Misunderstandings related to "meta" often cause serious problems in systems engineering. This paper attempts to elucidate some of those misunderstandings, particularly as they apply to systems architectures. It examines how standards can provide discipline and clarity, suggesting how standards themselves must be done without falling into similar "meta" traps.

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Community pharmacists' role in the sale and supply of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) represents an opportunity to increase EHC availability and utilise pharmacists' expertise but little is known about pharmacists' attendant ethical concerns. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were undertaken with 23 UK pharmacists to explore their views and ethical concern...

WACC Misunderstandings Dean Joh nson and Howard Qi The Weighted Average Cost of Capi tal (WACC) has become a standard tenn and toot in finance. Given its broad acceptance and use, indi viduals are tempted to apply the WACC method without critically consideri ng its theoretical fo undation. Specifically, this study explai ns two common misu nderstandings about the WACC method found in industry, ...

The article presents research of the problems arising under methodology national general theory law. arise dominance empirical and naturalistic scientific tools whose cognitive ideal lies in rationality, bringing knowledge out scope facts perceived via experience. An example this juridical studies is “needs-based” approach presented by P. M. Rabinovych, a famous theoretician. It emphasized that...

The non-differentiability and implicit definition of boundary of production possibility set (PPS) in data envelopment analysis (DEA) are two important difficulties for obtaining directional characteristics, including different elasticity measures and marginal rates of substitution. Also, imposing weight restrictions in DEA models have some shortcomings and misunderstandings. In this paper we ut...