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...This analysis takes a didactic approach. It attempts to demystify the aura surrounding operational design by presenting a theoretical framework for comprehending its fundamental precepts. The goals of this analysis are threefold: provide a methodological example for understanding and applying design, show how design enhanc...

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...1 The Process of Operational Design 1 2 Developing an Operational Approach 21 3 Methodology for Understanding and Employing Operational Design 31 4 Establishing the Link between Operational Design and Decision Analysis 59 5 Operational Design and Cou...

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...in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...oice is so crucial that even when it is prevented by nature itself – and not by the designs of more or less sinister or monomaniac people – there ca... ...n most others): "This ship was constructed with knowledge and forethought. The best design was employed to avoid danger. The best materials to incre... ...ering a converse Turing Test? This is even more seriously flawed. It is possible to design a test, which robots will apply to distinguish artificial... ... we set apart inaction from failed action or, worse, from an action which failed by design, intentionally? If a human is in danger and the robot tri... ...ctive or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and designed the "Turing Machine" – a machine which can calculate th... ...ce. We don't know of any effectively calculable function which is not recursive, by designing new TMs from existing ones we can obtain new effectiv... ...t carries out instructions, reads and writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical method of solvi... ...s by some kind of "firewall", or in-built defense. Inevitably, things go awry. The design of the robots is unwise: they retain the long-term memori...

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... an instrumental part in the patterns of life; to some people, it’s all a design by a sentient and omniscient Creator. Until any of these things are ... ...earn to grasp for yourself. And you can. VIII. Evil lies in intent, not in design. It is toward proving this end that I have built the small menagerie... ... like. Everyone has the capacity for evil, but NO ONE is "born" to it, or "designed" for it; and no one ANYWHERE is less valuable as a person, and th... ...ave been unable to search for - or reach - those for whom none of the pre-designed, pre- arranged options provide a help, a sanctuary, an answer, tho... ... based on THEIR senses, not the collective ideals. Or the collective, pre-designed reality that is all most of them can at first see... with their p... ...d entirely creations of the Matrix. Built, programmed, and controlled and designed by lines of that code. Only programs. What has become clear to me... ... is "inherently bad" or "beyond help" or hope. Evil lies in intent, not in design. • Understand that despite the universality of these group beliefs, ... ... in dignity and rights, regardless of their origins, structure of living, design, or the construction of their bodies; regardless of whether they ar... ... To wake them up, not to the fact that the "System is evil" - it isn't, by design, and neither was the Matrix[something most people, familiar only wi...

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...lopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...d to the Web a few weeks ago - titled "Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" - the authors demonstrate how ... ...ordered both suffer from a cognitive deficit. They are unable to conceptualise, to design effective strategies and to execute them. They dedicate a... ...e data is external to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through designated ports but does not affect the machine's structure or ... ...Supreme Being. They are defined by the degree with which they adhere to this divine design. Others relegate the same functions to the Universe (to N... ...ions to the Universe (to Nature). It is perceived by them to be a grand, perfected, design, or mechanism. Humans fit into this mechanism and have r... ...re scenarios of humans cultivated in sinister labs as sources of spare body parts, "designer babies", "master races", or "genetic sex slaves" - form... ...gal? Cloning's opponents object to procreative cloning because it can be abused to design babies, skew natural selection, unbalance nature, produce... ... still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds of millions. As far as "designer babies" go, pre-natal cloning and genetic engineering c...

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...e, conjunctural (relative) false, conjunctural (relative) indeterminacy - designed by 1, with respect to absolute true (or super-truth), absolute fa... ...r super-truth), absolute false (super-falshood), absolute indeterminacy – designed by 1 + . Then, if a proposition is absolute true, it is underfal... ...lued Systems (Asenjo), many-valued logic which allows both A and ÕA to be designated (to function as the analogue of truth in a two-valued logic); fo... ... decision, NL = (0.5, 1, 0.5). In a two-valued system one regards all the designated values as species of truth and all the anti- designated values a... ... species of falsehood, with truth-value (or falsehood-value) gaps between designated and anti-designated values. In the neutrosophic system one stip... ...nti-designated values. In the neutrosophic system one stipulates the non- designated values as species of indeterminacy and, thus, each neutrosophic ... ... of indeterminacy and, thus, each neutrosophic consequence has degrees of designated, non-designated, and anti-designated values. Of course, the Law... ... Applications: Neutrosophic logic is useful in the real-world systems for designing control logic, and may work in quantum mechanics. # The candida... ...els of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as key elements in their design and implementation”. They simulate, via processes of selection, muta...

