Progressives laudably seek to oppose injustice by deploying government power as a countervailing force against the imagined opressive and exploitative tendencies of market institutions.
In this paper, we evaluate the hypothesis that the exploitative tendencies of selfish agents can be effectively curbed if reciprocative agents share their "opinions" of other agents.
This paper presents a scheme to modify the very basic framework of PSO by the introduction of a novel dimensional mean based perturbation strategy, a simple aging guideline, and a set of nonlinearly time-varying acceleration coefficients to achieve a better tradeoff between explorative and exploitative tendencies and thus to avoid premature convergence on multimodal fitness landscapes.
Extending perceptions of such only advances exploitative tendencies that have contributed toward the challenges in Africa.
Amid this scramble, Africa needs to leverage its collective might to avoid exploitative tendencies of the past.
Upon his election, some of the foremost psychiatrists in the country began raising alarm bells in letters to (among others) then president Barack Obama, the New York Times, and New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene warning about the paranoia, grandiosity, delusions, narcissism, and abusive, violent, and exploitative tendencies they saw in the country's incoming president.
Baradaran suggests that, given the tendency for exploitative financial services to come back in more destructive forms in the face of regulation, this would constitute a more systematic way of beating payday lenders at their own game.
A sixth is the tendency to be exploitative personally, to use other people to achieve your own ends.
Like the well-trailed nudity, this tendency is both exploitative and essential: it also serves to make Westeros's depravity concrete, and it makes us helplessly, appalledly complicit.
As one character notes, "The horror of the world hides beneath these infinitely pretty things". He is referring to Leiter's opulent wares, but he is also speaking to a more universal condition of human evil, the tendency of corrupt, exploitative societies to conceal themselves behind the trappings of luxury and glamour.
The device also allows Ellis to explore Clay's pathological narcissism, masochistic and sadistic tendencies, and the exploitative personality, none of which had been explicit in Less Than Zero.
