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Parts of the Whole: Quantitative Literacy on a Desert Island
Numeracy, 2015 Some of the specific institutional problems faced by quantitative reasoning courses, programs and requirements arise from the fragile intellectual position of “quantitative reasoning” as an idea, or meme.
Dorothy Wallace
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Organisational Memetics?: Organisational Learning as a Selection Process [PDF]
, 1995 Companies are not only systems created and controlled by those who manage them but also self-organising entities that evolve through learning. Whereas an organism is a creation of natural replicators, genes, an organisation can be seen as a product of an
Price, Ilfryn
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IET Optoelectronics, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.In this paper, we have reviewed six distinct metaheuristic optimisation algorithms applicable to challenging problems in electromagnetics and optics. Specifically, we applied each method to the synthesis of GMR narrowband reflection filters and performed a systematic comparative evaluation. ABSTRACT The design of optical elements often requires precise
Amirreza Asadollahzadeh +2 more
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Some issues concerning applications of naturalistic paradigm to the study of religion
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2014 Viewing religion as a product of evolution already has yielded a new and interesting hypotheses, which could help to integrate entire heritage of scientific study of religion. Nonetheless, there are some objections toward this program. First, despite the
Kinga Kowalczyk-Purol
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Internet Meme: Origin, Definition and Research Approaches
ДискурсIntroduction. The article analyzes various approaches to studying Internet memes as key elements of modern media communication. It highlights the need for a comprehensive description of memes, considering their continuous evolution.Methodology and ...
M. S. Sigaeva, N. V. Stepanova
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2005 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar a psicologia evolutiva, uma ciência que procura compreender a mente humana (cultural, social, histórica) como produto de processos biológicos e evolutivos, e a memética, uma teoria ainda incipiente que pretende ...
Ricardo Waizbort
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Multi-Level Modeling of Quotation Families Morphogenesis [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates cultural dynamics in social media by examining the proliferation and diversification of clearly-cut pieces of content: quoted texts. In line with the pioneering work of Leskovec et al. and Simmons et al.
Cointet, Jean-Philippe +2 more
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Multi‐neighborhood simulated annealing for the home healthcare routing and scheduling problem
International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 38-67, January 2026.Abstract Over time, the focus on supportive and geriatric care has shifted from being predominantly provided in institutional settings like nursing or rest homes to be delivered within the homes of the patients. Trained caregivers now provide home healthcare services by visiting patients in their own homes and carrying out specific services based on ...
Sara Ceschia +3 more
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A simheuristic‐based algorithm for the stochastic long‐term maintenance scheduling problem
International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 268-296, January 2026.Abstract This work addresses the problem of assigning preventive maintenance jobs in a 52‐week planning horizon. Given a set of machines that need preventive maintenance, a set of maintenance jobs in these machines, a set of work teams, and a planning horizon, the problem consists of assigning each job to a work team in a given instant of the planning ...
Diego G. Coelho +2 more
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Evolutionary Economics celebrates Innovation and Creativity based Economy\ud [PDF]
, 2008 The paper draws issue on the evolutionary economics that open our mind on seeing economy as growing and living organism with any characters of robustness, self-organization, adaptation, and evolution.
Situngkir, Hokky
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