illustrate patterns in nature but there were many aspects of Mother Nature that remained a mystery to Physicists and Mathematicians alike. Mathematics is an integral part of physics. It provides an order and a guide to thinking; it shows the relationship between many physical phenomenons. The error in mathematics until that point was linearity. "Clouds are not spheres‚ mountains are not cones‚ bark is not smooth‚ nor does lightning travel in a straight line." - Benoit Mandlebrot. Was it not beyond reason
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Decision theory tells what we may rationally prefer and not what we may rationally believe. Desires according to Hume‚ are original existences and not subject to rational assessment. Drier says this may be a bit of a bold statement but so what? It isn’t irrational that we have conflicting desires‚ but it is the decision out of them that is important. I don’t want sunburn. I stay inside. Trouble arises when I prefer staying in to sunbathing‚ sunbathing to short exposure and short exposure to staying
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Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies
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Describe the Major Similarities & Differences Between the Trait & Behavior Leadership Theories by Walter Johnson‚ Demand Media Leadership theories debate over what makes a good leader. Over the years‚ many schools of thought have developed that give different explanations about where leaders come from‚ how they can be identified‚ and what causes an “executive” rather than a “servile” personality. Trait theory and behaviorism are two similar approaches to these questions. They both see leadership
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Alternating Current Theory - J R Lucas An alternating waveform is a periodic waveform which alternate between positive and negative values. Unlike direct waveforms‚ they cannot be characterised by one magnitude as their amplitude is continuously varying from instant to instant. Thus various forms of magnitudes are defined for such waveforms. The advantage of the alternating waveform for electric power is that it can be stepped up or stepped down in potential easily for transmission and utilisation
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What is Motivation? Buchanan defines motivation as follows: "Motivation is a decision-making process‚ through which the individual chooses the desired outcomes and sets in motion the behaviour appropriate to them". How does motivation differ from "motives" Buchanan defines motives as: "learned influences on human behaviour that lead us to pursue particular goals because they are valued". Motivation can therefore be thought of as the degree to which an individual wants AND chooses to engage in certain
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RISK THEORY - LECTURE NOTES 1. INTRODUCTION The primary subject of Risk Theory is the development and study of mathematical and statistical models to describe and predict the behaviour of insurance portfolios‚ which are simply financial instruments composed of a (possibly quite large) number of individual policies. For the purposes of this course‚ we will define a policy as a random (or stochastic) process generating a deterministic income in the form of periodic premiums‚ and incurring financial
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Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice* by Charles Blackorby‚ Walter Bossert and David Donaldson August 1999 revised August 2001 Prepared as Chapter 11 of the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare K. Arrow‚ A. Sen and K. Suzumura‚ eds.‚ Elsevier‚ Amsterdam Charles Blackorby: University of British Columbia and GREQAM Walter Bossert: Universit´ de Montr´al and C.R.D.E. e e David Donaldson: University of British Columbia * We thank Don Brown‚ Marc Fleurbaey‚ Philippe Mongin‚ John Weymark
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Topic: Recruitment of Generation X and Generation Y employees Recruitment is an ever changing landscape as it deals with three different generations in the workplace‚ which includes Baby Boomer‚ Generation X‚ and GenerationY (Sirona‚ 2007). Generation X employees are the smallest of the three groups‚ they represent roughly 16 percent of the workforce population; Generation Y employees represent 25 percent of the workforce (Ha‚ J.‚ 2006). Generation Y employees are passionate‚ responsive‚ team-oriented
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Philosophy Ego Theory and Bundle Theory Derek Parfit’s views on personal identity and the Ego and Bundle Theory are all summarized in his article “Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons”. In his article‚ Parfit explains the distinction between Ego theory and Bundle theory and provides several arguments against Ego Theory. Although it proves to be very difficult to believe the Bundle Theory‚ Parfit’s critique is convincing and well thought out. In order to defend the Bundle Theory of personal identity
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