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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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The Thayer Method: Student Active Learning with Positive Results [PDF]
, 2000 Graduation from West Point requires successful completion of four courses in the mathematical sciences. These core mathematics courses include topics in discrete dynamical systems, differential and integral calculus (single variable and multivariable ...
Connors, E.
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling – a community‐based free‐item sharing pro‐environmental behaviour. It also explored the role of societal factors in relation to participation in freecycling, as well as how they are associated with these relationships.
Algae K. Y. Au +2 more
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Can Parental Love and Harm Coexist? The Perceptions of Child Protective Social Workers in Israel
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the undeniable significance of love in parent–child relationships, there is a gap in empirical research on this topic. Love's mythological, abstract and subjective nature complicates its academic investigation, often overshadowed by the presumption of its universal presence.
Ayelet Guy Menashe +2 more
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, 2014 How do we allocate scarcere sources? How do we fairly allocate costs? These are two pressing challenges facing society today. I discuss two recent projects at NICTA concerning resource and cost allocation. In the first, we have been working with FoodBank
D. Abraham +25 more
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When and why to give shorebirds a head start
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Headstarting is a translocation technique involving the hatching or rearing of wild eggs or young in captivity and the release of those individuals back to the wild at or before independence. It has been trialed as a conservation intervention for shorebirds over recent decades to improve the population trend of target populations by increasing
Lynda Donaldson +4 more
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(WP 2014-03) Bounded Rationality and Bounded Individuality [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues that since the utility function conception of the individual is derived from standard rationality theory, the view that rationality is bounded suggests that individuality should also be seen as bounded.
Davis, John B.
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Assessing the Complexity of a Recovered Design and its Potential Redesign Alternatives [PDF]
, 2009 Organised by: Cranfield UniversityReverse engineering techniques are applied to generate a part model where there is no existing documentation or it is no longer up to date.
ElMaraghy, W. H., Urbanic, R. J.
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Culture – Educational Paradigm Shift Learning Methodologies Derived from Axiomatic Design Principle
Procedia CIRP, 2016 AbstractTeacher-centered learning pedagogy is a passive approach but most standard practices in many engineering courses than the active approach that is student-centered learning pedagogy. For a country like Papua New Guinea which is rich in culture diversity, the social structure or group identity forms the lines of conflict affecting teacher or ...
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