Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric by Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

“…The argument is that both thinkers, in seeking a rational foundation for the political order, anchor their notions of rationality in Epicurean materialism, by reconfiguring rhetorical elements to suit their respective philosophies. …”
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Energy Sharing of Multiple Virtual Power Plants Based on a Peer Aggregation Model by Sheng Li, Yujie Huang

“…The introduction of the sharing level index into the sharing price can effectively improve the rationality of the formulated sharing price, and the net electricity load fluctuation has a greater impact on the system cost than the thermal load fluctuation.…”
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A indústria cultural brasileira na formulação de Renato Ortiz by Marcelo Ridenti

“…According to him, culture industry only matured in Brazilian society in the 1960s and 1970s, under military rule, when the market for cultural goods reached a high level in volume and size, with the expressive development of the television, music, film and publishing industry, and others, as well as advertising agencies and all kinds of mass media businesses, increasingly managed according to international standards of business rationality, with direct or indirect support from the State. …”
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A Novel Algorithm of Quantum Random Walk in Server Traffic Control and Task Scheduling by Dong Yumin, Xiao Shufen

“…In the same time, we prove its validity and rationality by the experiment of analog and simulation.…”
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A New Synergistic Forecasting Method for Short-Term Traffic Flow with Event-Triggered Strong Fluctuation by Darong Huang, Zhenping Deng, Bo Mi

“…Finally, experiment and analysis are carried out in the light of actual data gathered from strong fluctuation environment to verify the effectiveness and rationality of our proposed scheme.…”
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Pomiędzy zabaw(k)ą a materiałem i pracą w praktyce pedagogii Montessori by Jarosław Jendza

“…The first category is framed by the rationality of play being important for the teachers and thus creating a dilemma whether to follow the child and let them play or to follow the Montessori curriculum and focus on free work? …”
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Imaginaries of Judicial Practices in Cali, Colombia by Lina Buchely, Mónica Londoño, Christian Castillo, Juan Loaiza

“…The analysis presented argues that the state not only employs a bureaucratic rational language but also invokes emotions and feelings. …”
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NATO’s Military Structure: Change and Continuity by Ali Bilgin VARLIK

“…Based upon this knowledge adequacy, effectiveness and rationality of both structures are scrutinised. The argument of the paper is that throughout NATO’s past the military structures has not only been a result of organizational change but also one of the main causes and determinants for the evolution and transformation of the Alliance.…”
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Between civic virtue and vice: Self-censorship of political views on social media among Norwegian young adults by Mozdeika Lukas

“…Different styles of media use call into question divergent ideals of democratic theory, setting self-expressive rationality at odds with deliberative norms of citizenship. …”
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Refining expected market return estimation: fusing multiple valuation models as an approach to reducing uncertainty by Thiago Petchak Gomes

“… This paper presents a methodology aimed at reducing the uncertainty associated with estimating the expected market return within a bounded rationality framework. The proposed approach involves calculating the implicit rate of return using various valuation models and subsequently merging them using the Kalman Filter technique to minimize estimation errors. …”
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Improved DEA Cross Efficiency Evaluation Method Based on Ideal and Anti-Ideal Points by Qiang Hou, Meiou Wang, Xue Zhou

“…The two distinctive ideal point models are introduced to the DEA method and combined through using variance ration. From the new model, a reasonable result can be obtained. …”
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Dynamics in Braess Paradox with Nonimpulsive Commuters by Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, Viktor Avrutin

“…In Braess paradox the addiction of an extra resource creates a social dilemma in which the individual rationality leads to collective irrationality. In the literature, the dynamics has been analyzed when considering impulsive commuters, i.e., those who switch choice regardless of the actual difference between costs. …”
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Façonner la prescription, influencer les médecins by Jérôme Greffion, Thomas Breda

“…Do the large pharmaceutical firms shape the demand on their markets, according to the model of the revised sequence, or do they suffer from a rationality problem, massively investing into a low profitable activity? …”
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Personal or group motivation: which tool is more efficient by G. N. Ryazanova

“…The individualistic concept, based on the neoclassical economic paradigm with the assumptions of complete rationality of agents, does not always give the desired results and needs to be revised taking into account the cross-cultural characteristics of the country. …”
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ITG 1000, Risk Detection and Accounting Information: a Theoretical Analysis on the Cost versus Benefit for Micro and Small Enterprises by Mateus Alexandre Costa dos Santos, Luiz Carlos Marques dos Anjos, Paulo Roberto Nóbrega Cavalcante, Paulo Aguiar do Monte

“…The discussion is based on the assumptions of economic rationality and assumes that individuals, under uncertainty, will behave in a manner attributable to Von Neumann-Morgenstern. …”
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On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen by H. Musa

“…Van Huyssteen’s life and work have revolutionised the discussion on human life, the origin of religion, the quest for religion, and the constructive sense of rationality and spirituality as important ways of understanding the meaning and function of human uniqueness in terms of the reality of the image of God (imago Dei) in human beings. …”
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Complex Network Filtering and Compression Algorithm Based on Triangle-Subgraph by Shuxia Ren, Tao Wu, Shubo Zhang

“…Experimental results show that filtering compression algorithm can not only improve the compression rate but also retain information of the original network at the same time; sorting result analysis and SIR model analysis show that the sorting result of node importance sorting algorithm has accuracy and rationality.…”
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Multiobjective Optimization Management of Construction Engineering Based on Ant Colony Algorithm by Xuejie Liang

“…The feasibility and rationality of multiobjective optimization in this paper are verified by experiments, which can effectively guide the optimization management of construction process.…”
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Experimental Study on Measurement of Drag Coefficient of Sandy Soil Nonlinear Vadose by Yu-ping Xu, Jing-yuan Liu, Xiu-wei Chai, Sha-sha Shi

“…By adding a correction factor and verifying its rationality, the empirical formula of standard sand permeability parameters is finally obtained.…”
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Credit Risk Assessment of e-Commerce Supply Chain Finance of SMEs Based on Dynamic Reward and Punishment Perspective by Baitong Chen, Xinzhong Bao, Kun Xu

“…Finally, the model is applied to SMEs credit risk evaluation of e-commerce supply chain finance to verify the feasibility and rationality of the model.…”
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