This work represents a literature review of the current state of simulation in adult education. The use of simulation and games in adult education has a considerable history. They have played a supporting role in the more objectivist approaches to knowledge that has pervaded adult education for the last two centuries. They do so by representing a systematic illustration of a universal truth wit...

Conventional (single-prior) Bayesian games of incomplete information are limited in their ability to capture the extent of informational asymmetry. In particular, they are not capable of representing complete ignorance of an uninformed player about an unknown parameter of the environment. Using a framework of contracting for delegated experimentation, we formulate and analyze a dynamic game of ...

One of the modern paradigms to develop an application is object oriented analysis and design. In this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles in applications. In an application, we must distinguish between procedural semantics and declarative semantics for their implementation in a specific programming language. For the procedural semantics, we can write a ...

This paper summarizes Rand’s theory of concepts as presented in the first five chapters of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Rand’s approach to universals, essentials, and definitions is discussed, and key Randian usages such as “unit,” “measurement,” “distinguishing characteristic” and “Conceptual Common Denominator” are explained. An appendix summarizes Rand’s treatment of several con...

Abstract This article aimed to discuss how Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of reflexivity was conceived, and it influenced developed by Bernard Lahire’s in his sociology. To operationalize the way is articulated, but emphasizing its development Lahire, this paper presents as an empirical case engendered José Francisco Bernardes Milanez’ biographical trajectory, a historical environmental activist fro...