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[48] viXra:1305.0063 [pdf] submitted on 2013-05-10 16:33:13
Authors: Yurij L. Katchanov, Natalia A. Shmatko
Comments: 19 Pages.
One of the most exciting and fruitful applications of mathematical methods in the natural sciences is the variational principle. The fundamental problem of interdisciplinary studies of science is the derivation of the variational principle, which makes it possible to interpret the empirical regularities of a scientific field as a logical necessity. The concept of scientific capital developed by Pierre Bourdieu is used in international social science research to explain a set of scholarly properties and practices. Scientific capital embraces the interrelations between separate sociological variables, providing a unified view of science. According to the variational principle, the distribution of the active properties of scholars results in a social reality in which the functional — which means the scientific capital — achieves its maximum value. Scientific capital is derived from the energy functional defined using the Kolmogorov differential operator. Based on the results of an empirical study conducted in 2010 in the Russian Federation, a scientific capital value was determined for each respondent by calculating an empirical distribution function for each respondent’s active properties. Using a sample of 3,450 Russian PhD holders who are employed at research institutions, universities and industries, a connection between scientific capital and scientific achievements was established. More specifically, the results demonstrate that the sampling distribution of scientific achievements can be explained by the sampling distribution of scientific capital.
Category: Social Science
[47] viXra:1304.0134 [pdf] submitted on 2013-04-24 11:00:38
Authors: Andrew Nassif
Comments: 2 Pages.
According to Dr.Abraham Maslow, all humans have certain needs. He demonstrates this in a pyramid that represents the most needed needs on the bottom and the least needed needs on the top. In my opinion an person would have needs in this same order. However, some people have different needs or different order. For example, if you were to put my needs from least to greatest. My least need would be belonging needs, my next least needs would be Self-actualization, my third least need would be Esteem Needs, and my fourth least needs would be safety needs, then my most needed needs would be physical needs because my body needs to maintain a certain homeostasis in order to survive.
Category: Social Science
[46] viXra:1304.0038 [pdf] submitted on 2013-04-08 10:46:05
Authors: Andrew Nassif
Comments: 2 Pages.
Economics is a social science in which you analyze the growing globalization and product marketing that leads to profit in the economy. Economics helps provide insight on things such as profit margins and risk factors when investing in a product.
Category: Social Science
[45] viXra:1303.0223 [pdf] submitted on 2013-03-31 23:27:08
Authors: Sierra Rayne, Kaya Forest
Comments: 11 Pages.
The concept of an "oil curse" has been widely debated in the literature. Two clear camps have emerged: (1) those that favor the basic hypothesis or a modified version thereof, and (2) those that find little generalizable empirical evidence for the negative impacts of oil and gas development on the political, socio-economic, and/or environmental trajectories of oil and gas producing nations relative to their non-oil and gas producing counterparts. Overall, we find no significant evidence to support a generalizable concept of an oil curse. In general, our results do not seek to dismiss concerns regarding the potential impacts of oil and gas development on some regions, but rather to illustrate that any such impacts do not appear to be universal in either their direction or magnitude. Similar to what other groups have found, we see evidence that - in some cases - increased oil and gas development appears to correlate with improved socio-economic indicators. In other cases, the evidence is ambiguous at best in light of the large numbers of confounding variables that are effectively impossible to rigorously account for in order to obtain clear and unequivocal negative causal mechanisms between oil and gas development and the status of a society.
Category: Social Science
[44] viXra:1303.0213 [pdf] submitted on 2013-03-29 10:42:24
Authors: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Amal, K. Kandasamy
Comments: 146 Pages.
School dropouts in Indian scenario is ever increasing among the rural poor. It is due to poverty and lack of steady income. We analyzed the problem using newly constructed fuzzy models.
Category: Social Science
[43] viXra:1303.0197 [pdf] submitted on 2013-03-26 05:09:09
Authors: Johan Noldus
Comments: 6 Pages.
The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines to construct workable and calculable models of society in which essential features are disentangled from gratuite desires emanating from the personal morality of its author. This is not to say that the model at hand should not contain a moral aspect, but that the specific form of the latter is a necessary byproduct bounded in time.
Category: Social Science
[42] viXra:1303.0186 [pdf] submitted on 2013-03-24 22:59:30
Authors: Sierra Rayne, Kaya Forest
Comments: 16 Pages.
