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	MindFloss.com
		First, it is important to think of the survival value of an act from a genetic perspective, not from a human one.
		At issue is not whether there is survival value in helping your genetically unrelated neighbor today, but rather whether helping members of the same clan or tribe would have had survival value in the distant past, when there was typically a significant degree of genetic overlap between individuals in the same community.
		By changing the chick's environment, it is possible to undermine the survival value of instinctive behavior, but that does not mean that the behavior lacked survival value at the time it evolved.
	dlupinek.blogspot.com /2002_11_10_dlupinek_archive.html (2422 words)

	Introduction to Survival Analysis with SAS Seminar
		The term survival analysis is used predominately in biomedical sciences where the interest is in observing time to death either of patients or of laboratory animals.
		There are certain aspects of survival analysis data, such as censoring and non-normality, that generate great difficulty when trying to analyze the data using traditional statistical models such as multiple linear regression.
		From the graph we see that the survival function for each group of treat are not perfectly parallel but that they are separate except at the very beginning and at the very end of the study time.
	www.ats.ucla.edu /stat/sas/seminars/sas_survival (3991 words)

	Genius and the Struggle for Existence, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Both of them became permanently subject races, and that they have survived at all is not due to their genius, but to their exceptionally fine physical qualities, their courage and their endurance.
		As a matter of fact, the law of the survival of the fittest has almost entirely ceased to apply to civilised man, and the more civilised he is the less it applies.
		It is, however, fitness to "succeed in life," as it is termed, not necessarily to survive; and this is indicated by the comparatively short lives of millionaires and of the inhabitants of cities, who are continually replaced by the sons of the less successful but more virile inhabitants of the rural districts.
	www.wku.edu /~charles.smith/wallace/S600.htm (460 words)

	Evolutionary Values
		While primary values cannot be derived from nature, they must be consistent with evolution and natural selection, the primary mechanism that has generated all of nature.
		Because of the "Red Queen Principle" the seemingly conservative value of survival necessarily entails continuing progress, development, or growth: if you do not innovate by constantly trying out new variations, you will sooner or later lose the competition with those that do innovate.
		The utilitarian value of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" is therefore largely synonymous with the evolutionary value of maximizing the fitness of humanity.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /EVOLVAL.html (1041 words)

	SoloHQ: Forum
		However, placing 'survival' as one's highest value seems to seriously limit the potential of the human animal, and seems to conflict with some of life's basic human needs.
		It seems to me that the concept of 'Life as a Human' must be the ultimate value that we each must seek, even though we can't identify in concrete terms all the human activity that this would encompass.
		Life as the prime value does not imply that survival, and only survival, is the goal of one's actions.
	solohq.com /Forum/GeneralForum/0006.shtml (949 words)

	famous Value quotes -ThinkExist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.
		We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
		The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
	www.thinkexist.com /English/Topic/x/Topic_310_2.htm (323 words)

	Value Quotes - Ethics Quotations on Value and Values
		The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.
		Far better to be aware that the Value Opportunity Gap difference between current value and potential value is presently in a 50 to 57 percent range and to know the critical actions necessary to close that GAP, than to waste time trying to pinpoint the exact underperformance amount.
		There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
	www.valuequotes.net (5986 words)

	Human Synergistics Canada - Strengthening Organizations Through Individual Development
		Team members work individually and then as a group to assess the value of a series of items in terms of their importance to survival.
		This use of survival experts lends a high degree of credibility and interest to the exercises.
		A desert plane crash is the setting for this classic survival exercise that challenges team members to band together to survive the elements.
	www.hscanada.com /survival.htm (544 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Applying the existing value theories of conglomeration (market power, resources hypothesis, and internal capital markets), they conclude that conglomeration is favored when growth opportunities are low and when there are many firms competing in the industry.
		Organizational Structure and Survival While the value of diversification depends on the particular characteristics and history of each firm, we also find that there is another important, yet unexplored, relationship between organizational structure and firm history.
		Since excess value calculations depend on focused firms’ value ratios, and because focused firms are more likely to have missing data in particularly bad years, a bias is created that makes diversified firms look comparatively worse.
	bear.cba.ufl.edu /borghera/ValueSurvivalOrganizationalStructure.doc (9083 words)

	Religion & Morality in the Paradigm of Science: On Human Nature
		The range of values we observe among all the societies of the world today is a subset of the possible set of values that are evolutionarily stable.
		Values that caused their believers to pass themselves on to others would become prevalent.
		A moral which hurt the survival value of a group would decline, even if that value were actually true in whatever sense a value could be true.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/02/mlandre1/reading/r1.htm (858 words)

