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Journal articles on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Rakhinsky, Dmitry V., Mikhail P. Yatsenko, Irina G. Sinkovskaya, and Svetlana P. Shtumpf. "Inconsistency in Information Resources of Modern Education." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 17, no. 03 (February 18, 2022): 192–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i03.25763.
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The article investigates the problem of the ambiguous influence of modern information technologies on education. The authors analyse not only the positive effects of computerisation. They also identify the problems faced by the subjects of the educational process under the influence of digitalisa-tion. As outlined in the article, uncontrolled information flows prevent stu-dents from forming the holistic worldview. The dominance of information technologies in education also leads to the transformation of subject-object relations in the process of cognition. The teacher, whose role is changed sig-nificantly, acts more frequently as a coordinator. The usage of gadgets in the educational process provides an opportunity to receive an education at a dis-tance. However, the widespread use of distance learning technologies leads to a decline in the quality of educational services. This resulted from the need to develop new methods. In addition, the constant updating of infor-mation technologies does not allow the teacher to develop a sustainable methodology for teaching their subject. The authors prove that the active use of digital technologies in the information society implies the harmonious combination of traditional and modern information technologies. This fully applies to the modern Russian education system, which is in an intermediate state between traditional pedagogical methods and modern computer tech-nologies. As the authors point out, the problem is to find the optimal educa-tional option for the formation of a harmonious global-regional educational system. It should not only include all the advantages of the latest information technologies, but also preserve all the positive achievements of great practi-tioner-teachers and scientists.
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Elia, Anthony J. "An Historical Assessment of the Narrative Uses of the Words “Kabbalah,” “Cabala,” and “Qabala/h”: Discerning the Differences for Theological Libraries." Theological Librarianship 2, no. 2 (November 11, 2009): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/tl.v2i2.111.
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Terminology surrounding the subject of “Kabbalah” has long been notoriously inconsistent and complex. What limited scholarly attention has been devoted to this quandary has in some cases served only to increase the confusion, resulting in significant problems for cataloging and for reference services.
This essay explores the background of variant orthographies, including origins, definitions, and usages, and considers the implications of this inconsistency for libraries. A bibliography of pertinent literature is included.
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Ullah, Ikram, Aisha Tariq, and Tauseef Iqbal. "The Responsibility of the State for the Conduct of its Entities in ICSID Jurisprudence." STATISTICS, COMPUTING AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 4, no. 1 (April 26, 2022): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/scir.v4i1.79.
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It is a good omen that the tribunals have started applying International Law Commission's Articles on state’s responsibility in a logical order. But this application has created another inconsistency. Tribunals neither interpret these Articles consistently nor do they apply the same tests developed under an individual Article to determine the attribution of a specific act to a state. This inconsistent attitude is affecting the predictability of investment law. After highlighting the importance of consistency in this subject, this paper suggests the preferable interpretation to be adopted consistently.
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Ullah, Ikram, Aisha Tariq, and Tauseef Iqbal. "The Responsibility of the State for the Conduct of its Entities in ICSID Jurisprudence." STATISTICS, COMPUTING AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 4, no. 1 (April 26, 2022): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/scir.v4i1.79.
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It is a good omen that the tribunals have started applying International Law Commission's Articles on state’s responsibility in a logical order. But this application has created another inconsistency. Tribunals neither interpret these Articles consistently nor do they apply the same tests developed under an individual Article to determine the attribution of a specific act to a state. This inconsistent attitude is affecting the predictability of investment law. After highlighting the importance of consistency in this subject, this paper suggests the preferable interpretation to be adopted consistently.
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Benjamins, Jacob. "Are We Living in an Era of Nihilism? Jean-Luc Marion and Reading the Signs of the Times." Literature and Theology 33, no. 4 (September 3, 2019): 476–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frz023.
