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Journal articles on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Portas, C. M. "One machinery, multiple cognitive states: The value of the AIM model." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 6 (December 2000): 993–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00794027.
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The AIM model represents an original and comprehensive example of how changes in conscious states can be reconciled with specific neurophysiological factors. However, further elucidation of the biological parameters necessary to define a specific space-state relationship should be considered.[Hobson et al.; Solms]
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Pelletier, Gérard-R. "Trois bicentenaires : Hume, Condillac, Smith. Adam Smith entre le marginalisme et le marxisme." Articles 53, no. 1 (June 23, 2009): 44–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/800711ar.
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Abstract It is not easy to understand why, and how, orthodox economists who do not believe either in the labor-theory or in the cost-theory of value, continue to favor Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, but forget such economists as Condillac, whose value theory is nearer to theirs and whose bicentenary we also commemorate. Adam Smith, it is submitted, is still interesting but for reasons far enough from orthodox economic theory. Smith is in fact, according to some recent interpretations, more of a welfare economist, concerned with moral values, than a partial analysis economist: his theory of value derives from ethical considerations following Hume and keeps its normative flavor throughout instead of being solely a tentative explanation of prices. Some apparently contradictory assertions about value could thus be reconciled in a unifying theory, as explained by such authors as Lindgren (1973) or Rieseman (1976). If it is possible to reconcile many apparently contradictory views in Adam Smith's works, thanks to a more holistic approach, it is suggested that a similar approach could be applied to a more controversial economist, Karl Marx, whose career may be compared to that of Smith in many respects.
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Crowder, George. "Value Pluralism and Monotheism." Politics and Religion 7, no. 4 (October 7, 2014): 818–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048314000595.
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AbstractHow far can monotheism be reconciled with the pluralism characteristic of modern societies? In this article, I focus on the “value pluralism” of Isaiah Berlin, which I suggest captures a deeper level of plurality than Rawls's more familiar version of pluralism. However, some critics have objected that Berlinian pluralism is too controversial an idea in which to ground liberalism because it is profoundly at odds with the monotheism professed by so many citizens of a modern society. I argue that monotheists can be value pluralists as long as they do not insist that their faith is superior to all others. This pluralist position is exemplified by elements of the interfaith movement, according to which many religions are recognized as having roughly equal value. I also argue that a value-pluralist approach to religious accommodation, if it can be achieved, may be more stable than the uneasy combination of disapproval and restraint involved in the more orthodox solution to conflict among religions, toleration.
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ERWIG, MARTIN, and STEVE KOLLMANSBERGER. "FUNCTIONAL PEARLS: Probabilistic functional programming in Haskell." Journal of Functional Programming 16, no. 1 (September 12, 2005): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956796805005721.
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At the heart of functional programming rests the principle of referential transparency, which in particular means that a function f applied to a value x always yields one and the same value y=f(x). This principle seems to be violated when contemplating the use of functions to describe probabilistic events, such as rolling a die: It is not clear at all what exactly the outcome will be, and neither is it guaranteed that the same value will be produced repeatedly. However, these two seemingly incompatible notions can be reconciled if probabilistic values are encapsulated in a data type.
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van der Linden, Bastiaan, and R. Edward Freeman. "Profit and Other Values: Thick Evaluation in Decision Making." Business Ethics Quarterly 27, no. 3 (May 11, 2017): 353–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/beq.2017.1.
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ABSTRACT:Profit maximizers have reasons to agree with stakeholder theorists that managers may need to consider different values simultaneously in decision making. However, it remains unclear how maximizing a single value can be reconciled with simultaneously considering different values. A solution can neither be found in substantive normative philosophical theories, nor in postulating the maximization of profit. Managers make sense of the values in a situation by means of the many thick value concepts of ordinary language. Thick evaluation involves the simultaneous consideration of different values: making sense of a value always involves knowing how to engage with it given the other values in the situation. This also goes for profit: maximization is only one way of engaging with the value of profit, and grasping whether maximization is appropriate involves considering other values. We discuss some consequences of our approach for stakeholder theorists and profit maximizers.
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Maciel, Dariela Candela, Alejandra Patricia Ingaramo, Sergio Marcelo Perez, and Humberto Heluane. "MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS IN CONCENTRATION OF LEMON JUICE USING RECONCILED DATA." Latin American Applied Research - An international journal 50, no. 4 (September 25, 2020): 255–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.52292/j.laar.2020.154.
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Citrus production is one of the main agro-industrial activities in Tucuman, Argentina, with a value in 2017 estimated at US$1,178 millions. Production of lemon juice concentrate requires the use of evaporation systems which are critical for the water and energy usage in all process industries. Precise knowledge of process variables is therefore extremely important for evaluation of the efficiency, economic parameters, etc. of the whole plant. In this work, data reconciliation and gross error detection were performed on data collected from the lemon juice concentration unit of an industrial plant located in Tucuman, Argentina. From reconciled data, the overall heat transfer coefficients of the four-effect evaporation line were calculated. In addition, a mathematical model was developed to predict the overall heat transfer coefficients. The parameters of the model were fitted to the experimental data and to the reconciled plant.
