NETWORK ECONOMIES Business network bamboo\network smuggling human trafficking chamber of commerce, untary- loca rotary, country club, etc Compulsory-belong to an organization. to survive or operate successfully e.g. accountant, bankers. Concept of networks ocially b inding ties hetween actors Global tribes- combination of ethnic

defense system that has evolved to protect animals from invading pathogenic microorganisms and ancer. It is able to generate an enormous variety of cells and molecules capable of specifically recognizing and eliminat ing an apparently limitless variety of foreign invaders. These cells and molecules act together in a dynamic network whose omplexity rivals that of the nervous system. Functionally, an immune response can be divided into two related activities--recognition and response. Immune

Prewriting The nature of news What is news? Charles A. Dana, editor of the New york Sun, once defined it as, anything that interests a large part of the community and has never been brought to its attention before.\ In other words news is what people are talking about. News is new. As Evelyn Waugh described it, News is what the chap who doesn t care much about anything wants to read 1. Put another way, news is a change in the status quo. But does a change in the status quo guarantee

Particularism and virtue ethics I. Universalism and Particularism We've considered before some basic questions that we would expect a moral theory to answer i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform(understanding the\ought\as a moral

What is marketing? To attract and retain customers at a profit (Drucker, 1999) To establish, develop and commercialise long-term customer relationships so that the objectives of the parties involved are met (Gronroos, 1989)

College English 2 The Course Curricular Participants: First-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2001-6/2001 Second semester of the Academic Year 2000-2001 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester Text Learning (nine units altogether) Learning to write English composition Integral Training: trying to improve the students' proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking

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Utilitarianism Last time we considered three questions one might ask an ethical theory to answer i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform(understanding the\ought as a moral ii)What makes a particular action right or wrong? What is it about the action that determines its moral status? 111) How do we know what is right and wrong? There are a variety of strategies for answering(iii). One might hold e. g. that moral truths are revealed by god and

November 29, 2001 Duty and Famine: Singer Last time we considered Mill's version of Utilitarianism, called Eudaimonistic Utilitarianism characterized by what he calls \the greatest-happiness principle\: You ought always to act so as to maximize happiness, i.e., the right act is the act that results in the greatest amount of happiness overall. The \greatest-happiness principle\, however, just states one version of Utilitarianism. Other versions of

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