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...y, the notion o r idea, equally clear, of the sense and terms in which alone we design to speak. Without these two notions, it seems morally impossi... ... and justice, so permitted and so disposed it with great deliberation, and with designs worthy of his greatness, in order by that evil visitation, t... ...es of scripture, which speak of the future estate of the Jews, and of the great designs which God hath yet towards them, a point which is inseparable... ...of God, as also what her occupations in that wilderness are to be, and what the design of God in so extraordinary a dispensation. With respect to t... ...ople; and the Lord shall manifest these hidden things, and likewise his ends and designs: “Then shall the Lord show them these things.” And then Moun... ...age. In this m anner then preserving the proportion, and with the same ends and designs, God will the second time draw that same woman, composed of ... ...n his spouse, doth well apply to the present Catholic church, which the Apostle designates “the pillar and ground of the truth,” because therein onl... ...hat most certainly was, is, and shall be the will of God, and the intention and design of the Redeemer. Consequently that is the vocation, and oblig...

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...4 have been derived from The Famous Amos Story, © Wally Amos, 1983 Cover design by Dale Vermeer' Printed in USA by Baker Johnson, Dexter, MI First... ...the mir­ ror, I realized that it really was high time for a completely re­ designed image. September 17 was the first day I attended a public functio... ...em we help them see it in themselves. 132 • Mall with No Name with the designer to create the overall image of a particular pro­ ject. I spent a d... ... create the overall image of a particular pro­ ject. I spent a day with my designer, Dale Vermeer, reviewing con­ cepts and designs, and in that sessi... ...se "Baked With Aloha" and adding the image of palm trees, which Christine designed. Time was so short that we didn't have the six- to eight-week le...

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...1-093-6 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 DESIGN: Stanley S. DrateIFolio Graphics Co. Inc. This book is dedicated w... ...th milk, on my best plate and he got so excited he decided he just had to design some furniture for my store. Not only did he design three tables, ... ...ing so small you need a microscope to see it and within that drop is the design for our total being. Doesn't that thought give you hope that there ... ... world stark naked. Not one THE POWER IN YOU 214 stitch of clothing. No designer jeans. No jewelry, no material possessions at all. She had no com...

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...ns and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...ractions, or properties. Complexity does not, therefore, imply the existence of a designer or a design. Complexity does not imply the existence of... ...d a random origin. Complexity and artificiality are often incompatible. Artificial designs and objects are found only in unexpected ("unnatural") c... ...re not. As Seth Shostak notes in his excellent essay, titled "SETI and Intelligent Design", evolution experiments with numerous dead ends before it... ...every action has a function within a "scheme of things". Goals are set, plans made, designs help to implement the plans. Not so with life. Living ... ...capable of measuring only collapsed results? Maybe our very ability to measure, to design measurement methods and instrumentation, to conceptualize... ...conceptualize and formalize the act of measurement and so on are thus limited and "designed" as to yield only the "collapsible" solutions of the wa... ... extensive parameter) in the Universe we must assume the existence of some "Grand Design" within which this statement would make sense. Such a G... ... words, for their orderliness), how does the quantum system "know" about the Grand Design and about its place within it? How does it "know" to sele...

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...sophic predicate logic. The interval neutrosophic logic can reason and model fuzzy, incomplete and inconsistent information. In this chapter, we also design an interval neutrosophic inference system based on first order interval neutrosophic predicate logic. The interval neutrosophic inference system can be applied to decision making. Chapter 3 gives one application of int...

