Cosmic Approach Research Articles

Deus, consciência e gnosticismo na actual filosofia da religião: algumas orientações tomistas

This article intends to address the problem about God, consciousness and gnostic legacy to modernity, whose immanent nature leads to serious philosophical conclusions. Indeed, the most important concept of contemporary idealism, within philosophy of religion, is consciousness, which is related with human’s individualism and self-sufficiency. In a cosmic approach, this doctrine proposes a pantheistic view of the universe and a paradigm of man’s deification and self-redemption, whose mainstream is the New Era’s spirituality without religion. Finally, an outline of Thomist doctrines on God’s transcendence and the human intellect is offered, as a proposal for a philosophy of religion based on common sense.

Inclusion of Functional and Non-Functional Parameters for the Prediction of Overall Efforts of Mobile Applications.

Size is a major and main parameter for the estimation of efforts and cost of software applications in general and mobile applications in particular and estimating effort, cost and time has been a key step in the life cycle of the software project. In order to create a sound schedule for the project, it is therefore important to have these estimates as soon as possible in the software development life cycle. In past years, many methods have been employed to estimate size and efforts of mobile applications but till now these methods do not meet the expected needs from customer. In this paper, we present a new size measurement method i.e., Mobile COSMIC Function Points (MCFP) based on the COSMIC approach, which is a primary factor for estimation of efforts in mobile application development. This paper analyzes the possibility of using a combination of Functional and Non-functional parameters including both Mobile Technical Complexity Factors (MTCF) and Mobile Environmental Complexity Factors (MECF) for the purpose of mobile application sizing prediction and hence effort estimation. For the purpose of this study, thirty six mobile applications were analyzed and their size and efforts were compared by applying the new effort estimation approach. In this context of a mobile application, few investigations have been performed to compare the effectiveness of COSMIC, FP's and the proposed approach “COSMIC Plus Effort Estimation Model (CPEEM)”. The main goal of this paper is to investigate if the inclusion of Non functional parameters imposes an effect on the functional size of mobile application development. Upon estimating efforts using the proposed approach, the results were promising for mobile applications when compared the results of our approach with the results of the other two approaches

A Cosmic Approach Falls Short: A Review of Jacques Lafaye's Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813

A Cosmic Approach Falls Short: A Review of Jacques Lafaye's Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813