A residential settlement layout is the result of a complex design process aiming to manage the most advantageous location for all houses with certain objectives and constraints.
A common candidate here, of course, is knowledge itself (see Williamson 2002, Pritchard 2007 and the entry on the value of knowledge), but some authors claim that justification (Adler 2002) and/or "virtue" in our beliefs is the aim (Zagzebski 2004), while still others plump for a more structurally complex aim such as "understanding" (Kvanvig 2004).
As the Abu Slim Martyrs Brigade retreated, the elected local council laid claim to their sprawling main base, an old sports complex, aiming to make it a police headquarters.
The release of the insurgent, Laith al-Khazali, a member of the militant Shiite group Asa'ib al-Haq, is part of a complex negotiation aimed at fostering political reconciliation in Iraq.
In a complex deal aimed at meeting new South African regulations requiring increased black equity in the mining industry, three mining companies announced on Thursday that they would create the country's largest black-owned diversified mining company.
We report on findings from a quasi-experimental community trial of a complex intervention aimed at reducing social and commercial supply of cigarettes to young people.
A more optimistic reading of Automated Driving Systems 2.0 is that the Department of Transportation is recognizing the central role the federal government will play in autonomous vehicle safety, while also implicitly suggesting that it would be premature to presuppose the outcome of a complex dialog aimed at determining the specific mandates that will accompany that role.
And because of a complex law aimed at evening the playing field between areas that have large refineries - and a strong tax base - and those that don't, all schools in the state ultimately would be impacted if the abatement is approved, though refinery towns would be hurt the most, said David Hodgins, consultant and attorney for the Texas Association of School Administrators.
We describe a complex intervention aiming for a new service model that incorporates telemedicine, emphasizing clinical outcomes.
Rapid VCT is a complex intervention aimed to increase the participation of marginalised populations in HIV testing and treatment programmes.
This paper describes the protocol for a pragmatic, randomized evaluation of a complex intervention aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing by primary care clinicians.
