Dr. Fadul: I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to potential dissertation direction that could also be a good direction for future prospects. I need to do this because I will need to have a very good plan to show the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada selection committee when I apply [...]
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This is reposted from my original robincmba.blogspot.com post dated Thursday, April 7, 2005… I wanted to consolidate blogs. The other night, I had a rather intense dream. Intense emotions. Intense realism. Intense fiction. When one of my roommates first moved in to my current house and home last spring, he introduced me to the discipline [...]
I feel that there is a problem some people have fully understanding the ingredients listing on their food products. Recent regulation requiring nutrition information to be displayed prominently and ingredients lists to be accurate combined with truth-in-advertising laws have gone a long way in mitigating fear of foods; yet, a comprehensive ingredients list is a [...]
I have found that modern scientists have a certain arrogance that was not as evident in the past–a sense that “science has arrived,” and “we didn’t know better back then, but we got it right, now.” And it is this feeling that science cannot do wrong now, I believe, more than anything else, that is dangerous.
It is that elegance, beauty, and simplicity, the complexity, that I have come to appreciate from cubing. And the process of abstracting generalizations that apply to all (n-layer) cubes that I learned by developing strategies for solving (n-1)-, (n-2)-, and (n-3)-layer cubes, for example.
Gunn (2008) provided the inspiration for further study into Islamic financing by point out the relative paucity of studies pertaining to Islamic finance. Gunn (2008) point out that to an extent more so than western religions, Islam demands that its law be integrated into every aspect of a Muslim’s life—spiritual, commercial, professional, legal. While the [...]
I think in the pure sciences the more we know, as I wrote before, the more we think we are infallible. But time still continues to prove us wrong, and what we had taken as gospel, continues to evolve. The theory of the atom, as proposed by democritus, was challenged when Rutherford proposed his “raisin [...]
The following is a post exerpted from a compulsory weekly course discussion in my PhD (Finance) program at www.waldenu.edu in the Winter 2009/2010 quarter regarding Ethics. The full discourse can be found archived at http://robincheung.info/rsch8100/week2/discussion1/ In 2000 when I began my MBA studies, McMaster University had no formal ethics course in the curriculum. Just before [...]
The following exerpt is from a weekly discussion on Use of Theory in my PhD program compulsory RSCH 8100 Research Design course at Walden University for Winter 2009/2010 quarter. The full discussion archive can be found at http://robincheung.info/rsch8100/week3/discussion/ Robin Cheung 26 Dec 09 8:29 PM MST Kristina, When I reflected upon that post, I [...]
Ever since the Canadian dollar dropped back below the USD the $1.39 value menu prices feel a lot more reasonable. But lest we take the value on the menu for granted, McDonalds recently hiked the price of a popular value menu item: the $1.39 double cheeseburger is now $1.69. While the price increase itself is [...]
Ignorance abounds in the world around us. While it’s great people are able to be passionate and committed enough to join activist groups and try to effect change, I think they’re not being as effective as they could be. And certainly not as compelling. I’ve written previously about my well-established non-conformist beliefs. And yet [...]
I converted to Catholicism after I had already completed my BSc in Biology and Biotechnology. Most of us who have learned of the history of science are familiar with religious figures in the past who made key scientific discoveries, too. These days, I find it all-too-common now that we have advanced a certain amount in [...]
As fledgling MBAs, we were thoroughly trained in several techniques, such as the “STAR” technique, etc. If I can help one person by writing this, perhaps they can pay me some of their earnings The STAR technique has many advantages for both candidate and interviewer(s). As a candidate, you appear professional, analytical, and–above all–organized. As [...]