Both theism and atheism assume that God permits evil. But neither nor make this assumption with due attention to what I call, following Wittgenstein, the grammar of term ‘permission’. When is examined, it becomes clear cannot avoid atheistic force argument from To rescue belief in God, propose adoption a position call compassionate deism. This combination Christian traditional The produced by m...

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Increased utilization of evaluation results has been the primary rationale for the development of participatory or stakeholder approaches. The assumption is that participation by various constituents in the evaluation process will increase their understanding of and commitment to the use of evaluation results. Another rationale for implementing a participatory evaluation approach is empowerment...

This paper describes a system that provides faculty with automatic testing and grading online facilities, as well as course administration resources, using the World Wide Web as a common and ubiquitous interface. The system was built using the Common Lisp HTTP Server from MIT and its functionality to generate HTML "on the fly," which offers the appropriate level of interactivity and flexibility...

We provide a new model that generates persistent performance differences amongst seemingly similar enterprises. Our model provides a mechanism whereby efficient incumbent rivals can give permission for an inefficient firm to exist in the presence of efficient entrants. We demonstrate that, in a repeated game, an efficient incumbent has a unilateral incentive to establish a relational contract t...