The technology of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) allows the provision of complete nutrition to patients who in the past would not have received such treatment. However‚ the wisdom of administering long-term ANH to every patient who can no longer eat independently is debatable (Peck et al 1990; Meyers and Grodin 1991; Hodges and Tolle 1994) and decisions around its use at the end of life have raised significant clinical‚ ethical‚ and legal concerns
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Describe how the theory of ‘Structure Functionalism’ described by Radcliffe-Brown will help you in managing your communication better. How does a society function? How is a society built? How do phenomena contribute to the maintenance of social structures? A.R. Radcliffe-Brown tried to seek answers to these questions. He particularly focused on the institutions of kinship and descent and suggested that‚ at least in tribal societies‚ they determined the character of family organization‚ politics
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1. Conflict theory and functionalism are two different theoretical perspectives that sociologists can have that allows them to make sense of a sociological event. Conflict theory is the idea that an individual or a group competes against others in society to obtain the greatest benefit. As a result of this competition‚ society is unstable due to the consistent change that occurs from conflict and inequality among groups. Functionalism can be thought of as the opposite of conflict theory because functionalists
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M01_HAYK1399_SE_03_C01.QXD 10/1/08 7:03 PM Page 47 C H A P T E R 1 Rosenblatt’s Perceptron ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTER The perceptron occupies a special place in the historical development of neural networks: It was the first algorithmically described neural network. Its invention by Rosenblatt‚ a psychologist‚ inspired engineers‚ physicists‚ and mathematicians alike to devote their research effort to different aspects of neural networks in the 1960s and the 1970s. Moreover
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H.O.D. Electrical Engg. Dept. APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN VOLTAGE AND REACTIVE POWER CONTROL Abstract The aim of this seminar is to introduce a new technique to control the voltage and reactive power in power systems based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Feed-forward ANN with Back Propagation training algorithm is used and the training data is obtained by solving several abnormal
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Structural Functionalism Parsons divides the social system into four subsystems; community‚ fiduciary‚ polity and economy. These action systems are intended to address the functional requirements that must be met by society. Each of these subsystems are capable of evolving in order to meet the current needs of society. At its core‚ Parsons sought to address the issues of adaption (economy)‚ goal attainment (polity)‚ integration (community) and pattern maintenance (fiduciary). These concepts
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ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK: USE IN MANAGEMENT Neuron Transfer Function: The transfer function of a neuron is chosen to have a number of properties which either enhance or simplify the network containing the neuron. Crucially‚ for instance‚ any multilayer perceptron using a linear transfer function has an equivalent single-layer network; a non-linear function is therefore necessary to gain the advantages of a multi-layer network. Types of neuron transfer function • Pure Linear Transfer Function
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In the article “Artificial Stupidity” linguist Geoffrey Pullum states his opinions on artificial intelligence and how his every day interactions with simple technology affect his opinions on this. He starts his article by reciting a log of the redundancies of specific user-interfaces that he encounters throughout a five day period. Most of these interactions are with simple appliances such as a projector giving a notification that it will go to standby mode in “one minutes” or a self-checkout machine
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normative rules‚ understandings or expectations of social systems. The issue of obesity has become increasingly prominent within Western society and is deemed as being deviant due to its wide unacceptance throughout society. In applying the ‘Functionalism’ perspective of deviance on obesity‚ the ways in which society attempts to handle and understand this issue is further outlined and explained. Obesity is a term used to describe body weight that is much greater than what is considered the
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