Enrichment: a critique of commodities

Five Paradigms of Information system use: Affirmation, critique and enrichment

Though information systems use has been much discussed since at least the 1980s, much of it in terms of Davis' famous Technology Acceptance Model, the discussion still leaves much to be desired. This paper identifies five paradigms under which discussion takes place, and finds problems with all of them. It then calls upon Dooyeweerd's philosophy to provide a framework for understanding IS use, ...

Critique of Research Book (Literature)/A Critique of Kimia of Rumi’s Haram, Sadaf Golmoradi

A Critique of Kimia of Rumi’s Haram Sadaf Golmoradi/ Professor at Tehran Farhangian University, [email protected] Abstract The present research is aimed at introducing and reviewing Kimia of Rumi’s Haram. Although the book does not mention in the title that it is in face a critique but we see that it is an essay based on "... the critique of novels Kimiakhatoon, Rumi’s Daughter, and the ...

Pricing commodities

How should a seller price her goods in a market where each buyer prefers a single good among his desired goods, and will buy the cheapest such good, as long as it is within his budget? We provide efficient algorithms that compute near-optimal prices for this problem, focusing on a commodity market, where the range of buyer budgets is small. We also show that our LP rounding based technique easi...

Forensic psychiatry: critique of a critique.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...

Critique and Commentary: A Critique on Gems of Dari Language, Arash Amraei