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Abstract This article critiques Jean-Luc Marion’s understanding of nihilism based on its inconsistency with his own theological convictions. It contextualises Marion’s account of nihilism within his relatively precise theological and philosophical critique of the modern subject. Then, it identifies how he broadens his philosophical account by relating it to an interpretation of culture. Finally, the article argues that Marion overextends the applicability of the concept in a way that is inconsistent with his overall theological position and further nuance is needed in order to read the signs of the times.
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Fitri, Rani Agias. "Gambaran Disonansi Kognitif pada Wanita Perokok Dewasa Muda Berpendidikan Tinggi." Humaniora 4, no. 1 (April 30, 2013): 547. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v4i1.3463.
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This research aims to get the description of cognitive dissonance of high educated young adult smoker women, such as the source of dissonance and how to lessen their dissonance. By qualitative research method through depth interview with four research subjects, it is found out that logical inconsistency, general opinion, and past experience are the source of dissonance. Culture norm becomes the source of dissonance only on three subjects. The way the four subjects lessen their cognitive dissonance are changing behavior element and increasing cognitive element whereas changing cognitive element is only done by one subject.
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Chen, M. G. "Relative distribution of Schistosoma japonicum eggs in the intestine of man: A subject of inconsistency." Acta Tropica 48, no. 3 (January 1991): 163–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0001-706x(91)90044-k.
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Duraj, Tomasz. "Protection of the Self-Employed to the Extent of Non-Discrimination and Equal Treatment – An Overview of the Issue." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica 101 (December 29, 2022): 161–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6069.101.12.
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The subject of the foregoing study is the analysis of the legal regulation of the protection of the self-employed to the extent of non-discrimination and equal treatment. The author positively assesses the very fact of adopting the Equality Act, which contributed to raising the standards of protection of self-employed people in this area. Unfortunately, however, a number of detailed regulations included in this act raise justified doubts and deserve criticism. Moreover, some provisions of the Equality Act are inconsistent with international agreements binding Poland, and also violate Art. 32 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. This leads to an unjustified lowering of the standards of protection against discrimination and unequal treatment of the self-employed in relation to the legal situation in which employees find themselves. A critical analysis of the Equality Act shows the far-reaching inconsistency of the legislator and the inconsistency of the entire system of protection against discrimination. This, in turn, makes this law ineffective, as shown by statistics in which a very small number of cases are brought to court and end up with a positive outcome for the person discriminated against.
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Kirkham, Anne. "Contextualising the Interloper: Consistency and Inconsistency in Rylands Latin MS 164." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 93, no. 1 (March 2017): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.93.1.2.
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Rylands Latin MS 164 is one of over forty manuscript books of hours in the John Rylands Library. It was made in France in the middle of the fifteenth century and its extensive, high quality illumination associates its production with the worshop of the so-called Bedford Master. However, it has not been the subject of any sustained published research and consequently the significance of variations in the mise-en-page of the books pages has not been scrutinised. This article focuses on the variations in two replacement pages, one within the calendar and one beginning the Penitential Psalms, and in the case of the page beginning the Penitential Psalms considers whether the replacement could have been made by Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, the owner of Rylands Latin MS 164 in the early nineteenth century.
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Li, Zhi, Christos G. Bampis, Lucjan Janowski, and Ioannis Katsavounidis. "A Simple Model for Subject Behavior in Subjective Experiments." Electronic Imaging 2020, no. 11 (January 26, 2020): 131–1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2352/issn.2470-1173.2020.11.hvei-131.
