Theological discussions can be abstract and hard to apply, but I do not want this one to be. The reason is that I want to convince you to adopt a specific stance toward food animals. The best way for me to do this is by telling you my story. I am a Mennonite, and we, typically, are rural folk. I do not know whether every other Christian sect or denomination has more farmers per capita than we d...

This thesis argues that regime legitimacy creates military resilience. A regime is legitimate when its constituents believe-whether because of ideological solidarity, patriotism, nationalism, or good governance-that a government has the right to exercise authority in its regime. Military resilience, which contributes to military effectiveness, refers to the willingness of troops to stay committ...

The paper aims at providing the initial report of mental reactions Ecological Faculty students RUDN University to concept patriotism. term “patriotism” is used refer love a country as well an ideology, which holds that one’s primary allegiance should be and its citizens’ needs. Patriotism considered virtue environmentalism – one important manifestations. subjects for present study were 66 Bache...

The purpose of the study is to investigate a hybrid model Islamic piety, by merging exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and an artificial neural network (ANN). present research was divided into three phases. first phase applied Delphi method identify dimensions piety. In second, established using were used in uncover underlying structure Piety construct. last phase, (ANN) rank factors discovered ...

This paper analyzes outcomes from a randomized field experiment run with major telecommunications provider aimed at measuring the e↵ect of proactive churn management among triple-play users and at determining whether using social network data may help retain them. We used state of the art machine learning algorithms to develop a model to identify likely churners. We also used millions of call d...

T his study examines the relation between filial belief and the frequency, origins, and solutions to parent– child conflict using an indigenous Chinese perspective. The Dual Filial Piety model is employed to categorize the four types of filial belief: nonfilial, authoritarian, reciprocal, and absolute. Questionnaires were completed by 773 junior and senior high school students from around Taiwa...