Presently cladistics is based on, and justified by, a computer implementation (Wagner Parsimony) rather than sound methodological or theoretical foundations. In this paper, the recent goals of cladistics that are derived from computer implementations and 'tree-thinking' are discussed. The discussion raises a critical point, namely whether one can dispense with these recent goals and adopt a who...

The objective was to systematize evidence of the development creative thinking and its potentialities with a view from educational field, highlighting aspects creativity in teachers. A systematic review articles Proquest, Scopus, Eric databases carried out. Relevant information selected. To obtain results, systematized, considering thematic axes as creativity, characteristics, strategies for te...

Managers are influenced in their decisions by the information provided by managerial accountants. Two typical examples from textbooks are the irrelevance of sunk costs and, more recently, the affect of knowing the outcome of a decision or revised budget forecast. Individual differences in the cognitive ability of decision makers to use information can lead to systematic differences in judgments...

Criminal thinking has been long established as a very important predictor of criminal behaviour, however far less research effort has been undertaken to understand what variables can predict the emergence of criminal thinking. Considering the importance of criminal thinking, we feel it necessary to conduct a systematic review of the literature on criminal thinking in order to bring together wha...

The purpose of the present research is to develop the auditors' critical thinking model in evaluating the employers' financial performances according to Total Interpretative Structural Analysis (TISM). In this research which qualitatively is a combined research based on Delphi analysis and meta-synthesis analysis and quantitatively is based on total interpretative structural analysis, two targe...

This paper reports on a new undergraduate course at Florida Atlantic University titled: “Introduction to Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering”. The goal is to enhance inventive thinking abilities of undergraduate students resulting in skills that can be used in science, math, engineering and technology. The course is focused on developing thinking skills that stay with the students, and is ...

Recently, we proposed a systematic method for top-down synthesis and verification of lemmata and algorithms called ”lazy thinking method” as a part of systematic mathematical theory exploration (mathematical knowledge management). The lazy thinking method is characterized: • by using a library of theorem and algorithm schemes • and by using the information contained in failing attempts to prove...