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May 29, 2024 · August 2021. Before my first course at Cal was to begin, I was scheduled to teach a five half-day long intensive course in Utah. This EMBA course, called “The Ethical Foundations of Business,” was based on our undergraduate course of similar title, which, as already described, relies on works in history, literature, philosophy, and sociology and is organized by business topic.
14 hours ago · In general, a random field can be considered an example of a stochastic or random process, where the index set is not necessarily a subset of the real line. But there is a convention that an indexed collection of random variables is called a random field when the index has two or more dimensions.
14 hours ago · In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar value that is a certain function of the entries of a square matrix. The determinant of a matrix A is commonly denoted det (A), det A, or |A|. Its value characterizes some properties of the matrix and the linear map represented, on a given basis, by the matrix. In particular, the determinant is nonzero ...
14 hours ago · It is the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP, behind the United States, and the world's largest economy since 2016 when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). [note 2] China accounted for 19% of the global economy in 2022 in PPP terms, [34] and around 18% in nominal terms in 2022.
14 hours ago · Automation bias, the tendency to depend excessively on automated systems which can lead to erroneous automated information overriding correct decisions. Gender bias, a widespread set of implicit biases that discriminate against a gender. For example, the assumption that women are less suited to jobs requiring high intellectual ability.
14 hours ago · A full trip on the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train. Example of low-speed urban maglev system, Linimo. Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance.
14 hours ago · The minister, deputy minister, inspector general, and three directors general were retired senior military officers; the secretary general (who acted as deputy minister) and most functional center chiefs were, as is the case today, active-duty military officers, while employees and staff were personnel of the armed forces and of the civil service.