In 2006, Friedman wrote an influential and widely cited article in Foreign Policy magazine [May/June (2006) 28-36] stating The First Law of Petropolitics. This law held that the quality of governance in oil-rich petrolist states is inversely correlated with a causative relationship from increasing oil prices. In contrast, we find no generally consistent governance patterns among oil-rich petrolist states related to the price of oil that support any claims for a First Law of Petropolitics.
Category: Social Science
[41] viXra:1303.0035 [pdf] submitted on 2013-03-06 23:09:07
Authors: Jeffrey Joseph Wolynski
Comments: 1 Page. 1 reference
It has come to the author’s attention that a very good explanation has been made available via Miles Mathis concerning the editing of Wikipedia pages. A simple straight forward series of events can explain how new ideas are treated in the established sciences and this mentality is mirrored on Wikipedia. This paper should be shared with as many Vixra.org readers as possible.
Category: Social Science
[40] viXra:1302.0075 [pdf] submitted on 2013-02-12 09:50:21
Authors: Andrew Nassif
Comments: 7 Pages. small presentation
World play is often a method of constrained writing. It can be used in rhetoric or often sarcastic remarks that can toil with one's emotions and change the method of persuasion. This paper explains the facts and methods of persuasion through an ethical standard.
Category: Social Science
[39] viXra:1302.0041 [pdf] submitted on 2013-02-06 20:32:37
Authors: Cheng Tianren
Comments: 3 Pages.
自从工业革命以后，西方的科技有了长足的进步。反观中国，当时清朝的皇帝们还沉醉在天朝的美梦之中。不知不觉的，已经落后了很多。最后，不得不做了别人的奴才。主子才有的好东西，奴才自然不敢奢望。比如汽车，好吧，这东西可是让世界的交通方式发生了革命性变化。这汽车中国是一时半载造不出来了，可日子还得过啊。而且，皇帝们好面子，依旧开着落后的马车，车上挂着象征权利的八旗，到处耀武扬威的。
Category: Social Science
[38] viXra:1302.0040 [pdf] submitted on 2013-02-06 20:33:39
Authors: Cheng Tianren
Comments: 2 Pages.
几年前，金融海啸发生的时候，外国银行纷纷向中国借钱。这时候，很多中国人心中窃喜：西方国家向来不缺钱用。你看看他们街上的行人就知道了。他们的体格远远比我们街上的人要庞大得多。那是因为吃得好，生活质量高吧?但是，体型庞大并不代表存款就同样的多。恰恰相反，庞大的体格需要庞大的消费。体格越大，消费越高，钱不知不觉中都转化为身上的那些多余无用的肥肉去了。
Category: Social Science
[37] viXra:1302.0038 [pdf] submitted on 2013-02-06 20:34:39
Authors: Cheng Tianren
Comments: 2 Pages.
昨天下午，院子里有几个小朋友聚在一起玩耍。一开始，他们还玩得挺高兴的，突然间，就为了一件小事打了起来。到最后，几个小孩子打得鼻青脸肿，都不约而同地喊起了爸爸妈妈的名字。听到他们的哭喊声，我心头一惊。
Category: Social Science
[36] viXra:1301.0196 [pdf] submitted on 2013-01-31 10:16:28
Authors: Jeffrey Joseph Wolynski
Comments: 1 Page.
Scientific definitions for peer-review and refereed journal are given so that the reader can clarify the real meaning of these terms and their real purposes.
Category: Social Science
[35] viXra:1301.0068 [pdf] submitted on 2013-01-12 15:15:01
Authors: Sierra Rayne, Kaya Forest
Comments: 3 Pages.
Between 2007/2008 and 2012/2013, inflation adjusted undergraduate tuition fees for full-time Canadian students increased significantly in all disciplines. All disciplines except dentistry also exhibited substantial increases in inflation adjusted graduate tuition fees for full-time Canadian students over this period. In contrast to prior claims in the literature, we show that low tuition rates in the Canadian post-secondary system do not redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. For each dollar of taxpayer derived financial support going into the Canadian college and university system, the wealthiest families paid almost the entire amount. Consequently, it appears that regardless of current or proposed tuition rates, the Canadian post-secondary system is a wealth transfer from the rich to the poor.
Category: Social Science
[34] viXra:1301.0029 [pdf] submitted on 2013-01-05 19:49:08
Authors: Sierra Rayne, Kaya Forest
Comments: 8 Pages.