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Wadeson, Nigel. "Internationalisation theory and Born Globals." Multinational Business Review 28, no. 4 (April 13, 2020): 447–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mbr-10-2019-0123.
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Purpose It has been claimed that Born Globals are incompatible with the Uppsala model, which is based on the firm having a maximum tolerable risk level. This assumption was used to explain observed incremental commitments, with further commitments being made as experiential learning reduces the level of risk faced. This study aims to show that adding a consideration of the role of expected value, including the effects of resource constraints, can reconcile the Born Global and internationalisation process literatures. Design/methodology/approach The theoretical arguments are supported by mathematical modelling of a firm pursuing expected value based on subjective beliefs. Findings While the effects of risk and expected value coincide when firms limit their downside risks by taking an incremental approach to commitments, other factors impacting on expected value can shift the balance of incentives towards earlier and more rapid internationalisation. For instance, some firms are specialised and have high costs of R&D, and so need to achieve early and rapid growth but face small home markets. While resource constraints can lead a firm to expand for some time in its home market before internationalising, the effect can be reversed in the case of the finance constraint for some firms. Originality/value The study shows how Born Global and internationalisation process literatures can be reconciled through a consideration of the effects of expected value on internationalisation decisions. It also provides a novel theoretical analysis of Born Globals.
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Raymond, Jean. "Reflections on the TEAM Trial: Why Clinical Care and Research Should be Reconciled." Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 38, no. 2 (March 2011): 198–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100011343.
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The current clinical and research environment is one that renders any true enquiry into the value of commonly performed surgical acts practically impossible. Drawing from the recent failure of Trial on Endovascular Aneurysm Management (TEAM), a trial on the endovascular management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, I attempt to identify some principles that sustain the current ways of doing clinical research that have paradoxically become major obstacles to trials that aim to assess the potential benefit or harm due to interventions as currently practiced. Clinical research and practice must coalesce into “clinical care trials” if we are to provide patients with optimal, prudent care in the context of uncertainty. This may require a major change in the mentalities of clinicians, scientists, and patients alike, and the adoption of novel strategies for public agencies to support the integration of clinical research and care.
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Kennedy, T. A., E. R. Glaser, W. E. Carlos, P. P. Ruden, and Shuji Nakamura. "Symmetry of Electrons and Holes in Lightly Photo-Excited InGaN LEDs." MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research 4, S1 (1999): 793–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/s1092578300003434.
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The symmetry of the recombining electrons and holes in lightly photo-excited InGaN LEDs revealed through ODMR is related to the physical structure, band structure and defects present. Calculations of the electron-g within the k• p formalism give the average shift from the free-electron value for GaN but are not fully reconciled with the anisotropy. This theory is also extended to InGaN alloys for both pseudomorphic and relaxed layers. The average shift is close to the experimental values for the green LED. The strongly reduced hole anisotropies seen experimentally are explained by a recently published theory for acceptors in GaN.
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Lehtimäki, Hanna, Johanna Kujala, and Anna Heikkinen. "Corporate Responsibility in Communication." Business Communication Quarterly 74, no. 4 (October 14, 2011): 432–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1080569911424203.
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The paper examines how the tensions of corporate responsibility are articulated and reconciled in a controversial situation of a foreign investment. We conducted a conventionalist analysis on the company press releases in a case where a Finnish forest industry company invested in a pulp mill in South America. The findings show that the use of language in press releases mobilizes certain stakeholders while reassuring others, and that the argumentation used creates value-neutral communication, making it possible to pursue strategic goals despite competing values. For teaching, we provide insights on how to communicate in a conflict situation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Nováček, Adam. "Vyrovnání provozních dat v energetických procesech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232141.
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This thesis is focused on problem data reconciliation of measurements. The objective of this thesis was reconciled measured value from electric drum dryer to suit exactly to the mathematical model of drying. For solution was used nonlinear data reconciliation with constrained nonlinear optimization. The entire calculation is processed in programme MATLAB and outputs are graphs of reconciled values of measurement on dryer such as inlet and outlet temperature and humidity, differential pressure of exhaust moisture air, weight of laundry, atmospheric pressure and electric supply. Achieved solution can by characterized by an amount of evaporated water. Weight of wet and dry laundry are 27,7 kg a 17,7 kg. The calculated amount of evaporated water from measurements was almost 18,8 kg. With reconciled measurements it was 9,7 kg. Goals of the thesis were found more realistic values.
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Pezisa, Lindiswa. "Ubuntu: linking indigenous values with efforts in building a reconciled South Africa: the case of NMMU." Thesis, Nelson Mandela University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14477.
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This thesis investigates the role that African indigenous value systems, Ubuntu in particular, could play in building a reconciled South Africa. In doing so a discourse analysis on Ubuntu is conducted and its potential in facilitating social cohesion in the quest for nation building. Specific focus is drawn on higher education an important task if we are to consider the accusation that higher education like its society, is still undergoing transformation and is under pressure to provide quality education for all people whilst also considering the large numbers of cultures that exist. For much needs to be done in redressing the imbalances caused by the apartheid education system which was organized according to racial lines. In doing so, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is utilised as a case study with narrative presentations of how students perceive this traditional African value and its applicability to reconciliation in a post conflict society. For seemingly, there is something inherently important about this value in that it has been invoked and referred to in many important instances in South African history.
