John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
Bus transportation is the essential mode of public transportation available for intra-district movements in India. The planning of different stages of bus transportation planning is usually done in an ad-hoc manner on the basis...
Israel, since its declaration of independence, has taken a realist perspective in its foreign policy. Yet, despite the offensive realist nature of its foreign policy, it suffered a near defeat in the Yom Kippur War in 1973....
The healthcare industry has a growing record of using big data-related technologies such as data analytics, internet of things, and machine learning, especially in the clinical areas. However, healthcare institutions must also...
Intersectional approaches are often called upon in social work education and practice to conceptualize identities (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, etc.) and forms of oppression and privilege (racism, sexism...
The use of data analytics of all kinds is making inroads into almost all industries. There are many studies that explore the usefulness and organizational benefits of these tools. However, there has been relatively little...
Facebook use has implications for subjective well-being. Previous research has revealed that passive Facebook use is typically related to deficits in subjective well-being, which is thought to be linked through upward social...
The development of vaccines has been one of the most important medical and pharmacological breakthroughs in the history of the world. Besides saving untold lives, they have enabled the human race to live and thrive in conditions...
The paper reviews links between Bernard Lonergan's theory of innovative economic growth and cycles, and the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter. They were contemporary economists, who remain...
The reach here is for relevant guidelines to the search for a meaning to the word credit and to the activity of credit-giving. It draws on the work of Joseph Schumpeter on norms of constructive credit in relation to economic...
Machine learning models and algorithms have been employed in various applications, from prognostic scrutinizing, learning and revealing patterns in data, knowledge extracting, and knowledge deducing. One promising...
Blockchain, since its 2008 conceptual inception, has largely been contextualized in crypto currencies. Today, blockchain technology has matured to a level that allows the exploration of its application to other and diverse...
Cultural references contribute immensely to the communicative, the aesthetic, and the unique values of any discourse. Their adequate translation is crucial to correct interpretation and appreciation of texts. Lack of assessment...
This article examined the historical evolution of organization and management theories and their applicability to practice in modern enterprise. Management and organizational theories each add something to the awareness of what...
A fundamental challenge for scholars and practitioners of organization and management is the integration of theoretical ethics with practical decision-making. This article discusses the historical evolution of ethics in...
In this chapter, the author looks back at his life as a child growing up among a Bantu-speaking society in which life is guided by Ubuntu values. Ubuntu refers to a philosophy that teaches the interconnectedness of humans and...
Two new translations of Schelling and a classic piece of German Schelling scholarship have appeared in succession in the past three years. In 2018, a translation of Walter Kasper’s seminal 1964 study, The Absolute in History...
The efforts of the United States government in the past 15 years have included harnessing the power of health information technology (HIT) to improve legibility, lessen medical errors, keep costs low, and elevate the quality of...
This article examines the domestic legislative responses of three of the five social-democratic Nordic states: Norway, Sweden, and Finland. This exploratory study attempts to answer the question: Why do the social-democratic...
Replacing older homes with new ones constructed to higher efficiency standards is one way to raise the operating efficiency of building stocks. However, new buildings require large amounts of embodied energy to construct, and it...
With the advent of Web 2.0, the public is becoming increasingly interested in spatial data exploration. The potential for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to be adopted for passive disease surveillance and mediated...
With the problems of neonatal survival and aging of the population becoming increasingly serious, the voice that longs for a new model of the medical industry is pushed to the limelight in the society. Gradually, a neologism...
A common model used in addressing today's overwhelming amounts of data is the OLAP Cube. The OLAP community has proposed several cube algebras, although a standard has still not been nominated. This study focuses on a recent...