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...es of counterinsurgency, this study addresses how insurgent warfare is fundamentally different from conventional wars, develops lessons from two case studies, highlights the challenges that US airmen face, and examines the adequacy of Air Force and Joint doctrine for counterinsurgency operations....

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...Kamehameha Schools Press is pleased to present the 1992 edition of Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture by noted Hawaiian studies scholar Dr. Donald Kilolani Mitchell. This updated edition is the eighth printing of a book which, over the last three decades, has become an important reference for teachers and students of Hawaiian culture.The book ...

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...Many of the praiseworthy cultural accomplishments of the Hawaiian people are examined and discussed in these units. Described here are the unusual as well as the everyday features of this remarkable civilization that flourished with vigor and efficie...

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...e public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, an...

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... 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An... ...en an inspi- ration to mine. Arti Rai’s remarkable theoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to ... ... a fact not to be taken for granted. Why not use this mechanism to meet your cultural and innovation needs? If people need Madame Bovary or The New Yo... ... the people who actually read, or listen to, or watch the stuff. This is our cultural policy and it is driven, in part, by copyright. The promise of p... ...ormation marketplace. Copyright law is supposed to give us a self-regulating cultural policy in which the right to exclude others from one’s original ... ...emand. At its best, it is supposed to allow a decentralized and iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can... ...lace, easy and cheap access to information, de- centralized and iconoclastic cultural production, self-correcting innovation policy? Often it does, bu... ...nomically efficient—fewer people end up with music they do not like. 28 Other studies, by contrast, support the record company position—suggesting that... ...e, the record companies did not want to engage in a war of dueling empirical studies. So, if Napster’s users were not infringing copyright law in the ...

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...nce with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native ...

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...n writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist an... ...ism and paradox has continued after this date with monographic works, essays, studies, articles etc., from which we will cite or mention further on. ... ...es etc., from which we will cite or mention further on. The majority of these studies and articles appreciate unreservedly the originality and the va... ... the notion of “paradoxism” recalls, indeed, the “paradox”. Hence a series of studies, many of them substantial and valid, well-intentioned and usef... ... here on the two real phenomena, founder and movement, because many books and studies have already been written about( see the Bibliography). One ... ... the author: beings and things, daily incidents and great events- politic and cultural ones, famous personalities and anonymous people - everything ... ...ersonalities his irreverence reaches the iconoclasty, as regards the literary- cultural ones it is felt the deference. Only a masked familiarism (a l... ...lexandru Cioranescu, Ion Barbu. Monogafie, Ion Barbu. Monography, ed.Fundatia Culturala Romana, Bucuresti, 1996, p.5. 2.Dinu Flamind, Postfata la “... ...nescu, Alexandru, Ion Barbu- Monografie, Ion Barbu- Monography, ed. Fundatiei Culturale Romane, Bucuresti, 1996. 7. Constantinescu, Mihaela, Forme ...

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...Beginning with the common origins of Southeast Asia’s peoples and languages, their shared heritage is emphasized through agricultural, archeological, cultural, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious and technological fields. Perennially defined by rice, stability and commerce, Southeast Asia has evolved a common trading ethic and morality influenced by China and I...

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...text, the term ‘migration’ refers to the ‘permanent or semipermanent change in the residence of an individual person or group of people.’ Traditional studies classify migrants under two broad heads: voluntary migrants and involuntary migrants....

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.../AIDS infected migrant labourers so that people from different social and cultural backgrounds follow our analysis. The last chapter gives suggestio... ...n the residence of an individual person or group of people.’ Traditional studies classify migrants under two broad heads: voluntary migrants and in... ...ion. Difference in status between men and women, supported by social and cultural systems make it difficult for women to take preventive and safe-s... ...re this with the resultant vector given by A in pages 42 to 50. Similar studies using the C –program is carried out. Now we use the attributes P ... ...s or feelings of different nodes; but it is unfortunate that in all these studies the concept of indeterminacy was never given any place, so in this... ...ere by poverty, no road facility (that is even to send their children for studies to neigbouring school) living conditions is poor and government u... ... astray and consequent behavioural change. j. Absence of moral, ethical/cultural values of life. k. Availability of CSWs for paltry rates. l. Aft... ...t of the present day youngsters are aping it. So, they must be taught our cultural values. Yet, this must not be at the cost of masking them into d... ...California Press, Berkeley and London (1996). 27. Ezhilarasu, D., Socio-cultural Factors Influencing Promiscuity in Heterosexual Males Infected Wi...

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...y interviews conducted for this study were performed in a manner consistent with Federal and State laws and guidelines for historical documentary and cultural assessment studies. A primary objective of the present study was to research and report on documentation that would help readers better understand native Hawaiian customs and practices, and historic events associated...

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...sharing content that led to significant changes in the publishing industry. To ensure the 15th edition (2003) would fully address these shifts in the cultural and professional landscape, Chicago’s editorial staff solicited the advice of the Manual’s first-ever advisory board—a distinguished group of scholars, authors, and professionals from a wide range of publishing and b...

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... instructional programs of education, elementary through post baccalaureate studies. This file was produced as part of the "eBook Campaign" to p... ...e case;" "It is sufticiently plain that the sciences of life, at least, are studies of processes." 51. From foreign languages, words and phrases ins...

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...searchable and portable. There are more than 5 million articles you can search and download. Say you want to browse for information or explore your cultural heritage. Now you can do so at your own leisure with the confidence that what you are reading is current. We learn because we research things. We look into them. And the combination of the World eBook Library’s Acad...

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...duct development & Service delivery models to achieve your business results. Considering this you would want CMMI Implementation to bring in the real cultural change and value to your business. This book provides you information which is useful for deciding, planning and implementing CMMI in Successful way. Be clear, there are many ways to implement CMMI and its practices...

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...arithmetical skills (Inoue S, 2007). Many social functions, such as altruism, understanding another person’s cognitive state, social cooperation, and cultural transmission, which were once thought to be human-specific, have recently been described in various forms in chimpanzees, bonobos and other great apes (Call J, 2008; Hare B, 2010; Luncz LV, 2012; Whiten A, 2009; Horn...

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...ry? Where would we live? This had to be lunacy. I had set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural ... ...as created the idea that rich Western life consists of continuously buying cultural enjoyment and producing experiences for the self, worshipping one'... ... adapted to 'modern development', their global economic, technological and cultural environment. Later, the project title changed to . Now, I want to ... ...dividual people and communities adapt to changes in the environment, a new cultural response is created, a new human ecosystem, where old structures n... ...t used to govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be disc... ...a. Helsinki, 15 December 2004 Academy of Finland Nordic Institute of Asian Studies University of Helsinki Niilo Helander Foundation Matti Sarmela ... ...ur factory? have two children, and I send them money constantly for their studies. Thanks to the factories, the village has developed. I would like a... ...r prospect of earning a good living in the future. I intend to complete my studies. Fine, because at the seminary the teachers understand that I also ... ...ting matters Miss, are you still a student? Do you intend to continue your studies? How many children are there in your family? How do people start co...

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...s in the renewable and clean energy sectors. Inspired and informed by the cultural and community values of Hawai‘i and its people, the Kü‘oko‘a Pla... ...s in the renewable and clean energy sectors. Inspired and informed by the cultural and community values of Hawai‘i and its people, the Kü‘oko‘a Pla... ...nique to the world. No other city ofers such a variety of fne hotels and cultural attractions, all provided in a setting of unparalleled tropical be... ...ed in a setting of unparalleled tropical beauty. The scenic splendor, the cultural diversity of our cosmopolitan population, the exciting array of e... ... Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacific. Hawaii i... ...of Hawai‘i Cancer Center to host multiethnic clinical trials in national studies that might otherwise have too many white Americans. Currently, Ca... ... and Cancer (MEC), one of the largest and most ethnically diverse cancer studies in the world. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study’... ...ch, which means taking research discoveries from the lab and preclinical studies to the next step – practical application in medical technology and... ... from Antarctica to the North Pole. THE ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES: This U.S. Department of Defense academic institute, located at F...

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...el Levenard, establishes relationships or at least resemblance on a large cultural plan: the romanticism of liberty in the 19th century, Van Gogh, Ri... ...(actual, experimental). Paradoxism is also the living of existential and cultural experiences, both specific of this century’s end, as being determ... ...ot Sullivan remarks: “This kind of literature borrowed massively from the cultural constructions of the past, we undo and rearrange them without for... ...tion in an ironical complicity, cleverly valued through the regime of the cultural tolerances. From this comes a radically histrionic appetite of par... ...artificial, a new histrionic availability, a metatextual inventiveness, a cultural emancipation - that became an instrumentation of the art without ... ... a result of the protection of a social group, (passing from the literary studies to the cultural studies - cf. Anthony Easthope). “Paradoxism has... ...o truth outside it: we breath it (Bergson)! The aesthetics of paradoxism studies the lack of artistic expression, the involuntary voluntariate of t... ... he had received the adherent card at the Center of Poetic Researches and Studies in Bordeaux. He is a member of the Writers and Artists Internationa...

