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...r conscious beings are worthier than non-conscious nature, or not - a topic assumed consequential for philosophy, ecology, ecofeminism and biocentric environmental movements, and ethics....

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... Introducción a Palindrome, por N. Contreras El contexto de esta publicación Contexto y contenido de Un Palindrome. Inserción político-social del progreso científico-natural. Positivismo y la estructura de secciones en Palindrome. Figura: Mach, la centración existencial múltiple de lo real. Transitando el palindrome. Figura: Ciliado...

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...This report is a socioeconomic and political analysis of environmental sustainability in terms of the present state of the environment, what we can do to reverse the negative trends, and what the current and potential barriers are. First, it offers a background of the issue through...

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...he chances that our environment will be sustainable or viable in the future and the potential obstacles it might encounter at three different levels: social, economic, and political....

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...…………………………………...37 Types of Ecosystems………………………………………………………………………………… 46 Failure of the Maximum Sustainable Yield Theory…………………………………………………. 54 V: Socially-Based Environmental Sustainability……………………..........................................................................58 Why Are Cities Important?..........................................................................

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...omorfológicos ........................... 127 II.1.3. Elementos Oceanográficos e Climatológicos ........................ 129 II.1.4. Caracterização Social e Económica ................................ 133 XII II. 2. Aspetos Metodológicos do Inquérito ................................ 136 II. 2.1. Tipologia do Estudo e Instrumentos de Recolha ................... 136 II....

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...This report is a socioeconomic and political analysis of environmental sustainability in terms of the present state of the environment, what we can do to reverse the negative trends, and what the current and potential barriers are. First, it offers a background of the issue through...

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...he chances that our environment will be sustainable or viable in the future and the potential obstacles it might encounter at three different levels: social, economic, and political....

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...…………………………………………………………………………...50 Échec du concept du rendement équilibré maximal …………………………………………………. 58 V: Viabilité environnementale à caractère social ……………………..........................................................................63 Pourquoi les villes sont-elles importantes?............................................................................................

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...Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 27 -- Neutrosophic Dialogues. 51 -- Absolute Truth. 68 -- Science, Destiny, and Buddhism. 79 -- Call for Papers. 94 -- Neutrosophy and Dialectic, postface by Anthony Mansueto. 95 --...

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...………………………………..………...51 Absolute Truth……………………………………………………………………………68 Science, Destiny, and Buddhism……………………………………………………….…79 Call for Papers…... ...differential view and the integral view. In medicine, Chinese traditional science regards humans as a part of the universe, and as being in constant... ...ng up in a struggle or conflict, leading to wars – losing the harmony. In science, Chinese culture pays more attention to spiritual harmony than mate... ...plinary study, which surpasses the boundaries between natural science and social science. Neutrosophy tries to solve the indeterminacy problem that ... ...mics, quantum dynamics, and so on; to reform current sciences, natural or social, with an open methodology; to promote their innovation and superses... ...isciplinary one, which exceeds the boundaries between natural science and social science. Neutrosophy tries to solve the indeterminacy problem unive... ...ple look to science as though it is God, as if it can prolong lives, solve environmental crises, war, disasters, etc. However this is the fiction of ... ...ort of advanced technology that has destroyed our society from the root: “Environmental pollution has become a serious problem, and now humankind has...

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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... II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D Introduction: Science, God, ... ...unctional adaptability has been attributed to random-stochastic processes (such as environmentally-induced genetic mutations). This view, of cours... ...Biological systems obey the same order- increasing (natural) laws as do physical and social ones. We are part of the Universe in the sense that we ar... ... of the species (for instance, if the individual is sick, weak, or evil). As every environmental scientist can attest, the thriving of some species... ...: "Bestowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement between conscious agents. But this definition i... ...ss. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement between conscious entities - yet they don't str... ...s notwithstanding. Yet, mathematics reigns supreme and unchallenged in the natural sciences. Why is that? What has catapulted mathematics (as disti... ...ious would add). 7. Finally, mathematics is useful: it works. It underlies modern science and technology unerringly and unfailingly. In time, all ... ... equilibrium (entropy) and to homeostasis (a functionality which is independent of environmental conditions). When these are violated, energy has t...

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... Pg 113 The Triality of the Universe Pg 114 The Totality of Twelve Pg 119 Science Pg 121 Instinct and Evolution Pg 124 How and Why Life Emerg... ... 310 How Change is Corrupted Pg 316 The Effect of Reverse Pyramidality as a Social Dynamic of Accumulation Pg 318 Glorification Pg 321 The Fiv... ...tion of Wealth Pg 332 The Accumulation of Power Pg 334 The Accumulation of Social Standing Pg 334 The Accumulation of Ownership Pg 343 The Acc... ...6 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg 420 Science and Balance Pg 461 The Pyramidal Absolute Pg 469 Abstr... ...Human Suffering and Hardship Pg 737 Rage and Unhappiness Pg 737 Nature and Science Pg 740 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship ... ...ove, Courage and Honesty Pg 883 The Triality of the Human Condition Pg 888 Social Dynamics of Separation Pg 889 Punishment Pg 892 Choice and W... ...s destroying the lands they lived on made them this way. 25 Million years of environmental violence, savagery, and terror turned them into a permane... ...The transition from hunter-gatherers to settlements. 287 social-individual-environmental dynamic balance. Once you increase the size of any human... ...ion. Because of the concept of the linear line. The entire history of human environmental destruction exists simply because it is a logical extrapo...

