The very paucity of fundamental modes of economic organization calls attention to a central aspect of the problem of economic "systems"—namely, that the objective to which all economic arrangements must be addressed has itself remained unchanged throughout human history.
The present work is aimed at examining one of the assumptions generally made in the mathematical modeling of fluid solid reaction systems; namely, that the bulk concentration of the fluid reactant is uniform around the solid surface.
After a review of recent usage of the critical flux theory, an alternative concept for providing design guidelines for direct-flow systems namely that of the threshold flux is introduced.
Marx's reference in this passage to wage laborers, one of thousands of such references in the book, reminds us of what is probably the most central insight of Marx's analysis of the working of the capitalist system, as distinguished from all previous systems, namely, that it treats human labor power as a commodity, a thing, alongside all other commodities.
This article examines the risks disputants take in escalating their conflict to the legal system, – namely, that pure chance, rather than the merits of the case, could decide the outcome of the conflict.
But others say that to blame the incident solely on a handful of guards ignores the larger problems facing the system, namely that too few guards are responsible for a growing number of hardened offenders serving longer sentences with less incentive to behave.
Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e., by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms.
It does not address the cancer in our financial system, namely that beneath both contingent capital and equity capital of banks lie a ton of debt deposits, secured debt (repos), noncontingent debt of other types, liabilities to derivatives transactions which will remain explicitly or implicitly guaranteed by governments.
If we were to introduce a third fact into this logical system, namely that openly transgender people can also be in the military, something in that system of beliefs would have to change.
A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations, written by Joel I. Klein and Condoleezza Rice, rightly identifies a problem in our nation's education system, namely, that we are not educating our students well enough to maintain our country's economic vitality, international competitiveness or vibrant democracy.
Until now, the more accepted classification system, namely that of the AFS, is associated with serious limitations in effective categorization of female genital anomalies.
