In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of human beings, animals, and lower organisms. Many textbooks define it as an internal state or condition that activates behavior and gives it direction, desire or want that energizes and directs goal-oriented behavior, or an influence of needs and desires on the intensity and direction of behavior. Motivation is often based on emotions, specifically, on the search for positive emotional experiences and the avoidance of negative ones, where positi ...

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• Motivation - Types of motivation
• Motivation - Physiological needs
• Motivation - Other biological motivations
• Motivation - Secondary goals
• Motivation - Coercion
• Motivation - Self control
• Motivation - Controlling motivation
• Motivation - Early programming
• Motivation - Organization
• Motivation - Drugs
• Motivation - In Education
• Motivation - Is Money a Motivator?
• Motivation - Reference

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Motivation, Motivation - Types of motivation, Motivation - Physiological needs, Motivation - Other biological motivations, Motivation - Secondary goals, Motivation - Coercion, Motivation - Self control, Motivation - Controlling motivation, Motivation - Early programming, Motivation - Organization, Motivation - Drugs, Motivation - In Education, Motivation - Is Money a Motivator?, Motivation - Reference

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Yes, at lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, such as Physiological needs, money is a motivator, however it tends to have a motivating effect on staff that lasts only for a short period (in accordance with Herzberg's two-factor model of motivation). At higher levels of the hierarchy, praise, respect, recognition, empowerment and a sense of belonging are far more powerful motivators than money, as both Abraham Maslow and Douglas McGrego ...

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Motivation, Motivation - Types of motivation, Motivation - Physiological needs, Motivation - Other biological motivations, Motivation - Secondary goals, Motivation - Coercion, Motivation - Self control, Motivation - Controlling motivation, Motivation - Early programming, Motivation - Organization, Motivation - Drugs, Motivation - In Education, Motivation - Is Money a Motivator?, Motivation - Reference

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The heart in many ways is the center of our body and our levels of consciousness. Here the life force pulses through our system. I consider love, which is the basis of this whole philosophy, to be not only the central motive in human life but also the most important and most divine. Here we focus on love as a motive.

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The heart in many ways is the center of our body and our levels of consciousness. Here the life force pulses through our system. I consider love, which is the basis of this whole philosophy, to be not only the central motive in human life but also the most important and most divine. Here we focus on love as a motive.

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The original software behind CDDB was released under the GNU General Public License, and many people submitted CD information without charging anything, thinking the service would also remain free. The license was later changed however, and some programmers complained that the new licence included certain terms that threatened them in a way they couldn't accept: if one wanted to access CDDB, one was not allowed to access any other CDDB-like database (such as freedb), and any programs using a CDDB lookup had to display a C ...

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Freedb, Freedb - Motivation, Freedb - External link

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Suppose points in space are associated with vectors. Imagine that Smith knows that a certain point is the origin, and Jones believes that another point -- call it p -- is the origin. Two points, a and b are to be added. Jones draws an arrow from p to a and another arrow from p to b, and completes the parallelogram to find a point that Jones thinks is a + b, but is actually p + (a − ...

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Affine combination, Affine combination - Motivation

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Many Germans who supported, fought in, or had otherwise known people lost in the enormously costly war, believed the causes for the German/Austrian involvement in the war were justified. They had hoped it would bring a restoration of past glory and a unified German nation-state. Instead, the war caused the deaths of 1,770,000 German soldiers and 760,000 German civilians, devastated the economy, and brought lo ...

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Dolchstosslegende, Dolchstosslegende - Motivation, Dolchstosslegende - Origins, Dolchstosslegende - Related concepts outside of Weimar Germany, Dolchstosslegende - Sources

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The Dirac adjoint is motivated by the need to form well-behaved, measurable quantities out of Dirac spinors. For example, is not a Lorentz scalar, and is not even Hermitian. One source of trouble is that if λ is the spinor representation of a Lorentz transformation, so that then Since the Lorentz group of special relativity is not compact, generally λ will not be unitary, so . Using fixes this problem, i ...

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Dirac adjoint, Dirac adjoint - Motivation, Dirac adjoint - Usage

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Traditionally kernel designers have sought to make individual hardware resources invisible to application programs by requiring the programs to interact with the hardware via some conceptual model. These models include file systems for disk storage, virtual address spaces for memory, schedulers for task management, and sockets for network communication. These abstractions of the hardware make it easier to write programs in general, but in special cases they can become a nuisance. A security-oriented application might need a file system that ...

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Exokernel, Exokernel - Motivation, Exokernel - Overview, Exokernel - MIT Exokernel, Exokernel - Kernel design, Exokernel - Applications, Exokernel - History

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Some believe fruitarianism was the original diet of humankind in the form of Adam and Eve and if they are ever to return to an Eden-like paradise then they will have to go back to simple living, and a holistic approach to health and diet (Isaiah 11:6-9). Some fruitarians only eat the fruit of a plant so that the plant does not have to be killed. For instance when one eats a root vegetable such as a carrot, the whole carrot plant dies. Fruitarians point out that, in nature, eating some types of fruit actually does the parent plant a fa ...

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Fruitarianism, Fruitarianism - Motivation, Fruitarianism - Famous fruitarians, Fruitarianism - Biblical fruitarians, Fruitarianism - Fictional fruitarians, Fruitarianism - Criticism, Fruitarianism - Fruitarian online community

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People become vegan for a variety of reasons, including concern for animals, personal health, or the environment. Veganism - Ethics. The ethics of veganism are defined by the British Vegan Society as "[A] philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practical — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose." [7] Vegans generally oppose what they see as violence and cruelty involved in the meat, [8], dairy, non-vegan cosmetics, clothing, and other industries. (See Draize test, LD50, Animal test ...

