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Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle Recognizing that all living things go through a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and death, the inspiration for the concepts of product life cycle and industry life cycle comes from biology. The l...
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Between one and two million women have breast implants. Before 1992—when the controversy over possible side effects made world headlines—about 150,000 women received implants annually, and since 1994 about 70,000 women a year...
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Why Lack of clarity about the uses of the word why is responsible for confusion on a number of philosophical fronts. In this entry we shall confine ourselves to two groups of topics where greater attention to the proper and improper behavio...
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Dennett, Daniel Clement(1942 s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/A Bradford Book, 2000. Ryle, Gilbert. The Concept of Mind. London: Hutchinson, 1949....
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Kaufmann, Walter Arnold(1921–1980) Walter Kaufmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, on July 1, 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1939, as conditions in Germany became ominous for those of Jewish descent (Kaufmann's fath...
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Ghb What Kind of Drug Is It? GHB is an acronym for gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as gamma hydroxybutyric acid. The Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy. http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/pub licati...
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(from Latin nihil, “nothing”), a philosophy of skepticism that originated in 19th-century Russia during the early years of the reign of Alexander II. The term is an old one, applied to certain heretics in the Middle Ages. In Ru...
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Cabanis, Pierre-Jean Georges(1757 105. Staum, Martin S. Cabanis: Enlightenment and Medical Philosophy in the French Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. Wright, John P., and Paul Potter, eds. Psyche and Soma: Physici...
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Clauberg, Johannes(1622 bingen, Germany: Mohr (Siebeck), 1939....
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Bahaʾi is a relatively new world religion that was founded and initially developed in Iran in the 1860s. It emerged from Iranian Shiʾa Islam and drew most of its initial adherents from the earlier Babism movement in Iran. Adh...
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Leadership Theories and Studies Leadership can be defined as a process by which one individual influences others toward the attainment of group or organizational goals. Three points about the definition of leadership should be emphasized. F...
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Rights Although ancient ethics used the concepts of property and justice, each of which presupposes something similar to the concept of a right, the concept of a right in the modern sense developed only later. The first philosopher to defin...
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François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), one of the first French romantic writers, was a master stylist. Through the poetic prose of his voluminous work he was able to evoke exotic places and to transform and idea...
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Huet, Pierre-Daniel(1630 1721: Humaniste-physicien. Bayeux, France: Colas, 1949....
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Licensing and Licensing Agreements A license provides the legal authority to engage in certain acts. Some licenses are required for the protection of the public. For example, a physician is licensed to assure professional competence, and th...
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Ethical Egoism Generally defined as the view that one ought to do whatever and only whatever is in one Ridley, M., The Origins of Virtue (London: Penguin, 1998)....
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motion picture that shapes and interprets factual material for purposes of education or entertainment. Documentaries have been made in one form or another in nearly every country and have contributed significantly to the development of rea...
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The moral philosopher Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), made his chief contributions in the fields of moral philosophy and esthetics. On Feb. 26, 1671, Anthony Ashley Cooper was born in London. His grandfather gave...
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Paul Grice's work greatly influenced both arcs of the so-called linguistic turn of twentieth-century philosophy. The first arc--the variety of attempts to recast the traditional problems of philosophy as problems of language--includes ordi...
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to well into Christian times and was distinguished more for its unconventional way of life than for any system of thought. Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates, is considered to be the founder of the movement, but Diogenes (q.v.) of Sinope ...
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Augustinianism , E. A Guide to the Thought of St. Augustine. Chicago: Regnery, 1960. Rist, John M. Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rondet, H. Saint Augustine parmi nous. Paris, 1954. R...
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Diuretics What Kind of Drug Is It? The main goal of diuretic therapy is to get rid of extra fluids in the body. Diuretics reduce bodily fluids by increasing the production of urine. Diuretic drugs are used to treat high blood pressure, cong...
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In psychoanalytic theory, an often unconscious mental process (such as repression) that makes possible compromise solutions to personal problems or conflicts. The compromise generally involves concealing from oneself internal drives or fee...
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Ross, William David(1877–1971) William David Ross was a British Aristotelian scholar and moral philosopher. Sir David Ross was born in Scotland and was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and Balliol...
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Molina, Luis De(1535 In Jesuit Thinkers of the Renaissance, edited by G. Smith. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette, 1939....
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Branch of medicine dealing with the actions of drugs in the body—both therapeutic and toxic effects—and development and testing of new drugs and new uses of existing ones. Though the first Western pharmacological treatise (a li...