	Chapter 4
		But the fact that something has survival value does not explain how it came into being, much less how it operates.
		Assume arguendo that there would be survival value in man's teeth being made of industrial-strength diamonds rather than of calcium.
		I have a spirit, and the fact that that may have survival value explains nothing of what my spirit is, where it came from, or how it operates.
	www.magicalmiracles.com /Chapter4.htm (1287 words)

	Award 1 Text
		Rao (1994:32) has shown that certification is survival enhancing for new firms as it legitimates organizations “because of the taken for granted axiom that winners are ‘better’ than losers and the belief that contests embody the idea of rational and impartial testing.
		These results suggest that by modeling the survival of new firms as a function of both economic efficiency and institutional factors, researchers can develop explanations for the survival of these firms that are neither over- nor undersocialized (Granovetter, 1985).
		had little effect on the survival of new franchisors, despite arguments that the royalty rate is the key incentive to both franchisors and franchisees, and arguments that franchise fees represent the net present value of future returns to the franchisee from investment in the franchise system.
	www.babson.edu /entrep/fer/papers98/Award1/award1.htm (6405 words)

	A Philosophy for Living On Earth
		For example, as noted above, Rand held that "man's survival as man" is the standard of value in ethics, by which she meant "the terms, methods, conditions and goals required for the survival of a rational being through the whole of his lifespan".
		Rand's concept of life, and of value as the corollary of life, is, at root, biological: she ties the concept of value to life as such (not limiting it to the human realm, which is unique not in the existence of values but in man's need for a conceptual code of value principles).
		Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one's lifespan, it is a part of one's life that one invests in everything one values.
	www.saint-andre.com /thoughts/apfloe.html (9878 words)

	Preoperative F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography Maximal Standardized Uptake Value Predicts Survival ...
		Kaplan-Meier analysis of the relationshop between standardized uptake value (SUV; dichotomized using median value of 9 cm) and survival.
		of the primary tumor and survival, with the likelihood
		Jeong HJ, Min JJ, Park JM, et al: Determination of the prognostic value of [(18)F] fluorodeoxyglucose uptake by using positron emission tomography in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
	www.jco.org /cgi/content/full/22/16/3255 (2631 words)

	Vollema and Groen, December 1998
		ABSTRACT A comparison was made among breeding values of sires for longevity that were obtained by different methods: phenotypic averages of daughters using only uncensored records, BLUP using only uncensored records, survival analysis using only uncensored records, and survival analysis using both censored and uncensored records.
		The correlations are negative because the linear method analyzed longevity, and survival analysis measured the risk of being culled, which has an antagonistic relationship with longevity.
		The results from REML BLUP and survival analysis methods differed mainly because of the different data that were used (uncensored only versus both censored and uncensored).
	www.adsa.org /jds/abs/98/dec3315.html (232 words)

	Comment notes from Excel file: RealTimeSterilizationData.xls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This version of the program simulates the inactivation of spores whose isothermal survival curve follows the Weibull (power law) model with a fixed shape factor (power), n, and where the temperature dependence of the survival rate parameter, b(Temp), obeys a log logistic relationship.
		Background: For generating a survival curve from measured time and temperature data, the user needs to enter Time values (in minutes) into worksheet column D starting at cell D2 and Temperature values (in degrees C) corresponding to each Time value into worksheet column E starting at cell E2.
		Once legal values have been entered for each variable, you may click the Clear button in column A to have the Clear macro initialize the calculation cells in column C, clear the graphical data columns F thru H and delete any existing plots.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~aew2000/CBotSurvDataNotes.html (2645 words)

	5.1.2 What Spencer Meant To Say? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The eventual outcome (L-survival) of this process is then quasi-deterministically related to the relative S-values ("fitness") of the participating S-lineages: hence "survival of the fittest".
		Again, it must be emphasized that this non-tautologous formulation relies on the fact that S-value (fitness) is not defined by S-lineage "survival"--rather it is, in principle, something that can be assessed of an S-lineage isolated from the selection process, but which is then predictive of the outcome of that process.
		However, confusion might arise in cases where, for independent reasons, one already believes that the displacement of one S-lineage by another is, in fact, a case of selection: in that scenario one can validly, and non-tautologically, infer that the surviving S-lineage must have had the greater S-value.
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /~tkpw/tcr/volume-01/number-04/node15.html (275 words)

