As every environmental scientist can attest, the thriving of some species... ...ofessions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This is partly the result of the...

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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... ... and Place Marketing XXXV. NGOs – The Self-appointed Altruists XXXVI. The Wages of Science XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality... ...d with mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sens... ...mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sense and d... ...c theory. Government is alternately cast as a saint, seeking to selflessly maximize social welfare - or as the villain, seeking to perpetuate and in... ...urces can either be replenished or substituted. Alarmist claims to the contrary by environmentalists have been convincingly debunked by the likes o... ...been convincingly debunked by the likes of Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Equally, it is true that manufactured good... ...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... ... to obtain a sequence of reactions and actions. To isolate, observe and manipulate environmental variables and study human interactions. No snapsho...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Comm...

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... The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179... ...se Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Ind... ...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... ...lar. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am descr... ... 10 has its roots both in my article “A Politics of Intellec- tual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?” 3 and in the symposium, Cul- tural Environ... ...cisely because we are in the information age, we need a movement—akin to the environmental movement—to preserve the public domain. The explosion of in... ...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 ...

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...e conditions that affect outcomes - thus our best efforts to predict natural outcomes are usually flawed. We further display our ignorance in seeking social sustainability while we behave inequitably towards groups other than ‘us’ and invoke spurious reasoning to justify further research. The effect of ignorant self-interest is played out daily in our largest intervention ...

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...s ix Author’s Foreword xi Chapter 1 Stepping Back to Survey the Landscape 1 Chapter 2 The Unacknowledged Debt to Asia: A Different Agricultural and Environmental Reality 13 Agriculture’s Legacy 14 Agricultural Origins 15 Contact with the West 23 Religion, Nature and Agriculture 26 ‘Indianised’ Agriculture 31 Secular Approaches 34 Common Heritage 38 Chapter 3 Global Dev...

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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... ...ive us better control over our own lives. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can control our own destinies. This is what much of scienc... ...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... ...e our minds to be able to conjure up so many absolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start with evidence, like any scienc... ...seem to double the chance that a particular stressor will develop depressive symptoms in a person. But while heredity can be a major factor, enviro... ... 115 the disease the other twin's chance is 50 to 60% of developing it. However it seems to be the enviro...

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...agriculture declined in relative financial importance, it continued to provide the benefits of employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social support, and cultural custody. Technical and economic globalisation forces which assumed a cultural uniformity were eventually revealed to require modification, but had meanwhile allowed unregulated exploitation of com...

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... Chapter 3 - Arrival of Tai Agriculture Chinese Tai Muang F Integrating Technologies Tai Agriculturists Migrating Farmers Tai in Thailand Tai Traits Environmental Traditions Tai and Buddhist Environments Summary Chapter 4 - Expansion of Thai Agriculture from 1200 C Agricultural Organisation Agricultural Administration Integrating Irrigation Systems Agricultural Dominati...

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...mental development. Increasing dairy production is a major challenge for those engaged in international livestock development. Moreover, there are environmental concerns about livestock production in fragile landscapes, so increasing milk supply should be done in an environmentally sustainable manner. Research can help meet this challenge. Meeting the growing demand ...

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... issues Institutional support for smallholder dairy development activities Projects Summary and conclusions References Chapter 4: Climatic and environmental factors affecting dairy productivity J. E. Vercoe Background Introduction Thermal equilibrium Heat load Heat dissipation Reducing heat load Enhancing heat dissipation Effects of heat stress Other en...

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...ses arise from whether a disaster is perceived to be of slow or rapid onset. This investigation reflects on the interplay of short and long- term social and biophysical factors on the scale of one particular disaster, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Nargis, which hit the Ayeyarwady Delta area of Myanmar in May 2008, killing perhaps 140,000 people in four hours. This will be achi...

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... 139 Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Management 143 Periodic Review Series 145 Social Impact Monitoring Series 146 Sampling Methods 146 Social Impact Monitoring Surveys 148 Data Co...