Books on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Stamm, Andreas. Strengthening value chains in Sri Lanka's agribusiness: A way to reconcile competitiveness with socially inclusive growth? Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, 2006.
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Bramble, Ben. Evaluative Beliefs First. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828310.003.0013.
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Many philosophers think that it is only because we happen to want or care about things that we think some things of value. We start off caring about things, and then project these desires onto the external world. This chapter makes a preliminary case for the opposite view, that it is our evaluative thinking that is prior. On this view, it is only because we think some things of value that we care about or want anything at all. This view explains (i) the special role that pleasure and pain play in our motivational systems, (ii) why phenomenal consciousness evolved, and (iii) how the two main competing theories of normative reasons for action—objectivism and subjectivism—can be reconciled. The chapter responds to the most serious objections to this view, including that it cannot account for temptation and willpower, or for the existence and appropriateness of the reactive attitudes.
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Marmysz, John. Introduction: Overcomings. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424561.003.0010.
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What would it mean to overcome nihilism?Usually, this question is answered in an optimistic way, with the suggestion that in overcoming nihilism, we would accomplish something ultimately positive, productive and beneficial. If nihilism consists in the alienation of human existence from Truth and Being, then in its overcoming, we would find ourselves finally reconciled with that which is of the highest value and meaning. Human life would reach its supreme goal, our purpose for being here would become clear, and our place in the universe would no longer be a mystery. For these sorts of reasons, it has been taken as self-evident by many that overcoming nihilism is one of the greatest goods toward which humankind should work. If we could mend the rift between our real, finite existence and our highest aspirations once and for all, then we would truly be happy and fulfilled....
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Minteer, Ben A. Environmental Ethics, Sustainability Science, and the Recovery of Pragmatism. Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner and Allen Thompson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.46.
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The recent emergence of sustainability science has created opportunities and challenges for environmental ethics. On the one hand, the fast growth and increasing influence of sustainability science in environmental management and policy circles—and its normative character as a goal-directed enterprise focused on moving society toward a more durable socio-ecological relationship—provides an opening for environmental ethics to contribute to the development of this new transdisciplinary science. Yet traditional (and historically dominant) nonanthropocentric ethics will prove difficult to reconcile with sustainability science’s strong emphasis on the anthropocentric goals of improving human welfare and well-being. A more explicitly pragmatic understanding of environmental ethics, a view that combines respect for nature with a wider sense of value pluralism (including more human-directed values) in the cautious shaping of ecological systems for conservation and human benefit, has the potential to draw the two fields closer together at this critical stage in their developmental trajectories.
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Sargent, Thomas J. The Ends of Four Big Inflations. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691158709.003.0003.
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This chapter examines several dramatic historical experiences that are consistent with the “rational expectations” view but that seem difficult to reconcile with the “momentum” model of inflation. The idea is to identify the measures that successfully brought drastic inflations under control in several European countries in the 1920s, namely: Austria, Hungary, Germany, and Poland, all of which experienced a dramatic “hyperinflation” in which, after the passage of several months, price indexes assumed astronomical proportions. The experience of Czechoslovakia is also considered. Within each of Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Germany, there occurred a dramatic change in the fiscal policy regime, which in each instance was associated with the end of a hyperinflation. Czechoslovakia deliberately adopted a relatively restrictive fiscal policy regime in order to maintain the value of its currency.
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Weinstock, Daniel M. How the Interests of Children Limit the Religious Freedom of Parents. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794394.003.0016.
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This chapter argues that parents have a right to raise their children according to the tenets of the religions that they profess. That right can be seen as grounded in the interest that children have in enjoying the kind of intimacy within the family context that is facilitated by participation in practices and rituals rooted in comprehensive conceptions of the good. It also argues, however, that children have a right to be raised in a manner that does not foreclose their future autonomy. These two rights can be reconciled if we distinguish acceptable and unacceptably asymmetrical upbringings. Parents can incline their children toward certain values and practices in accordance with their comprehensive conceptions, on condition that they also provide children with the conditions that will allow them to make autonomous decisions in the future.
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Heinrichs, Douglas W. Model-Based Science and the Ethics of Ongoing Treatment Negotiation. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.26.
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Current thinking in medical ethics posits that treatment decisions should result from negotiation between clinician and patient as autonomous agents. However the view of science that underlies most thinking about evidence in medicine encourages the belief that in principle optimal evi-dence-based judgment as to best treatments can be reached by the clinician apart from such ne-gotiation, reducing negotiation to a sham process. A model-based notion of science, derived from a naturalistic philosophy of science, argues that the process of predicting optimal treatment re-quires consideration of a patient’s goals, and thus requires ongoing negotiations with the patient. Hence values are integral to the scientific process, not something extra-scientific that must be reconciled with it. From this perspective the clinician’s activity becomes one with scientific method rather than an ill-defined, and typically undervalued, art.
