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This book consists of 6 papers focusing on social and economic issues. The topics covered include graph distance and optimal communication, migration in Jaipur, urbanization, clan capitalism, world population growth rate, and scientific inquiry. These papers were written in the period between 2009-2010. Hopefully the readers will find some new insights in this collection of papers....

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In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the literature which discusses new phenomenon associated to social network. One of the well-known phenomenon in this regards is known as ‘six degrees of separation’ [1], which implies that one can always keep a communication with each other anywhere within a six-step. A number of experiments has verified this hypothesis, either in the context of offline communication (postal mail), or online communication (email, etc.). In this article, we argue that by introducing this known ‘six degrees of separation’ into the context of group instability problem, one can find a new type of wisdom in organization. Therefore, we offer a new conjecture, which may be called ‘Group stability conjectures based on Graph/Network distance.”...

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This book, Guidelines for Command, is the result of countless hours of research and contains the collective thoughts and lessons learned from many previous commanders. It has a wealth of information to assist you during your tenure as a commander. Use it in conjunction with your personal leadership skills, your base’s subject-matter experts, and your fellow commanders to lead our Airmen to new heights....

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The authors in this book have analyzed the socio-economic and psychological problems faced by People with Disabilities (PWDs) and their families. The study was made by collecting data using both fuzzy linguistic questionnaire by interviews in case they are not literates from 2,15,811 lakhs people. This data was collected using the five Non Government Organizations (NGOs) from northern Tamil Nadu....

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The main objective of this was to understand the basic psychological and social problems faced by the PWDs and their caretakers. To interpret the collected data, tabulations and analysis were made. Efforts were made to highlight the inferences in each table and in few places comments were made in order to use it for fuzzy analysis. Following is the list of organizations and the total population from 5 blocks is listed below....

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Preface 6 Chapter One INTRODUCTION TO BASIC CONCEPTS 11 Chapter Two ANALYSIS OF THE COLLECTED DATA OF THE PWDS FROM MELMALAYANUR AND KURINJI PADI BLOCKS IN TAMIL NADU 13 Chapter Three THE NEW FUZZY COGNITIVE RELATIONAL MAPS (FCRMS) BIMODEL 29 Chapter Four ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO ECONOMIC PROBLEMS FACED BY THE PWDS USING (SFCMS) 47 4.1 Application of FCMs Models to Social and Psychological Problems 48 4.2 Expert Opinion of PWDs using Special FCMs to Analyse the Problem of PWDs 50 4.3 The Expert Opinion of the caretakers of the PWDs using SFCM 59 4.4 The Expert Opinion of the NGOs working with the PWDs using Special FCM Model 62 Chapter Five THE STUDY OF INTERRELATED PROBLEMS FACED BY THE PWDS AND THE CARE TAKERS 73 5.1 Introduction 73 5.2 Experts Opinion from a Public Person Living in Melmalayanur Block 77 5.3 Expert Opinion of PWDs using FRMs 84 5.4 Expert Opinion of Caretakers of the PWDs using FRM 87 5.5 Expert Opinion of the NGOs working with the PWDs using the FRM model 93 Chapter Six ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS OF RURAL PWDs USING THE NEW FCRM BIMODEL 99 6.1 Expert Opinion of the Caretaker and a PWD using the ...

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In his programmatic and data-laden tome, "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" (2014), Thomas Piketty makes several assertions, two of which merit a closer look: (1) That r (the return on capital) is, in the long-run always greater than g (the growth of the real economy), thus enriching the rich; and (2) that inherited wealth tends to create a "patrimonial" form of capitalism, akin to the aristocracy in the French and British ancient regimes. Putting aside the somewhat artificial and dubious distinction between the "real" and the financial economy, r and g are apples and oranges and cannot be compared. Economic growth (g) is not the return on the real economy in the same way that r is the return on capital and its assets. R is intended to compensate for a panoply of risks and is comparable to the wave function in Quantum Mechanics: it incorporates all the publicly and privately available information about future uncertainties and provides a distribution function of all plausible scenarios. Put simply: subject to political and market vicissitudes, capital can vanish overnight. Not so the real economy: it is always there, regardle...

