Contrary to my critics, voter irrationality does not imply that economists cannot mitigate political failure. With rational voters, reform-minded economists have few viable tactics; with irrational voters reformers have more options. Rational voters can be swayed only by facts and logic; irrational voters could respond to better rhetoric. Rational voters strategically punish those who ignore th...

The doctrine that Christ is really present in the Eucharist appears to entail that Christ’s body is not only multiply located but present in different ways at different locations. Moreover, the doctrine poses an even more difficult metaquestion: what makes a theological explanation of the Eucharist a ‘real presence’ account? Aquinas’s defence of transubstantiation, perhaps the paradigmatic acco...

This paper presents Student model implementation of Design Pattern’s intelligent tutoring system. To our knowledge there hasn’t been realized at least one intelligent tutoring system for learning Design Patterns. Some software tools, like Rational XDE have support for Design Patterns. There are many approaches and technologies for student modeling, but choosing the right one depends on the info...

In this position paper we raise the question of whether Connguration Management (CM) research has a future. The new standard in CM systems|typiied by commercial products such as Adele, ADC, ClearCase, Continuus/CM, and CCC/Harvest|largely satisses the CM functionality requirements posed by Dart. This implies that research in the area of CM is either unnecessary or that we must nd new challenges...

bubbles in asset prices have fascinated researchers in finance. identify asset bubbles, by circumstances, on the stock market has been a growing number of research theoretical and empirical. on a theoretical level, it was assumed that the price dynamics reflect irrational behavior of economic agents and, therefore, should be excluded from a deal with the truly rational economic agents burmeiste...

background: resistance to antimicrobial agents including aminoglycosides (ags) is a great concern that is mainly related to inappropriate use. since there were not adequate data regarding how rationally ags are being prescribed in our critically ill patients, this study was conducted to determine the main issues in the area of appropriate use of this antibiotic class.   methods: one hundred pat...

Background: One of social problems which has affected our society and resulted in problems for different groups of people is drug abuse. This issue indicates a serious psychological, physical and social problem in community. Social skills have positive and successful influences in prevention of substance abuse. This includes the ability to explain events correctly and then appropriate decision ...

This paper shows why, in a world with differing priors, rational agents tend to attribute their own success more to skill and their failure more to bad luck than an outsider. It further shows why each agent in a group might think he or she is the best, why an agent might overestimate the control he has over the outcome, and why two agents’ estimated contributions often add up to more than 100%....

In this paper we investigate the behavior of solutions, stable and unstable of the solutions a second-order rational difference equation. Also we will discuss about the behavior of solutions a the rational system, we show these solutions may be stable or unstable.