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Lester, Emile. Democracy, Religion, and American Education. Edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199386819.013.6.
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The debate over religion in public schools in the United States since the 1960s has pitted two forces of democracy celebrated in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract against each other. The Supreme Court’s exclusion of sectarian prayer and Bible reading reflected democracy’s commitment to respect the rights of all. The politically engaged response of evangelical and conservative Christians has drawn upon democracy’s need for robust participation by ordinary citizens. While Rousseau believed that only an agreement upon a civil religion could reconcile these democratic forces, the results of a required world religions course in Modesto, California, suggests otherwise. The course enhanced students’ respect for religious liberty while allowing them to maintain their sectarian beliefs. Modesto’s course did not resolve all the dilemmas of democracy, however. The aversion to open-ended class discussions neglects the value of democratic deliberation that notable democratic theorists like Jurgen Habermas and Amy Gutmann celebrate.
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Richardson, Henry. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190247744.003.0012.
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This concluding chapter restates the book’s central arguments in a simple, linear order, highlighting its conclusions about the nature of the moral community, the proper analysis of dyadic rights and duties, and the possibility of moral authority. It explains how this argument clears away a threshold objection to constructive ethical pragmatism (CEP) and how the book’s accounts of practical intelligence, moral psychology, and objectivity further support this normative ethical view. It considers how the central argument might be extended by dropping the assumption that moral authority is limited to specifying objective moral norms and by relaxing the expository focus on cases of two intelligent individuals working things out together at the input stage. Against the former of these broadenings, it notes the value of the way that the account, as developed, enables us to reconcile morality’s possibly eternal objective core with the possibility of our contingently adding to its objective content.
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Rhodes, Neil. Of Reformed Versifying. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198704102.003.0005.
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This chapter examines how the development of English poetry in the second half of the sixteenth century is characterized by the search for an appropriate style. In this context, ‘reformed versifying’ may be understood as a reconciliation of high and low in which the common is reconfigured as a stylistic ideal of the mean. That development can be traced in debates about prosody where an alternative sense of ‘reformed versifying’ as adapting classical metres to English verse is rejected in favour of native form. At the same time Sidney recuperates poetry by reforming it as an agent of virtue. Reformation and Renaissance finally come together in Spenser, who realizes Erasmus’ aim of harmonizing the values of classical literature with Christian doctrine, and reconciles the foreign and the ‘homewrought’. The Faerie Queene of 1590 represents the triumph of the mean in both style and, through its celebration of marriage, in substance.
Book chapters on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Lynch, Gordon. "‘If We Were Untrammelled by Precedent…’: Pursuing Gradual Reform in Child Migration, 1954–1961." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 243–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_7.
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AbstractThis chapter examines how British child migration policy became caught up in the political sensitivities of post-war assisted migration. By 1950, officials in the Commonwealth Relations Office were becoming increasingly doubtful about the strategic and economic value of assisted migration, but also concerned about adverse political reaction in Australia to any scaling back of this work. An agreement was reached between the Commonwealth Relations and Home Office in 1954 to continue child migration on the basis of encouraging gradual reform of standards in Australia. In 1956, a UK Government Fact-Finding Mission in 1956 recommended more urgent controls over child migration, but this was rejected by an inter-departmental review in view of these wider political sensitivities. Despite introducing more limited monitoring, British policy-makers struggled to reconcile their knowledge of failings in some Australian institutions with the political challenge of trying to address these in the absence of co-operation from the Australian Government.
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Liefke, Kristina. "A Compositional Pluralist Semantics for Extensional and Attitude Verbs." In Language, Cognition, and Mind, 25–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3_2.
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AbstractWe propose a new account of linguistic content that reconciles content-pluralism with compositionality. This is achieved by integrating truth-conditional content and attitude report content into a single notion of content. A parametrized version of this notion (with parameters for agents, times, and information states) serves as input to the compositional semantic machinery. By supplying different parameter-values to the parametrized contents of their complements, different verbs select for different components of the complement’s integrated content. The resulting account explains the different substitution properties of extensional and attitude constructions and captures the role of agents’ epistemicperspective in the determination of attitude content. The account improves upon other accounts of truth-conditional and attitude content (esp. two-dimensional semantics) by interpreting different occurrences of an expression—in extensional and in attitude embeddings—as objects of the same semantic type, and by explaining the substitution-resistance of attitudinal embeddings of extensional constructions.
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"Time Value." In Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, 134–45. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0240-3.ch011.
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Within organizations, time is essentially equal to money; or is it? Should it be that employee output is equal to money as opposed to their time on the job? Time is an important resource that is often directed but not measured accurately relative to cost for the organization or the individual. Organizations also face issues related to the length of time employees choose to remain with the company, and/or they may employ downsizing/rightsizing strategies of their own. Time value is used to determine depreciation rates for technology and is easily reconciled from a cost perspective by employers. Time is measured in a continuum despite efforts to segregate its value in the workplace (Taylor, 1911). The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) present the concept of time value; and (2) analyze and compare technology time value including life span of equipment and depreciation of equipment expense with people time value including length of time in position and downsizing/rightsizing.
