Despite efforts toward integrating differing approaches, little progress has been made in developing a single, comprehensive system of psychotherapy. A major problem to such integration arises with the existence of two basically incompatible or irreconcilable views of human nature and of related philosophies, theories, and practices of psychotherapy. The currently popular paradigm is questioned...

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the features liberal model university education in process its formation, starting from ancient Greece and ending with British Oxbridge. close relationship between social elite lifestyle is shown. Definitions concepts “an intellectual” “intellectual culture” are given. It shown what characteristics make it an institution culture science factor cult...

In this chapter, we propose a new method to measure the importance of input variables and to examine the effect of the input variables on other components. We applied the method to competitive learning, in particular, self-organizing maps, to demonstrate the performance of our method. Because our method is based upon our information-theoretic competitive learning, it is easy to incorporate the ...

This article addresses issues of relevant research by differentiating research from intelligence-gathering, by presenting classical approach to develop criteria for selecting research topic, by indicating the importance of research validity and limitations, and by taking eclectic paradigm as an example of research in international business.