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Globalization, religious fundamentalism and the need for meaning
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2008Abstract Globalization may well be the meta-context of our time. This paper seeks to enhance a theoretical understanding of the relationship between globalization and religious fundamentalism. Previous papers [Salzman, M. (2001). Globalization, culture & anxiety. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 10(4): 337–352; Salzman, M.
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Do You Need God for Meaning and Purpose?
Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 2016While mainstream opinions and some scholarship suggests that we need God for a sense of meaning and purpose, this article proposes an alternative thesis. By digging into the data, it demonstrates how religious contexts provide the kind of atmosphere conducive to the development of meaning and purpose.
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So We Need Something Else for Reason to Mean
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2000In this paper I give considerable attention to Richard Rorty's attempt to make plausible a conception of non-rational semantic and cultural change - change which Rorty insists on describing as identical with progress - in order to show the extent to which this attempt is compromised from the start by an unjustifiably narrow and inconsistent view of ...
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The meaning of dreams: the need for a standardized dream report
Psychiatry Research, 1984One way to study dream function is to use dream content as an independent variable. Erroneous or inconstant definition of the dream content, however, would undermine its use as a predictor. This study describes a dream interview technique that allows assessment and control of the distorting effect from using, in addition to a single report of manifest ...
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Mean Reversion in CO2 Emissions: the Need for Structural Change
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020This paper examines stochastic convergence of national and relative per capita CO2 emissions for a wide range of nations. It demonstrates that nearly all series are mean-reverting once allowance is made for non-linearity and the presence of serial correlation.
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Need for Mean Reversion in Forecasting Emerging Market Exchange Rates
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014A lot of research has been done over the past few decades for arriving at the models which can accurately estimate the exchange rates for currencies. Various approaches including time series analysis, macro-economic factors analysis, analysis using vector algebra and stochastic processes have been considered to estimate the exchange rates.
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The Need, Meaning and Usefulness of Meteorological Observations for Aviation
1970Moderator Kraght summarized the progress of commercial aviation in the past 33 years. Weather problems continue to plague the airlines, although different weather parameters now cause the greatest difficulties. Aircraft icing is not the serious problem to jet transports that it is to propeller craft.
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Onconephrology: The intersections between the kidney and cancer
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021, Kenar D Jhaveri, Mark A Perazella
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