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Jaros, Stephen. "Knowledge and Labor Theories of Value: Can they be Reconciled?" In Handbook of Information Technology in Organizations and Electronic Markets, 395–414. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812707628_0019.
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James, David. "The Compatibility of Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Idea of Communist Society." In Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History, 162–91. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847885.003.0007.
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It is argued that the manner in which workers organize production and determine its goals explains how freedom and necessity are reconciled in Marx’s idea of communist society. Freedom and necessity are reconciled, moreover, in such a way that both self-realization and engagement in activities that possess some intrinsic value become possible, whereas this is not the case for workers in capitalist society. Communist society is explained in terms of a concept of freedom that incorporates three distinct types of freedom, whereas this concept of freedom is incompatible with the constraints generated by the capitalist mode of production and the social relations that emerge on its basis. The theme of how historical materialism is committed to the idea of historical necessity and seeks to explain this necessity in terms of practical necessity is then introduced.
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Schwartz, Shalom H., and Jan Cieciuch. "Values." In The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, 106–19. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199356942.003.0008.
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The concept and measurement of values undergoes continued development and change. Yet several issues persist. Are people aware of their values, or are values unavailable to conscious awareness? Shouldvalues be measured directly because people can articulate them, or indirectly because people have no access to them? Can these views be reconciled? While tracing the development of values theory through the approaches of Allport and Vernon, Rokeach, and Schwartz, this chapter examines these and other questions that values researchers confront. Is there a comprehensive set of human values and how could one discover it? To what extent are people’s values organized into meaningful systems and on what bases? What different methods are there to measure values in adults and children? What assumptions do these methods make about the nature of values? What are the advantages and disadvantages of rating versus ranking techniques? What new directions is value measurement taking?
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Hansen, Lars Peter, and Thomas J. Sargent. "A Commodity Space." In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691042770.003.0006.
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This chapter describes a concept of value that will be used to formulate a model in which the decisions of agents are reconciled in a competitive equilibrium. It describes a commodity space in which quantities and prices both will reside. The stochastic Lagrange multipliers of Chapter 4 are closely related to equilibrium prices and live in the same mathematical space. The planning problem studied in Chapter 4 produces an outcome in which the process for consumption {ct} is an n-dimensional stochastic process that belongs to L2 0. The chapter presents a heuristic justification for the representation of the value of {ct}. It proceeds by reviewing several examples of commodity spaces and valuation functions.
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Rampton, Ben. "Sociolinguists and Rapport." In Reimagining Rapport, 43–56. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917074.003.0003.
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‘Rapport’ in fieldwork involves the temporary interactional suspension of strangerhood and distance. In traditional ethnography, it has positive value as a fieldwork ideal sketched in advisory rules of thumb. But in reflexive contemporary sociolinguistics, rapport looks like a craft term concealing a great deal of ideological work, covering ethnocentricity in gate-keeping encounters and ‘synthetic personalization’ in consumer culture. Can these two traditions be reconciled and if so, how? The paper proposes playback—retrospective participant commentary on recordings of interaction—as a productive reconfiguration of rapport that avoids the bad faith with which rapport is so easily identified.
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Horn, Christoph. "Ruling With (and Without) Laws." In Plato's Statesman, 177–94. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898296.003.0009.
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Chapter 9 discusses Statesman 297b5-303d3, where Plato appears to be both a legalist (ranking law based constitutions above lawless ones) and an anti-legalist (ranking the rule by a single expert individual above even law-based constitutions). While these statements can be reconciled, a deeper interpretative problem concerns Plato’s views about laws that are formulated in the absence of an expert ruler. Does he find value in such a legal order, or does the worth of a legal order depend on the expertise of its legislator? Is law valuable on the basis of its efficiency or morality or something else? Or is law valuable, simply by the fact that it provides order and regularity? This chapter argues that, for Plato, the value of law is based on expertise, but does not require the presence of a fully knowledgeable lawgiver.
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Phillips, Matthew. "Ancient Past, Modern Ceremony." In How the Past was Used. British Academy, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266120.003.0009.
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This chapter explores how the royal barge procession, one of Thailand’s most historic cultural events, came to represent both the deep Thai past and the modern Thai nation. With a specific focus on the early Cold War, during a period where power was being openly contested amongst Thailand’s elite, the chapter identifies how the materiality of the barges presented both challenges and opportunities. Certainly, as historic artefacts, the barges promised to secure narratives of authenticity and political legitimacy. Yet, as this chapter illustrates, for the barge procession to be of genuine value to the Thai state, it would first have to be reconciled with the contemporary forces that were determining the course of Thai nation building; namely, the integration of Thailand into a world order based in the United States, and the reorganisation of Thai society around new class arrangements.
Conference papers on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Langenstein, Magnus, and Jan Hansen-Schmidt. "The Worlds’ First Ever Cooling Tower Acceptance Test Using Process Data Reconciliation." In 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone14-89643.
