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...setting errors have been removed. Yes, all of young Joseph’s original words are here, along with an incredible collection of fine art, maps, graphic designs and photos. Plus references and helpful links. This has taken me three and one half months to compile and transcribe. It has been a tremendous and yet rewarding labor of Love. I hope all people on earth today will enj...
...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...
... Government, a Special Case 36 Commercial Firms 37 HOW DO THEY MARKET? 38 Study Design 38 Results of the Study 39 THE CHANGE AGENT AS IDEA PRODU... ...Communication 71 Communication Effects 72 The Communication's Message 73 Message Design and the Law 74 SUMMARY 74 7 CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION IN ... ...S 78 Mass Media 78 INTERPERSONAL CHANNELS 81 THE CONSUMER'S PLACE IN "PLACE" 84 DESIGNING AND ORGANIZING THE CHANNEL 85 SUMMARY 86 8 SOCIAL MAR... ...ence 109 Personality 110 CONTRASTING PRODUCT BUYERS WITH IDEA ADOPTERS 112 Study Design 112 Survey Results 113 SUMMARY 115 CONCLUDING OBSERVATIO... ... the marketing of conventional goods and services, for which ideas are used in the design of promotional messages. In the very early stages of th... ...ttractive garments hanging on racks. Before arriving at the shop, these goods were designed, manufactured, packaged, wholesaled, delivered and price... ... four Ps subsume specific functions, some of which are listed below: Product Design Information Branding Packaging Classification a... ... manipulate the amount and direction of resource allocation for determining how to design the product, what price to charge, where to promote and how... ...roduct exchanged? See this chapter. 4. What must be decided about strategies for design, pricing, communication and distribution? See Chapters 4,...
...aravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open compet... ...uilt-in map, weather, stock, and e-mail capabilities. It was a technical and design triumph for Jobs, bringing the company into a market with an extra... ...ovation by others. So too with the Internet. Both were generative: they were designed to accept any contribution that followed a basic set of rules (e... ...al interest in accumulating subscribers. The framers of the Internet did not design their network with vi- sions of mainstream dominance. Instead, the... ...the pieces are in place for a wholesale shift away from the original chaotic design that has given rise to the modern information revolution. This co... ...vices were built around very different tech- nical and business models. Their designs were much easier to secure against il- legal behavior and securit... ...ange, he was wholly responsible for making sure the machines performed their designated tasks. 2 The tally was a success. It took only two and a half ... ...s bundled with the machine rental as part of IBM’s business model, which was designed to offer comprehensive computing solutions for the particular pro... ...e firms continued to rely on custom-built, externally maintained applications designed for specific purposes. Before unbundling, mainstream customers en...
...ativity; rather it is a clarification of it. It outlines an experimental design to test that clarification. It suggests that perhaps the only thing... ...at relativity in the light of current thinking. It is written at a level designed to appeal to the technically-savvy layman and amateur scientist. ... ...rly transoceanic navigators; those problems were finally solved by clocks designed and built in the particular tradition proven by John Harrison in ... ...e gods who would limit us. We actually brought the limit on ourselves by designing a ship in which the driving motor - the light source - stays at h... ...gineer Schelkunoff first broached this analogy in connection with antenna design.** Ciufolini & Wheeler called c "the characteristic speed of space... ... terms of Bessel functions see for example R. W. Landee et al, Electronic Designers' Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1957, section 5, pp. 27-32. See also th... ... See the TV movie LONGITUDE (A&E network) dealing with the impact of clock design on navigation. ... Or the related book REVOLUTION IN TIME by David ... ...ience-fiction stories are more fantasy than science. Starship Enterprise designs from Gene Roddenberry are highly esthetic but also highly impractic... ...peed up while we are still able. However, judging from actual spacecraft designs of today we may be much farther along than that; perhaps 5% of the...
...talistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...e. This makes most people both irrational and unpredictable. Either one cannot design an experiment to rigorously and validly test theorems and... ...peatability. Yet, many economists go as far as to argue that no experiments can be designed to test the statements of economic theories. It is di... ...xperiments may involve unpleasant experiences. This is ethically unacceptable. b. Design Problems - The design of experiments in economics is awkw... ...rd and difficult. Mistakes are often inevitable, however careful and meticulous the designer of the experiment is. c. The Psychological Uncertaint... ... Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) In a series of speeches designed to defend his record, Alan Greenspan, until recently an... ... market. The upstream firms specialize in the production of one input specifically designed for the production of one brand, but they also produce ... ...ote from the same issue of Risk Magazine: " 'Estimation risk' plagues even the best-designed risk management system. Firms must estimate risk and re... .... Satkar Gidda, Sales and Marketing Director for SiebertHead, a large UK packaging design house, was quoted in "The Financial Times" last week as s...
...hnologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Public... ...eself, to "brand" oneself and to auction one's services, ideas, products, designs, experience, physique, or biography, etc. directly to end-users and... ... The Honour System looks suspiciously similar to the payment system designed by Amazon for Stephen King's serialized e-novel, "The Plant". Int... ...went, it was a daring innovator and a pioneer of hyperlinked-like textual design. It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically a... ...nance and customer and visitor services. Despite these heavy outlays, site designers are constantly criticized for lack of creativity or for too much... ...merce and m-commerce systems, to deploy DOI). The DOI, in other words, is designed to be all-inclusive and all-pervasive. Each DOI number is made of... ... near past, no one considered knowledge or the fruits of creativity (art, design) as 'patentable', or as someone's 'property'. The artist was but a ... ...ine grace flowed. Texts, discoveries, inventions, works of art and music, designs - all belonged to the community and could be replicated freely. Tr... ...ntellectual property introduced but they were still limited to industrial designs and processes, mainly as embedded in machinery. The patent was born...
...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...
... creative efforts in the arts, which include graphic, editorial, and monument design as well as exhibition planning. • Artistic Awards include: The...
...of h is youth, that in mine opinion, his ambitious and haughty couragious designes, thought nothing so high as might interrupt them: who without goi... ...ne/1xix.htm (8 of 17)4/10/2005 3:33:11 AM Montaigne's Essays A man should designe nothing so long afore hand, or at least with such an intent, as to ... ...harides.' The greatest number of Philosophers are found to have either by designe prevented, or hastned and furthered their deaths. How many popular... ...om their maine groundwork, disorderly dispersed without any well- grounded designe and promise. I am not bound to make it good, nor without varying to... ...rs unto one that knowes not what be is to draw? No man makes any certaine designe of his life, and we deliberate of it but by parcels. A skilfull ar... ... is the only booke in the world of this kinde, and of a wilde extravagant designe. Moreover, there is nothing in it worthy the marking but this fant... ... To conclude, he never lookes into his owne businesse, but by a disposed, designed and as much as may be pleasing image, so contrived by such as are ... ...to talke of them and which seemeth to convince the conception and publike designs alike. I will have them to give Plutarch a bob upon mine own lips,... ...at discourseth of warre, or of a bare Scholler treating of Princes secret designes? If we shall but note the religion which the Romans had in that, ...
...ion of from whence came such a wondrous gift. Believers in intelligent design contend that the power of speech evolved through a process too comp... ...inting itself to historians of technology, and The combination of type design, layout, and lettering to schools of design. She complains that ... ...aler‘s help. Moore held a patent on a typewriter for newspapers that was designed to eliminate typesetting by hand. It didn‘t work, so he hired Merg... ...onstruct a better model. Mergenthaler worked for two years with Moore‘s design and developed a machine that stamped letters and words on cardboard... ...A terrible fire one night destroyed Mergenthaler‘s shop, including all his designs and models. Nevertheless, the twenty-three-year-old remained undau... ... be traced to cut matrices with no need for a punch-cutter's skills. Type design remains a pen and paper profession more than a century later. His... ...onsibility in exchange for a percentage of the anticipated profits. In designing his machine, however, Paige made two subtle but serious mistakes.... ...cent faster than the Linotype. How could he lose! Paige, however, had designed his machine to function like a human hand‘s motions. In doing so,... ...York: Basic Books, 1995. Petroski, Henry. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. New York: Knopf, 1990. Pinker, Steven. The La...
...ntion of from whence came such a wondrous gift. Believers in intelligent design contend that the power of speech evolved through a process too comp... ...inting itself to historians of technology, and The combination of type design, layout, and lettering to schools of design. She complains that o... ...haler‘s help. Moore held a patent on a typewriter for newspapers that was designed to eliminate typesetting by hand. It didn‘t work, so he hired Merg... ... construct a better model. Mergenthaler worked for two years with Moore‘s design and developed a machine that stamped letters and words on cardboard... ...A terrible fire one night destroyed Mergenthaler‘s shop, including all his designs and models. Nevertheless, the twenty-three-year-old remained undau... ... be traced to cut matrices with no need for a punch-cutter's skills. Type design remains a pen and paper profession more than a century later. Twa... ...sponsibility in exchange for a percentage of the anticipated profits. In designing his machine, however, Paige made two subtle but serious mistakes.... ...ercent faster than the Linotype. How could he lose! Paige, however, had designed his machine to function like a human hand‘s motions. In doing so,... ...York: Basic Books, 1995. Petroski, Henry. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. New York: Knopf, 1990. Pinker, Steven. The La...
... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...ree trade position was challenged," opines the red-top. American moral values are designed to "serve commercial capital". This blending of the spi... ...free marketry cum democracy, the West first assumed the role of the omniscient. It designed ingenious models, devised foolproof laws, imposed fail-... ... Contents! The Semi-failed State By: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The US State Department's designation of "rogue state" periodically falls in and out of fa... ... Pashtuns, that is, Afghans. The mentioning of Chechens, Uighurs and so on is more designed to satisfy the propaganda purposes of Russia and China.... ...xploit it for their own purposes. Q: Do you believe that the USA had long standing designs to conquer Afghanistan and used the September 11 atrocit... ...trocities as a pretext? A: I would rather say that somebody else had long standing designs for a major conflict in which it was necessary to get th... ...y's leverage is further limited by its chronic economic distress and its offensive designs to monopolize waterways shared by adjacent countries. ... ...leefully so. Israeli engineering firms, for instance, are heavily involved in the design and implementation of the regionally controversial Southe...
