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...n a true story and a portrait of a culture that could be described a New Age Renaissance. The story is being narrated by Thom Glyder who is a semi-fictional character that came to existence through symbiosis and the mutual work of the artist tms with Lynnette and Gary Gley, the creators of the TV Show POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES. As the events unfold we are being taken int...

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............. 181 Parenting techniques ................................................................................................ 184 1—Follow a non-didactic path to teaching important life skills ...................... 184 2—Instill a sense of the need for substantive philanthropy—helping others .. 186 3—Working for yourself is more rewarding than brokering for oth...

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...ublishes original research papers and survey articles in all aspects of Smarandache multi-spaces, Smarandache geometries, mathematical combinatorics, non-euclidean geometry and topology and their applications to other sciences. Topics in detail to be covered are: Smarandache multi-spaces with applications to other sciences, such as those of algebraic multi-systems, multi-...

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...published paper (1985) that lists words probably from Greek (mostly in the New Testament), Hebrew (mostly in the Old Testament), and Latin (mostly of non-Hawaiian animals and terms for Christian services). We found that the meanings of Hawaiian words in the King James Version (KJV) differed considerably from those in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of 1946–1952 (Old Te...

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...r’s model with the ignorant source . . 100 3.7.3 Example 3: Shafer’s model with a probabilistic source . 102 3.7.4 Example 4: Shafer’s model with a non-Bayesian mass . 103 3.7.5 Example 5: Free DSm model . . . . . . 103 3.8 Examples on a 3D frame . . . . . . . . 111 3.8.1 Example 6: Shafer’s model with a non-Bayesian mass . 111 3.8.2 Example 7: Shafer’s model with an...

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... . . . . . . 92 3.3.3 The DSm rules of combination . . . . . . . 93 3.4 A generalization of Dempster’s rule . . . . . . . 94 3.4.1 The generalized non-normalized conjunctive rule . . . . . 95 3.4.2 The generalized Dempster’s rule . . . . . . . 95 3.5 A generalization of Yager’s rule . . . . . . . 96 3.6 A generalization of Dubois-Prade’s rule . . . . . . . 97 3.7 A ...

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...hybrid DSm model with another exclusivity constraint . . . 67 4.4.5 Example 4 : Shafer’s model . . . . 67 4.4.6 Example 5 : hybrid DSm model with a non-existential constraint . . . 68 4.4.7 Example 6 : hybrid DSm model with two non-existential constraints . . . 68 4.4.8 Example 7 : hybrid DSm model with a mixed constraint . . . 69 4.5 DSm rule of combination for hybri...