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In a subjective experiment to evaluate the perceptual audiovisual quality of multimedia and television services, raw opinion scores offered by subjects are often noisy and unreliable. Recommendations such as ITU-R BT.500, ITU-T P.910 and ITU-T P.913 standardize post-processing procedures to clean up the raw opinion scores, using techniques such as subject outlier rejection and bias removal. In this paper, we analyze the prior standardized techniques to demonstrate their weaknesses. As an alternative, we propose a simple model to account for two of the most dominant behaviors of subject inaccuracy: bias (aka systematic error) and inconsistency (aka random error). We further show that this model can also effectively deal with inattentive subjects that give random scores. We propose to use maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to jointly estimate the model parameters, and present two numeric solvers: the first based on the Newton-Raphson method, and the second based on alternating projection. We show that the second solver can be considered as a generalization of the subject bias removal procedure in ITU-T P.913. We compare the proposed methods with the standardized techniques using real datasets and synthetic simulations, and demonstrate that the proposed methods have advantages in better model-data fit, tighter confidence intervals, better robustness against subject outliers, shorter runtime, the absence of hard coded parameters and thresholds, and auxiliary information on test subjects. The source code for this work is open-sourced at https://github.com/Netflix/sureal.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Kronlid, David. "Ecofeminism and Environmental Ethics." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3307.
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This study focuses on ecofeminist ethical theory. A first aim is to clarify ecofeminist views on five central issues in the field of environmental ethics. These issues are: (1) Views of nature, (2) social constructivism and nature, (3) values of nature, (4) ethical contextualism, and (5) ethical pluralism. A second aim is to compare ecofeminist standpoints with certain standpoints within nonfeminist environmental ethical theory. A third aim is to critically discuss some of the main standpoints in ecofeminism. The analysis focuses on the works of Karen Warren, Sallie McFague, Chris Cuomo, and Carolyn Merchant. Other important sources are the environmental philosophers and ethicists J. Baird Callicott, Paul Taylor, Irene Klaver, Bryan G. Norton, Christopher Stone, Eugene Hargrove, Holmes Rolston III, Per Ariansen, Don E. Marietta, and Bruno Latour.
The result of this study is that there are no main differences between ecofeminism and nonfeminist environmental ethics regarding the main standpoints on the five issues. Rather, the significant differences are found within these main standpoints. In addition, one important characteristic of ecofeminist ethics is its "double nature," that is, the fact that it is rooted in feminism and environmentalism. The double nature of ecofeminism results in a foundation out of which ecofeminism as an environmental philosophy has a unique potential to handle some of the theoretical tensions that environmental ethics creates.
From the perspective that environmental problems consist of complex clusters of natureculture- discourse and that environmental ethical theory ought to be action guiding, it is argued that ecofeminist ethical theory has an advantage compared to nonfeminist environmental ethics. This standpoint is explained by the fact that ecofeminism holds a variety of views of nature, kinds of social constructivism and contextualism, and conceptions of values and of the self, and from the presumption that this variety reflects the reality of environmental problems. However, in order for ecofeminist ethical theory to fulfill its promise as an acceptable environmental ethical theory, its theoretical standpoints ought to be explicated and further clarified.
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Huan, Ou Chih, and 歐至桓. "The Subject Matter of Administrative Procedures for Inconsistency between Assessment and Statutory Amount of Tax." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06472269771803911133.
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Williams, Benjamin Robert. "Inconsistency in reaction time: normal development and group differences between those with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder and controls." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2091.
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Moment-to-moment fluctuation in performance (i.e. across-trial inconsistency) was examined in 2-choice reaction time data in three separate samples of participants: healthy controls ranging in age from 6 to 81 years, and both children and adolescents with Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A methodological approach was employed that allowed for the examination of inconsistency while controlling for the effects of practice, fatigue, and group differences in mean level of performance. Among healthy controls, a U-shaped curve defined the relationship between age and inconsistency with optimal performance found in those aged approximately 20 years old. In children (aged 6-12 years old) those with ADHD were significantly more inconsistent than controls, and inconsistency was related to ratings of symptoms of ADHD both at home and school. Group differences were also observed in adolescents (aged 12- 17 years old) with ADHD, however, in general, differences were observed only in those participants who also had reading difficulties (RD). Inconsistency was also examined separately in each end of the reaction time distribution. Evidence for a specific effect selectively affecting the slow portion of the distribution was found across all three samples. However, in addition, there was also evidence for effects that were general to both the fast and slow portions of the distribution (in the normal population in those age 6 to 20 years), as well as evidence for an effect selectively affecting the fast portion of the distribution (in adolescents with and without ADHD). The findings indicate that in addition to traditional outcomes of interest (e.g. mean level of performance), moment-to-moment fluctuation in cognitive performance is an important phenomenon which should be taken into account in future research in developmental psychology and psychopathology.