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Contents Chapter Page BOARD OF REVIEWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi A Perspective from the Commander in Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Barack H. Obama SECTION I: RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION 1 Religion in the Military: Finding the Proper Balance . . . . . . . . 15 Barry W. Lynn 2 Burning Bibles and Censoring Prayers: Is That Defending Our Constitution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Gordon James Klingenschmitt 3 The Need for (More) New Guidance Regarding Religious Expression in the Air Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Paula M. Grant 4 The One True Religion in the Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 James E. Parco and Barry S. Fagin 5 Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chris Rodda 6 Religious...

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Tania wants to give mama a birthday gift. But she does not get any pocket money yet. She can't buy anything. So she decides to make something. But what should she make? Tania has an idea! It is a good idea. But is making a gift as easy as she thinks it is? Read on to find out....

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Visit www.ReadItLoud.org to access fantastic reading material and more videos. Today, his name is a household word. His most recent venture is, Chip & Cookie, a retail store, on Oahu, in Kailua Town, Hawaii and an e-Commerce business featuring five flavors of cookies and two chocolate chip cookie plush character dolls, Chip & Cookie, created by Christine Harris-Amos. Wally & Christine founded the Chip & Cookie Read Aloud Foundation in 2005 urging parents and caregivers to read aloud to children for at least 10 minutes each day. Ten percent of the net profits realized by Chip & Cookie LLC will benefit the foundation, an IRS (501)(3C), to support its efforts to promote Children's Literacy. In August 2006, using Savannah as their pilot city, they launched Read It Loud! Savannah. In 1994 he co-founded the Uncle Wally's Muffin Company which produces a full line of muffins. As founder of Famous Amos Cookies in 1975 and father of the gourmet chocolate chip cookie industry, he has used his fame to support educational causes. Wally was National Spokesman for Literacy Volunteers of America from 1979 until 2002 when they merged with Laubac...

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Some 2500 years ago in ancient Northeast India, a young, brilliant and courageous man discovered the sublime answer to how the mind works and how to realise unconditioned happiness and bliss. For the next 45 years, he devoted his life to teaching the doctrine that helped bring unparalleled happiness, peace and relief to numerous people long after his death. In time stories began to emerge proclaiming his greatness and his near-divinity status. Over generations and into distant lands, those stories took on a life of their own. Eventually the real man is buried under a mountain of beautiful fantasies and magical tales. Scholars in Buddhist studies have never lost sight of the historical Buddha. There is a beautiful story to tell about the real man but the materials never quite made it to the mass market because academic books are generally hard to read and appreciate. This book seeks to bring the historical Buddha back into the popular psyche. That story is as intriguing, and is perhaps even more inspiring than the best fantasy story that had ever been woven....

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“Go now and wander for the welfare and happiness of many, out of compassion for the world, for the benefit, welfare and happiness of gods and men. Teach the Dhamma that is good in the beginning, good in the middle and good in the end, with the meaning and the letter. Explain a holy life that is utterly perfect and pure. There are beings with little dust in their eyes who will be lost through not hearing the Dhamma. Some will understand the Dhamma.”...

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Abbreviations for Pali Canon texts | i Map | ii Author’s request | iii Foreword | ix Life as a Layman | 1 From Home to Homelessness | 29 Enlightenment: Nibbana! Release! | 55 Legend of the Seven Weeks | 89 Unveiling Dhamma | 119 Spreading Dhamma |135 Reaching Out to the Lay Community | 159 Buddha's Foremost Lieutenants | 175 Return to Kapilavatthu |193 Glossary |229...

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The Read it LOUD! Foundation is a non-profit 501©3 organization started by Wally Amos, focusing on the profound positive impact that reading out loud has on children, their ability to read, their desire to imagine and their life-long love of learning. We challenge families to read out loud together at least 10 minutes a day to ensure their children have the best possible chance for a promising future....

