The Value of Science

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421Environmental economics / Ecosystem services / The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity / Conservation biology / Biodiversity / Sustainable development / Natural capital / Sustainability / Environmental protection / Environment / Environmental social science / Earth

Opinion Nature as a commodity, or: Does nature have a value? Two viewpoints on a current debate

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Source URL: www.rural21.com

Language: English - Date: 2015-03-31 10:00:08
422Institute of Marine Engineering /  Science and Technology / Marine biology / Marine engineering / Marine geology / Oceanography / Value added tax / Cheque / Credit card / Invoice / Business / Economics / Terminology

4th IMarEST Ballast Water Technology Conference Entry into Force of the Ballast Water Management Convention: Dealing with the Challenges and Harnessing the Opportunities Supported by the GloBallast Partnerships Project I

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Source URL: www.imarest.org

Language: English - Date: 2015-01-22 09:57:28
423Sociology / Social philosophy / Actor-network theory / Bruno Latour / Sociology of scientific knowledge / Frankfurt School / Critical theory / Commodity fetishism / Value-form / Marxist theory / Science / Knowledge

The Fetish and its Antis ‘fetish’ in their thinking. More on that in a minute, but let us first unpack a bit further just what Latour seems to mean by ‘antifetishism’, when he tackles it as a failing of critical

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Source URL: jwtc.org.za

Language: English - Date: 2012-08-30 09:09:19
424Design of experiments / Statistical tests / Statistical inference / Scientific method / Null hypothesis / Statistical hypothesis testing / P-value / Statistical power / Likelihood-ratio test / Statistics / Hypothesis testing / Science

Problems with the Hypothesis Testing Approach Over the past several decades (e.g., since Berksonpeople have questioned the use of hypothesis testing in the sciences. The criticisms apply to both experimental data

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Source URL: warnercnr.colostate.edu

Language: English - Date: 2000-01-05 13:44:36
425Matrix theory / Numerical linear algebra / Functional analysis / Mathematical optimization / Singular value decomposition / Convex optimization / Least squares / Projection / Eigendecomposition of a matrix / Algebra / Mathematics / Linear algebra

Nuclear Norm Minimization via Active Subspace Selection Cho-Jui Hsieh Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78721, USA Peder A. Olsen

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Source URL: www.cs.utexas.edu

Language: English - Date: 2014-09-16 02:45:15
426Mining / Occupational safety and health / International Council on Mining and Metals / Brundtland Commission / Newmont Mining Corporation / Sustainable development / Environmental protection / Forum for the Future / World Business Council for Sustainable Development / Environment / Sustainability / Environmental social science

Reinventing Mining: Creating Sustainable Value Introducing the Development Partner Framework Mining Company of the Future

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Source URL: www.ceecthefuture.org

Language: English - Date: 2015-01-05 18:10:44
427Political science / Tendency of the rate of profit to fall / Crisis theory / Organic composition of capital / Surplus value / Capital accumulation / Capitalism / Marxian economics / Henryk Grossman / Marxist theory / Marxism / Economics

Monomania and crisis theory – a reply to David Harvey First things first. I must thank David Harvey (DH) for a copy of his paper and his agreement to debate/discuss the issues in it1. The matter at debate is simple: is

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Source URL: thenextrecession.files.wordpress.com

Language: English - Date: 2014-12-17 02:38:46
428Political science / Tendency of the rate of profit to fall / Surplus value / Das Kapital / Crisis theory / Capitalism / Value product / Capital accumulation / Overproduction / Marxist theory / Marxism / Economics

1 CRISIS THEORY AND THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT DAVID HARVEY This is a draft of an essay to be published in 2015 in: The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created? Editors: Turan Subasat (Izmir Univ

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Source URL: thenextrecession.files.wordpress.com

Language: English - Date: 2014-12-17 02:38:21
429Risk management / Ethics / Security / Project management / ISO 31000 / Decision making / IT risk management / Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission / Management / Actuarial science / Risk

BEGA CHEESE LIMITED (ACN[removed]RISK MANAGEMENT POLICY Only through the effective management of risk will Bega Cheese continue to achieve its vision of becoming an Australian dairy industry icon, creating value for

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Source URL: www.begacheese.com.au

Language: English - Date: 2015-04-07 22:17:08
430Business / Financial institutions / Types of insurance / Institutional investors / Risk / Home insurance / Risk purchasing group / Self insurance / Insurance / Actuarial science / Financial economics

Social value of insurance Number 2: March 2015 The mechanics of insurance: the magic of averages How does insurance manage to prevent society from having to set aside literally billions to cover risks? By applying a comb

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Source URL: www.cii.co.uk

Language: English - Date: 2015-02-24 09:04:00
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