The Sinosphere is in ascension towards global economic dominance on both total and per capita bases, marking a fundamental shift in the balance of global economic and military power that is taking place absent any robust structural democratic and human rights reforms in this region. In contrast to comparisons during the 1980s of Japan potentially overtaking the United States as the world's largest economy, both purchasing power parity (PPP) and current United States dollar GDP metrics consistently project that China's gross domestic product (GDP) will exceed that of the United States sometime between 2015 and 2020. The Sinosphere's GDP-PPP passed that of The Commonwealth (including India) in 2011, The Commonwealth (excluding India) in 2005, the Francosphere member states in 2003, the Francosphere member and observer states in 2009 - subsequently widening the gap in all cases - and is predicted to surpass that of the Anglosphere by the early 2020s. China's military spending now exceeds that of all other nations bordering the East and South China Seas combined and the gap is widening rapidly. At current rates of increase, China's military expenditures may surpass those of the United States within the next decade. On a per capita basis, China's GDP-PPP is expected to overtake that of the United States and Canada by the early to mid-2030s, whereas Russia and the EU are projected to be surpassed by China in per capita GDP-PPP by the late 2020s.
Category: Social Science
[33] viXra:1212.0078 [pdf] submitted on 2012-12-11 15:26:26
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez, Kam HP Yiu
Comments: 3 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Perezgonzalez, Gilbey & Diaz Vilela (2010) examined the need for new technologies by single pilot operators in the general aviation industry on a global scale. This was achieved by using an online survey requesting participants to rank the importance of various flight management features. These were 22 technological features in total, grouped into five distinctive categories. Overall, results showed that cost factors were regarded as the most important feature by the group of general aviation pilots, followed by flight support. The results also indicated that instructors valued new flight technologies the most, while female pilots were less concerned with new flight technologies.
Category: Social Science
[32] viXra:1211.0123 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-20 22:00:56
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez
Comments: 10 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Perezgonzalez continued a previous study by Perezgonzalez and Gilbey (2010), attempting to predict Skytrax's 2011 Official World Airline Star rankings from average ratings that passengers had given to those airlines, independently, on Skytrax's website. The regression formula was based on a single variable, the average 'Customer review scoring', which is a cumulative average of past ratings, including those given during 2011.
Category: Social Science
[31] viXra:1211.0114 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-19 14:47:16
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez
Comments: 5 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Perezgonzalez continued a previous study by Perezgonzalez and Gilbey (2010), attempting to predict Skytrax's 2011 Official World Airport Star rankings from average ratings that passengers had given to those airports, independently, on Skytrax's website. The regression formula was based on a single variable, the average 'Customer review scoring', which is a cumulative average of past ratings, including those given during 2011.
Category: Social Science
[30] viXra:1211.0107 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-18 17:24:14
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez [ed]
Comments: 3 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Haller and Krauss (2000) carried out a study on common misinterpretations of tests of significance among German psychology students and academics, which partly replicates one done by Oakes (19863). Haller and Krauss found that most participants held at least one misinterpretation out of six presented. They also found that, overall, 100% of psychology students held one or more misinterpretations (mean=2.5), almost 90% of psychology researchers also held one or more misinterpretations (mean=2), and 80% of instructors of statistics in psychology also held one or more misinterpretations (mean=1.9). The authors thought worrisome the high percentage of instructors with misinterpretations, as these may pass those misinterpretations down to students. Another interesting result, one not highlighted by the authors, though, is the high percentage of researchers (including instructors when carrying out and publishing research) with misinterpretations, as these would perpetuate those when publishing, peer-reviewing others' publications, and making research-informed decisions (such as chairing committees, granting funding, etc).
Category: Social Science
[29] viXra:1211.0091 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-15 21:37:28
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez [ed]
Comments: 2 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Falk and Greenbaum (1995) carried out a study on common misinterpretations of the logic of tests of significance among Israeli psychology students, which partly replicates one by Oakes (1986). Typically, most of these misinterpretations confuse p-values (ie, the probability of the data when assuming that the null hypothesis is true) and, especially, statistical significance, with the probability of proving or disproving hypotheses (be this the null hypothesis or an alternative hypothesis).
Falk and Greenbaum found that almost 87% of the students held at least one misinterpretation out of the four presented. Most of the students misinterpreted p-values as the probability of the null hypothesis being true.