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Our Mission: To help close the literacy gap by motivating families to read out loud every day together, for at least 10 minutes

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A National Campaign The Read it LOUD! Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(C))(3) with the purpose of supporting all children’s literacy education. Working nationally, the foundation’s sole purpose is to have over 1,000,000 parents reading aloud to their children each day, creating a supporting, nurturing, and caring home and community environments....

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A National Campaign The Read it LOUD! Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(C))(3) with the purpose of supporting all children’s literacy education. Working nationally, the foundation’s sole purpose is to have over 1,000,000 parents reading aloud to their children each day, creating a supporting, nurturing, and caring home and community environments....

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Collation of social, economic, technological and cultural research conducted in the Thailand highlands in the 1970s.

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

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PositiveSolutions.TV is a personal and authentic report based on a true story and a portrait of a culture that could be described a New Age Renaissance. The story is being narrated by Thom Glyder who is a semi-fictional character that came to existence through symbiosis and the mutual work of the artist tms with Lynnette and Gary Gley, the creators of the TV Show POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES. As the events unfold we are being taken into the bohemian world of living in the mountains of Santa Barbara on the Central Cast of California. Positioned and defined as a Edutainment project we are learning about elements of Functional and Sustainable Design, Art, Music and MultiMedia, Interpersonal Relationships, even Animal welfare Topics and the transformation from the Analogue into the Digital Age. PositiveSolutions.TV is intended to be a platform to further communication for improvement. The current introduction is constructed around the website www.positivesolutions.tv as well as this book which is available for digital download and in a printed version and will extend into a series of publications to further explore special inter...

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CHAPTER 1 – THE END IS THE BEGINNING CHAPTER 2 – A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVE CHAPTER 3 – HOW IT ALL CAME TOGETHER WITH FOREWORD BY TMS INTRODUCTION BY THOM GLYDER...

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Aloha Counts Census 2000 Special Tabulations for Native Hawaiians Pauahi Publications Honolulu 2003

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The Policy Analysis & System Evaluation (PASE) group at Kamehameha Schools is honored to release Aloha Counts: Census 2000 Special Tabulations for Native Hawaiians through Pauahi Publications. These data, compiled by PASE with the help of the U.S. Census Bureau, include selected measures of demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics, similar in format to the Demographic Profile data products published by the Census Bureau....

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Acknowledgments -- vii -- Introduction -- ix -- User's Guide -- xi -- State of Hawaii Summary Tables -- 3 -- Island of Hawaii -- 9 -- East Hawaii District -- 15 -- Hilo High School Complex -- 19 -- Kau High School Complex -- 23 -- Keaau High School Complex -- 27 -- Laupahoehoe High School Complex -- 31 -- Pahoa High School Complex -- 35 -- Waiakea High School Complex -- 39 -- West Hawaii District -- 45 -- Honokaa High School Complex -- 49 -- Kealakehe High School Complex -- 53 -- Kohala High School Complex -- 57 -- Konawaena High School Complex -- 61 -- Island of Kauai -- 67 -- Kauai District -- 73 -- Kapaa High School Complex -- 77 -- Kauai High School Complex -- 81 -- Waimea High School Complex -- 85 -- Island of Lanai -- 91 -- Lanai District -- 97 -- Lanai High School Complex -- 101 -- Island of Maui -- 107 -- Maui District -- 113 -- Baldwin High School Complex -- 117 -- Hana High School Complex -- 121 -- Kekaulike High School Complex -- 125 -- Lahainaluna High School Complex -- 129 -- Maui High School Complex -- 133 -- Island of Molokai -- 139 -- Molokai District -- 145 -- Molokai High School Complex -- 149 -- Island of Niihau -...

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LiveCareer wants to help make this the year you land the job you want. Our eBook is packed with helpful hints and expert tips that can give you the edge you need to succeed in 2015!...