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In accounting, the activity-oriented financial statement issued by businesses. Covering a specified time, such as three months or one year, the income statement is a summary of revenues and expenses. It also lists gains and losses from oth...
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archipelago and state on the northwestern edge of the West Indies. Formerly a British colony, The Bahamas became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1973. The name Bahamas is of Lucayan Taino (Arawakan) derivation, although s...
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Institution for diagnosing and treating the sick or injured, housing them during treatment, examining patients, and managing childbirth. Outpatients, who can leave after treatment, come in for emergency care or are referred for services no...
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Postcolonialism Not unlike the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and postmodernism, postcolonialism refers not only to a temporal marker that signals a shift in mentalities and metaphilosophical questioning but also to a decolonizing movement...
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The English historian and philosopher Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) did important historical research on Roman Britain and made original contributions to esthetics, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of mind. Born at Coni...
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Lack of menstruation. Signs of primary amenorrhea (failure to start menstruating by age 16) include infantile reproductive organs, lack of breasts and pubic hair, dwarfism, and deficient muscle development. In secondary amenorrhea (abnorma...
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In Greek mythology, the bravest and strongest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan War. Because his mother dipped him into the River Styx, he was invulnerable except at the heel by which she held him. During the war against Troy Achilles to...
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Eurasianism (Classical) Eurasianism (Russian: evraziistvo) was an ideological-philosophical movement among Russian 139. Vinkovetsky, Ilya, and Charles Schlacks, Jr., eds. Exodus to the East: Forebodings and Events: An Affirmation of the Eur...
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Retention in School Repeating an academic year of school. A significant number of high school freshmen in the United States have repeated at least one grade. In most cases, teachers recommend retention for one of three reasons: developmenta...
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The Italian philosopher and humanist Conte Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was a brilliant exemplar of the Renaissance ideal of man. The youngest son of a princely Lombard house, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola received a Church be...
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Copyright Page Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition Donald M. Borchert, Editor in Chief 2005018573 This title is also available as an e-book.ISBN 0-02-866072-2Contact your Thomson Gale representative for ordering information. Printed...
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Synonymity [addendum] Intuitively, two expressions are synonymous if and only if (iff) they have the same meaning. Despite the apparently straightforward nature of this definition, the notion of synonymy has been hard pressed in contemporar...
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Multiple-Criteria Decision Making Real-world decision-making problems are usually too complex and ill-structured to be considered through the examination of a single criterion, attribute, or point of view that will lead to the optimum decis...
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Initial Public Offering An initial public offering (IPO) is the process through which a privately owned business sells shares of stock to the public for the first time. Also known as going public, an IPO provides a growing business with acc...
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There is an old proverb saying, "History repeats itself." This proverb has certainly proven itself true. Civilizations predictably collapse within 300 to 900 years after their inception, proven by countless civilizations, such as the Roman,...
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Formal system in which the well-formed formulae are interpreted as being able to take on values other than the two classical values of truth or falsity. The number of values possible for well-formed formulae in systems of many-valued logic...
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Valentinus and Valentinianism Valentinus (mid-2nd century CE) was the founder of what came to be one of the most influential Gnostic sects of heretical Christianity. Little can be known with certainty about either his life or his teachings,...
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Savage, Leonard(1917–1971) Leonard James Savage was the most influential Bayesian statistician of the second half of the twentieth century. Born November 20, 1917, in Detroit, Michigan, Savage received his PhD in mathematics at the U...
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Perinatal Period The period from 28 weeks after conception through one week after birth. The perinatal period spans the last stage of pregnancy and the first days following birth. Approximately coinciding with the last trimester of pregnanc...
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Arrangement of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases, and the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship of their component parts. In English, the main device for showing this relationship is word order; for example, &ldqu...
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Constitutional Courts Broadly defined, a constitutional court is a court that adjudicates disputes over the interpretation and application of a political system United States. Bibliography Abraham, Henry J. The Judicial Process: An Introduc...
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WHAT IS ORGANISATION To organise means to determine what activities are necessary for a specific purpose and to encourage them in groups, which are assigned to individual. An organisation is a complex social syst...
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The English sociologist and philosopher Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929), one of the major theoreticians of liberalism in England before World War I, advocated a modified form of state socialism tempered by traditional liberal princip...
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Kavelin, Konstantin Dmitrievich(1818–1885) Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin, the Russian historian and philosopher, was educated at Moscow University, where he was later professor of history. Kavelin also taught at St. Petersburg Unive...
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