reason to engage in socially responsible activities, such as improving diversity in the work force, reducing pollution, and designing safer products. And if no relationship were found to exist, then at the very least there would be no good financial reason for managers not to engage in such socially

ABSTRACT: Some solo verbal reasoning serves the function of arriving at a correct answer to a question from information at the reasoner’s disposal. Such reasoning is good if and only if its grounds are justified and adequate, its warrant is justified, and the reasoner is justified in assuming

-rater reliability. Because raters exhibited good, albeit imprecise, reasons and facts, a fuzzy mathematical model of performance rating was developed. The model provides good agreement with observed variations.

The reasonableness is a basic ideal of a philosophical education. Such ideal is especially expressed in “Philosophy for Children ” by the notion, still open to multiple interpretations, of “good reasons”. “Being reasonable ” means, in its widest sense, the trend, the finely cultivated habit

and to illustrate the role and the therapeutic potential of metabolism andmetabolic interventions for management. We present three compelling reasons why cardiac metabolism is of direct, be due to the tremendous achievements in the area of European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Suproviding a basic review

blood that remains in the placenta after birth—can be collected and stored frozen for years. A well-accepted use of cord blood is as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation to siblings or to unrelated recipients; women can donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (autologous transplantation.)

Curve reconstruction algorithms are supposed to reconstruct curves from point samples. Recent papers present algorithms that come with a guarantee: Given a suciently dense sample of a closed smooth curve, the algorithms construct the correct polygonal reconstruction. Nothing is claimed about the output of the algorithms, if the input is not a dense sample of a closed smooth curve, e.g., a sample of a curve with endpoints. We present an algorithm that comes with a guarantee for any set P of input points. The algorithm constructs a polygonal reconstruction G and a smooth curve that justies G as the reconstruction from P.

The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it easier to experiment with mechanized formal methods such as theorem provers, proof checkers and model checkers

The purpose of this note is to highlight some of the unique properties of spline wavelets. These wavelets can be classified in four categories: othogonal (Battle-Lemari), semi-orthogonal (e.g., B-spline), shift-orthogonal, and biorthogonal (Cohen-DaubechiesFeauveau) . Unlike most other wavelet bases, splines have explicit formulae in both the time and frequency domain, which greatly facilitates their manipulation. They allow for a progressive transition between the two extreme cases of a multiresolution: Haar's piecewise constant representation (spline of degree zero) versus Shannon's bandlimited model (which corresponds to a spline of infinite order). Spline wavelets are extremely regular and usually symmetric or anti-symmetric. They can be designed to have compact support and to achieve optimal time-frequency localization (B-spline wavelets). The underlying scaling functions are the B-splines, which are the shortest and most regular scaling functions of order L. Finally, splines have the best approximation properties among all known wavelets of a given order L. In other words, they are the best for approximating smooth functions.

In this paper, we compare the investment decisions of groups (stock clubs) and individuals. Both individuals and clubs are more likely to purchase stocks that are associated with good reasons (e.g., a company that is featured on a list of most-admired companies). However, stock clubs favor