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How to impress employers, get hired faster and make more money

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How to Win the Job in 2015 3 The Worst Jobs of 2014, The Best Jobs of ‘15 & Cities that Are Ready to Take Off 4 Clean Up Your Act! Social Networks & Your Personal Brand 7 Get Hired Faster! Tap Into Your Network 9 Stand Out from the Crowd: How to Optimize Your Resume for Search Engines 11 Are You Qualified? The Skills You MUST Include in Your Resume 13 Volunteer Work Is More Important than Ever 15 Your Resume is #1 in 2015: How to Make It Great 17 The New Rules: Writing Your Cover Letter 19 Five Interview Tips You've Never Heard Before 21 Your Job Apps Are Done! What’s Next? 23...

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Why is this work so important? Most "modern" Anglo-Saxon authors cite Brodmann's 1909 work "Die Lokalisationslehre" for any reference to localization in the neocortex. However, during my own studies I found that sadly lacking in detail. For example, it contains only about 12 pages dedicated to the human neocortex. Von Economo and Koskinas apparently also felt this lack, as they wrote "Unfortunately, BRODMANN has given no description of the architectonics of this area, but has only listed the borders of his Areae, without one word about the cellular structure, and thus without having justified his tiling." (p. 693). Their own work is even today by far the most detailed cytoarchitectonic description of human neocortical areas, their features and their borders. The authors also include extensive discussions of all prior research on each area, revealing that the "old masters" knew very much which in the intervening decades has been forgotten and sometimes "re-discovered."...

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"If we submit this book to the public after a laborious, long work of one dozen years - the work was begun by Professor V. ECONOMO in the year 1912; 1919 Dr. KOSKINAS entered into the cooperation - this does not happen with the joyful satisfaction of having created something consummate. Only an artist can possess this feeling of having created something entirely of himself. Each scientific work however - however much new it brings - rests on the groundwork of whole generations and can be tested only through the work of later generations. In a certain sense those few researchers are enviable who with increased self-esteem overlook this fact, and feel the beginning and end of all of their knowledge is a product of their own examinations. However, every scientific work is always only a part of a total, only a stone; however, sometimes a cornerstone of that wall, which constantly builds the intellectual culture in the course of civilizations to protect itself from the enmity of superstition, ignorance and primitive instincts."...

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General part. Chapter 1. Introductory remarks. Chapter 2. General remarks on the cortex and its neurons. Chapter 3. Structure and development of the cortical lamellae. Chapter 4. Details of the composition and meaning of the lamellar cortex structure. Chapter 5. Area division of the cortex. Chapter 6. Methodology. Specific part. Description the individual areas of the cerebral cortex. Chapter 7. The frontal lobe. (Lobus frontalis) Chapter 8. Lobus limbicus superior. Chapter 9. Lobus insulae. Chapter 10. Lobus parietalis. Chapter 11. Lobus occipitalis. Chapter 12. Lobus temporalis. Chapter 13. Lobus limbicus inferior. Chapter 14. Final remarks....

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This essay explains what asset bubbles are, how they are created, and why asset bubbles are always the outcome of govrernment policies and never the result of free market forces....

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The World Public Library Association is the world’s largest aggregator of eBooks. Founded in 1996, the World Public Library Association is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works in a number of languages and countries around the world. World Public Library is a IRC 501(c)(4) Organization, organized Not for profit, but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. Our mission is to serve and aid the public, students, and educators, by providing the world's most complete collection of electronic books, documents, and articles online, as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post-baccalaureate studies. Access to the complete holdings of the World Public Library is open to the general public for personal use, members receive an eLibrary Card allowing them unlimited accessto our complete holdings....

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Franklin D. Roosevelt - “The public library is a nation’s act of believing in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgement in creating their own future.” The traditional library is changing, fast. Paper books,and the multi-level structures that house them, are becoming a thing of the past while digital books, eBooks, pave the way for a new future of instant, worldwide accessibility to knowledge. The World Public Library is at the forefront of this movement. I. History A. Purpose of the Library 1. Origins Hi, I’m Mia with the World Public Library and I would like to invite you on a journey through the library’s past present and future. Along the way we will explore what has made the library such a unique and important place historically and what the World Public Library is doing today to make the library more useful and vital than ever before. It’s impossible to think about the progress mankind has made without calculating the role that the library has played. Any city that has had a great impact on learning has had a great library behind it, fu...

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Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions....