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marks the culmination of a remarkable career of creative contribution to behavioral science. I witnessed the conceptualization, gestation, and birth of this work. In a modern-day variant of Tuesdays with Morrie, Professor Lazarus and I would have an extended lunch every Tuesday, sharing braised Chinese fish—a dish he relished but to which his wife, Bernice, was allergic. During those unforgettable meetings, we would discuss intellectual issues, university politics, and, above all, our personal aspirations

variably dimensioned function for d 2. Figure 4. Test problem 3: extended Rosenbrock function for d 2. where f 2i 1 x f 2i x 2 10 x 2i x 2i 1 x 2i 1 1 for i 1, . . . , d/ 2. The initial point is given by x1 [ 1.2, 1, . . . , 1.2, 1], and the optimal value of * 1 occurs at x* [1, . . . , 1]. Figure 4 depicts the extended Rosenbrock function for the case d 2. 3.1.4 Test Problem 4: Extended Powell Singular Function The extended Powell singular function is defined as Figure 3. Trigonometric

Josh Fox's Oscar-nominated film "Gasland" definitely isn't the first prominent documentary to spark a vigorous counterattack from the corporate interests it seeks to expose. Michael Moore's movies, from "Bowling for Columbine" onward, have provoked extended debates about their accuracy and fairness, and Davis Guggenheim's Oscar-winning climate-change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was widely picked apart for possible exaggerations, generalizations and misstatements of scientific fact. Joe Berlinger's

in the manner of luxury brands, it capitalizes on an “image” communication. In addition, we perceive the positioning of Lollipops through its physical shops. First, it’s important to know that founders wanted to have atypical shops, looking like family shop. So, their stores are in town-centre in order to each is worked according to its architectural features. Inside, we can find lacquered wooden house furnishing of the style Louis XVI (dressing table, armchair...), wallpaper designer, floral carpet

and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI). Then, he identified a fifth dimension which he called the Long Term Orientation (LT0). Power Distance (PDI): that is the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. This represents inequality (more versus less), but defined from below, not from above. It suggests that a society's level of inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders

banning of the hijab from public schools. But given such leaders are rarely democratically elected, little less by a voting base that includes women, how can we know whose interests they really represent?" and practices of oppression (even if due to family and cultural pressure) is clearly not in the same category as being physically damaged or attacked in the name of religion." Wearing head scarves does no harm and violates nobody's rights "France: Headscarf Ban Violates Religious Freedom". Human Rights

assessments on Action for Children services across the UK; a children’s centre, a family support project and a family intervention project. SROI is a rigorous measurement framework designed to help organisations or services to understand and manage the social and economic value they are creating. It is essentially a form of adjusted cost-benefit analysis that puts a value on some less tangible outcomes, such as improved family relationships. It considers the benefits that accrue from services to a range

must address the poverty that obliges parents to send their young children to work rather than to school, primarily by providing adults with jobs paying a living wage. In areas where HIV/AIDS is now rife and children are the main breadwinners for a family after the death of one or both parents, the priority should be to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, as well as to encourage financial support for child-headed households, which will reduce their need to go out to work at a young age. In areas where

transport and/or industry, all of them for different customers). • Further segmentation can be based on demographic and psychographic factors. - demographics segments’ people buy clearly ascertainable facts such as their sex, age, size of family … - psychographics segments’ people buy something less clearly ascertainable, often disputable, i.e. their lifestyle. A person’s lifestyle is built up from his or her attitudes, believes, interests and habits. • types of markets (two

her fame may be said to have been posthumous: it did not attain to any vigorous life till she had ceased to exist" (1-2). This Memoir , written and published over fifty years after his famous aunt's death, described a simple, respectable woman whose family always came first and whose gentility never allowed her to "meddle with matters which she did not thoroughly understand" within the pages of her novels as well as her life (13). Austen-Leigh's relief that his aunt's novels did not deal (overtly, at