The Action-Centric Perspective is a label given to a collection of interrelated concepts, which are antithetical to The Rational Model.

After Rational Software Corporation hired James Rumbaugh from General Electric in 1994, the company became the source for the two most popular object-oriented modeling approaches of the day: Rumbaugh's Object-modeling technique ( OMT ), which was better for object-oriented analysis ( OOA ), and Grady Booch's Booch method, which was better for object-oriented design ( OOD ).

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.

* Rational agent, entity which has clear preferences, models uncertainty via expected values, and always chooses to perform the action that results in the optimal outcome for itself from among all feasible actions

Rational expectations is a hypothesis in economics which states that agents ' predictions of the future value of economically relevant variables are not systematically wrong in that all errors are random.

Some of the broader issues involved in this criticism are studied in Decision Theory of which Rational Choice Theory is only a subset.

which inspired IBM Rational ClearCase.

It affords him not only a country holiday, in itself a remarkable event which he enjoys immensely, however ignorant of the countryside he may be, but also a brush with a society girl, riding on pneumatics and wearing some kind of Rational Dress.

" Rational social management ", he said, " proceeds in a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action, and fact-finding about the result of action ".

" Rational social management ", he said, " proceeds in a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action and fact-finding about the result of action ". Figure 1: Systems Model of Action-Research ProcessLewin's description of the process of change involves three steps: Unfreezing: Faced with a dilemma or disconfirmation, the individual or group becomes aware of a need to change.

The Rational Unified Process ( RUP ) is a software process product, originally developed by Rational Software, which was acquired by IBM in February 2003.

RUP is included in the IBM Rational Method Composer ( RM C ) product which allows customization of the process.

In January 2007, the new RUP certification examination for IBM Certified Solution Designer-Rational Unified Process 7. 0 was released which replaces the previous version of the course called IBM Rational Certified Specialist-Rational Unified Process.

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

Rational basis review begins with establishing the factual predicate upon which the exercise of Congressional power is based.

His most important book, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy ( 1872 ), is one in which the Cambridge Platonists and other leaders of dispassionate thought in the 17th century are similarly treated.

First released in 1985, the Rational Environment was an integrated development environment for the Ada programming language, which provided good support for abstraction through strong typing.

The Rational Environment ran on custom hardware, the Rational R1000, which implemented a high-level architecture optimized for execution of Ada programs in general and the Rational Environment in particular.

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.

A part of Rational ClearCase is revision control system, which is a feature for end users.

An elaborate analysis of his life and works is given in John Tulloch's Rational Theology, vol.

* " Rational analysis ": For some, adherence is based on intellectual evaluation that has led them to the conclusion that the teachings of that religion most closely describe reality.

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.

* 1996 Rational choice theory and large-scale data analysis.

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.

Fett, " How Civil Wars End: A Rational Choice Approach ," Journal of Conflict Resolution 40, no.

Rational skeptics argue that numbers have no occult significance and cannot by themselves influence a person's life.

" Rational Anarchists " believe that the concepts of State, Society and Government have no existence but for the " acts of self-responsible individuals ", but concede that this is not a universal belief.

Rational Recovery repeatedly claims that there is no better time to construct a " big plan " to abstain from drinking / using than now, and that AA's idea of " one day at a time " is contradictory to never using again.

* There are no Rational Recovery recovery groups ( although meetings were held throughout the country during the 1990s ).

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Subjective thoughts and emotion have no place in the decision-making process of a Rational.

* 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 ').

Rational people will deem that that in today's day and age there is no such thing as ' one race ' claiming supremacy over another.

Rational decision making entails choosing a " rational " action given one's preferences, the actions one could take, and expectations about the outcomes of those actions.

The research found that " Rational Recovery succeeded in engaging substance abusers and promoting abstinence among many of them while presenting a cognitive orientation that is different from the spiritual one of AA.

Rational numbers have two continued fractions ; the version in this list is the shorter one.

Based on this later approach to religion, he reformulated his professional and personal view in one of his last books The Road to Tolerance, and he also co-authored a book, Counseling and Psychotherapy with Religious Persons: A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach, with two religious psychologists, Stevan Lars Nielsen and W. Brad Johnson, describing principles for integrating religious material and beliefs with REBT during treatment of religious clients.

This is dismissed by Odeen, the Rational of Dua's triad, who having the most contact with the " hard ones ", has heard the " hard ones " speak of a new " hard one " called " Estwald ".

This fact is kept carefully concealed by the mature population from the semi-mature population, because the melt is also a mind-meld, and it is important that the Rational of a triad become mature enough to understand the conditions of their existence by themselves, before the final melt into a mature hard one.

All members of the triad are exceptional in their own way ; Dua has learnt more about the other universe than any hard one, Odeen has shown greater intuition and empathy than a normal Rational, and Tritt has shown greater initiative and technical ability in stealing and setting up the lamp than any other Right.

While at Heidelberg he published a zoological monograph on the sharks and rays, in conjunction with his master Müller, and in 1846 his famous Manual of Rational Pathology began to appear ; this marked the beginning of a new era in pathological study, since in it physiology and pathology were treated, in Henle's own words, as branches of one science, and the facts of disease were systematically considered with reference to their physiological relations.

Although the secrecy makes difficult to investigate the purposes or even the name, Alcibíades Lappas considers instead that the lodge was named " Lodge of Rational Knights " in 1812, just like the Cádiz one, and that San Martín renamed it " Lautaro " when he recreated it in 1815, after the fall of Alvear.

In 1898 he was appointed to the Padua Chair of Rational Mechanics where he met and, in 1914, married Libera Trevisani, one of his pupils.

Previous theories held that institutions can influence individuals to act in one of two ways: they can cause individuals within institutions to maximize benefits ( regulative institutions, also called Rational Choice Institutionalism ), similar to rational choice theory or to act out of duty or an awareness of what one is " supposed " to do ( normative institutions, also called Historical Institutionalism ).

By attributing all decision making to one central figure who is always fully in control and who acts only after carefully weighing all options, the Rational Actor method allows scholars to filter out extraneous details and focus attention on central issues.

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

In the eighteenth century, one group of Dissenters became known as " Rational Dissenters ".

( 2007 ) study whose research for significance of CBT ( Cognitive Behavior Therapy ) versus RT ( Rational Therapy ) was resting on one experiment with an uncharacteristically large effect size ( 1. 02 ) by Clark et al.

Sanford Levinson, " Tiers of Scrutiny -- From Strict Through Rational Basis -- and the Future of Interests: Commentary on Fiss and Linde ," 55 Albany Law Review 745 ( 1992 ) ( referring to Linde as " easily one of the three most important state court judges in this century ")