Perspectives on the Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches of the Economic Growth in Relation with the Concepts of Weak Sustainability and Strong Sustainability
Approaching economic growth in quantitative and qualitative terms arising from endogenous or exogenous variables that can contribute to record an upward dynamic of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) often turns out to be an eclectic one. In this paper we focus … Read More
Determinism, Chaos, and Leadership: Re-examining Tolstoy’s War and Peace Through Modern Geopolitical Realities
Sfetcu, Nicolae (2025). ” Determinism, Chaos, and Leadership: Re-examining Tolstoy’s War and Peace Through Modern Geopolitical Realities”, în Index Academic, I 2025, DOI: 10.58679/IA26426 PDF: https://www.indexacademic.ro/pdf/determinism-chaos-and-leadership-re-examining-tolstoys-war-and-peace-through-modern-geopolitical-realities/ HTML: https://www.telework.ro/en/determinism-chaos-and-leadership-re-examining-tolstoys-war-and-peace-through-modern-geopolitical-realities/ Contents Determinism, Chaos, and Leadership: Re-examining Tolstoy’s War and Peace … Read More
Gravitational Singularities
Index Academic, Volumul I, 2025 Gravitational singularities in general relativity are spacetime locations where the gravitational field becomes infinite. Scalar invariant curves of spacetime include a measure of matter density. Some physicists and philosophers believe that because the density of … Read More
Epistemic Intelligence Communities. Counterintelligence
Epistemic communities are informal networks of knowledge-based experts who influence decision-makers in defining issues they face, identifying different solutions, and evaluating results. Epistemic communities have the greatest influence in conditions of political uncertainty and visibility, usually following a crisis or … Read More
Web Design & Development
A guide for developing web sites by means of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media delivery via Internet. Web development is a broad term for any activities related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web … Read More
Psychology of the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovski’s film is a drama of pain and partial recovery centered on the psychology of the Solaris station crew. Tarkovski wanted to address this way the deeply emotional and intellectual science-fantastic genre, considered by him to be superficial. The film … Read More
Intelligence Analysis
The analysts are in the field of “knowledge”. Intelligence refers to knowledge and the types of problems addressed are knowledge problems. So, we need a concept of work based on knowledge. We need a basic understanding of what we know … Read More
Humanism, Becoming and the Demiurge in The Adventures of Pinocchio
The common thread of Pinocchio’s story is his desire to become a human being. Unlike some creators who approached the adventures of Pinocchio in the context of posthumanism the transhumanism embraces technological progress while strongly defending human rights and individual … Read More
Models of Emotional Intelligence in Research and Education
The emotional intelligence models have helped to develop different tools for construct assessment. Each theoretical paradigm conceptualizes emotional intelligence from one of two perspectives: ability or mixed model. Ability models consider emotional intelligence as a pure form of mental ability … Read More
The future of eugenics
A “free-market” approach to the genetic development of children may result in a homogenizing. Parents may be inclined to choose according to models accepted by society. In this case, improving technologies “will grant racism and homophobia an unprecedented efficacy.” One … Read More
Knowledge Engineering and Intelligence Gathering
A process of intelligence gathering begins when a user enters a query into the system. Several objects can match the result of a query with different degrees of relevance. Most systems estimate a numeric value about how well each object … Read More
Sculpting in Time, with Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky opposed to the movie editing and considered that the basis of the art of cinematography (movie art) is the internal rhythm of images. He considers cinema as a representation of distinctive currents or time waves, transmitted in the film … Read More
Intelligence cycle
The intelligence cycle is a set of processes used to provide useful information for decision-making. The cycle consists of several processes. The related counter-intelligence area is tasked with preventing information efforts from others. A basic model of the process of … Read More
Newton-Hooke controversy in the opinion of scientists
A presentation of Hooke’s 1674 monograph introducing the idea of universal gravity was included in the Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society 1775) and subsequently several letters containing observations, including one of Huygens. But obviously, after the publication of Principia in 1687, … Read More
Support and trend of falsifiability
Popper’s supporters argued that most criticism is based on an incomprehensible interpretation of his ideas. They argue that Popper should not be interpreted as meaning that falsifiability is a sufficient condition for the demarcation of science. Some passages seem to … Read More
Imre Lakatos, The methodology of scientific research programmes – An Overview
The methodology of scientific research programmes is a collection of papers published over time expressing a radical review of Popper’s demarcation criterion between science and non-science, leading to a new theory of scientific rationality. Volume I address aspects of the … Read More
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