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The cooling capacity of cooling towers is influenced by multiple constructive and atmospheric parameters in a very complex way. This leads to strong variations of the measured cold-water temperature and causes unacceptable unreliability of conventional acceptance tests, which are based on single point measurements. In order to overcome this lack of accuracy a new approach to acceptance test based on process data reconciliation has been developed by BTB Jansky and applied at a nuclear power plant. This approach uses process data reconciliation according to VDI 2048 [1, 2] to evaluate datasets over a long period covering different operating conditions of the cooling tower. Data reconciliation is a statistical method to determine the true process parameters with a statistical probability of 95% by considering closed material-, mass- and energy balances. Datasets which are not suitable for the evaluation due to strong transient gradients are excluded beforehand, according to well-defined criteria. The reconciled cold-water temperature is then compared, within a wet bulb temperature range of 5°C to 20°C to the manufacturer’s guaranteed temperature. Finally, if the average deviation between reconciled and guaranteed value over the evaluated period is below zero, the cooling tower guarantee is fulfilled.
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Goodman, Joseph N., Jeannette Yen, Russell Gentry, Kathryn M. Nagel, and Guillermo J. Amador. "A Compound Analogical Design for Low Cost Solar Panel Systems." In ASME 2012 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smasis2012-8256.
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In support of the Department of Energy Sunshot initiative target of $1.25 per watt photovoltaics systems for commercial applications, whole system designs were pursued using the analogical design methodology, an essential step in the bio inspired design approach. A functional decomposition of solar panel systems was conducted, and then key functions critical to system integrity and cost reduction were identified. Three sources of bio-inspiration were mainly used: hierarchical structures as a common design dimension exploited in natural systems, and leaves’ ability to maintain position through changes in shape and angle of attack when triggered by wind flow, and limpet shells’ reduction of hydrodynamic forces by way of natural geometrical features. The design team developed concepts with varying degrees of abstraction then attempted to reconcile them with other functional requirements. Variants that descended from the leaf concept were generally found to be biophilic and offer aesthetic value; however, presented shortcomings in electrical design and installation procedure (Kellert 2008). Alternatively, concepts inspired by hierarchical structures and limpet shells were found to have greater variability, enabling reconciliation with other functional requirements, resulting in a complete system solution capable of meeting the cost reduction objective. From the analysis of these design variants, we may conclude that transferring solution principles directly from nature is best done when there is small set of functional requirements that must be fulfilled and value in a biophilic design. However, in cases of significant system complexity, abstracted lessons from nature may be found to be more flexible and easily reconciled with multiple requirements.
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Ryan, Evelyn M., and Edward W. Russell. "Developing Quality Assurance Programs That Satisfy 10 CFR 71, Subpart H and Department of Energy Requirements for Packaging Organizations at Department of Energy Sites." In ASME/JSME 2004 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2004-2782.
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Many differences exist in Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Quality Assurance (QA) requirements documents, work scope, organizational structures, and graded application and assessment approaches. These differences must be understood and reconciled to ensure consistent and effective implementation and cost effective assessments of QA Programs for DOE organizations participating in the design, purchase, fabrication, handling, shipping, storing, cleaning, assembly, inspection, testing, operation, maintenance, repair, use and/or modification of the radioactive material packaging. This paper discusses those differences and provides practical recommendations that can serve as stepping stones to more effective and efficient QA programs and value added assessments at DOE sites participating in radioactive material packaging activities.
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Feldman, Rafael Noac, and Elcio Cruz de Oliveira. "Data Reconciliation Applied in a Transfer and Storage Terminal." In 2006 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2006-10277.
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In a simply manner, data reconciliation is a mathematic treatment with propose of a better quality of the data in a process. Industrial processes typically have a large number of measured variables, which presents some degree of random errors and, less frequently, gross errors. In this text, in order to simplify the notation and terminology we classify all instrument and process errors in these two categories. Any significant systematic bias is included in the gross error category. Data reconciliation allows the measurements to be adjusted (“reconciled”) to satisfy process restrictions (mass and energy balances) and improve measurements quality. The results obtained by data reconciliation can also provide benefits in custody transfer issues. Custody transfer is the responsibility transfer during the storage and transportation of a measured refined product volume. Any loss or gain resulting in a non-trustful measurement is considered as the transportation company responsibility. Therefore, the work objective is to propose a data reconciliation methodology, in a process involving diesel oil custody transfer in a Transpetro’s terminal (Terminal of Sao Caetano do Sul), in order to evaluate and correct possible inconsistencies, besides to know a single measure that represents better the measurement system. In this study we will use data from static measurement in tanks, dynamic measurement in turbine and ultra-sonic device. A database will be obtained in two basic steps: process modeling and data reconciliation to consolidate the mass balance. The reconciled value shows us that there is a bias in the ultra-sonic meter and the turbine meter measurement is more reliable, as expected.
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Purwar, Anurag, and Qiaode Jeffrey Ge. "Reconciling Distance Metric Methods for Rigid Body Displacements." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87718.