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...nts are females. Upbringing and environment, the process of socialization and cultural mores all play an important role in the pathogenesis of... ...ns). But researchers like Daniel N. Stern dispute this hypothesis. Based on many studies, it appears that, as always, what seems intuitively righ... ... Culture dictates what is to be repressed. Mental illness is either idiosyncratic (cultural directives are not followed and the individual is uniqu... ...individual is unique, eccentric, and schizophrenic) – or conformist, abiding by the cultural dictates of what is allowed and disallowed. Our cultur... ... assumption that serial killers are a modern - or even post-modern - phenomenon, a cultural-societal construct, a by-product of urban alienation, A... ...ersal and inescapable developmental phase. Narcissistic traits are common and often culturally condoned. To this extent, serial killers are merely o... ...of women offered jobs in professional orchestras increased. Similarly, in science, studies of the ways that grant applications are evaluated have s... ...Back to Table of Contents The Natural Roots of Sexuality By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Recent studies in animal sexuality serve to dispel two common myths: th... ...) defy common sense, experience, and the calculus of evolution. There are no field studies that show conclusively or even indicate that homosexuals...

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...Hawai‘i at M¯ anoa is an international leader in ocean- and earth-related studies. Research covers a broad range of disciplines (including oceanograp... ...Deep Space to Deep Sea Hawai‘i offers a unique and unrivaled setting for studies in ocean, earth, and space sciences. The natural environment provi... ...odating a high volume of visitors. Cor pora TE Co NVENTIo Ns WITH A MULTI-CULTURAL WORKFORCE THAT DRAWS STRENGTH FROM THE EAST AND WEST, HAWAI‘I IS...

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...contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost invariably, the physical or cultural occupier of space the idealists claim as their own. ... ...an anomie inside an abnormality - a Macedonian self identity, tentative and merely cultural at first, began to emerge. Voivode Gorgija Pulevski pub... ...n), north of Thessaloniki (Salonica, Solun, Saloniki). There is no doubt about his cultural background (as opposed to his convictions later in life... ...o and Metohija was very real and the conflict assumed the robes of a crusade, both cultural and religious. To the Serbs the very maintenance of the... ...tria presented the only viable solution to the problem of multi-ethnicity and muti- culturalism. The history of the Balkans in the 20th century can ... ...lf aware), greedy and frivolous society which depended on consumerism, demographic studies, opinion polls and Government to know and to define itse... ...-begotten Word. You are life, love, peace, truth, and sanctity...." East European Studies Occasional Paper, Number 47, "Christianity and Islam in ... ... of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the...

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...4 5 Differences 104 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 106 Perception 106 Attitudes 107 Cultural Values 107 Group Influence 109 Personality 110 CONTRAS... ... was to examine consumer behavior in the adoption of ideas. The reporting of these studies, for purposes of this volume, has been reduced to the sim... ...possessions. It tends to become more interested :c in such thrusts as ecology and cultural inventories" (Lazer and Kelley 1973, p. 489). In the ... ...enomena. That is the theme of this book and it is also the theme of a work by the cultural anthropologist Belshaw who indeed maintains that "all end... ...e giving of objects as gifts, has long attracted the attention of sociologists and cultural anthropologists. For scholarly yet highly readable trea... ... world one almost perceives more evidence of the marketing of social, economic and cultural items than tangibles. Commercial Firms Although the ma... ...rticular topic. That model has been applied widely in nutrition and birth control studies and is a useful research guide for many social cause proje... ...ibution to the innovation and diffusion of social communication literature. These studies, summarized in Medical Innovation (Coleman, Mendel and Ka... ...st (DeFleur and Ball-Rokeach 1975, p. 15). The hybrid corn and medical innovation studies established the empirical models that have held for some t...

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...sider to be free will is merely an illusion. Some research shows that we are determined— determined by our genes and our past experiences. Many studie... ...ost of them are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studie... ...ll and are replaced by new dynamic societies whose citizens look to the future and work for their dreams.‖ —―It‘s not all about sex, Lee. Studie... ...e question of whether our motivations are learned or inherited? As we have said, Freud thought that we inherited our basic drive for pleasure. Studie... ... and naïve obviousness of a cartoon. Whether it be a toddling infant or a tottering grandpa, putting down others to raise your own status is a cultur... ...an be found along the whole scale. The artificial concept that there are masculine traits and feminine traits, which are quite different, is a cultur... ...uage in order understand science, business and international politics, but we need to keep some special identities as part of our personal and cultur... ...es normality and enters into an abnormal adjustment. The same actions may be normal or abnormal depending on the age of the individual or the cultur... .... ―You may be familiar with the ideas if Pierre Bourdieu. He talked about different kinds of ‗capital‘ or riches that a person has. Cultur...