according to ibn-al-arabi, the bound world or detached imagination is a divine graded excellency in which both the abstract and material world are exemplified. perception of such manifestation is possible through formal discovery; because the creatures that appear in this realm, have both the delicacy of abstraction and the ability to be tangible like material things. perception of these creatu...

Objectivity in the science of risk plays a monumental role in the projection of the benefits from health and safety regulations, which constitute the majority of total reported benefits of all federal regulations. Claims concerning the accuracy of regulatory risk assessments have been untestable so far in that they focus on whether a risk assessment overor underestimates the risk of exposure to...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate a threat to validity in using claims-based risk tools with chronically ill, underinsured populations. STUDY DESIGN We tracked disease burden of high-risk pool beneficiaries with potentially disabling health conditions receiving enhanced health insurance benefits through a federally funded research demonstration. At baseline, beneficiaries paid high premiums and cost ...

Given the plethora of available information systems (IS) evaluation techniques, it seems unlikely that yet another technique will address the problems of unsuccessful projects and ineffective management. Rather, more insight into the foundations of evaluation techniques may yield greater benefits. One generally accepted, but largely unexplored, issue concerns objectivity and subjectivity in the...

Reconstruction of one run of CLEO III raw data can take up to 9 days to complete using a single processor. This is an administrative nightmare, and even minor failures result in reprocessing the entire run, which wastes time, money and CPU power. We leveraged the ability of the CLEO III software infrastructure to read and write multiple file formats to perform reconstruction of a single run usi...