Fact and Value in Emotion

David Hume famously claimed that one cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is,’ or in less poetic terms, one cannot derive a value from a fact. Hume was arguing that the imperatives given to our preferences, goals and actions are derived from emotion and not from logical reasoning. Emotion, therefore, had a prominent place in Hu -me’s thinking.

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THE PRINCE

His life falls naturally into three periods, each of which singularly enough constitutes a distinct and important era in the history of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Magnifico. The downfall of the Medici in Florence occurred in 1494, in which year Machiavelli entered the public service. During h…

Fundamentals of Construction Management

This book is based on a series of lecture notes used by the author for teaching the following subjects: Management of Building Projects (University of Lagos), Construction Management I & II (Caleb University, Lagos), and Construction Management (University of Cape Town) between 1996 and 2012. The book is also based on research undertaken and personal work experience of the author, and other con…

ACRN Finance and Risk Perspectives Series

VUCA, an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity has its origins in military operations. Influential speakers such as Alan Webber, former editor of Harvard Business Magazine and Fast Company, apply VUCA to describe today’s environment after the several crises that hit the markets during the last decade. Volatility has since risen enormously, traditional planning and …

COMPUTER-BASED MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM MODEL AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTIT…

Globalization and decentralization have given impact to all systems including the situation for qualified decision making at Higher Education (HE) Institution, therefore data or information from management information system (MIS) that run well is required. For this purpose, there are several things required: 1) MIS that adaptive, dynamic, integrative, comprehensive and strategic in supporting…

ADHD in Adults

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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION

The principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) provide a means for achieving quality in the construction process. The improvement of quality requires that every member of the organization embrace the principles of continuous improvement. Total Quality Management is a customer-oriented approach that stresses the effective use of people. Total Quality Management also emphasizes the appli…

The New World of Economics

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HEALTHY NUTRITION FOR CHILDREN IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

Nutrition is one of the most important factors in protecting and developing human health beginning from the pregnancy stage of the mother. Healthy, satisfactory and balanced nutrition is essential for everybody, especially for children, because nutritional habits that are made in our early ages turn out to be our lifetime habits. Infancy, childhood and adolescence periods, as being periods…

THE PROBLEM OF INTEREST IN ITS RELATION TO CURRENCY & DEBT

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Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPP and NPOESS Meteorological Satellites

(NPOESS) will serve civilian and defense needs for timely environmental data. These data notably support weather forecasting and "nowcasting," but, if appropriately calibrated and archived, they could support the examination of global change as well. The Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are the principal agencies responsible for NPOESS, but the N…

Communications and Governance

This guide introduces some of the best recent literature on the role of communications in governance. It highlights the major critical debates surrounding the relationship between communications, government accountability and responsiveness, and state-society relations in developing countries. It is intended primarily as a reference for policymakers, and highlights practical guidance, lesson…

Disaster risk reduction,climate change adaptation and environmental migration

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The Ultimate Student & Graduate Handbook

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Theory of Literature

We must first make a distinction between literature and literary study. The two are distinct activities: one is creative, an art j the other, if not precisely a science, is a species of knowledge or of learning. There have been attempts, of course, to obliterate this distinction. For instance, it has been argued that one cannot understand literature unless one writes it, that one cannot and …

Microeconomics

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MANAGING RISK AND CREATING VALUE WITH MICRO FINANCE

when World Bank staff members meet with representatives of a country’s microfi nance sector, microfi nance institution (MFI) managers often assume that they will receive some kind of new fi nancing—credit lines, guarantees, or grants—to support their development eff orts. Th ey do not expect the Bank to provide technical assistance or best-practice information. More recently, however,…

Collected Leaflets on Insect Pests of Fruit Trees

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Washington's Life And Military Career

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Creating Business Agility

Evenasthesestageshaveprogressedrapidlyoverthepast20years, the enabling technologies have changed more quickly. Information technology (IT) evolution is now measured in terms of “Internet time” as fourth-generation hardware, software, and network system technologies are deployed. Ubiquitous access to information at any time, in anyplace, andin any wayis expectedas aroutine practicethat provi…

The Theory Of Waves In Metal

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Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone

Animation has been an important part of the Mac OS X user interface since the beginning. You’ve probably seen the Genie effect so many times that you hardly notice it anymore. But I still remember the first time I saw a QuickTime movie being minimized via Genie. The movie kept playing as the window shrank and distorted onto the Dock. That knocked my socks off. Or how about the first time yo…

Confessions of an IT Manager

During my career as an IT professional, strange things have always seemed to happen to me. The true incidents I describe in the chapters that lie ahead are those that are intended to illustrate a point about working in IT. There are many such incidents that I cannot talk about because, in doing so, I would reveal my true identity. Many cannot be used because they are unrelated to the themes of …

Concepts in Spin Electronics

Nowadays information technology is based on semiconductor and ferromagnetic materials. Information processing and computation are performed using electron charge by semiconductor transistors and integrated circuits, but on the other hand the information is stored on magnetic high-density hard disks by electron spins. Recently, a new branch of physics and nanotechnology, called magneto- electron…

JUDICIAL PROCESS

This course will provide students with a working knowledge of courts and judicial process in the U.S. We will (broadly) review institutional features of courts at both the federal and state levels, and we will review processes surrounding both trial and appellate court litigation in both the criminal and civil contexts. Finally, we will study key actors in the judicial process, including liti…

Network Security: A Beginner’s Guide

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MONETARY POLICY IN THE UK

We argue in this contribution that the institutional dimension of the Bank of England (BoE) monetary policy and the role the UK HM Treasury assumes in this framework are both firmly based on the New Consensus in Macroeconomics (NCM), a theoretical framework upon which also the Inflation Targeting policy element is firmly based. This paper discusses these aspects of the UK monetary policy, a…

Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology

In the 20th century, new information technology has the potential to influence the lives of ordinary citizens as much as it has influenced business, edu- cation, and government. In many of the countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, the majority of individuals and households are using personal computers, the Internet, and mobile telephones. In the United States, this equipment is often re…

Revisiting the Asian Financial Crisis

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 is now seen as one of the most significant economic events in recent world history. The crisis began in early July 1997, when the Thai baht was floated, and spread into a virulent contagion—leaping from Thailand to South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. It led to severe currency depreciations and an economic recession that threatened to er…