Research and researcher implications in sustainable development projects: Muti-agent Systems (MAS) and Social Sciences applied to Senegalese examplesA new approach to problems of land allocation for livestock grazing, combining both computer science and social science tools has been developed since 1998 ...
(1992), the British philosopher Peter Carruthers argued that humans have moral obligations only to those beings who can participate in a hypotheticalsocial contract. The obvious difficulty with such an approach is that it proves too much: if humanity has no obligations to animals, then it also ...
I would use two-three hours to go through the first 30 minutes of this video – I use much deeper examples and interact with the students, have them come up with other examples and so on. The disruption part typically takes 1-2
In other examples, a study by UNICEF (2010a) found that in 18 out of 26 countries where the national under-five mortality rate has declined by 10% or more since 1990, the gap between the richest and poorest quintiles had either grown or remained unchanged. In another report (UNICEF, ...
Accessible for majors and non-majors alike, the book uses an intuitive approach that introduces concepts through examples drawn from common, real-life experiences to which students can relate. It also draws applications from readers' fields of interest. In addition, insightful Portfolios highlight ...
Examples are presented illustrating the students' strategies of language re-use in each section of the prototypical IMRD (Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion) structure of the genre of scientific research articles, along with the writers' justifications for such writing practices. It can be ...
This best-selling text is written for those who use, rather than develop, advanced statistical methods. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material rather than proving results. Helpful narrative and numerous examples enhance understanding, and a chapter on matrix algebra serves ...
(2), it provides examples of possible uses of corpora (parallel, comparable, learner) in the translation classroom and points out that building a corpus may in itself be a valid exercise in text analysis and documentation. Finally, (3), it considers the role (still rather marginal, but ...
The text contains many examples from the biological, computer, and social sciences, including disease screening, genome mapping, satellite communication, search engines, telecommunications traffic, web data, sound systems, oil drilling, dynamic labor markets, data mining, and distributed computing. It ...
Inductive logic is not scientific. The social sciences rely on inductive reasoning and thus are not considered scientific. There is an ongoing effort to blur the differences between pseudo-science, social sciences, and challenging, verifiable science. ...