scholarly journals Ecology and Economy - Survival of the fittest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Sandeep Poddar
Keyword(s):  
Survival Of The Fittest ◽  
Ecology And Economy

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Decision Rule Selection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Laver ◽  
Ernest Sergenti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Rule ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Party System ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

This chapter extends the survival-of-the-fittest evolutionary environment to consider the possibility that new political parties, when they first come into existence, do not pick decision rules at random but instead choose rules that have a track record of past success. This is done by adding replicator-mutator dynamics to the model, according to which the probability that each rule is selected by a new party is an evolving but noisy function of that rule's past performance. Estimating characteristic outputs when this type of positive feedback enters the dynamic model creates new methodological challenges. The simulation results show that it is very rare for one decision rule to drive out all others over the long run. While the diversity of decision rules used by party leaders is drastically reduced with such positive feedback in the party system, and while some particular decision rule is typically prominent over a certain period of time, party systems in which party leaders use different decision rules are sustained over substantial periods.

Teachings of Bhagavad Gita for Marketing

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar ◽  
Jyotirmaya Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Ethical Marketing ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
Sense Of Satisfaction ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

Contrary to the Indian philosophy of “Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam”, western design of management is based upon the Darwin's principle of the survival of the fittest which promoted the philosophy of 'dog eats dog'. Bulkiness of the bottom line of the balance sheet became the yardstick of the success of an organization and ethics, values and lifelong emotional bonding with people are pushed to the peripheral level where customers became 'consumer' and workers a 'hirable and replaceable commodity' and management professionals as 'tools to improvise the bottom line' without realizing that profit is not the sole motto as the purpose of organization is to create values to the society and profit is just a byproduct. Ethics and values are different from rules/regulations because it provides criteria for evaluating action based upon certain desirable norms but has no legal binding. The management is expected to follow the highest ethical standards as management is not just accountable to shareholders but also responsible towards stake holders and responsibility of management professionals from public work cannot be veiled behind the professionalism. Moreover, the great organization cannot be created without values and ethics. Only those organizations can survive till eternity that follow highest standard of ethics, moral values and create values for the society. It is difficult to accept that an organization follows highest standard of ethics, values and emotions in its internal management but can afford to remain low in ethical standards with customers. Organizations have realized the importance of ethics in marketing for the benefits in long term. Adoptions of ethical practices in marketing create positive energy in the organization and generate interest of the customer in products/ services, develop customer confidence in organization's brand and leads to loyalty. A loyal and satisfied customer and organization's brand value gives pride among employees who develops a sense of satisfaction and loyalty towards the organization which can be understood by the following flow chart: Ethical marketing behavior Satisfied customer and Brand loyalty Strong Citizen Brand Spiritually pure Business and Profit Positive energy in the organization Spiritually connected employees develops pride in organization Daivisampat employees (faithful and honest) Works hard to continue to have satisfied and loyal customers Organization able to sustain leadership

scholarly journals Respecting freedom in the absence of compassion: realistic behavior by public officials for the COVID-19 vaccination program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalmacito A Cordero
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Government ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

Abstract The virtue of compassion is a valid antidote to lighten the burden of negative effects brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, real-life situations can attest that this is not always the kind of behavior for some people since the current situation is considered as ‘survival of the fittest.’ In its absence, the respect of freedom by public officials to every citizen is a great substitute most especially in the implementation of the government’s vaccination program. This behavior actualizes every person’s plan of protection without being pressured. This right needs to be provided and not taken away by the government.

scholarly journals Evolutionary design of optimal surface topographies for biomaterials

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliaksei Vasilevich ◽  
Aurélie Carlier ◽  
David A. Winkler ◽  
Shantanu Singh ◽  
Jan de Boer
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Random Mutagenesis ◽  
Material Design ◽  
Fitness Assessment ◽  
Surface Topographies ◽  
Optimal Surface ◽  
Design Production ◽  
Brute Force Approach ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractNatural evolution tackles optimization by producing many genetic variants and exposing these variants to selective pressure, resulting in the survival of the fittest. We use high throughput screening of large libraries of materials with differing surface topographies to probe the interactions of implantable device coatings with cells and tissues. However, the vast size of possible parameter design space precludes a brute force approach to screening all topographical possibilities. Here, we took inspiration from Nature to optimize materials surface topographies using evolutionary algorithms. We show that successive cycles of material design, production, fitness assessment, selection, and mutation results in optimization of biomaterials designs. Starting from a small selection of topographically designed surfaces that upregulate expression of an osteogenic marker, we used genetic crossover and random mutagenesis to generate new generations of topographies.

From great man to fittest survivor: Reputation, recapitulation and survival in Victorian concepts of Wagner's genius

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 415-445
Author(s):  
Bennett Zon
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Musical History ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

The transposition of the Great Man into the Fittest Survivor is at the very root of an endemic interchange between the sciences and the arts in late Victorian culture, giving rich metaphoric substance to more heavily concretised scientific terminology. Herbert Spencer's famous phrase, “survival of the fittest” is, arguably, one of the most commonly transposed and consequently influential scientific expressions of the Victorian period, and as such, one of its most malleable idioms. In Victorian musicology this influence is especially obvious in biographical works which privilege Richard Wagner as the greatest genius of musical history. Thus in Mezzotints in Modern Music (1899) James Huneker declares that “Wagner carried within his breast the precious eucharist of genius. ” It is the attitude of Huneker and like-minded musicologists, like C. Hubert H. Parry, William Wallace, Francis Hueffer and Richard Wallaschek, which forms the basis of a three-part exploration of Wagner's genius, covering (1) the role of “endurance” in Victorian definitions of genius, from Carlyle and Sully to Galton; (2) the influence of German morphology on evolutionary terminology in Britain, with particular reference to ontogeny, phylogeny and recapitulation; and (3) Spencer's adaptation of German morphology and his influence on Victorian perceptions of Wagner's genius. These collectively argue through the paradigm of Wagner that the formulation of late Victorian musical genius was incomplete without recourse to evolutionary terminology of survival. Indeed, for Victorian musicology, Wagner, the Great Man, had evolved Into Wagner, the Fittest Survivor.

scholarly journals War and the Survival of the Fittest—III

1913 ◽  
Vol 75 (1933supp) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Robert M. Dickie
Keyword(s):  
Survival Of The Fittest

Survival of the fittest

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Munday
Keyword(s):  
Survival Of The Fittest
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