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What explains the ambition to get rich? Adam Smith is clear that commercial ambition, passionate desire for great wealth, not simply a satisfy one’s material needs. His argument on what underlies it, however, obvious. I review three possibilities suggested by Smith’s work and scholarly literature—vanity, love of system, tranquility—and conclude none them captures underlying motive ambition. Ins...

Religion and ritual have been characterized as costly ways for conditional cooperators to signal their type, and thus identify and interact with one another. But an effective signal may be prohibitively expensive: if the cost of participation is too small, freeriders may send the signal and behave selfishly later. However, if the ritual reveals only the average level of signaling in a group, fr...

SUMMARY Outside the workplace, technologies support a new range of activities such as exploring, wondering, loving, and worshipping. Yet, we know little about how individuals appropriate technology to support these activities. Understanding this becomes more pressing as computing's presence increases in daily life. For my dissertation, I am investigating use of ICTs to support a subset of these...

The purpose of this work is to improve performance of a 16-bit stack processor. This processor is suitable for embedded applications. A stack processor has an advantage of low complexity but its performance can be improved. Observing the instruction fetch consumes 53% of the execution cycle, focusing on improving instuction fetch is the primary goal of this work. The proposed scheme uses 16-bit...

OBJECTIVE Family rituals are associated with adaptive functioning in pediatric illness, including quality of life (QoL). This article explores the role of family cohesion and hope as mediators of this association in children with cancer and their parents. METHODS Portuguese children with cancer (N = 389), on- and off-treatment, and one of their parents completed self-report measures. Structur...

A reconfigurable scheduler is one that can be configured to solve a wide range of different scheduling problems without changing the software. Reconfigurable scheduling holds the promise of drastically reducing the cost of developing automated, optimized scheduling solutions and hence making optimized scheduling available for many real-world problems for which the cost has so far been prohibiti...

www.ritualdynamik.de Hand over the pūjā plate with the siddhir astu. ācamana. Make the purification for the clay of the guru reciting the rakṣohanaṃ. Sacrifice bali, reciting the adhy avocad. Light reciting the tejo ʼsi. Ritual bath reciting the svasti na indro. • Rituals exist in all human cultures across all times. • Similarities between rituals from very distant cultures can be observed. • I...