Bringing Change to the Change Agents - A Look at Indian NGOs

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

A Fresh Look at Climate Change

Recently The Economist (2013a), a prominent journalistic advocate of strong policies to control CO2 emissions, expressed their puzzlement on the absence of warming over the last 15 years. They observed that this flat period of global average temperature occurred despite that CO2 emissions from human sources continued at an increased rate. The total human-produced CO2 emissions in that period of...

A Closer Look at Climate Change Skepticism

EXTRA help bringing change to the workplace.

Making decisions in today’s health-care system is extremely challenging. Health executives have to create and maintain programs to meet the increasing needs of an aging population. They have to provide services while managing a dwindling supply of health-care workers and limited financial resources. When time and budgets are at a premium, as they have been for years in Canada’s health system, d...

Statistical Quasi-Newton: A New Look at Least Change

A new method for quasi-Newton minimization outperforms BFGS by combining least-change updates of the Hessian with step sizes estimated from a Wishart model of uncertainty. The Hessian update is in the Broyden family but uses a negative parameter, outside the convex range, that is usually regarded as the safe zone for Broyden updates. Although full Newton steps based on this update tend to be to...