Category: Social Science
[28] viXra:1211.0087 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-14 18:56:30
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez [ed]
Comments: 4 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Oakes (1986) carried out a study on common misinterpretations of the logic of tests of significance among British psychology academics. Typically, most of these misinterpretations confuse p-values (ie, the probability of the data when assuming that the null hypothesis is true) and, especially, statistical significance, with the probability of proving or disproving hypotheses (be this the null hypothesis or an alternative hypothesis). Another misinterpretation is the so-called "replication fallacy", which occurs when the p-value is assumed to represent the probability of finding similar results if the research were to be repeated.
Category: Social Science
[27] viXra:1211.0061 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-11 16:29:35
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez
Comments: 6 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Perezgonzalez and Gilbey (2010) obtained a regression formula for predicting Skytrax's 2010 airline rankings from customer reviews. The research behind the study attempted to predict Skytrax Global Airline Ranking from average ratings that passengers had given to those airlines, independently, on Skytrax's website. The regression formula was based on a single variable (the average 'Customer review scoring').
Category: Social Science
[26] viXra:1211.0045 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-08 21:44:55
Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez
Comments: 3 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
Perezgonzalez & Gilbey (2010a) obtained a regression formula for predicting Skytrax's 2010 airport rankings from customer reviews. The research behind the study attempted to predict Skytrax's Official World Airport Star rankings from average ratings that passengers had given to those airports, independently, on Skytrax's website. The regression formula was based on a single variable (the average 'Customer review scoring'), which is a simpler formula to calculate.
Category: Social Science
[25] viXra:1210.0089 [pdf] submitted on 2012-10-17 10:26:56
Authors: Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu
Comments: 14 Pages.
The study lies in the interdisciplinary area between the information theory
and extenics, as the science of solving the contradictions. This space addresses
the central issue of the ontology information, the contradictory relationship
between communication and information. The research core is the reality that
the scientific research of communication-information relationship has reached a
dead end. The bivalent relationship communication-information, informationcommunication
has come to be contradictory, and the two concepts to block
each other. With the Extenics as a science of solving the conflicting issues,
"extenics procedures" will be used to solve the contradiction.
Category: Social Science
[24] viXra:1206.0045 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-11 22:58:31
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 93 Pages.
„Aventuri chineze” este o carte despre o conferinţă ştiinţifică din Taiwan (în oraşul sudic Kaohsiung), între 4-11 noiembrie 2011, plus un tur ştiintific desfăşurat în perioada 11 decembrie 2011 – 6 ianuarie 2012 în patru oraşe din China: Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, şi Hangzhou.
Stilul lapidar, fotografic (la propriu şi la figurat) din celelalte jurnale şi memorii turistice se menţine.
Category: Social Science
[23] viXra:1206.0040 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 04:43:27
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 167 Pages.
Author’s traveling memories to various international scientific conferences.
Category: Social Science
[22] viXra:1206.0039 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 04:45:30
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 170 Pages.
Author's tourist traveling and attendance of various scientific international conferences and seminars as invited speaker: at University of Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin, Pima Community College, NASA Langley Research Center, Fusion international conferences, etc.
Category: Social Science
[21] viXra:1206.0038 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 04:47:10
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 190 Pages.
Author's attendance of various scientific international conferences and seminars as invited speaker: at NATO Advance Study Institute in Albena (Bulgaria), Fusion 2005 International Conference in Philadelphia (USA), Marcus Evans European Conference on Sensors’ Fusion in Barcelona (Spain), and tourist visiting and documenting about Aztec and Maya pyramids near Ciudad de Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula.
Category: Social Science
[20] viXra:1206.0037 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 04:49:54
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 260 Pages.
Traveling memories and author’s participation to some international conferences of applied mathematics to USA, Brazil, Italy, Greece, Peru, Bolivia.
Category: Social Science
[19] viXra:1206.0036 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 04:54:30
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 202 Pages.
This is a book of scientific memories. The author describes several international conferences and seminars where he was invited speaker, i.e. on Granular Computing organized by IEEE at Georgia State University at Atlanta (USA) in 2006, at Brussels (Belgium) organized and sponsored by Marcus Evans Defense Co. in 2007, in Cologne (Germany), organized by the International Association of FUSION, and in Egypt at the University of Shebin Elkom. His talks were about neutrosophic logic/set, Dezert-Smarandache Theory and information fusion, and respectively on neutrosophy - which is a generalization of dialectics – in Arabic philosophy.
