Section 18 valuations: Wisdom or witchcraft?

Witchcraft or mycotoxin? The Salem witch trials.

BACKGROUND The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 have been studied by many historians looking for the complex social, political, and psychological determinants behind the community-wide hysteria that led to a travesty of justice and the deaths of 20 innocent Puritans. Recently, ergot poisoning has been put forth by some as a previously unsuspected cause of the bizarre behaviors of the young adole...

Wisdom of Crowds or Wisdom of a Few?

The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the Web as well as more than two billion people that use it. In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explicit and implicit information and knowledge. But how is the Web? What are the activities of peopl...

Collective creativity: wisdom or oxymoron?

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate ways in which collective creativity and individual creativity exist in an “and/both” rather than in an “either/or” relationship. Design / methodology approach – This study uses and interrelates a number of dualities using “metalectics”, the principal task of which is to balance seemingly conflicting opposites by revealing them and locating th...

Arizona Section 18 Request for Regent

1. Type of Exemption Being Requested .......................................................... 2 2. Contact Person and Qualified Expert (166.20(a)(1)) ................................. 2 3. Description of Pesticide Requested (166.20(a)(2))...................................... 2 4. Description of Proposed Use (166.20(a)(3) ................................................. 3 5. Alternative Meth...

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft