What Is Neoclassical Economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power

This paper offers a precise definition of neoclassical economics based on three axioms which lie at the latters foundations. This definition is all inclusive in that it applies as much to the neoclassical economic models of the late 19th century as it does to todays more flexible and inclusive models. The paper argues that these axioms, simultaneously, (a) provide the foundation for neoclassicisms discursive success within the social sciences and (b) are the deep cause of its theoretical failure. Moreover, (a) and (b) reinforce one another as neoclassicisms discursive power (which is largely due to the hidden nature of its three foundational axioms) makes it even less likely that it will con-duct an open, pluralist debate on its theoretical foundations (i.e. the three axioms which underpin it).Neoclassical economics, Methodological individualism, Methodological instrumentalism, Methodological equilibration.

Elemental Figure Symmetry

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Analyzing sports commentary in order to automatically recognize events and extract insights

In this paper, we carefully investigate how we can use multiple different Natural Language Processing techniques and methods in order to automatically recognize the main actions in sports events. We aim to extract insights by analyzing live sport commentaries from different sources and by classifying these major actions into different categories. We also study if sentiment analysis could help detect these main actions

ANALISIS YURIDIS KESEPAKATAN MENENTUKAN HARGA ANTAR PENGUSAHA SEPEDA MOTOR (MATIC) PERSPEKTIF HUKUM PERDATA

Based on the provisions regarding the legal requirements of an agreement as regulated in Article 1320 of the Civil Code, then in an agreement, the conditions for the validity of the agreement specified in the law of the article must be fulfilled. The conditions for the validity of the agreement as regulated in Article 1320 of the Civil Code are cumulative; it means that the non-fulfillment of one of the conditions of the provisions of the article will result in the cancellation or the agreement can be cancelled. This study aims to determine the legal provisions of the agreement in determining the price of an item among businessmen in the perspective of the Civil Code, and the validity along the legal consequences of an agreement or on agreements in determining the price of motorcycle among motorcycle entrepreneurs based on the Civil Code.From a civil law perspective, the alleged occurrence of a cartel carried out between PT. Yamaha Indonesia Motor Manufacturing (PT. YIMM) and PT. Astra Honda Motor (PT AHM) in selling automatic motorcycles type 110-125 cc has not fulfilled the elements of Article 5 of Law no. 5 of 1999 concerning the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition. In this case, KPPU has not been able to fully prove the existence of an "agreement" between PT. Yamaha Indonesia Motor (PT. YIMM) and PT. Astra Honda Motor (PT AHM) in determining the price agreement. The legal consequence of price agreement in determining the prices based on a civil law perspective is an act that is against the law, namely Law no. 5 of 1999, so that an agreement or on agreements in determining the prices is an agreement or on agreements that is contrary to the law, which has legal consequences of the cancellation or get the cancellation of the agreement.  Keywords: Agreement, Motorcycle Entrepreneur, Civil Law

Present State and Some Prospects for Electric Nondestructive Evaluation Development

The industrial processes of the laminated nonmetallic structures and components production provide an urgent need for the nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of their physical properties, especially referred to an interface layer in composite structures. It presents a number of challenges concerning to — the materials making technology inspection, — the manufacturing technology control — the nondestructive inspection technology integrated in main manufacturing stages of a product making with a predetermined quality

Offer, Accept, Block, Yield: the poetics of open scene additive improvisation

This single case study examines the way that Johnstone’s (1981) Impro ‘Poetics’ are being used in the contemporary practice of Open Scene Additive Improvisation (OSAI). Johnstone’s Poetics have become a ubiquitous part of contemporary drama improvisation parlance, yet they have never themselves been the subject of any academic examination. This study attempts to fill that void by looking at their use in Open Scene Impro, the purest form of theatre improvisation (since OSAI relies on no structures other than the audience suggestion around which to improvise a ‘Scene’.) To do this, the research analysed seven OSAI Scenes performed by 3 undergraduate student improvisers at the University of Sydney in July 2003, and looked at the ways in which the actions that Johnstone’s Poetics describe are actually being used. Looking closely at Scene segments, the study identifies a number of features: the ways that Offers are used to initiate, re-initiate, confirm or redirect meaning across five identified fields; the ways that Accepts temper these meanings; the productive use of Blocking in a Scene; and many other functions. It was also found that in-Scene negotiations about definition of situation became a subtextually enmeshed part of the Scene’s meaning (often in Phases of improvisers’ conflicting Endowments), while the predictive and framing control of narrative-indexing Offers ensured that character roles became defined early on in all Scenes. Overall, the study’s analysis dissects each of the Poetics to show that improvisers use them for a number of major purposes crucial for the reality, forward-movement and coherence of a Scene to obtain. The study concludes by elucidating how the nine main Poetics (Offer, Endow, Justify, Advance, Extend, Reincorporate, Accept, Block and Yield) serve these purposes. These purposes are then abstracted into the TOE Model, which in turn forms the basis of a proposed dynamic and holistic model for understanding OSAI at each moment of its (re-)creation. The ultimate aim, beyond the reach of the present study, is to be able to understand an Open Scene’s every moment, and each moment’s reference historically backwards, and, to some degree, predictively forwards in time. To this end, the fundamental dynamic of contextualised giving and receiving in OSAI is morphed into a Taoist energetic model, a “Tao of Impro”, along with the notion, derived from Mandelbrot, of ‘cybernetic semantic iteration’, by which information seems to get processed in Open Scenes. The educational implications of these models are then sketched, and future directions for research in OSAI pointed to