...d Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcis... ...suden, Serbia found itself once more entangled with the Austrians who had their own designs on Macedonia and Novi Pazar. The risk of losing Kosovo a... ...vine mission or divine plan to the political unit of the nation, a part of a grand design. The leader was the embodiment, the conveyor, the conduit... ...the conveyor, the conduit, the exclusive interpreter and the manifestation of this design (the Fuhrerprinzip). Proof of the existence of such a tra... ...ssolini's fascist Italy. They were worried by the latter's tendency to block German designs on Austria. In a region known for its indefinite histori... ...gression, infantilism and depersonalization. These, of course, are many of the same designations that Lasch employs to describe the culture of narci... ...mix with Christians, but rather live separately. For this reason, places have been designated for these according to ethnic group, either within th... ...tered. Causation is only one of many possible connections and chains of events. To designate a pattern of behavior as a mental health disorder is a... ...al health disorder is a value judgment, or at best a statistical observation. Such designation is effected regardless of the facts of brain science...
... exist”, then naming a discontinued function of life. “Nonexistentialism” designates the forced splitting of an individual’s personality imposed by a... ...matic, literary and political discourse, psycho- and biosemiotic matters, design, artificial intelligence, artistic and religious discourse. Like the... ...at pollutes in an absurd manner”). Being metalinguistic (signs, numbers, designs, drafts, graffiti, stains, etc.) and oriented toward its antirheto... ...bsence”, so that we can speak either of “paralinguistic verses” (graphic, design etc.), of “non-word verses” or a “non-intelligible intelligible lan... ... Then it follows the set of Poems in piricossanglais, (a phonematic word designating an “idiom spoken by a single speaker”: literal versic patterns... ... art on computer, between pop-art and the one of the infantile mannerism, design with casual lines. So, it is let free space for any “seen” improvisa... ...ce caprice specific to children’s dexterity; the doubling of sense in some designs finds ingenuous solutions in departing (having in memory the picas... ...enuous solutions in departing (having in memory the picassian cubism); the design on the computer exercises a well elaborated deconstructivism; “supe... ...; 33. Outer-Art (experimentation in paintings, drawings, drafts, computer design, collages, photos, paradoxist album of paintings and experimental d...
...l models of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as key elements in their design and implementation”. They simulate, via processes of selection,... ...ules, with preferential rules and secondary ones (priority order), in order to design a good expert system. One may add new rules and eliminate old ... ...Vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 1999. [67] Tribus M.,“Rational, Descriptions, Decisions and Designs”, Pergamon Press Inc., 1969 (French Transl.,“Decisions Rationn... ...s with the advantages of neural nets. In this paper, we have proposed and designed a NeuroFuzzy and Neutrosophic and control system for analysin... ...s been expressed as functions of t+1 and t-1. Equation (2.5) will lead to some designated path of optimization for only a special case when bt≠ dt a... ...wo absolute forms. i.e. being true or false. We have considered a Neutrosophic design for three states being T,I,F. We have an alternative approach ... ... and Neutrosophic system. 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and three state Design for the birth and death 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and thr... ... Design for the birth and death 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and three state Design for the birth and death 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and thr... ... Design for the birth and death 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and three state Design for the birth and death 3. Fuzzy and Neutrosophic rules and thr...
...s I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti -- Poisoned thorns in the line of march -- An immense ... ...ns for war -- Morgan becomes a captain and turns his attention towards Cuba -- Designs upon Puerto del Principe -- Landing of the pirates -- The Spani... ...ere known in the earliest times as Horites and Children of Anak, both of which designations have reference to their living in holes and caves. The Gre... ...s, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of whi... ... are repeatedly made to the islands by the names by which they were originally designated. THE COMMERCE OF TROY WITH INDIA. Troy is believed to have b... ... great many islands and countries, and giving names to them, but which fail to designate any present known lands. He also reports meeting with strange... ...his eyes, he begged that he might be buried there, and that his grave might be designated by two crosses, one at the foot and the other at the head, w... ...ship in which any one has been killed, for the killing, whether by accident or design, leaves a blood stain on the ship which can never be washed but,... ...ince is supposed to be the lower half of China proper, the upper portion being designated as Cathay proper. Up to the year 1269, Mangi was governed by...
...ey strive and fight and learn and climb and create and think and devise and design and conspire. Faced with a challenge – they are likely to do bet... ...redentist provocation" that was the renaming of the airport. Macedonia has designs on a part of Greece, Greek politicians claim with a straight fac... ...rents, from peers, and from role models. Narcissism is a defence mechanism designed to fend off hurt and danger brought on by circumstances – such ... ... circumstances, by repressing memories, or by simply lying. In the overall design of things, small setbacks and defeats matter little, says the nar... ...sequence, every thought of revolutionary calibre. He feels part of a grand design, a world plan and the frame of affiliation, the group, of which h...
...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...