Alibaba chairman Jack Ma thinks Artificial Intelligence could lead to World War III. What could be the basis of this assertion?

Please see the link below of a recent news article wherein Alibaba chairman is reported to have made this statement. He is pointing to an interesting pattern in history. But, is the statement...

05 June 2017 8,639 1 View

Do systems exist without a view? Could man-made systems be devoid of views?

Is it our viewpoint that creates a system? I mean man-made system here. Natural systems simply exist. We can look at them from a particular viewpoint, but they can exist agnostic of any domain or...

09 October 2016 3,992 2 View

Do systems have purpose inherently built in them OR purpose is fundamentally a human construct and humans just assign a purpose to the systems?

Tolman's purposive behaviorism asserts that there is a purpose behind every behavior of an organism. "What is the purpose?" is most often encountered question when we model and design systems and...

31 December 2014 4,451 12 View

Does citation index truly measure the contribution of a researcher? Are there better alternative measures?

Citation index is regarded a measure of a researcher's contribution. Some criticize it for involving "success to the successful" archetype and believe it does not truly measure the contribution of...

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Could you recommend any books about Number Theory?

Beginner level books. High level books. Analytical Number Theory. Algebraic Number Theory. Combinatorical Number Theory. Books about partitions. Books about primes.

03 March 2021 7,174 5 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What kind of intervention will be relevant to increase motivation among young sport trainees?

Any suggestion on what book to read is also welcome.

03 March 2021 1,646 4 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

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APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View