Abstract This paper argues that what is currently the most popular version of temporal Fragmentalism—‘unstructured’ Fragmentalism, as I shall call it—faces a problem Tensed Belief Explosion. Four possible solutions to this are reviewed and shown be wanting; two more promising ones risk fostering scepticism about existence tensed facts—hence, Fragmentalism itself. The tentative moral unstructure...

CONTEXT Fostering conventional goals is a key component of pregnancy prevention interventions for teenagers. However, research has not shown whether having goals independently influences sexual behavior, or whether the perception that pregnancy represents an impediment to achieving goals mediates any association. METHODS In 1999-2001, a racially mixed group of 351 sexually experienced female ...

paying attention to the relative alignment of individual and organization goals requires that this fact be considered sometimes happens struggle between these two phenomena for several reasons. these two can be in conflict with one another. hence, one of the primary problem that managers are encountered, is that they attempt to combine and reconcile two somewhat contradictory issues, and they a...

In Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Jhumpa Lahiri gives voice to Boori Ma, a durwan (doorkeeper) who chronicles about the easier times she enjoyed before deportation Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta, India) after Partition 1947. plays with word real implying that Ma’s stories could be deciphered or not. fictitious life resembles one Royal Family Oudh, which seems inspired by. Foreign corresp...

The notion of plan quality in automated planning is a practically very important issue. In many real-world planning domains, we have to address problems with a large set of solutions, or with a set of goals that cannot all be achieved. In these problems, it is important to generate plans of good or optimal quality achieving all problem goals (if possible) or some subset of them. In the previous...