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In the last twenty years, researchers have proposed a few different methods to establish a norm (or, metric) for both planar and spatial rigid body displacements. Desire to meaningfully quantify a displacement composed of rotation and translation stems from a requirement to ascertain “distance” between two given displacements in applications, such as motion approximation and interpolation, mechanism synthesis, collision avoidance, positioning, and robot calibration and control. In this paper, we show that the various seemingly different shape independent norm calculation methods based on approximating displacements with higher dimensional rotations via orthogonal matrices, or polar decomposition (PD) and singular value decomposition (SVD) can be reconciled and unified in the mathematically compact and elegant framework of biquaternions. In the process, we also propose an elegant and fast method for such norm calculations.
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Ma, Weigang, Tingting Miao, and Xing Zhang. "Thermal and Electrical Transport Characteristics of Polycrystalline Gold Nanofilms." In 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ihtc14-22328.
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The in-plane thermal and electrical conductivities of several suspended polycrystalline gold nanofilms with thickness of 20.0–54.0 nm have been measured simultaneously at 100–310 K. Both the thermal and electrical conductivities drop greatly compared to the corresponding bulk value, and the electrical conductivity reduction is larger. Fits to the temperature-dependent electrical conductivity confirm that the scattering of electrons by softened phonons is significant and cannot be reconciled with the classical size-effect model considering only surface and grain boundary. Taking into account the enhanced electron-phonon scattering, the electrical conductivity is well predicted over the whole temperature range and the obtained Debye temperature agrees well with the calculated value from the elastic continuum model. Furthermore, a new model on the thermal transport of metallic nanofilm is proposed based on the Energy Conservation Law, in which the electron-phonon scattering induced electron energy decrease is supposed to be counteracted by the phonon energy increase. The present model greatly improves the prediction of thermal conductivity in thin films compared to the corresponding result directly from electrical thermal analogy applied to bulk metals.
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Wang, Zengqian, Jingjin Ji, Xinghao Wang, Bo Sun, Lei He, and Qiang Xu. "Application of Data Reconciliation Method to Increase CCPP Performance Test Result Accuracy." In ASME Turbo Expo 2015: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2015-43901.
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Performance acceptance test for gas-steam Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) is of great significance for both equipment manufacturer and customer. The influence of measurement error on the calculation of guaranteed performance data as power output and heat rate can lead to unnecessary loss for either party. Commonly used uncertainty analysis method based on ASME PTC 19.1 would require all measuring instrumentation working at designed accuracy range. Meanwhile, due to the complexity of CCPP system and large number of measuring items, and as well the propagation of measurement and data reduction error, the uncertainty of corrected performance data could be significant. In this paper, process data reconciliation method based on VDI 2048 is introduced. With access to complete performance test data from a CCPP project, data reconciliation calculation is performed with an appropriate thermodynamic model. Several measurement values with gross error are identified and verified in heat balance calculation. Moreover, after recalculating with the reconciled data instead of raw data for the corrected power output and heat rate, comparison with the common uncertainty analysis method is also carried out. It is shown that with this reconciliation method, it is not only possible to find out gross errors such as instrumentation drift, but also able to dramatically increase the test result accuracy, which is of great value for both manufacturer and customer.
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Hicks, Jonathan, and Donald Kerber. "Improving Plant Operations With Performance and Condition Monitoring Systems." In ASME 2009 Power Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2009-81083.
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Business operations in the power industry, as with every other industry, require payback for the resolution of process problems. In order to achieve this payback many plant monitoring systems are used such as Performance and Condition Monitoring Systems. Performance Monitoring systems use first principles calculations for a baseline and test performance case, both of these calculations can then be reconciled to give a cost associated with off design operation. Condition Monitoring systems operate on the Advanced Pattern Recognition Algorithm (APR) and can be used to identify slight variations in the performance of a system largely independent of the quality of the inputs. The process to identify deviations is as follows: a predicted value is calculated for every modeled parameter, a difference between the predicted value and actual value is calculated, the difference is compared to an allowed threshold, and then problems are reported. The purpose of the following report is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each monitoring system and show how they may be used together for a more thorough analysis of off design operation. Performance monitoring systems provide a reliable and actionable assessment of Heat Rate deviations when they occur in the field. The calculations provided by these systems can lead directly to the diagnosis of real performance problems as well as instrument inaccuracies and provide the financial implications of each issue. Performance monitoring systems, however, are highly dependent upon input quality as their results are found using first principles calculations. Condition Monitoring systems can be used to identify smaller deviations from normal at an earlier time. The major strength of the APR process is its ability to identify these deviations regardless of input quality. As with Performance Monitoring Systems the APR process will identify real problems as well as instrument problems. However, it will not provide a financially quantifiable result as to the effect of the deviation. Monitoring systems should be able to provide quantifiable results with minimal personnel use in order to achieve a payback for more operational problems. This paper will discuss how the use of Performance Monitoring Systems in conjunction with Condition Monitoring Systems will provide the complete analysis needed by the power industry today.
