Optimum culture in the cockpit

Even with the same program and objectives, if the culture is different, there will be different approaches to the goal of flight safety. However, the cockpit environment is culture-free so it is not as important to think of a person's cultural background as it is to think of the approach to the goal of ultimate safety. Crew members can look at their individual safety goals and compare them to their own performance to see if their behavior matches their own safety goals. The cockpit environment must be culture-free in order to obtain the ultimate safety goal. One must first realize how their culture affects their behavior before they can begin to change their attitude and actions in the cockpit

The pure Nash equilibrium property and the quasi-acyclic condition

This paper presents a sufficient condition for the quasi-acyclic condition. A game is quasi-acyclic if from any strategy profile, there exists a finite sequence of strict best replies that ends in a pure strategy Nash equilibrium. The best-reply dynamics must converge to a pure strategy Nash equilibrium in any quasi-acyclic game. A game has the pure Nash equilibrium property (PNEP) if there is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium in any game constructed by restricting the set of strategies to a subset of the set of strategies in the original game. Any finite, ordinal potential game and any finite, supermodular game have the PNEP. We show that any finite, two-player game with the PNEP is quasi-acyclic.best-reply dynamics

Evolution of competitive equilibrium with endogenous product differentiation

Previous theoretical researches show that learning from good performers yields intense competition and results in the low profitability of firms. These researchers do not take into account differentiation strategies being referred as a useful strategic tool to mitigate competition. We introduce an evolutionary (learning) game into a duopoly model with product differentiation on the Hotelling line. We find that central agglomeration appears in the unique stochastically stable state in which the equilibrium price is equal to the marginal cost of firms. This implies that perfectly competitive equilibrium appears even when firms have an opportunity to differentiate themselves through product differentiation and to mitigate competition.

Constructive Universalism: Sen and Sensitivity to Difference

Amartya Sen’s capability approach is, on the one hand, in line with universalism such as exhibited in Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach and Len Doyal and Ian Gough’s human need theory. On the other hand, his approach puts priority on people’s “self-evaluation” of capabilities and needs. The latter emphasis makes his approach distinctly sensitive to people’s differences such as gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, etc.. One could ask, however, how successfully the former commitment to universalism relates to this latter feature that places importance on taking difference seriously. This question is especially relevant with respect to global justice and gender, for example. To offer a potential answers to this question is main goal of this paper.My answer will come from contrasting his theory with two related but distinct theories, and from connecting his discourse about need construction, identity, and democracy with his capability approach. His version of universalism I construe could be called “constructive universalism.” First, Sen’s theory is situated within universalism. Secondly further examination reveals that some distinct features of Sen’s work contrast starkly with other universalist accounts. The meanings of such feature are not so explicitly explained in his theory. To understand the meanings is the third task of this paper. I will further argue that his theory has great potential to take people’s difference seriously, and will present this interpretation from the perspective of feminist studies, disability studies, and cultural / post- colonial studies. How this potential can be realized will comprise the fourth part of this paper. I will present the case for understanding his theory as “constructive universalism,” and address how this interpretation could solve the above question

MB 755 Holisitc Mission and the Use of Business in Global Outreach

TEXT BOOKS Befus, David R. Kingdom Business: The Ministry of Promoting Economic Activity. Miami, FL: Latin America Mission, 2001. Elmer, Duane. Cross-cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993. Rundle, Steve, and Tom Steffen. Great Commission Companies: the Emerging Role of Business in Missions. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003. Yamamori, Tetsunao, and Kenneth A. Eldred (eds.). On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions Through Entrepreneurial Strategies. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2003.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3931/thumbnail.jp

MB 755 Holisitc Mission and the Use of Business in Global Outreach

TEXT BOOKS Befus, David R. Kingdom Business: The Ministry of Promoting Economic Activity. Miami, FL: Latin America Mission, 2001. Also found in: http://www.carintech.com/kb/preface.html,2002. Eldred, Ken. God Is At Work: Transforming People and Nations. Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2005. Rundle, Steve, and Tom Steffen. Great Commission Companies: the Emerging Role of Business in Missions. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003. Yamamori, Tetsunao, and Kenneth A. Eldred (eds.). On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions Through Entrepreneurial Strategies. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2003https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1757/thumbnail.jp