Faith et al. (2003) strongly criticize our paper (Posadas et al. 2001). Their criticisms are based on what they consider our “ill definitions” and “erroneous applications” of the words complementarity, endemism, and biodiversity. The objectives of our reply to Faith et al. are to demonstrate that their criticisms do not satisfy epistemological and methodological tenets and to compare some aspec...

Many profess a belief in the importance of school integration. In this essay I argue that evidence tells against sincerity belief.

This paper investigates the powerplay in one-day cricket. The rules concerning the powerplay have been tinkered with over the years, and therefore the primary motivation of the paper is the assessment of the impact of the powerplay with respect to scoring. The form of the analysis takes a “what if” approach where powerplay outcomes are substituted with what might have happened had there been no...

this investigation, is consideration in relation between faith and moral in soren kierkegaard`s point of view, as two undeniable fact of mankind living reality that wich kierkegaard, christian fideist philosopher, describe from christian faith; she scrutinize`s this relation with study bible and some of chiristianity teachings as incarnation and expiate and the three persons. on the other hand,...

A key challenge in B2B and B2C applications involving dynamic composition of workflow activities is to ensure their reliable execution, in view of frequent failures in the internet environment where a composed service is executed. Existing approaches for transactional coordination of composite web services, consider forward and backward recovery alone, in order to maintain consistency in the ca...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate deaths of children from families in which faith healing was practiced in lieu of medical care and to determine if such deaths were preventable. DESIGN Cases of child fatality in faith-healing sects were reviewed. Probability of survival for each was then estimated based on expected survival rates for children with similar disorders who receive medical care. PARTICIPANT...

At large attitudes are built on earlier experience with the attitude object. If earlier experiences are not available, as is the case for unfamiliar attitude objects such as new technologies, no stored evaluations exist. Yet, people are still somehow able to construct attitudes on the spot. Depending on the familiarity of the attitude object, attitudes may find their basis more in affect or cog...

one of the most important issues of abrahamic religions is faith. paul the apostle and fakhr rāzī, two thinkers in two religious fields of christianity and islam, have expressed their opinions in details in this regard. in discussing the consequences of faith, paul the apostle talks about salvation, justness, new life, security from devils and enemies, calmness and reception of god’s promises. ...