Besides giving his applied math papers he also visited important cultural institutions.
Category: Social Science
[18] viXra:1206.0035 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 05:03:12
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 221 Pages.
This volume, in a series of six volumes, includes author’s traveling memories from various international conferences of applied mathematics where he presented papers or from many institutions where he was invited speaker about his scientific research, such as the Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton (Ohio), Air Force Research Lab in Rome – New York State, Paris (COGIS International Conference, 2009), as well as cultural visits to Stanwix Fort, Niagara Falls, Alaska, Yellowstone, New Mexico, his native town Bălceşti (Romania), and Jamaica.
Category: Social Science
[17] viXra:1206.0034 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 05:05:45
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 124 Pages.
This is a memory book by the author who was as invited speaker at Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics from Pushchino near Moscow, where he talked about neutrosophic logic/set/probability (which are generalizations of fuzzy logic/set and respectively imprecise probability) and their applications.
He met many Russian scientists such as Dmitri Rabounski, Larissa Borissova, Boris Levin, Victor Pantcheliouga, Simon Shnoll, Valeri Kolombet, Tatiana Zencenko, Victor Morozov, etc. and doctoral students.
Besides his scientific activity the author visited and wrote about Russian museums, culture, history and politics, palaces and exhibitions of arts in Moscow and Sankt Petersburg.
Category: Social Science
[16] viXra:1206.0033 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 05:08:32
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 122 Pages.
The author describes his traveling to Indonesia as invited speaker at STIKI University in Malang and at Kristen Satya Wacana University in Salatiga on Neutrosophic Logic/Set (generalizations of fuzzy logic and respectively fuzzy set) and their applications to finance, business, situation analysis, economics, and also on Dezert-Smarandache Theory applied to medicine, military, robotics.
The book contains photos and descriptions of museums, churches, Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and cathedrals that the author visited.
Category: Social Science
[15] viXra:1206.0032 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 05:12:15
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 89 Pages.
This book describes author's travel to India at Jadavpur University in Kolkata as invited speaker on neutrosophic logic/set (generalizations of fuzzy logic and respectively fuzzy set) and their applications to finance, business, situation analysis, economics. Also the book contains descriptions of museums, Hindu and Sikh temples, mosques, cathedrals, meetings with Indian University Professors and researchers in Delhi, Agra and Kolkata.
Category: Social Science
[14] viXra:1206.0031 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-09 05:23:03
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 94 Pages.
Author’s experience as professor of mathematics, teaching in French language, at the Sidi El Hassan Lyoussi College in Sefrou, Morocco, between 1982-1984. His traveling around and relationships with other professors from various nationalities, together with his involvement in training and selecting the Moroccan student team for the 1983 International Olympiad of Mathematics held in Paris, France.
Category: Social Science
[13] viXra:1206.0029 [pdf] submitted on 2012-06-08 06:03:52
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 102 Pages.
De ce fotojurnal?
Fiindcă suprafaţa pozelor se-ntinde aproape la
jumătate sau mai mult din întreg volumul! Răsfoitorii
acestei cărţi măcar vor privi ilustraţiile colorate din
CentroAmerica, iar pe lȃngă imagini vor citi cel puţin cȃteva
rȃnduri edificatoare...
Fiindcă nimeni astăzi nu mai are timp!
De ce instantaneu?
Pentru că jurnalul e scris la primă mȃnă, pe locul
vizitat, cu idei scurte ca nişte blitz-uri, cu economie de
cuvinte – în această lume în care vremea trece rapid.
Memorialistică fără retuşări.
Viaţă brută.
Fraze scurte şi simple, fără multe verbe…
Vizitez din mers...
Fotografiez din mers...
Mănânc din mers...
Trăiesc din mers...
Grăbit, instantaneu, mereu nemulţumit, mereu
căutând...
Pura Vida (am întȃlnit şi sintagma Vida Pura)
înseamnă viaţă pură în societătile hispanice, iar iar popular
expresia semnifică: ‚traiul foarte bun’.
Category: Social Science
[12] viXra:1111.0008 [pdf] submitted on 2 Nov 2011
Authors: Mark Sverdlov
Comments: 6 Pages.
It has been shown that men cannot objectively percept and cognize the world but are organically
connected with it, feel its total unity. This unity includes living - unloving synthesis.
Mankind - world uncorrelation during civilization epoch prevents from feeling this and from
forming of common human unity, leading to confrontation between peoples, to destruction of
nature. Escalation of these processes led mankind to the verge of self-destruction.