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Burton, Catherine Louisa. "Cognitive ability and inconsistency in reaction time as predictors of everyday problem solving in older adults." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/181.
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The purpose of the present investigation was to examine whether across-trials inconsistency in reaction time (RT), in addition to level of cognitive performance, is predictive of older adults’ performance on a measure of everyday problem solving through a series of three investigations. A sample of community dwelling non-demented older adults, ranging in age from 62 to 92, completed the Everyday Problems Test (EPT), a measure of everyday problem solving that indexes instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). Performance on the EPT varied according to age, cognitive status, and education, and was significantly predicted by measures of global cognitive status, cognitive decline, and various basic cognitive abilities (i.e., speed of processing, fluid abilities, episodic memory, crystallized abilities). Both inconsistency and mean latencies on measures of RT were found to be significantly associated with concurrent EPT performance, such that slower and more inconsistent RTs were associated with poorer everyday problem solving abilities. Finally, inconsistency in RT made a unique contribution in predicting performance on the EPT two years later, over and above age, education, and various basic cognitive abilities. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the relationship between inconsistency in RT and future EPT performance was mediated by fluid and crystallized abilities. Neither inconsistency nor cognitive functioning were significantly associated with changes in EPT performance across two years. Examination of the relationships between IADL functioning, as assessed through self- and informant-report, and inconsistency and basic cognitive abilities demonstrated that everyday problem solving and measures of IADLs tap into related but distinct constructs. The overall pattern of results obtained lends support to the idea that inconsistency in RT represents a behavioural marker of neurological dysfunction. In addition, the present investigation is the first to suggest a relationship between inconsistency in RT and real-world outcomes, such as everyday problem solving and IADL functioning.
Books on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Morton, Jonathan. Inconsistent Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816669.003.0002.
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The chapter considers the philosophical implications of the Rose’s literary style, showing how it relates to the institutional context of the University of Paris in the 1270s. It examines figurative language’s potential for discussing the irrational subject of love or desire, analysing how Jean de Meun draws on the earlier poetry of Andreas Capellanus and Alain de Lille to produce a paradoxical style that plays definition against indefinition. The prologue of Bishop Etienne Tempier’s condemnation of 1277 is interpreted as an attempt to restrict philosophical utterances to definite propositions simpliciter and not allowing hypothetical statements secundum quid. The Rose signals its opposition to Tempier by reworking Andreas Capellanus’s De amore (condemned in 1277) and by parodying Tempier in the figure of Genius. The result is a mode of philosophical proceeding that is anti-authoritative even as it depends on the utterances of earlier authors.
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Kolge, Nishikant. Was there a strategy in Gandhi’s approach to fight against the caste system?*. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474295.003.0001.
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The chapter argues that despite enormous difficulties that different scholars had faced in assessing Gandhi’s views on the problem of the caste system and untouchability due to inconsistency in his writings, the subject needs to be thoroughly examined by studying his practices too. The first part of the chapter examines Gandhi’s practice on different caste restrictions and some other religious obligations, while the second part of the chapter looks at the community life in Gandhi’s four Ashrams. The third part of the chapter analyses different arguments and justifications presented by different scholars regarding Gandhi’s views on the caste system. On examining these arguments and the justifications offered by different scholars in the light of Gandhi’s practice the chapter argues it is only appropriate to hold Rajmohan Gandhi’s and few other scholars’ view that for strategic reason alone Gandhi emphasizes on the positive aspect of the caste system after coming from South Africa.
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Murray, Joshua M., and Ross K. Tangedal, eds. Editing the Harlem Renaissance. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979558.001.0001.
