Brief and Design

2014 ◽  
pp. 163-175
Keyword(s):  
External Information ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Design Representations ◽  
Direct Recognition

This chapter is a general introduction to the connections between brief and design. First, the two basic forms of this connection are considered, feedforward (the transfer of brief information to design representations) and feedback (where the connection is used to evaluate brief satisfaction in the design and subsequently to improve either the design or the brief). Then the attention turns to the prerequisites for design representations: the structures that allow direct recognition of relevant entities and the enrichment of these entities with external information, in this case, from the brief. Finally, these prerequisites are examined in more detail in CAD software (AutoCAD) and BIM editors (Revit and AutoCAD Architecture).

Bronchogenic carcinoma. General introduction

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (8) ◽  
pp. 653-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Bronchogenic Carcinoma ◽  
General Introduction

Body Distribution of Lipiodol 131J Following Intralymphatic Radiotherapy

1965 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
G. Fava ◽  
L. Roncoroni
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Autopsy Findings ◽  
Body Distribution ◽  
Exact Data ◽  
Radioisotope Therapy

SummaryAn account is given of the principles of lymph node dosimetry in radioisotope therapy with Lipiodol 131J. After a general introduction, exact data on the concentrations reached by the radionuclide in the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, thyroid and blood of patients subjected to this treatment are reported. Finally mention is made of a number of particularly interesting autopsy findings.

The economic analysis of rationality in the tradition of Harvey Leibenstein

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Ivan V. Rozmainsky ◽  
Yulia I. Pashentseva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
External Information ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information Constraints ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Market Capitalism

The paper is devoted to the economic analysis of rationality in the tradition of Harvey Leibenstein: the authors perceive rationality as “calculatedness” when making decisions, while the degree of this “calculatedness” is interpreted as a variable. Thus, this approach does not correspond to the generally accepted neoclassical interpretation of rationality, according to which rationality is both full and constant. The authors believe that such a neoclassical approach makes too stringent requirements for the abilities of people. In real life, people do not behave like calculating machines. The paper discusses various factors limiting the degree of rationality of individuals. One group of factors is associated with external information constraints such as the complexity and extensiveness of information, as well as the uncertainty of the future. Another group of factors is related to informal institutions. In particular, the paper states that the system of planned socialism contributes to less rationality than the system of market capitalism. Thus, in the post-socialist countries, including contemporary Russia, one should not expect a high degree of rationality of the behavior of economic entities. The paper mentions, in particular, the factors of rationality caused by informal institutions, such as the propensity to calculate, the propensity to be independent when making decisions and the propensity to set goals. The authors also believe that people who live on their own are usually more rational than people who share a common household with someone else. This assumption is verified econometrically based on data on young urban residents collected by the authors. It turned out that the behavior of people included in this database, in general, corresponds to what the authors believed.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1963 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
William James Anderson
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction

Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

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