Science is directed to objective cognizing of the world which is inaccessible for men because of
subjectivity of their perception and thinking. That is why science cannot help to understand the
present situation. New science is necessary, taking into account the nature of human perception
and thinking.
It is shown that men can restore their natural feeling of the world and form united mankind,
organically connected with it, on this foundation.
Category: Social Science
[11] viXra:1111.0007 [pdf] submitted on 2 Nov 2011
Authors: Mark Sverdlov
Comments: 2 Pages.
It is shown that the human perception of the world was divided into two principally different
representations - Eastern and Western. The Eastern school of thought was attempting to deepen
its perception and viewed its knowledge in this context. The Western school of thought was
based on subjectively logical modeling of the information obtained from the perception. It
assumed that this way it was learning about the world.
It is shown that the Western understanding was the basis of the human being created its own
world during the time of civilization. This was not taken place not from the federative structure
which is natural for the makeup of the world, but rather based on the system of monogovernments,
which was built on the repression of weak people by the strong ones, as well as the
exhostion by the human being of the natural resources.
It was shown that the development of humanity in this way has led to almost complete
extinction of the natural resources, and has put the humanity on the border of self distraction.
It was shown that many-centuries-long development of humanity in this way did not ruin the
initially representative of the human nature, basis for the world, federative structures. It was
shown in the formation of federative governments as well as international market system in the
19-th and 20-th centuries.
It is assumed to be possible, in case of appropriate, fundamental, qualified efforts, the formation
on the federative basis the unified all-humanity-system, which is correlated with the makeup of
the world and, because of this, retaining the ability to live.
Category: Social Science
[10] viXra:1107.0059 [pdf] submitted on 29 Jul 2011
Authors: Garreth H. Gothaven
Comments: 8 pages
The problem as it exists today is one of identity.
What do I, as an African youth have to offer the world in terms of culture worthy of respect.
What do we as Africans offer our children, that which they can be proud of and be willing to hand down to their own children, without any generation obtaining the familiar attitude of it being backward?
A possible solution to the mindset shift that has left continental Africans branded as paddlers of H.I.V.
Exploring some sources of the masochistic attitude, that many have toward their own cultural identity.
Category: Social Science
[9] viXra:1104.0032 [pdf] submitted on 6 Apr 2011
Authors: Rodolfo Henrique Cerbaro
Comments: 3 pages.
As long as we have goals, the ideas of progress and regress affect us daily. These ideas are among the
most important ones in daily life, therefore understanding them properly is necessary. This work
provides a framework where, through relating the ideas with a goal, we manage to understand what the
ideas are based upon, therefore how they affect our routine. No such framework exists in social
sciences, which leaves the ideas of progress and regress poorly accounted for, and attempts of
understanding the ideas have usually been about tracing their story, especially the story of progress, not of tracing how they affect our routine, so hopefully this work can handle this important gap. The
expected result is a closer understanding of the ideas and how they affect our routine.
Category: Social Science
[8] viXra:1103.0118 [pdf] submitted on 31 Mar 2011
Authors: Rodolfo Henrique Cerbaro
Comments: 6 pages.
Defining the concept of power in an uncontroversial manner has proven to be difficult.
Considering it is a significant concept for all of the social sciences, finding an
uncontroversial way of conceptualizing it is necessary. This work proposes that a manner
of conceptualizing power can be obtained through trapping the concept inside a
competition, which allows us to conceptualize based on the competition. Concepts of
power proposed in different fields of social sciences are discussed in the light of
competition-trapping, which lead us to the conclusion that the ways power has been
defined in the fields relate with important competitions to them, supporting the idea that
power seems to be best understood as a competition-dependent concept. This model also
allows us to understand the concept without considering any definition used for it as being
incorrect.
Category: Social Science
[7] viXra:1008.0068 [pdf] submitted on 13 Mar 2010
Authors: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 220 pages
Religious extremism has been the root cause of most of the
world problems since time immemorial. It has decided the fates
of men and nations. In a vast nation like India, the imposition of
religious dogma and discrimination upon the people has taken
place after the upsurge of Hindu rightwing forces in the political
arena. As a consequence of their political ascendancy in the
northern states of India, they started to rewrite school textbooks
in an extremely biased manner that was fundamentalist and
revivalist. Not only did they meddle with subjects like history
(which was their main area of operation), but they also imposed
their religious agenda on the science subjects. There was a plan
to introduce Vedic Astrology in the school syllabus across the
nation, which was dropped after a major hue and cry from
secular intellectuals.
