Does nature have direct moral status? This question, usually put in terms of intrinsic value, is one of the most frequently addressed questions in environmental ethics. This book aims to shed new light on this question by framing it instead in terms of reasons for action, thus emphasizing its practical relevance and connecting it to decision-making at various levels. With the point of departure in the contemporary philosophical discussion about reasons, two kinds of reason for action are distinguished: direct reasons (reasons to act towards a thing for its ...

Cost of transportation of goods and services is an interesting topic in today's society. Capacitated vehicle routing problem is one of the variants of the vehicle routing problem. In this research we develop a machine learning technique to nd optimal paths from a depot to the set of customers while also considering the capacity of the vehicles, in order to reduce the cost of transportation of goods and services. Each vehicle originates from a depot, service the customers and return to the depot. We compare the machine learning model with an exact method; ...

The great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, while second in popularity with his countrymen only after Pushkin, is perhaps best known outside of his homeland for his brief marriage to Isadora Duncan. After their relationship broke up, Yesenin hung himself. Or perhaps he was murdered—their were a great many 'suicides' during the Stalinist purges. His great contemporary rival, Vladimir Mayakovsky, wrote a poem 'To Sergei Yesenin' castigating him for 'taking the easy way out'—only to commit suicide himself (again, questionable) a few years later. Sadly ...

Os benefícios do exercício são extensos; contudo, a maioria das pessoas não participa em exercício regular. Os problemas com a aderência podem dever-se a factores de personalidade e/ou ao prazer do exercício. O objectivo deste trabalho foi examinar as relações entre o gozo do exercício, actividade, personalidade, humor, e cortisol salivar. Cinquenta e três estudantes participaram, preenchendo inquéritos, fornecendo amostras de saliva, e andando de bicicleta durante 30 minutos. ...

THE BEST BOOK THAT DESCRIBES THE WORLD OF 2020's. We are happy to publish this "Illustrated Version of 1984" to our readers with a "New Cover". Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker ' Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within ...

Grace Livingston Hill (April 16, 1865 – February 23, 1947) was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. Her characters were most often young Christian women or become Christians within the confines of the story.  Hill's writing career began as a child in the 1870s, writing short stories for her aunt's weekly children's publication, The Pansy. Her first story printed in book form was The Esselstynes, which was published ...

A disastrous job interview leads sassy heroine Fallon Youngblood to an unbelievable night of passion with reckless tech billionaire Tucker Spaulding. I'm no one. Just a bankrupt girl with a ton of baggage, no job, and a padlock on her heart. I have obligations that no twenty-three-year-old should have to worry about. But here I am. Fighting to survive in a world that keeps knocking me down. Until fate brings Tucker Spaulding to my doorstep. On the outside, he's confident, cocky, and driven. On the inside, he's wounded. I see the anguish ...

The Bible Among the Myths is a sometimes controversial, always engaging corrective to a growing rejection in Western society of the revelation found within the Old Testament regarding a transcendent God who breaks into time and space and reveals himself in and through human activity.

Usually being a woman in the startup world is perceived as a disadvantage. What if it could be turned into an asset? Inclusion and diversity in the entrepreneurial community are changing the industry for the better. People of all genders and ages are able to participate, which has caused immense progress in the business world, as a whole. Whether you are a quiet female wanting to break the mold, a traditional investor, someone ready to switch careers, or just a young person with a dream, The Female Founding Edit:A Pop of Startup Culture speaks ...