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However, research and knowledge are brought into the design process through the judgment and common sense of designers – by designers " thinking on their feet " – more than through the predictable and controlled process stipulated by the Rational Model.

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Albert Ellis ( 1913 – 2007 ), who developed Rational emotive behavior therapy, acknowledged influence from general semantics and delivered the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1991.

" Rational expectations ," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 4, pp. 76 – 79.

" Rational expectations: econometric implications ," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 4, pp. 79 – 85.

* E. Cline, B. Parshall, L. Scott and W. van der Kallen, ( 1977 ) " Rational and generic cohomology " Inventiones Mathematicae 39 ( 2 ): pp. 143 – 163

Albert Ellis ( September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007 ) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ( REBT ).

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me – It Can Work for You by Albert Ellis.

* The REBT Network – Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

A systematic review ( 2009 ) published as part of the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) showed that dullness to conventional percussion was most accurate for diagnosing pleural effusion ( summary positive likelihood ratio, 8. 7 ; 95 % confidence interval, 2. 2 – 33. 8 ), while the absence of reduced tactile vocal fremitus made pleural effusion less likely ( negative likelihood ratio, 0. 21 ; 95 % confidence interval, 0. 12 – 0. 37 ).

# Rational singularities are Cohen – Macaulay but not necessarily Gorenstein.

* 1973-Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities and Robert C. Merton, Theory of Rational Option Pricing, Black – Scholes

* Rational – legal authority derived from the popular perception that the government's power derives from established law and custom ( a political constitution ), e. g. representative democracy.

his " Rational Psychrometric Formulae " – at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Rational models as theories – not standards – of behavior.

Correlating with the NT ( intuitive – thinking ) Myers-Briggs types, the Rational temperament comprises the following role variants ( listed with their corresponding Myers-Briggs types ): Architect ( INTP ), Fieldmarshal ( ENTJ ), Inventor ( ENTP ), and Mastermind ( INTJ ).

* RockPaperScissors ( 2006 Canadian Rational ) – most recent solo record.

Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Lady Harberton ( 1843 – 1911 ) of Cromwell Road, Kensington — wife of James Pomeroy, 6th Viscount Harberton and president of the Western Rational Dress Society — cycled on the morning of 27 October 1898 to have lunch at the Hautboy Hotel in Ockham, Surrey.

* Rational root theorem, a method of finding whether a polynomial has a linear factor with rational coefficients

* Rational function, a mathematical function which can be written as the ratio of two polynomial functions

He rejects the typical method which looks for a definition, e. g. Rational Animal, because the words used in the definition would then need to be defined.

The Rational temperament is one of the four temperaments defined by David Keirsey.

* Rational design of polynucleotide probe mixes to identify particular genes in defined taxa: www. dnaBaser. com / PolyPro

Rational functions formed as the ratio of two homogeneous polynomials are homogeneous functions off of the affine cone cut out by the zero locus of the denominator.

Rational approximations to regular octagon s, with coordinates derived from the Pell numbers.

In their 1994 book Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, political scientists Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro argue that rational choice theory ( of which public choice theory is a branch ) has contributed less to the field than its popularity suggests.

Game theory, with its foundations in the theory of Rational Choice, is increasingly used in various disciplines to help analyze power relationships.

* Rational exegesis bases its operation on the idea that the authors have their own inspiration ( in this sense, synonymous with " artistic inspiration "), so their works are completely and utterly a product of the social environment and human intelligence of their authors.

PopMatters ' review of Nothing singles out the lyrics from " Rational Gaze ": " Our light-induced image of truth — filtered blank of its substance / As our eyes won ’ t adhere to intuitive lines / Everything examined.

Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003.

The implementation of Rational Fortran used m4 as its macro engine from the beginning ; and most Unix variants ship with it.

In its purest form, the Rational Actor approach presumes that such a figure Constantine has complete freedom of action to achieve goals that he or she has articulated through a careful process of rational analysis involving full and objective study of all pertinent information and alternatives.

Rational science treats its credit notes as always redeemable on demand, while non-rational authoritarianism regards the demand for the redemption of its paper as a disloyal lack of faith.

' History of Science and its Rational Reconstructions ' in Y. Elkana ( ed.

To highlight the importance of the new approach in the shaping of the architecture, its name was modified to ACT-R, with the " R " standing for " Rational "

As part of its COINTELPRO designed to discredit and infiltrate radical New Left groups, the FBI also launched phony underground newspapers such as the Armageddon News at Indiana University Bloomington, The Longhorn Tale at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Rational Observer at American University in Washington, D. C.

Rational reconstruction is limited to the analysis of symbolically pre-structured realities because it is a procedure that is intimately tied to the interpretation of reality as opposed to its description.

:" But a Broom-stick, perhaps you'll say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head ; and pray what is Man, but a Topsy-turvy Creature, his Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational ; His Head where his Heels should be ; groveling on the Earth, and yet with all his Faults, he sets up to be a universal Reformer and Corrector of Abuses, a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature, bringing hidden Corruptions to the Light, and raises a mighty Dust where there was none before, sharing deeply all the while, in the very same Pollutions he pretends to sweep away: His last Days are spent in Slavery to Women, and generally the least deserving ; ' till worn to the Stumps, like his Brother Bezom, he's either kicked out of Doors, or made use of to kindle Flames, for others to warm Themselves by.

In 2003 he moved to IBM, after its acquisition of Rational Software.

Rational knowledge does not fully satisfy humankind's innate desire to know God, since reason is primarily concerned with sensible objects and thus can only infer its conclusions about God indirectly.

In 1999, Rational Youth, with a new lineup of original frontman Howe and new keyboard players Jean-Claude Cutz and Dave Rout, released its first album after fourteen years, To the Goddess Electricity.

Rational Youth toured throughout Scandinavia over the next two years, playing its final concert on November 3, 2001, at the Tinitus Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Rational actions ( also known as value-rational ones, wertrational ): actions which are taken because it leads to a valued goal, but with no thought of its consequences and often without consideration of the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it (' the end justifies the means ').

Here the price of the option is its discounted expected value ; see risk neutrality and Rational pricing: Risk-neutral valuation.