Category: Social Science
[6] viXra:1007.0028 [pdf] submitted on 13 Mar 2010
Authors: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Amal
Comments: 280 pages
The concept of supermatrix for social scientists was first
introduced by Paul Horst. The main purpose of his book was to
introduce this concept to social scientists, students, teachers and
research workers who lacked mathematical training. He wanted
them to be equipped in a branch of mathematics that was
increasingly valuable for the analysis of scientific data.
Category: Social Science
[5] viXra:1005.0057 [pdf] submitted on 11 Mar 2010
Authors: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Kandasamy
Comments: 385 pages
K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished
victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international
platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media
headlines blazed, 'An Untouchable at Elysee'. He was
visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such
heights was never spared from the pangs of outcaste-ness
and untouchability, which is based on birth. Thus, if the
erstwhile first citizen of India faces such humiliation, what
will be the plight of the last man who is a Dalit?
As one of the world's largest socio-economically
oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically
marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in
India suffer not only from the excesses of the traditional
oppressor castes, but also from State Oppression - which
includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police
brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists,
electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb
fundamental rights, and the non-implementation of laws that
safeguard Dalit rights. The Dalits were considered
untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society
until the Constitution of India officially abolished the
practice of untouchability in 1950.
Category: Social Science
[4] viXra:1005.0055 [pdf] submitted on 11 Mar 2010
Authors: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, K. Kandasamy
Comments: 16 pages
The new notions of super column FRM model, super row FRM
model and mixed super FRM model are introduced in this book.
These three models are introduced specially to analyze the
biased role of the print media on 27 percent reservation for the
Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions run
by the Indian Central Government. This book has four chapters.
In chapter one the authors introduce the three types of super
FRM models. Chapter two uses these three new super fuzzy
models to study the role of media which feverishly argued
against 27 percent reservation for OBCs in Central
Government-run institutions in India. The experts we consulted
were divided into 19 groups depending on their profession.
These groups of experts gave their opinion and comments on
the news-items that appeared about reservations in dailies and
weekly magazines, and the gist of these lengthy discussions
form the third chapter of this book. The fourth chapter gives the
conclusions based on our study. Our study was conducted from
April 2006 to March 2007, at which point of time the Supreme
Court of India stayed the 27 percent reservation for OBCs in the
IITs, IIMs and AIIMS. After the aforesaid injunction from the
Supreme Court, the experts did not wish to give their opinion
since the matter was sub-judice. The authors deeply
acknowledge the service of each and every expert who
contributed their opinion and thus made this book a possibility.
We have analyzed the data using the opinion of the experts who
formed a heterogeneous group consisting of administrators,
lawyers, OBC/SC/ST students, upper caste students and
Brahmin students, educationalists, university vice-chancellors,
directors, professors, teachers, retired Judges, principals of
colleges, parents, journalists, members of the public, politicians,
doctors, engineers, NGOs and government staff.
Category: Social Science
[3] viXra:1004.0055 [pdf] submitted on 8 Mar 2010
Authors: Jayant Singh, Hansraj Yadav, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 11 pages
Migration has various dimensions; urbanization due to migration is one of
them. In Rajasthan State, District level analysis of urbanization due to
migrants shows trend invariably for all the districts of the state though the
contribution in urbanization by the migrants varies from district to district.
In some districts the share of migrants moving to urban areas is very
impressive though in others it is not that much high. The migrants'
contribution in urbanization is on the rising over the decades. In this paper
district level migration in the Rajasthan state is examined in relation to
total urbanization and urbanization due to migration.
Category: Social Science
[2] viXra:1003.0248 [pdf] submitted on 8 Mar 2010
Authors: Florentin Smarandache, V. Christianto
Comments: 4 pages
In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the literature which discusses new phenomenon
associated to social network. One of the well-known phenomenon in this regards is known as 'six
degrees of separation' [1], which implies that one can always keep a communication with each other
anywhere within a six-step. A number of experiments has verified this hypothesis, either in the
context of offline communication (postal mail), or online communication (email, etc.).
In this article, we argue that by introducing this known 'six degrees of separation' into the context of
group instability problem, one can find a new type of wisdom in organization. Therefore, we offer a
new conjecture, which may be called 'Group stability conjectures based on Graph/Network
distance."