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Wang, Zhi, Jing Gong, Haihao Wu, and Qingpin Li. "The Development and Application of Virtual Flow Metering System in Offshore Gas Field." In 2014 10th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2014-33399.
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Well flow rate surveillance is essential for reservoir characterization and selecting potential activities and optimization production. Ideally, surveillance would be achieved using multiphase meters on each well, but generally it is not economically feasible especially for subsea production system. Therefore, the technology of virtual flow metering comes up. In this paper, the development and application of virtual flow metering system, used for determining production rates including gas oil and water flowrates in well, is discussed. Without any metering devices, the system, developed by China University of Petroleum, can automatically estimate single well and whole production rates every five minutes, only taking advantages of the instrumentations typically installed on wells. In hardware, the system is mainly made up of two servers, one of which in charge of communication, the other calculation. In software, the core algorithms are based on validated models of well hydraulics and flow through choke in oil industry. Also, the components and heat transfer influence is also taken into considered by their corresponding models. Based on these models, three independent algorithms are established for well flow rates prediction. Each algorithm is replicable for others in order to prevent measurement distortion and end caused by individual instruments faults. The value of estimated flow rate uncertainties in addition to real-time continuous well flowrate estimates is described. The flowrate basis on a daily or weekly reconciled by real-time calibration program basing on calculated uncertainties. The system practically applied in one subsea production system producing gas-condensate. In field commissioning, the system showed a great accuracy. The total mass flow rate and volumetric flowrates for each phase at standard conditions calculated with VMS showed a great agreement with the field data. The maximum error is below 10% and the averaged error is nearly 5%.
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Lukaniuk, Coral, Reena Sahney, and Mark Jean. "A Practical Approach to Drive Consistency in the Pipeline Industry: CEPA Integrity First®." In 2016 11th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2016-64176.
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The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) is a voluntary, non-profit industry association representing major Canadian transmission pipeline companies. CEPA Integrity First® is an industry program developed by the CEPA member companies as a way to work to collectively to strengthen the pipeline industry’s performance, engagement and communications. Integrity First focuses on three main areas: safety, environment and socio-economics. Through Integrity First, members assess their internal systems, processes and practices using “guidance documents” developed through industry collaboration. These documents contain detailed, but not prescriptive “maturity tables” companies use to assess themselves against. The assessments result in the identification of areas of improvement, new standards at the member company level and for industry as a whole. After the first two self-assessments were completed in 2014, there was recognition that the foundation of the guidance documents needed improvement to ensure sustainability and value to all stakeholders. The new structure of the maturity tables is intended to have two philosophical underpinnings: scalability and relevance to the broad size and range of CEPA member company’s operations and practical maturity assessment approach for a company’s management systems. The main challenge in developing the maturity tables to form a sustainable structure lies in the broad range of jurisdictional and pipeline system requirements that are represented by CEPA’s membership. More specifically, the maturity tables needed to be flexible enough to apply to CEPA member companies with international operations crossing multiple jurisdictional boundaries with multiple pipeline networks as well as smaller scale operations encompassing pipelines operating within a single provincial jurisdiction. Further, there was recognition that multiple regulatory requirements and standards/practices existed, especially in the area of management systems, including (but not limited to) the National Energy Board Onshore Pipeline Regulations, Canadian Standards Association Z662, American Petroleum Institute 1173 and International Standards Organization 9000, 14000 and 55000 series. In light of these constraints, a key aspect of the approach was to map (cross-reference) requirements from key regulations and standards. Once alignment between the different standards was assessed, requirements were reconciled and simplified where possible. A final and thorough review of all requirements was completed to ensure that breadth, depth and wording of the maturity tables and associated criteria was consistent and comprehensive prior to engaging member companies to collect feedback. The intent with Integrity First is not to create another management system but to follow management system principles. Integrity First enables member companies to consistently assess their own systems and, through analysis and comparison, facilitates improvement across the industry. The paper will discuss the approach in more detail along with key challenges, areas of learning and outcomes.
Reports on the topic "Reconciled value"
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Siebert, Rudolf J., and Michael R. Ott. Catholicism and the Frankfurt School. Association Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.53099/ntkd4301.
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The paper traces the development from the medieval, traditional union, through the modern disunion, toward a possible post-modern reunion of the sacred and the profane. It concentrates on the modern disunion and conflict between the religious and the secular, revelation and enlightenment, faith and autonomous reason in the Western world and beyond. It deals specifically with Christianity and the modern age, particularly liberalism, socialism and fascism of the 2Oth and the 21st centuries. The problematic inclination of Western Catholicism toward fascism, motivated by the fear of and hate against socialism and communism in the 20th century, and toward exclusive, authoritarian, and totalitarian populism and identitarianism in the 21st. century, is analyzed, compared and critiqued. Solutions to the problem are suggested on the basis of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society, derived from the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School. The critical theory and praxis should help to reconcile the culture wars which are continually produced by the modern antagonism between the religious and the secular, and to prepare the way toward post-modern, alternative Future III - the freedom of All on the basis of the collective appropriation of collective surplus value. Distribution and recognition problems are equally taken seriously.