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As a whole, no pervasive quality unites what we now deem Harlem Renaissance literature outside of the era in which it developed. The inconsistency and varied nature of the works therefore place an even greater emphasis on the editorial processes that produced this canon. While the popular period has received much scholarly attention, the significance of editors and editing in the Harlem Renaissance—aside from the formative efforts of W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke—remains understudied. As a remedy, Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an in-depth approach to relevant editing and editorial issues, offering a variety of voices to become the first centralized authority on the subject. Rather than limiting the examination to a narrow understanding of editorial practices, this collection takes a broad and inclusive approach, exploring not only those figures of the Harlem Renaissance who edited in professional capacities but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process, as well as those texts that have been discovered and/or edited by others in the decades following the Harlem Renaissance. To achieve this end, the collection comprises chapters in several areas, including professional editing, authorial editing, textual self-fashioning, textual editing, documentary editing, and bibliography.
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Tennant, Neil. Relevance in Reasoning. Edited by Stewart Shapiro. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195325928.003.0023.
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This article advances an unabashedly partisan view of how best to “relevantize” a logic. The view is laid out as informally as possible, given the technical nature of the subject matter. Here, “relevantizing” is understood as the project of formulating a decent system of logic that does not endorse Lewis's First Paradox: A, ¬A:B. Such a system will be paraconsistent, in that it will allow for distinct inconsistent theories (within a given language). But it will not be dialetheist. That is, it will not allow for true contradictions. Dialetheism does not follow from (though, in order to avoid trivialization, it requires) a refusal to infer whatever one pleases from a contradiction.
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Chakravartty, Anjan. Knowledge Under Ontological Uncertainty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190651459.003.0006.
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The first of two forms of ontological uncertainty arising in previous chapters is examined in detail. This first form stems from situations in which our best scientific theorizing or modeling with respect to one and the same target system or phenomenon in the world generates what appear to be mutually inconsistent descriptions. A recent, popular response to the challenge this represents—for anyone hoping for a coherent conception of scientific ontology—is to invoke a form of “perspectivism” regarding these descriptions. However, while certain forms of pluralism may be apt in such cases, perspectivism is not one of them. It is argued that perspectival accounts of ontology are subject to a fatal trilemma. Two forms of non-perspectival pluralism are described, supporting the introduction of a novel, contrastive theory of ontological explanation.
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Chakkalakal, Tess. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036330.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter defines slave-marriage and how it bears upon legal marriage in nineteenth-century America. Hidden from law and subject to separation, a slave-marriage was considered to be so far outside the purview of legal forms of marriage that it seemed hardly worth mentioning. Yet, as a number of slave testimonies and cases heard after the abolition of slavery suggest, slaves married in spite of the law that stipulated “the slave could not marry because he was legally incapable to consent, because the relation of husband and wife was inconsistent with that of master and slave.” Efforts to legalize slave-marriages following emancipation suggest that their marriages were, in fact, just as valued as legal marriages even though they were performed, originally, without legal sanction.
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Strawson, Galen. “A fatal error of theirs”. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161006.003.0015.
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This chapter examines John Locke's argument that consciousness is a sufficient condition of personal identity—that “consciousness [alone] makes personal identity.” What Locke's statement means is that unjust [P]-transfers are impossible—in which case one can't need to appeal to God to stop them. It seems that Locke's theory of personal identity rules out the possibility that there could be “fatal errors” of this sort. If so, he is inconsistent in thinking that such a fatal error is even possible (conceivable). The chapter considers [C]-transfer as a transfer of consciousness of an action from one entity to another, an entity which we may assume to be a person, and Locke's theory of personal identity taken independently of the injustice claim as the radical theory. It also evaluates Locke's assumption, made throughout his discussion of personal identity, about the diachronically continuous existence of a human subject of experience.
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Hilden, Irene. Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive. Leuven University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664693.
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The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded on shellac are stories and songs, personal testimonies and poems, glossaries and numbers. This book engages with the archive by consistently focusing on the colonial conditions under which the recordings were produced. With a firm commitment to postcolonial scholarship, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive is a historical ethnography of a metropolitan institution that participated in the production and preservation by colonial structures of power and knowledge. The book examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or no place in established national narratives and collective memories.