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Veganism, Veganism - Definition, Veganism - Animal products, Veganism - Motivation, Veganism - Ethics, Veganism - Health, Veganism - Environmental considerations, Veganism - Sexual and feminist motives, Veganism - Vegan cuisine, Veganism - Similar diets and lifestyles, Veganism - Vegan nutrition, Veganism - Cultural aspects, Veganism - Criticism and controversy, Veganism - Ethical criticism, Veganism - Health criticism, Veganism - Notes

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People become vegan for a variety of reasons, including concern for animals, personal health, or the environment. Veganism - Ethics. The ethics of veganism are defined by the British Vegan Society as "[A] philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practical — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose." [9] Vegans generally oppose what they see as violence and cruelty involved in the meat, [10], dairy, non-vegan cosmetics, clothing, and other industries. (See Draize test, LD50, Animal test ...

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Veganism, Veganism - Definition, Veganism - Animal products, Veganism - Motivation, Veganism - Ethics, Veganism - Health, Veganism - Environmental considerations, Veganism - Sexual and feminist motives, Veganism - Vegan cuisine, Veganism - Similar diets and lifestyles, Veganism - Vegan nutrition, Veganism - Cultural aspects, Veganism - Criticism and controversy, Veganism - Ethical criticism, Veganism - Health criticism, Veganism - Notes

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A common problem is to find a good notion of a measure on a topological space that is compatible with the topology in some sense. One way to do this is to define a measure on the Borel sets of the topological space. In general there are several problems with this: for example, such a measure may not have a well defined support. Another approach to measure theory is to restrict to locally compact Hausdorff spaces, and only consider the measures that correspond to positive linear functionals on the space of continuous functions with compact su ...

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Radon measure, Radon measure - Motivation, Radon measure - Definitions, Radon measure - Basic properties

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Vegetarianism - Religious. The majority of the world's vegetarians, according to the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians, follow the practice for religious reasons. Many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, the Bahá'í Faith, Sikhism, and especially Jainism, teach that ideally life should always be valued and not willfully destroyed for unnecessary human gratification. Smaller denominations that prescribe the diet include the Seventh-day Adventis ...

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Vegetarianism, Vegetarianism - History, Vegetarianism - Recent trends, Vegetarianism - Terminology and varieties of vegetarianism, Vegetarianism - Motivation, Vegetarianism - Religious, Vegetarianism - Nutritional, Vegetarianism - Ethical, Vegetarianism - Environmental, Vegetarianism - Social, Vegetarianism - Spiritual, Vegetarianism - Physiological, Vegetarianism - Aesthetic, Vegetarianism - Vegetarian cuisine, Vegetarianism - Country specific information, Vegetarianism - Vegetarian societies, Vegetarianism - Criticism, Vegetarianism - Vegetarian diet and longevity, Vegetarianism - Vegetarian diet is not a healthy diet, Vegetarianism - Environment, Vegetarianism - Animal Right

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As a motivating example, consider the problem of finding an 'a' in an array of n elements, given that half are 'a's and the other half are 'b's. The obvious approach is to look at each element of the array, but this would take very long (n/2 operations) if the array were ordered as 'b's first followed by 'a's. There is a similar drawback with checking in the reverse order, or checking every second element. In fact, with any strategy at all in which the order in which the elements will be checked is fixed, i.e, a deterministic a ...

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Randomized algorithm, Randomized algorithm - Motivation, Randomized algorithm - Complexity, Randomized algorithm - Applications

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Given a square matrix A, we want to find a polynomial whose roots are precisely the eigenvalues of A. For a diagonal matrix A, the characteristic polynomial is easy to define: if the diagonal entries are a, b, c the characteristic polynomial will be (t − a)(t − b)(t − c)... up to a convention about sign (+ or −). This works because the d ...

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Characteristic polynomial, Characteristic polynomial - Motivation, Characteristic polynomial - Formal definition, Characteristic polynomial - Example, Characteristic polynomial - Properties

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Inflation resolves several problems in the Big Bang cosmology that were pointed out in the 1970s. Among these are the observed flatness of the universe (the flatness problem), its extraordinary homogeneity on large (non-causally-connected) scales (the horizon problem), and its lack of any observed topological defects (the monopole problem), predicted by many Grand Unified Theories. Predictions of the standard model of inflation include geometrical flatness of the universe and near scale invariance of the primordial density fluctuations of th ...

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Cosmic inflation, Cosmic inflation - Motivation, Cosmic inflation - Mechanism, Cosmic inflation - Observations

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Inflation resolves several problems in the Big Bang cosmology that were pointed out in the 1970s. Among these are the observed flatness of the universe (the flatness problem), its extraordinary homogeneity on large (non-causally-connected) scales (the horizon problem), and its lack of any observed topological defects (the monopole problem), predicted by many Grand Unified Theories. Predictions of the standard model of inflation include geometrical flatness of the universe and near scale invariance of the primordial density fluctuations of th ...

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Cosmic inflation, Cosmic inflation - Motivation, Cosmic inflation - Observations, Cosmic inflation - Extensions

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Characteristic classes are in an essential way phenomena of cohomology theory — they are contravariant constructions, in the way that a section is a kind of function on a space, and to lead to a contradiction from the existence of a section we do need that variance. In fact cohomology theory grew up after homology and homotopy theory, which are both covariant theories based on mapping into a space; and characteristic class theory in its infancy in the 1930s (as part of obstruction theory) was one major reason wh ...

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Characteristic class, Characteristic class - Definition, Characteristic class - Motivation

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