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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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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe...

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...aven: the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love s...

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...dent publications, such as high school newspapers, web site production and design, and school literary magazines, are beneficial but not a requireme... ...luding Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect. The student will learn to design and layout a literary magazine within the leading publishing program...

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...Etymologically, aphorism + floral = aph(L)orism, which is a short reflection written on a floral design, or a short poetry accompanied by an artistic background. They are colorful contemplations. Maximus in minimis (Lat.) means very much in very little [max in min], or condensed thought, or ideating essence. They are ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...hout rendering explanations to any one. I have altered my mind, and do not design to leave the country this season.” “Not to leave the country, Master... ...f freight and demurrage!” “Sir,” replied the Master of Ravenswood, “when I designed to leave this country in this haste, I made use of your obliging o... ...place betwixt two young persons. The only natural explanation was, that he designed them for each other; while, in truth, his only motive was to tempo... ...is paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most... ...e probably scarcely comprehended the question that was put to her. “If you design,” said Sir William Ashton, “to found any legal claim on that paper, ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...youthful eloquence. The present study was a rifacimento. From it, with the design already mentioned, and in a fit of horror at my old excess, the big ... ...t, if Thoreau were content to dwell by Walden Pond, it was not merely with designs of self-im- 11 Familiar Studies of Men & Books provement, but to s... ...ive great romances (which alone I purpose here to examine), two deliberate designs: one artistic, the other consciously ethical and intellectual. This... ... whose works it would have been equally possible to accomplish our present design: and that man is Hawthorne. There is a unity, an unwavering creative... ...t creation, over which the reader will do well to ponder. With so gloomy a design this great work is still full of life and light and love. The portra... ... beside the Jolly Beggars. To take a man’s work piecemeal, except with the design of elegant extracts, is the way to avoid, and not to perform, the cr... ...ind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery field of Enjoyment?” The design may be that of an Old Hawk, but the style is more suggestive of a Bi... ...t freshness, body, and relief. He was always ready to borrow the hint of a design, as though he had a difficulty in commencing – a difficulty, let us ...

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...art of the Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis Copyright ' 1998 The Pennsylvania State University The... ...g of future great men; and in conjunction with your Art of Virtue (which you design to publish) of improving the features of private character, and co... ...y attending to, it has hitherto remain’d unfinish’d. In this piece it was my design to explain and enforce this *Nothing so likely to make a man’s for... ...rties occa sion all confusion. “That while a party is carrying on a general design, each man has his particular private interest in view. *This is a ... ...suasion who might desire to say something to the people at Philadelphia; the design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the ... ... his hearers, of which I myself was an instance. I did not disapprove of the design, but, as Georgia was then destitute of materials and workmen, and ... ... of establishing an academy. The first step I took was to associ ate in the designnumber of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a good part; ... ...rit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he design’d any thing for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he... ...e Indians to get drunk with, ’ and it must be so.” And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...le,” the face of what was once myself. This has come by accident; I had no design at first to be autobiographical; I was but led away by the charm of ... ...s of smiling or heroic temper, to excite or to con- sole; books of a large design, shadowing the complexity of that game of consequences to which we a... ...ion; and when they had called me in to them, and made me a sharer in their design, I too became drunken with pride and hope. We were to found a Univer... ...the hope was one of those that childhood forges for a pastime, and with no design upon reality. Nothing was more unlikely than that my grandfa- ther s... ...nd Portraits though I own I never have been told so. He made embroi- dery, designing his own patterns; and in that kind of work I never made anything ... ...advances. New apparatus for lights in new situations was continually being designed with the same unwearied search after perfection, the same nice ing... ...ame of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities. Skeltery, then, is a quality of much art. It is eve... ...is no success. Her creator has spared no pains; she is well-meant, not ill-designed, sometimes has a word that rings out true; sometimes, if only for ...

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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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...ice, I’m lonely. 15. ALL NEW – Parts not interchangeable with the previous design. 16. RUGGED – Too damn heavy to lift! 17. LIGHTWEIGHT – Lighter t...