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.... It elaborates various aspects related to tobacco use among youth: consumption of tobacco; perceptions of tobacco use and tobacco users; individual, social and environmental correlates of tobacco use; and status of prevailing tobacco control measures. Apart from the study findings, the monograph reviews and summarises the current literature and provides a nation-wide glim...

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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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...ne technical experiments, which gradually give way to contextual works, development experiences and holistic appreciation of the role of agricultural science. Half of the chapters include a personal reflective comment, which becomes integrated with the research itself as the thesis develops, until it culminates in an embracing final observation of the real outcomes of four...

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...ture Overview 49 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 5 50 Discussion 51 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 61 Re-Cultivating Agricultural Science: 40 Years of Professional Life – Lindsay Falvey x Chapter 6 - Agricultural Education Overview 65 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 6 66 Discussion 66 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 80 Chapter 7 - I...

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...w to judge the truth-value of a metaphor, or of an ambiguous statement, or of a social phenomenon which is positive from a standpoint and negative fr... ...-mail99/0819.html. [13] Girard, Jean-Yves, Linear logic, Theoretical Computer Science, 50:1-102, 1987. [14] Guinnessy, Paul; Gilbert, John, Procee... ...knowledge representation, Preprint 232, Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1980 (in Russian). [32] Perez, Minh, Neutros... ...u/epigone/sci.math/lelswoboi. [33] Peirce, C. S., Essays in the Philosophy of Science, The Liberal Arts Press, Inc., New York, 1957. [34] Priest,... ...pproach to Judgment Based Decision Making”, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1986. [35] Li X.R.... ...rically confirmed fact that that subject’s feelings about a perceived person or social situation can oscillate from a highly positive value to a high... ...om increasing interest in dynamic processes in psychology. The development of social cognition caused in the 90’s an increasing interest in intrins... ...ty of the organism and with experience (adding flexibility to better cope with environmental change) - successive stages adding higher values - what ... ...olation but interact in nonlinear ways, both amongst themselves and with their environmental contexts (i.e. we cannot simply add their 'fitnesses' o...

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...orghe Petrescu-Eri ţã, 23 T. Vladimirescu Street, Govora, Romania. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.... ...College, EC, USA Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics and Sciences The University of New Mexico at Gallup, USA ... ...ies of those prior books. Related analyses also appear in Speculations in Science and Technology, 1993 (ISSN 0155-7785); and in Electron and Ion Bea... ... is paid for this true essential. Two genders aboard? Not this time; the social complexities still have not been worked out in submarines, a simila... ...s, and other gear. Two modules (M3 & M4) form the biosphere (ecosystems/ environmental/hydroponics). Module M1 is given over to the ship's Bridge a...

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...ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind-cure” movement— Its creed— Cases— Its doctrine of evil— ... ...ros and cons of the saintly char- acter— Saints versus “strong” men— Their social function must be considered— Abstractly the saint is the highest typ... ...d proof— What philosophy CAN do for religion by transforming herself into “science of religions.” LECTURE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elemen... ...f religious characteristics— Men’s religions need not be identi- cal— “The science of religions” can only suggest, not proclaims a religious creed— Is... ...re for my safety. I could give hundreds of in- stances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. That he is mine and I am his ... ... for a moment the habits of life into which we are born. There are certain social conventions or customs and alleged requirements, there is a theologi... ...ge are, in spite of their impracticability and non-ad- aptation to present environmental conditions, analogous to the saint’s belief in an existent ki...

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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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...centric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its hist... ...es (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, ... ...ulers sought to buy off local Islamist movements by ceding control of many social and educational issues. Embold- ened rather than satisfied, the Isla... ...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ...even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if ... ...rrorism to global FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 361 disease or environmental degradation, the challenges have become transnational rather ... ... which performs human source collection, all-source analysis, and advanced science and technology National intelligence agencies: • National Security ... ...ice President–DFW Hub, and former Vice President of Safety, Security, and Environmental,American Airlines Acts of Courage in the Sky Nydia Gonzalez, ... ... Justice; DOS—Department of State; DOT—Department of Transporta- tion; EPA—Environmental Protection Agency; FAA—Federal Aviation Administration; FBI—F...

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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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...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...