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Brown, Deborah J. Animal Souls and Beast Machines. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199375967.003.0013.
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Descartes’ long-standing interest in animals had many motivations—to reinforce his dualism of mind and body; to demonstrate the completeness of his physics; and to resolve what he considered to be inconsistent metaphysical and theological positions on the status of animal souls. Thus, the subject of animals serves to unite the various strands of Cartesian philosophy, whilst posing some of the deepest and most persistent challenges to that philosophy. Whether or not we agree with Descartes’s notorious view that animals are mere machines lacking all thought and sensibility, it is important to recognize that Descartes established the terms of a debate which continues to shape our thinking about animals, their cognitive capacities and their relationship to us. This chapter locates Descartes’ position within the scientific and moral debates of his time, emphasizing the sophistication of his attempts to explain animal life and behavior and the challenge he throws down to nonmechanistic explanations.
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Bliss, Ricki, and Graham Priest, eds. Reality and its Structure. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755630.001.0001.
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This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading and emerging scholars that address issues relating to the view that has come to be known as metaphysical foundationalism, and explore possibilities regarding its alternatives. According to the foundationalist, reality is hierarchically arranged with chains of entities ordered by metaphysical dependence relations that terminate in a fundamental ground populated by consistent and contingent entities. Each essay in this volume addresses some aspect or other of at least one of these core commitments. Must there be anything fundamental? Is reality hierarchically structured? Why should we be foundationalists? Is metaphysical infinitism possible? Is metaphysical coherentism possible? What does reality look like if we allow inconsistent fundamentalia? These are the sorts of pertinent questions seldom asked in the current literature, and exactly the kinds of questions addressed in this volume. The volume, then, aims to open up a much broader perspective on metaphysical dependence than currently exists, and point to ways of exploring new avenues of thought on the subject.
Book chapters on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Ashby, William J. "The loss of the negative particle ne in French." In On Spoken French, 133–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c12.
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Negation in French can be marked redundantly – since a pre-verbal particle ne ‘old not’ may accompany a second, usually post-verbal, marker of negation. However, the pre-verbal particle is often deleted in spoken French. This deletion may be inconsistent with the usual typological characterization of French as an SVO language. In this paper, the use of ne ‘old not’ by 37 speakers from the region of Tours is evaluated, and the data are judged by the Sankoff Variable Rule Program (Varbrul 2). The negative particle is found to vary with a complex of linguistic, stylistic, and social factors. The historical record and the data presented here suggest that ne ‘old not’ is being lost. This on-going syntactic change may be dependent on another, as yet uncompleted, change: the fusion of the subject clitic and verb.
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Žižek, Slavoj. "Ethics of Circular Time." In Throwing the Moral Dice, 182–205. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823298075.003.0009.
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A subject is not only alienated in the big Other (the symbolic substance of its life); this big Other is already alienated from itself, thwarted from within, separated from its real core, and it is this separation in the heart of the big Other itself which sustains the space for subjectivity. Subject is not threatened by the big Other, it is not in danger of being overwhelmed and stifled by the big Other (in short, it is not a humanist agent trying to dominate ‘objective structures’ that determine it). Subject is constituted, it emerges at the site of the inconsistency of the big Other. In other words, it is through its own lack/inconsistency that structure (the big Other) is always-already subjectivized, and this abyss in the big Other also opens up the space for the subject to articulate its authentic desire. What is threatened by the digitalization of our daily lives is thus not our free subjectivity but the big Other itself, the agency of the symbolic order, in its ‘normal’ functioning: with digitalization, the big Other is no longer a virtual normative order, it becomes part of material reality.
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Shakespeare, Steven. "Once More, from Below." In Nothing Absolute, 223–39. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823290161.003.0013.
