Mathematics for human flourishing.Francis Su -2020 - New Haven: Yale University Press. Edited by Christopher Jackson.detailsAn inclusive vision of mathematics-- its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish. For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a diverse audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves personal reflections, puzzles, and stories to (...) show how mathematics meets basic human desires and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. Readers will explore mathematical concepts-- and see how mathematical thinking can even fulfill such longings as for love, play, freedom, justice, and community. Some lessons come from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher Jackson's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can-- and must-- be open to all. (shrink)
Does Giving Lead to Getting? Evidence from Chinese Private Enterprises.Jun Su &Jia He -2010 -Journal of Business Ethics 93 (1):73-90.detailsEnterprise philanthropy is practiced in a very unique and rudimentary form in China. Based on a unique random survey data on 3837 Chinese private enterprises conducted in 31 provinces of China in 2006, I find the significant positive relationship between enterprise philanthropy donation and enterprise profitability, and the result supports the political and institutional power view of enterprise philanthropy in the latest development of China. Simply put, Chinese private enterprises carried out philanthropy activities to better protect property rights and nurture (...) political connections, which in turn, leads to better enterprise profitability. The␣result is even stronger in institutions weaker provinces. (shrink)
Sŏ Kyŏng-su chŏjakchip.Kyŏng-su Sŏ -2010 - Sŏul-si: Hwal Pulgyo Munhwadan.details1. Pulgyo rŭl chŏmke hanŭn kil -- 2. Kisang ŭi chilmun kwa ch'ŏnoe ŭi tappyŏn.
The Signaling Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies.Weichieh Su,Mike W. Peng,Weiqiang Tan &Yan-Leung Cheung -2016 -Journal of Business Ethics 134 (3):479-491.detailsWhat signals do firms in emerging economies send to stakeholders when they adopt corporate social responsibility practices? We argue that in emerging economies, firms that adopt CSR practices positively signal investors that their firms have superior capabilities for filling institutional voids. From an institution-based view, we hypothesize that the institutional environment moderates the signaling effect of CSR on a firm’s financial performance. Based on a sample of firms from ten Asian emerging economies, we find a positive relationship between CSR practices (...) and financial performance. This positive relationship is stronger in the less developed capital market than in the more developed one. The financial benefits of CSR practices are also more salient in the low information diffusion market than in the high one. We emphasize that signaling theory and the institution-based view can jointly contribute to the CSR literature. (shrink)
Is early visual processing attention impenetrable?Su-Ling Yeh &I.-Ping Chen -1999 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (3):400-400.detailsPylyshyn's effort in establishing the cognitive impenetrability of early vision is welcome. However, his view about the role of attention in early vision seems to be oversimplified. The allocation of focal attention manifests its effect among multiple stages in the early vision system, it is not just confined to the input and the output levels.
(1 other version)The Study of Mao Zedong Thought in Contemporary China.Su Shaozhi -1992 -Contemporary Chinese Thought 23 (3):57-68.detailsSince its founding, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently employed as a guide for all its work the integration of the general principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution. To achieve this, however, is by no means an easy task. It was not until the Seventh Congress of the CCP held in 1945 that this guiding principle of "integration" was accepted by the whole Party and put into practice. From that time, China's New Democratic revolution was (...) guided by a correct line and correct policies, and the result was a great victory. Mao Zedong Thought is the main reflection of this "integration". (shrink)
Hyojŏng Chʻae Su-han Kyosu chŏngnyŏn kinyŏm nonmumjip.Su-han Chʻae -1989 - Taegu Chikhalsi: Parhaengchʻŏ Usin Chʻulpʻansa.detailsKwŏnil chʻŏn. Kibon wŏlli pʻyŏn -- kwŏni chi. Chŭksa ihwa pʻyŏn -- kwŏnsam in. Pulcha haengdŭng pʻyŏn.
