for the purposes of a medical examination).
for the purposes of their everyday life), an ontological trans woman (for the purposes of a transgender support group) and an ontological person with a prostate gland, some might say a man (e.g. This allows for an intersectional view of gender in which it is perfectly possible for the same human, in different contexts, to be an ontological woman (e.g. In my version – which I believe is in the spirit of the Bhaskarian version – the transitive dimension embraces everything that is currently being. Specifically, Pilgrim and I have different definitions of the transitive and intransitive dimensions of reality. In this paper, I explain why I disagree with David Pilgrim’s claim that critical realists should deny any ‘natal male’ claim to womanhood. Through such mutual reinforcement, mindfulness and the Core Concerns System could do more together than they could separately to reduce self-centered thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and encourage more other-centered thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in negotiation. A person cultivates this skill in silent meditation and then deploys it in everyday life.) Reciprocally, the Core Concerns System can help a person maintain mindfulness. One way to remedy such deficiencies is present-moment mindful awareness, or “mindfulness.” (Mindfulness is a certain way of paying attention - deliberately, moment-to-moment, and without judgment - to whatever passes through the traditional senses and the mind. When this happens, it typically results from deficiencies in present-moment awareness. Not infrequently, however, negotiators who have mastered the Core Concerns System, and intend and prepare to use it in a particular negotiation, fail to do so sometimes, looking back, they wish that they had used that approach because they believe it would have produced a better process and outcome. This system is simple and often effective.
core concerns both as a “lens” to understand a negotiation situation and as a “lever” to produce positive emotions, thus enhancing the likelihood of good, interest based negotiation. Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro have proposed the Core Concerns System for addressing the emotional dimension of negotiation by attending to five core concerns that everyone shares: Appreciation, Affiliation, Autonomy, Status, and Role. Positive emotions can foster good negotiation. Negative emotions can impede good negotiation, especially good interest-based negotiation. Step-by-step solutions to selected problems are given in the Appendix. The questions are both Qualitative and Quantitative (Problem sets) with the former intended to develop creative thinking and to provoke discussions. To develop your creativity and understanding of the ideas, we have included a number of problems at the end of each lecture. This is followed by worked examples drawn from everyday life to help clarify the principles and indicate possible applications. Lastly, Lecture 6 deals with phase changes and phase equilibrium in thermodynamic systems.Įach lecture begins with clear statement of study objectives, pertinent definitions and simple qualitative explanations of principles together with illustrations. Lecture 5 introduces thermodynamic potentials and Maxwell/s equations.
Lecture 4 deals with Entropy and the concept of reversibility. Lecture 3 deals with the 2ND Law of thermodynamics which gives the direction of natural thermodynamic processes and defines the thermal efficiency of devices that convert heat into work and vice versa. Lecture 2 deals with the 1ST Law of thermodynamics which introduces the concept of internal energy. Lecture 1 begins by defining basic thermodynamic concepts and the Zeroth law which introduces the concept of thermal equilibrium and temperature. This module attempts to provide a clear and modern view of the essential Principles of Thermodynamics and its applications, relevant to Science and Engineering. These relationships are governed by the four laws of thermodynamics which are now some of the most important fundamental laws in nature. Thermodynamics is the study of relationships involving heat, mechanical work and other aspects of energy transfer that takes place in devices such as refrigerators, heat pumps, internal combustion engines etc.
Today the scope of thermodynamics has immensely increased with innumerable applications in chemistry and engineering. The study of thermodynamics was inaugurated by 19th -century engineers, who wanted to know the ultimate limitations the laws of physics impose on the operation of steam engines and other devices that convert heat to mechanical energy and vice versa.