Conclusion

This chapter begins by recapitulating the answers given to the main questions pursued in the earlier chapters of book. It then tries to map out some of the issues that are raised but not pursued herein, in order to provide a guide for future inquiry. The first such question is: which meta-prudential view should we adopt? Should we realists, for example, or is some form of anti-realism superior? More generally, is it plausible that the true metaethical view also applies to prudential discourse, so there is one meta-normative theory to rule them all, so to speak? The chapter lays out options and explain some ways in which the foregoing discussion is probative for these debates.

Review of Strategic Planning Model in Higher Education: The OMC Model

The concept of strategic planning has extensively been used to formulate institutional objectives of higher education institutions into time bound deliverables. Although there is a general agreement on the conceptual note on the strategic planning process, the differences are conspicuous in its internal process of transformation from strategic formulation to implementation. Consequently, models that apply to higher education institutions have been drawn up in the management sciences in the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, the format for institutional review of strategic planning is still in its infancy although its review constitutes a conspicuous phase of institutional planning. The foregoing discussion is intended to prescribe a general format for an institutional review of a strategic planning model. It runs on the hypothesis that the review has three phases, though not mutually exclusive, viz. review of the framework, review of the process, and review of the outcome. The paper under discussion is an attempt to develop a new logical framework for the review of the strategic plan of an educational institution. The model is labelled as the OMC model as it was developed for and subsequently used in Oman Medical College.

Human Capital's Perception and Attitude towards Micro Insurance

The range of topics for microinsurance market potential research can be broad, depending on the intended use of findings and the time and resources available. Research can be carried out at three levels, namely understanding client needs, including their current risk management behavior, product-specific research and an analysis of the overall market potential. Thus, keeping in view the foregoing discussion on the market potential researches in the area of microinsurance, the present effort subsumes knowledge, perception, and attitude of rural human capital about insurance. The first section of the study elaborates the backdrop/statement of the problem, the second section outlines the objectives, and the third section discusses the Sample Design, Data and Methodology of the Study. Findings of the study have been outlined in the fourth section and the fifth section concludes the study and offers fruitful suggestions for extending microinsurance to the rural poor who are indeed a human capital of the nation.

Incapacitating the Dangerous in England and Wales: High Expectations - Harsh Reality

<p>This presentation offers some brief comments on the socio-historical concept of ‘dangerousness’, legal and sentencing issues in contemporary context, problems of definition and, finally, some clinical considerations in the light of the foregoing discussion. A number of these issues are discussed more fully in my book ‘Will They Do it Again?’</p>

Can You Hear Me Now? Musical Values, Education and ‘Voice’

This article addresses a number of questions concerning the use of music by young people. In particular, the argument presented seeks to bring to the fore a set of concerns whose significance is often overlooked or downplayed in debates about young people's engagements with music. These relate to music's capacity to function, on the one hand, in a way that reflects and embodies ethical and ideological commitments of varying kinds and, on the other, as a vehicle of expression through which people might ‘give an account’ of themselves. The article first surveys some of the ways in which scholars have conceived of the relation between forms of musical activity and their broader social force before turning to recent research and policy developments concerned with school-based music education in Britain and considering the ways in which certain forms and dimensions of young people's expressive musical activity are granted legitimacy and state support while others are ignored or marginalised. The final part of the article reflects upon the foregoing discussion and introduces the concepts of ‘voice’ (Couldry, 2010) and ‘recognition’ (Honneth, 1995), to consider how the promotion of some musical values to the detriment of others has important implications for the ways in which young people understand the extent to which their claims – and not just cultural ones – are taken seriously within society.

Justice as an Emotion Disposition

In this tribute to the work of Robert Solomon, I address a topic that occupied him frequently in the last 20 years of his life, and about which he wrote a book and several articles: the relation(s) between the emotions and justice as a personal virtue. I hope to clarify Solomon’s views using three distinctions that seem implicit in his writings, among (1) justice as general virtue and justice as a particular virtue, (2) objective justice and justice as a virtue, and (3) an emotion and a passion. Using these three distinctions and a fourfold schema of emotional objects that seems implied by the foregoing discussion, I argue that an account of emotions like Solomon’s, which construes emotions as in crucial ways like judgments, contains resources for grasping in some detail how particular emotions are related to the virtue of justice. Among these emotions, I pay special attention to compassion.

Monotone recurrence relations, their Birkhoff orbits and topological entropy

A generalization of the class of monotone twistmaps to maps ofs1×RNis proposed. The existence of Birkhoff orbits is studied, and a criterion for positive topological entropy is given. These results are then specialized to the case of monotone twist maps. Finally it is shown that there is a large class of symplectic maps to which the foregoing discussion applies.

Enthalpic Analysis of Vulcanization by Calorimetry. Thiuram Monosulfide/Sulfur Vulcanization of NR, BR and SBR

As demonstrated in the foregoing discussion, the chemical complexity of accelerated sulfur vulcanization reactions prevents detailed interpretation of the enthalpy-temperature and enthalpy-time relationship. Nevertheless, the following conclusions can be reached regarding the origin of the enthalpy terms observed under scanning and isothermal temperature regimes. (1) The total enthalpy observed under scanning conditions is the sum of all reactions occurring. This includes (among others) crosslink formation, formation of non-crosslinking sulfidic products and maturation or subsequent polysulfide reactions. (2) In the isothermal experiment, the major contribution to the observed enthalpy arises from reactions resulting in the formation of sulfidic products (although some maturation must be expected and its extent will depend upon the temperature and time of cure). (3) When a precured sample is scanned, the observation of an enthalpic term depends upon the original cure system used. It is small or unobserved, for example, when the sulfur/TMTM ratio is small or with sulfur donor cure systems. On this basis, the DSC scan of a vulcanizate is potentially useful for characterizing that vulcanizate, and in particular, for the rapid quality control assessment of the state of sulfidic products in the vulcanizate. (4) Evidence has been discussed which suggests that the origin of the enthalpy term obtained with vulcanizates which have been precured can be related to the polysulfidic products in the sample. In laboratory experiments, not reported here, the magnitude of this term is reduced as the vulcanizate is heat aged or over-cured, which again supports the conclusion that we are observing the maturation of polysulfidic products. (5) Finally, comparison of rheometer and calorimeter data indicates that, as expected, we are observing all, reactions accompanying cure in the calorimeter; whereas, the rheometer responds only to crosslinking and chain scission, factors having a large effect on viscosity. DSC does not detect chain scission reactions at normal cure temperatures because the rate of scission is too small.

Differential Diagnosis of Wheezing in Children

Wheezing is a common symptom in infants and children, engendered by anatomic and developmental features as well as innate susceptibility to infection. Congenital anomalies also may involve the air passages, still further complicating differential diagnosis. From the foregoing discussion it is apparent that history and clinical evaluations remain of paramount importance in establishing the proper diagnosis with support from radiology and the laboratory. Because of the potentially serious import of wheezing in the child, early diagnosis and treatment are of utmost importance.