Citizenship Tests: Can They Be a Just Compromise?

The ABET “ Professional Skills ” – Can They Be Taught ? Can They Be Assessed ?

In developing its new engineering accreditation criteria, ABET reaffirmed a set of “hard” engineering skills while introducing a second, equally important, set of six “professional” skills. These latter skills include communication, teamwork, and understanding ethics and professionalism, which we label process skills, and engineering within a global and societal context, lifelong learning, and ...

Can men and women be just friends ?

We tested evolution-based hypotheses about (1) sex differences in perceived benefits and costs of opposite-sex friendship and (2) differences in perceived benefits of same-sex friendships and opposite-sex friendships. In the Preliminary Study (N = 400), an act nomination procedure was used to identify the benefits and costs of same-sex friendships and opposite-sex friendships. In Study 1, a tot...

Can Privacy be Just Another Good?

I. PRIVACY AS FINAL GOOD AND INTERMEDIATE GOOD .............. 251 II. TREATING PRIVACY AS A FINAL GOOD WITH CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY: INITIAL AGREEMENTS ....................................... 253 A. How Initial Agreements Can Work Well ............................. 254 B. How Initial Agreements Can Fail ....................................... 256 III. MODIFYING POLICIES LATER ........................

Generics: just who can be trusted?

Dm Particles: How Warm They Can Be?

One of important questions concerning particles which compose the Dark Matter (DM) is their average speed. We consider the model of relativistic weakly interacting massive particles and try to impose an upper bound on their actual and past warmness through the analysis of density perturbations and comparison with the LSS data. It is assumed that the DM can be described by the recently invented ...