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Altruism and Selfish Behavior. The Docility Model Revisited [PDF]
Herbert A. Simon is widely known for his studies on rationality, artificial intelligence and for his pioneering approach to organizational studies. In one of his latest works, he presented a theory of human interaction, focused on the conflict between ...
Secchi Davide
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Bridging the Gap: Student Voices on Recruitment and Retention in Ecology
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.Abstract Students entering ecology and environmental science face a variety of challenges, including limited awareness of career paths, lack of mentorship, and difficulties connecting with peers and faculty. These challenges are often amplified for students from marginalized backgrounds, who may also encounter microaggressions, underrepresentation, and
Alexis Ellis +9 more
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5. Social Darwinism Reconsidered
, 1958 Although the contemporary reaction to the implications of evolution was generally one of long-term optimism, an antithetical reaction did exist. Seen in stark terms, evolutionary theories were depressing to those who, on religious or humanitarian grounds,
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey +5 more
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Unitary realization of wavefunction collapse
, 2013 Recent quantum reconstruction projects demand pure unitary time evolution which seems to contradict the collapse postulate. A natural unitary realization of wavefunction collapse is built using Grothendick group construction for the tensor product ...
Moldoveanu, Florin
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God, Neo-Symbiosis, and the Unlearning of the Social Darwinist Narrative [PDF]
, 2012 The evidence for symbiosis as a mechanism in evolution suggests that nature is not only competitive in the Darwinist sense, but also inherently creative and cooperative. The author grounds the concept of God\'s transformative power within this scientific
Pawelek, Josh
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Quantum Darwinism in an Everyday Environment: Huge Redundancy in Scattered Photons
, 2010 We study quantum Darwinism--the redundant recording of information about the preferred states of a decohering system by its environment--for an object illuminated by a black body.
Riedel, C. Jess, Zurek, Wojciech H.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular supply chain management (CSCM) practices are seen as a solution for addressing society's many significant environmental challenges. Although existing studies recognise the importance of reverse engineering in combating poverty, there is limited knowledge about its effectiveness in shaping CSCM practices to address climate change and ...
Yaw Agyabeng‐Mensah +2 more
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Generalized Darwinism in evolutionary economics: the devil is in the details [PDF]
, 2007 Hodgson and Knudsen want their version of Generalized Darwinism to meet two /desiderata. /First, their formulation of Darwinism should be sufficiently general and abstract, so that it only refers to general, domain-unspecific features that processes of ...
Vromen, Jack
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