To our knowledge this conjecture has not been discussed elsewhere, and therefore may be useful for
further research, in particular in the area of organization development and group stability studies.
The purpose of this article was of course not to draw a conclusive theory, but to suggest further
study of this proposed conjecture.
Category: Social Science
[1] viXra:1003.0182 [pdf] submitted on 6 Mar 2010
Authors: Jayant Singh, Hansraj Yadav, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 22 pages
Jaipur urban area has grown tremendously in last three decades. Composition
of People migrating due to various reasons has display a meticulous trend.
Dominance of people moving due to marriages is getting sturdy whereas
Jaipur city is losing its luster in attracting persons for education and business.
Short duration migration from Jaipur district to urban area has gone down to a
very low level. Flow of migrants from Rural areas to Jaipur outpaced the
migrants from urban areas and its composition from various in terms long and
short distances migration has substantially changed over two consecutive
decades. Movements of males and females were differ on many criterion as
male moving faster than females for employment & education and females
move faster than male for marriages and moving along family was found
evident in short, medium and long distances migration. Gender gap in people
migration from different reasons was observed and a gender specific trend
was seen favour. Short duration migration and migration due to education &
employment is not as prominence as it was two decade back
Category: Social Science
[5] viXra:1303.0197 [pdf] replaced on 2013-04-01 10:13:18
Authors: Johan Noldus
Comments: 6 Pages.
The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines to construct workable and calculable models of society in which essential features are disentangled from gratuite desires emanating from the personal morality of its author. This is not to say that the model at hand should not contain a moral aspect, but that the specific form of the latter is a necessary byproduct bounded in time.
Category: Social Science
[4] viXra:1302.0038 [pdf] replaced on 2013-02-07 20:24:57
Authors: Cheng Tianren
Comments: 2 Pages.
昨天下午，院子里有几个小朋友聚在一起玩耍。一开始，他们还玩得挺高兴的，突然间，就为了一件小事打了起来。到最后，几个小孩子打得鼻青脸肿，都不约而同地喊起了爸爸妈妈的名字。听到他们的哭喊声，我心头一惊。
Category: Social Science
[3] viXra:1206.0045 [pdf] replaced on 2012-06-12 01:17:43
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 93 Pages.
„Aventuri chineze” este o carte despre o conferinţă ştiinţifică din Taiwan (în oraşul sudic Kaohsiung), între 4-11 noiembrie 2011, plus un tur ştiintific desfăşurat în perioada 11 decembrie 2011 – 6 ianuarie 2012 în patru oraşe din China: Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, şi Hangzhou.
Stilul lapidar, fotografic (la propriu şi la figurat) din celelalte jurnale şi memorii turistice se menţine.
Category: Social Science
[2] viXra:1103.0118 [pdf] replaced on 18 Jun 2011
Authors: Rodolfo Henrique Cerbaro
Comments: 6 pages
Defining the concept of power in an uncontroversial manner has proven to be difficult.
Considering it is a significant concept for all of the social sciences, finding an
uncontroversial way of conceptualizing it is necessary. This work proposes that a manner
of conceptualizing power can be obtained through trapping the concept inside a
competition, which allows us to conceptualize based on the competition. Concepts of
power proposed in different fields of social sciences are discussed in the light of
competition-trapping, which lead us to the conclusion that the ways power has been
defined in the fields relate with important competitions to them, supporting the idea that
power seems to be best understood as a competition-dependent concept. This model also
allows us to understand the concept without considering any definition used for it as being
incorrect.
Category: Social Science
[1] viXra:1103.0118 [pdf] replaced on 20 May 2011
Authors: Rodolfo Henrique Cerbaro
Comments: 6 pages
Defining the concept of power in an uncontroversial manner has proven to be difficult.
Considering it is a significant concept for all of the social sciences, finding an
uncontroversial way of conceptualizing it is necessary. This work proposes that a manner
of conceptualizing power can be obtained through trapping the concept inside a
competition, which allows us to conceptualize based on the competition. Concepts of
power proposed in different fields of social sciences are discussed in the light of
competition-trapping, which lead us to the conclusion that the ways power has been
defined in the fields relate with important competitions to them, supporting the idea that
power seems to be best understood as a competition-dependent concept. This model also
allows us to understand the concept without considering any definition used for it as being
incorrect.
Category: Social Science