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The "advice industry" is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. Americans harbor an endless appetite for self-help. Year by year, thousands of new "how-to" materials are being published, new theories are emerging, old methods and ideas are being combined and re-sold in repackaged forms, using a new, modernized terminology. One of these rediscovered theories that suddenly emerged into the mainstream through a new documentary movie titled "The Secret" is called "The Law of Attraction". The theory emphasizes the power of positivity, thoughts, feelings and intentions. Despite...

Barmherzigkeit wird im heutigen Sprachgebrauch, abgesehen vom Bereich der Religion, kaum noch verwendet. Dessen wird man sich bewusst, wenn man z.B. einen Blick in ein Lexikon wirft oder die Berichterstattung in den Medien verfolgt. Dies wirft jedoch die Frage auf: Gibt es noch Barmherzigkeit in der heutigen Zeit? Der Autor Jurgen Tanczos geht diesem Thema genauer auf den Grund, indem er zum Einen die Verwendung des Begriffes untersucht, dazu werden Lexika, mediale Berichterstattung, aber auch Bereiche, wie Politik, Wirtschaft und auch Hilfsorganisationen in den Blick genommen, zum Anderen...

Every one relies on some kind of transportation system nearly every day. Go ing to work, shopping, dropping children at school and many other cultural or social activities imply leaving home, and using some form of transportation, which we expect tobe eflicient and reliable. Of course, efliciency and reliabil ity do not occur by chance, but require careful and often relatively complex planning by transportation system managers, both in the public and private sectors. It has long been recognized that mathematics, and, more specifically, op erations research is an important tool of this...

Every one relies on some kind of transportation system nearly every day. Go ing to work, shopping, dropping children at school and many other cultural or social activities imply leaving home, and using some form of transportation, which we expect tobe eflicient and reliable. Of course, efliciency and reliabil ity do not occur by chance, but require careful and often relatively complex planning by transportation system managers, both in the public and private sectors. It has long been recognized that mathematics, and, more specifically, op erations research is an important tool of this...