Functional flow block diagram — The Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD) is a multi tier, time sequenced, step by step flow diagram of the system’s functional flow. [The first version of this article is completely based on the [http://www.faa.gov/about/office org/headquarters… … Wikipedia
Functionalism (sociology) — In the social sciences, specifically sociology and sociocultural anthropology, functionalism (also called functional analysis) is a sociological paradigm that originally attempted to explain social institutions as collective means to fill… … Wikipedia
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Robert K. Merton — This article is about the sociologist. For the economist, see Robert C. Merton. Robert K. Merton Born July 4, 1910(1910 07 04) Philadelphia, PA Died … Wikipedia
civil religion — civil religion, civil religion thesis In the 1960s a number of sociologists (including Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils, and Robert Bellah) distinguished civil religion from institutional (church based) religion, arguing that societies such as… … Dictionary of sociology
Nobel Prizes — ▪ 2009 Introduction Prize for Peace The 2008 Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, former president (1994–2000) of Finland, for his work over more than 30 years in settling international disputes, many involving ethnic,… … Universalium
Choice modelling — attempts to model the decision process of an individual or segment in a particular context. Choice modelling may also be used to estimate non market environmental benefits and costs[1]. Well specified choice models are sometimes able to predict… … Wikipedia
Parser combinator — In functional programming, a parser combinator is a higher order function which accepts several parsers as input and returns a new parser as its output. In this context, a parser is a function accepting strings as input and returning some… … Wikipedia
Decision making — For Decision making in groups, see Group decision making. Sample flowchart representing the decision process to add a new article to Wikipedia. Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection … Wikipedia
Info-gap decision theory — is a non probabilistic decision theory that seeks to optimize robustness to failure – or opportuneness for windfall – under severe uncertainty,[1][2] in particular applying sensitivity analysis of the stability radius type[3] to perturbations in… … Wikipedia
education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… … Universalium