Sollicitudo rei socialis

From the Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: excerpts of the new Encyclical

11. In its own time the fundamental teaching of the Encycli­ cal Populorum Progressio received great acclaim for its nov­ el character. The social context in which we live today cannot be said to be completely identical to that of twenty years ago. For this reason, I now wish to conduct a brief review of some of the characteristics of today's world, in order to develop the teaching of Paul VI's...

Homo Socialis and Homo Sapiens

The assumption that individuals are behaving rationally can, at times, usefully constrain predictions of individual and collective behavior. However, success in predicting human and group behavior will often require relaxing this assumption of rationality, instead employing evolutionary, neural, and cognitive constraints. One particularly important form of neural and cognitive constraint is tha...

A Non Rei ed Temporal Logic

A temporal logic is presented for reasoning about propositions whose truth values might change as a function of time The temporal propositions consist of formulae in a sorted rst order logic with each atomic predicate taking some set of temporal arguments as well as a set of non temporal arguments The temporal arguments serve to specify the predicate s dependence on time By partitioning the ter...

Overview of REI Clinical Trial Topic

Rei£asable without Limitations on Dissemination

The concept of least fixed-point of a continuous function can be considered as the unifying thread of this dissertation. The connections between fixed-points and recursive programs are detailed in Chapter 2, providing some insights on practical implementations of recursion. There are two usual characterizations of the least fixed-point of a continuous function. To the first characterization, du...