The Values Proposition

The proposition

Between the years 2007 and 2013, we will witness a radical change in Poland’s social and economic systems. After the breakthrough we saw in the years 1989 -1990, these new changes will be particularly significant. It has been expected, negotiated and it become a fact. On the turn of the year 2007, Poland will be recognized as a proper and rightful EU member. Rightful, because it fully takes ove...

Attitudes of Iranians toward the Becker Proposition

This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...

Supporting the Proposition

It has been only a little more than a decade since a professional consensus emerged concerning the need to formulate an alternative to industrial arts. Few question the importance of technology education, or the need for a new name to characterize the program area. Technology education, however, is at a critical juncture. What can be questioned is the ability of the profession to clearly articu...

The PEAR proposition.

For more than a quarter century, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory has engaged in a broad range of experiments on consciousness-related physical anomalies and has proposed a corresponding selection of theoretical models that have combined to illuminate the fundamental nature of the provocative phenomena that emerge. Productive pursuit of this topic has inescapably i...

Missing Values: Proposition of a Typology and Characterization with an Association Rule-Based Model