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Is Guanxi Orientation Bad, Ethically Speaking? A Study of Chinese Enterprises.Chenting Su,M. Joseph Sirgy &James E. Littlefield -2003 -Journal of Business Ethics 44 (4):303-312.detailsGuanxi as one of the key factors leading to business success in China (PRC) has ironically been synonymous with bribery. This raises some serious questions: should Western foreign firms do business in China? How should they do business with Chinese firms? This study investigated the relationship between guanxi orientation and cognitive moral development in an attempt to determine whether the level of guanxi orientation of Chinese business people affects their ethical reasoning. Based on a classification of Chinese enterprises (Nee, 1992), (...) it was found that Chinese enterprises rely on guanxi for business to different extents. However, their levels of cognitive moral development are not significantly different, suggesting that guanxi orientation has very little to do with ethical reasoning (as captured through an established measure of cognitive moral development). Furthermore, time in profession was found to positively affect guanxi orientation; however, age failed to predict guanxi orientation and education turned out to be a negative predictor of guanxi orientation. (shrink)
Research on Body Type Correction of FINA Diving Difficulty Coefficient Based on Rigid Body System.Su Zhang,Wen Xiang &Guozhong Zou -2021 -Complexity 2021:1-11.detailsIn order to reduce the influence of athlete’s body shape on the difficulty coefficient of diving, a more reasonable calculation method of body shape correction coefficient is proposed based on the original calculation rules of diving difficulty coefficient. First, the composition of the original diving difficulty coefficient and influencing factors is analyzed and the relationship between the various structural parts is fully clarified. Second, a coupled nonrigid body dynamics model is established and a 2-body model is used to simulate complex (...) diving actions, and it is concluded that diving time is positively correlated with body shape. Finally, the air movement part and the water entry part of diving are discussed separately, the calculation model of the difficulty coefficient of body shape correction is established, and the original difficulty coefficient is corrected. The results show that the difficulty coefficient of each movement is obviously increased. This effectively avoids the influence of body shape on the diving difficulty coefficient. (shrink)
Factors influencing preferences of Korean people toward advance directives.Su Hyun Kim -2011 -Nursing Ethics 18 (4):505-513.detailsAlthough Korean society has begun to seek a way of utilizing advance directives, there is not much known about the factors influencing the average Korean person’s preference toward advance directives. The purpose of this study was to examine factors, in addition to demographic variables, influencing preferences regarding advance directives. These include: to what extent people’s awareness of advance directives, preferences of extending their life at the end of life, experience of illness and medical care, and family functioning independently influence the (...) preferences toward advance directives. The participants were 382 community-dwelling Korean people. The data analysis was performed using hierarchical multiple logistic regression analysis. The findings showed that a majority of Korean people had a positive preference on advance directives and the factors influencing their preferences for advance directives were the preferences against the use of life-sustaining treatment at the end of life, a good self-rated heath status, and an unsatisfactory family functioning. (shrink)
Business Ethics and the Development of Intellectual Capital.Hwan-Yann Su -2014 -Journal of Business Ethics 119 (1):87-98.detailsThis paper documents that business ethics has positive impacts upon the development of intellectual capital. Knowledge has become the most important asset of modern businesses, and this study argues that business ethics is associated with the development of intangible knowledge resources—intellectual capital. Businesses with ethical values at the core reinforce ethical conducts and successfully build trust with their various stakeholders, leading to the formation of an ethical and trustworthy corporate culture and a positive corporate environment. Thus, in this reasoning, an (...) ethical approach to business can encourage open communication, problems solving, knowledge sharing and creativity among employees to increase organisational capital; enhance interactions and relationships with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders to increase social capital; attract and retain good talent to increase human capital. Questionnaire survey is adopted as the research method with businesses in the electronic and information technology industries in Taiwan as sample. The results suggest that business ethics is associated with increased intellectual capital. Thus, this study demonstrates that the development of intellectual capital is in line with strengthened ethics. It contributes to the literature through combining research on business ethics with intellectual capital theories and extends the extant intellectual capital literature. (shrink)
Computably enumerable equivalence relations.Su Gao &Peter Gerdes -2001 -Studia Logica 67 (1):27-59.detailsWe study computably enumerable equivalence relations (ceers) on N and unravel a rich structural theory for a strong notion of reducibility among ceers.
Jīvasamāsa.Hemacandra Sūri &Amitayaśa Vijaya (eds.) -1985 - Mumbaī: Śrī Jina Śāsana Ārādhanā Ṭrasṭa.detailsJaina philosophical treatise with a Sanskrit commentary of Hemacandra Sūri, 12th cent.
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Reflections on Randall Collins’s sociology of credentialism.Su-Ming Khoo -2019 -Thesis Eleven 154 (1):52-65.detailsThis article reflects on Collins’s classic work, The Credential Society (1979), situating his critique of educational credentialism within broader ‘conflict sociology’. The discussion reappraises Collins’s work in the context of the ‘new credentialism’, ‘new learning’ and the race, gender and class concerns raised in current debates on higher education. The article characterizes contemporary higher education as being trapped in a Procrustean dynamic: techno-utopianism with job displacement and expansionism with declining public support. Collins attempts to escape the legacy of structural-functionalism through (...) conflict sociology or predictions of systemic crisis. This is contrasted with his contemporary, Herbert Gintis’s eclectic attempt to construct a transdisciplinary social science. The key problem of marketized inequality is linked to the sociology of absences in conflict sociology, and it is argued that inequalities of class, race, gender and coloniality in higher education and credentialism can no longer be ignored. (shrink)
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