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Reward and Recognition for an e-World
(Bettie
Hall)
These authors discuss the importance of developing a curricula framework that meets the organization’s business and learning objectives. In an organization that has e-HRM systems, these curricula frameworks fall within its online e-learning application. As the new curricula demands new skills, integrating networking skills to have better professionals becomes a key factor in HR development.
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Social Behaviors and Brain Interventions: New Strategies for Reductionists
(Aaron
Kostko)
Philosophers typically conduct their investigations without paying much attention to experimental results from the social sciences and the neurosciences, and for good reason. Despite the potential relevance of these disciplines for traditional philosophical problems about rationality, decision-making, and personal identity, some methodological limitations have proven daunting. Although the social sciences track organisms’ natural responses to their environments, these sciences cannot specify the mechanisms whereby these environmental features exert their influence on behavior (qua bodily movements). The neurosciences, on the other hand, in their pursuit to specify cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying behavior, have largely been confined to analyzing simple, highly controlled behaviors under artificial conditions. Recently, however, these two disciplines have begun to converge toward the goal of better understanding the causal mechanisms underlying social behaviors. Here we will explore this convergence in detail by describing a recent study showing that social rank in macaque troop dominance hierarchies affects the number and availability of dopamine D2 receptors in the brain, and subsequently individual monkeys' susceptibility to self-administer cocaine (Morgan et al. 2002). We will use this study to sort out the relative impact that each of these disciplines contributes toward understanding the causal mechanisms underlying social behaviors. Although we will be arguing for the priority of reductionistic neurobiology, one moral is less controversial: the methodological barriers that previously enabled philosophers interested in complex social behaviors to overlook the experimental results of both the social sciences and the neurosciences no longer obtain. The emergence of social neuroscience changes that. Philosophers need to confront this recent convergence or risk irrelevance.
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Realm Sixty-four
(Kristi
Maxwell)
Poems
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Contemporary Canadian Social Issues
(Rebecca
Bromwich)
Discussion of sociological and feminist approaches to analysis and legislative, public policy and individual responses to social problems in contemporary Canada designed as a text for college students
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Youth and the Law
(Rebecca
Bromwich)
Exploration of contemporary Canadian legislative responses to child protection and juvenile justice issues situated in historical and international context
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The Amputee's Guide To Sex
(jillian
weise)
Book of poetry.
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Solving Machine Loading Problem of FMS: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Random Search Optimization Approach
(Verma
Anoop )
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to intelligence artificially realized through computation. AI has emerged
as one of the promising computer science discipline originated in mid-1950. Over the past few decades,
AI based random search algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm, ant colony optimization, and so forth
have found their applicability in solving various real-world problems of complex nature. This chapter
is mainly concerned with the application of some AI based random search algorithms, namely, genetic
algorithm (GA), ant colony optimization (ACO), simulated annealing (SA), artificial immune system
(AIS), and tabu search (TS), to solve the machine loading problem in flexible manufacturing system.
Performance evaluation of the aforementioned search algorithms have been tested over standard
benchmark dataset. In addition, the results obtained from them are compared with the results of some
of the best heuristic procedures in the literature. The objectives of the present chapter is to make the
readers fully aware about the intricate solutions existing in the machine loading problem of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS) to exemplify the generic procedure of various AI based random search
algorithms. Also, the present chapter describes the step-wise implementation of search algorithms over
machine loading problem.
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“African American Music and the Negro Renaissance in Chicago, Illinois”
(Bethany
Smith)
Survey of musical style, genre, composers, and active organizations during the Negro Renaissance in Chicago, 1919-1942.
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“African American Concert Music (1919–1942): Composers and Repertoire”
(Bethany
Smith)
Overview of African American concert music, prominent composers, genres, and musical style during the Negro Renaissance in Harlem and Chicago.
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