	Phl 303 Lecture 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Skinner adopts survival value as the ultimate value.
		Possible confusion: if natural selection is the ultimate cause of human morality, then the survival of the species (or one's "culture") is the highest moral value.
		Mere survival of the species is not the ultimate end -- it is merely a means to the perpetuation of other values, such as the perpetuation of love, dignity, friendship, science, art, ect.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/phl303/lectures/lec13.html (357 words)

	Human Synergistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cascades Survival Situation - A helicopter crash in a remote area of the Cascade Mountain Range is the setting for this shorter exercise.
		Desert Survival Situation - A desert plane crash is the setting for this classic survival exercise that challenges team members to band together to find solutions to a common problem.
		Jungle Survival Situation - Set in the tropical rainforest, this two-part simulation requires teammates to decide on strategic objectives as well as prioritize 15 items salvaged from a plane crash in terms of their survival value.
	www.phoenixmoon.com /HSI/team.htm (715 words)

	A parametric study of freezing injury in ELT-3 uterine leiomyoma tumour cells -- Bischof et al. 16 (2): 340 -- Human ...
		Survival of ELT-3 cells exposed to the experimental matrix of freeze–thaw protocols defined in the text.
		Survival is expressed as percentage of control survival, where control survival was measured in suspended cells not exposed to a freeze–thaw protocol.
		Survival was assayed using the fluorescent probes calcein AM and propidium iodide.
	humrep.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/16/2/340 (5465 words)

	“The Survival Value of Great (Though Philosophically False) Art” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Value will be defined as that which sustains and enhances one’s life
		The basic function of art is not to objectify and contemplate moral values.
		The value that art offers is, thus, psychoepistemological.
	www.uiowa.edu /~objectiv/GreatArt.htm (1063 words)

	artasevolutionaryadaptation
		It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that gives value to survival.” Contrary to Lewis’s perception, art does have survival value for humans.
		Darwin, in his theory of evolution, expounds the view that animals with the most adaptive genes, or those best fit for survival, live longer and are able to reproduce.
		Thus, those animals with genes that are not the best fit for survival cannot hide the physical signs of their weakness.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~lma4q/artasevolutionaryadaptation.html (442 words)

	Objectivism Online Forum -> Evolution's Role In The Spread Of Philosophy
		If one breaks the process of evolution into steps, and traces it across generations, one should be able to figure whether Objectivism has survival value in the same sense as (say) an elephant's trunk or a deer's speed.
		The offspring of Objectivists though being smaller in number should be more successful and fullfilled in their lives and should have a greater knowledge of things like the value of health, insurance, etc. that would lead to a much longer life span and opportunity to spread ideas.
		On a social level, a rational society is more successful than an irrational one, so Objectivism does have “survival value” on two levels: it helps us survive as individuals, and it helps our society to the extent that we can influence it, which is presumably more than irrational people can.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=3447 (2105 words)

	Abstract: High Predictive Value of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of ...
		The outcomes were survival or late mortality within the following median observation period of 7 years.
		All surviving patients were followed through 1999, and no patient was lost to followup.
		A SLICC score of 0 at 5 years gave an odds ratio in favor of survival of 0.06 (95% CI 0.0-0.5) and had a predictive value for survival of 97%.
	www.jrheum.com /abstracts/abstracts02/1398.html (495 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wildlife is important to people for four main reasons: (1) beauty, (2) economic value, (3) scientific value, and (4) survival value.
		Wild species of animals and plants provide many valuable substances, such as wood and other plant products, fibers, meat and other foods, and skins and furs.
		The financial value of wild species is important to the economies of many nations.
	www.worldbook.com /features/conservation/html/conservalue.htm (262 words)

	Decision-Analytic Valuation of Clinical Information Systems: Application to an Alerting System for Coronary Angiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This study demonstrates the use of decision analysis to predict the survival value of an alerting system for necessary angiography.
		The expected value of information (EVI) was calculated for alerts that angiography is necessary.
		Given sufficiently detailed outcome and prevalence data, EVI analysis could also predict the survival value of the system’s individual data elements.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /f97/D004154.htm (273 words)

	Survival Quotes
		"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
		"This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr.
		"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."
	www.wiseful.com /survival-quotes (323 words)

	Survival quotes - ThinkExist quotations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
		"Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
		endurance, natural selection, selection, selections, survival, survival of the fittest, survivals.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotations/survival (323 words)

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