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...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2009 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, ... ...crifice the firm's interests and, therefore, its value in the medium to long- term (for instance, by doling out bonuses even as the firm is dying; b... ...nal, in all the countries where it operates), on the projected supply of and demand for its shares and on the aforementioned risk of non-payment. In... ...e the "price", or the "value" of one's savings account. More than one fifth of the population of 1983 Israel were involved in a banking scandal of ... ...als took place in Russia and Bulgaria in the 1990's. One third of the impoverished population of Albania was cast into destitution by the collapse ... ...ht of the stock exchange as decoupled from the real economy. Only one tenth of the population was invested - compared to 40 percent today. "The Wor... ...porate malfeasance in the USA. David C. Jones is a part-time research fellow at the Center for Urban Development Studies of the Graduate School of ... ...ed layer of municipal bureaucracy superfluous or even counterproductive? Can't the center - at least in smallish countries - administer things at l... ... abused these safety nets are - as Stephane Pallage and Christian Zimmerman of the Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in t...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of ...

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...S IN SOCIAL MARKETING 46 PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 46 What is a Product? 46 Other Names for Products. 46 MARKET SEGMENTATION 47 How Many Segments? 47 C... ...oncept Of A Product Mix: New Product Development 56 PROBLEMS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SOCIAL PRODUCTS 58 SUMMARY 58 5 BEYOND MONEY: THE CONCEPT O... ... ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 63 IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL PRICE IN MARKETING 65 Implications For Further Investigation 65 SUMMARY 65 6 THE COMMUNICATION OF ... ...ill endanger the human race. Diffusion. Dispersion or spread of knowledge across a population. Gossip. Small talk with or without a known basis in ... ... 12 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES Man is not a circle with a single center; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are ... ...ibility Physical fitness Poetry Police, support of Politics Pollution control Population control Prayers in schools Prison reform Product saf... ... need identified by the marketer (usually through marketing research upon a target population). A major difference between the economist's approach... ...ems from cell (2) that bear the intent of profit: private nursing homes, day-care centers and so forth. The service of providing space for which re... ...keting connotation. Besides, demand is too great to justify marketing (a national center for the prevention of child abuse). We are a weekly newspa...

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...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2005 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002, 2005... ...10, 1931 but was not impressed. Even in the months after May 1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their Lon... ...merican liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all t... ...menian community was arrested and executed. Between May and June 1915 the Armenian population was deported to Mesopotamia. The deportation followed... ...well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are... ...t the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial population doubles every 20 minutes - the quantity of luciferase... ...of particles to escape while the other is hurled towards the singularity (i.e., the center of the black hole). The escaping particle draws energy fr... ...hind. Quotes from the official Web pages of some of these databases: National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) Its mission ... ...ral Analysis Unit (BAU), Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC), and Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VIC...

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...im of this book is two fold. At the outset the book gives most of the available literature about Fuzzy Relational Equations (FREs) and its properties for there is no book that solely caters to FREs and its applications. Though we have a comprehensive bibliography, we do not promise to give all the possible available literature about FRE and its applications. We have given ...

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...tp://PublishingOnline.com This book has been peer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr. Sukanto Bhattacharya, School of Informatio... ... fuzzy relational equations 70 1.12 FRE with defuzzification algorithm for the largest solution 75 1.13 Solvability and Unique solvability... ...ity and Unique solvability of max-min fuzzy equations 81 1.14 New algorithms for solving fuzzy relation equations 85 1.15 Novel neural algorith... ... of the structure of the solution set of FREs. The individuals from the initial population are chosen from the feasible solution set. The genetic op... ...rch inside of the feasible solution set. The well-maintained feasibility of the population makes the search more efficient. Genetic algorithms (GAs... ... optimization problems. In general, 50 GAs start with a randomly generated population and progress to improve solutions by using genetic operat... ...of solution p. 62 The location of a cluster is represented by its cluster center ( ) q c q c c R ∈ υ υ = υ , ... , 1 , c = 1, …, C around whic... ...solutions. To determine the fuzzy c-partition matrix, U, we need to find the centers of clusters which can be obtained by using different methods... ...riterion measures the dissimilarity between points in a cluster and its cluster center by the Euclidean distance. This distance, d cp is calculated...

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...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2002-6... ...ng must exist SUBJECTIVELY. The person must FEEL bad, must experience discomfiture for his condition to qualify as a disease. To this extent, we ar... ...fest and others are latent or immanent. Genetic diseases can exist - unmanifested - for generations. This raises the philosophical problem or wheth... ... to carcinogens. Aging and death are definitely the best possible response to over-population. Perhaps the point of view of the single patient is i... ...ects and dimensions of the brain and its activities. Redundant hardware -different centers to perform similar tasks. Redundant communications chann... ... to carcinogens. Aging and death are definitely the best possible response to over-population. Perhaps the point of view of the single patient is i... ...lf Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). ...

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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2004-7 Cop... ...y and intentional fertilization. If a woman knowingly engages in sexual intercourse for the explicit and express purpose of having a child - then th... ...as the right not to be killed unjustly. What constitutes "just killing" is a matter for an ethical calculus in the framework of a social contract. ... ...s delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the single organism or species. ... ... Moreover, evolution favors organisms whose rate of reproduction is such that their populations expand to no more than the number of individuals tha... ...tworthy and treacherous. Hence the Jewish propensity to infiltrate decision-making centers, such as politics and the media. Their aim is to minimiz... ...sented or not- existent in virtually all professions due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaugh... ...ects and dimensions of the brain and its activities. Redundant hardware -different centers to perform similar tasks. Redundant communications chann... ...lutionary, the fresh – to the old, the habitual, the predictable. They are be risk- centered and risk-assuming cultures. Static versus Dynamic (Emer...

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Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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...observation) from the external world. Imperfection leads to a doubt about the value of a variable, a decision to be taken or a conclusion to be drawn for the actual system. The sources of uncertainty can be stochasticity (the case of intrinsic imperfection where a typical and single value does not exist), incomplete knowledge (ignorance of the totality, limited view on a s...

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...E-mail: ggregory@publicist.com We thank the following peer reviewers for their comments and recommendations on these papers: I. Balacenoi... ...d Speakers: J. Dezert (France), Charles Le (US), I. Stojmenovic (Canada). For more information on neutrosophics see the below links: • 0. Intro... ...finitely small number. Formally, x is said to be infinitesimal if and only if for all positive integers n one has xxx < 1/n. Let &>0 be a such inf... ...sets - a new type of data for knowledge representation, Preprint 232, Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1980 (in Russian... ...ox We assume that the three diseases are equally likely to occur in the patient population but there is some evidence that phlegaria and pinpox are th... ...tation for Multisensor Integration”, technical Note 307, Artificial Intelligence Center, Computer Science and Technology Division, SRI International, M... ...ed on DFS one can perform an extraordinary fuzzy inferencing as battle between populations of copies of contradictory statements. It has been observ... ...ccounting and Finance, Griffith University (Gold Coast) PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Center, Queensland 9726, Australia Dr. Sarjinder Singh Department of... ...or reproduction and all ignored in the one-dimensional biological practice of 'population genetics'. These form a complex of what I shall call ‘prim...