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...5 Agent Communication Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 4.3.6 Intelligent Inference Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 4.3.7 Design of Intelligent Inference Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 4.3.8 Input neutrosophic sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 4.3.9 Neutrosophic rule bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 4.3....

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...This article seeks to illuminate a commandeering of a design philosophy to serve capitalist property development. It is proposed to contrast various world renowned projects to their Constructivist forerunners highlighting the abandonment of the movement's social ideals for styli...

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...bout a year ago, the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in Chicago selected the Interlace, a luxury housing development in Singapore designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), as the inaugural winner of its Urban Habitat Award. The development was cited by the jury for breaking down the preconception of stand-alone icons, for creating a ‘t...

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...f the best of fine quality contemporary literature in unique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially creat... ...r books aspires to be a work of art in itself—in both its content and its design. The press was established in 1975. Over the years Autograph Ed... ...e at the sun symbol painted over the house door. More and more, geometric designs are giving way to more plas- tic ideas in decorating. Polychrome pa... ... Alcaeus; I had missed those visits to his home where Helen has taught me designs for my loom and reaffirmed what patience really is. She has read t... ...ath. Like old times, we sat at our looms and Kleis showed me a periwinkle design, whispering confidences, saying he was good, saying the house was g... ...n flight ................................................. 261 Plants and designs ........................................ 264 Mona Lisa .............. ...ge on walls and ceiling seemed absurd. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 232 Designs were refused, at the outset. The employment of immense tree trunks ... ...e. “The song of men is the remedy to pain...” I almost believed that. I designed drums, multiple beaters; I could change the pitch of my drums thr... ... my drums through holes in the sides...I built three portable organs... I designed glissando recorders...I made a lute for Nicolaio del Turco...I ma...

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... explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in intimate ... ... concepts they deem causally relevant. The FCM seems merely to encode its designers' biases and may not even encode them accurately. FCM combinat... ...as the conceptual nodes viz. {C 1, …, C 10 }. It is in the hands of the designer of the problem to assign the time periods from {H 1 , H 2 , …, H ... ... FIGURE: 1.3.16 63 A FCM using the above kind of table can be easily designed by the human domain experts and can be used to have a graphical m... ...ers. The notion of FCM is used in modeling of supervisory systems, in the design of hybrid models for complex systems, in the International Advanced... ...ilure effects variables, for failure cause variable, severity of effects, design variables. Thus [100] have used the construction of a map mainly ba... ...ory control please refer [100]. APPLICATION 1.4.2: FCM applied in the Design of Hybrid Models for Complex Systems A Fuzzy Cognitive Map is us... ... useful method in complex system modeling and control which will help the designer of a system in decision analysis. They are an appealing tool in t... ...p with other methods will lead to be more sophisticated model and control design systems. FCMs are used to aggregate the separate models and to pe...

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...ugh I admit to a certain prejudice on that point. And some of them, like the design of our telecommunications networks, or the patenting of human gene... ...nterests, and bodies of knowledge. As a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three... ...vide the theoretical basis. Each chapter builds on those themes, but is also designed to be largely free- standing. The readers who thrill to the idea... ...that cure terrible diseases, 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 1 and designs for more fuel-efficient stoves, and useful little doodads, like mo... ...ion. It is not an overstatement to say that intellectual property rights are designed to shape our information marketplace. Copyright law is supposed ... ...e and effort in trying to figure out a way of getting around a system that is designed around neither your needs nor the needs of many of the people wh... ...improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all spa... ...ry of the fashion industry in the United States. It operates largely without design protection but relies heavily on the trademarks accorded to favore... ...m still forbidden from using it. I can decide whether or not to license your design at that point.) But for all the material in the public domain, whe...

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...t problems. In the light of aforementioned ‘garment analogue’, we can compare this binary logic with a classic black-and-white tuxedo. It is timeless design, but of course you will not wear it for all occasions. Aristotle himself apparently knew this problem; therefore he introduced new terms ‘contingency’ and ‘possibility’ into his modal logic [5]. And then American logic...