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In this study, we adopt the logic of upper echelons theory to expand understanding of how executive personality shapes organizational responses to radical change.
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This is, after all, a country that just inaugurated an annual Hero of Atheism award. (This year's winner was Sima Nan, a 43-year-old ex-journalist who debunks the "superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory, " says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau.
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In addition, the theory of homeopathy actually defies conventional scientific understanding--in particular, the law of mass action, which demands that the rates of chemical reactions be proportional to the concentrations of substances involved.
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This idea is at the heart of his theory of special relativity, on which much of our modern technology and scientific understanding is based.
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Thus, the Combination of Hyper connectivity, Network Theory, Emergence, are key to understanding the next phase shift in human history.
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That is fine in theory, but it presents a problem: If our current understanding of the laws of physics tells us that as much matter as anti-matter must have been created in the Big Bang, then where has all the anti-matter gone?
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In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
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Understanding the success of Mr Buffett requires a brief detour into investment theory.
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In addition to understanding the birth of the cosmos, readers will learn how the theory stands up to challenges and what it fails to explain.
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And Giles Harrison believes climate sceptics need to apply the same scepticism to the cosmic ray theory as they do to greenhouse warming - particularly those who say there are too many holes in our understanding of how clouds behave in the man-made greenhouse.
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