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This essay articulates a threefold typology of subjectivities (broadly derived from Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard) and their relevance to political theology. Each thinker refuses to dialectically unify self and world. Instead, in different ways, they “reduplicate” and intensify the gap between subject and object, and within the subject itself. This reduplication, the essay argues, exposes and expresses the inconsistency of the immanent real itself, which cannot be mastered and defined by any transcendent perspective. This in turn opens the possibility of articulating theories of political subjectivity and resistance outside the parameters set by the discourse of sovereignty.
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Maslova, Kseniya K. "The Works of K. Chapek in the Context of Modernity and Literary Critics Views." In Inter-Slavic cultural ties. Results and perspectives of research, 175–86. Institute of Slavic Studies RAS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/0452-7.12.
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A lot has been said and written about K. Chapek by both contemporaries and descendants. Researchers have tried to evaluate his political and philosophical views, returning again and again to his aesthetics. However, his work continues to be the subject of controversy. The purpose of this article, based on the opinions of well-known literary critics and based on the analysis of his works, is to confirm their relevance, their enduring significance for today, and to show the inconsistency of some pejorative assessments that are distributed in his address and compromise the personality and works of the great artist and humanist.
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Blanton, IV, Thomas R. "Spiritual Gifts and Status Inversion." In A Spiritual Economy. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300220407.003.0007.
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This chapter enlists Carole Crumley’s notion of heterarchy as a means of critiquing and refining Wayne Meeks’s notion of status inconsistency as it pertains to Pauline assemblies. The chapter shows that status is to be viewed not only as a multidimensional phenomenon but also as the subject of intense contest, negotiation, and change over time. Paul deploys a discourse of “spiritual gifts”—specifically the idea that the power by which Jesus was raised from the dead was transforming his “inner human being” into a glorious immortal being—in order to propose an inversion of the criteria utilized for the evaluation of social rank, such that he, an impoverished itinerant craftsman, might be evaluated within early Christian assemblies as having a status higher than that of wealthier patronal figures and gifted orators.
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Duke-Williams, Oliver, and John Stillwell. "Temporal and Spatial Consistency." In Geographic Information Systems, 1675–96. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch101.
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One of the major problems challenging time series research based on stock and flow data is the inconsistency that occurs over time due to changes in variable definition, data classification and spatial boundary configuration. The census of population is a prime example of a source whose data are fraught with these problems, resulting in even the simplest comparison between the 2001 Census and its predecessor in 1991 being difficult. The first part of this chapter introduces the subject of inconsistencies between related data sets, with general reference to census interaction data. Various types of inconsistency are described. A number of approaches to dealing with inconsistency are then outlined, with examples of how these have been used in practice. The handling of journey to work data of persons who work from home is then used as an illustrative example of the problems posed by inconsistencies in base populations. Home-workers have been treated in different ways in successive UK censuses, a factor which can cause difficulties not only for researchers interested in such working practices, but also for those interested in other aspects of commuting. The latter set of problems are perhaps more pernicious, as users are less likely to be aware of the biases introduced into data sets that are being compared. In the second half of this chapter, we make use of a time series data set of migration interaction data that does have temporal consistency to explore how migration propensities and patterns in England and Wales have changed since 1999 and in particular since the year prior to the 2001 Census. The data used are those that are produced by the Office of National Statistics based on comparisons of NHS patient records from one year to the next and adjusted using data on NHS patients re-registering in different health authorities. The analysis of these data suggests that the massive exodus of individuals from major metropolitan across the country that has been identified in previous studies is continuing apace, particularly from London whose net losses doubled in absolute terms between 1999 and 2004 before reducing marginally in 2005 and 2006. Whilst this pattern of counterurbanisation is evident for all-age flows, it conceals significant variations for certain age groups, not least those aged between 16 and 24, whose migration propensities are high and whose net redistribution is closely connected with the location of universities. The time series analyses are preceded by a comparison of patient register data with corresponding data from the 2001 Census. This suggests strong correlation between the indicators selected and strengthens the argument that patient register data in more recent years provide reliable evidence for researchers and policy makers on how propensities and patterns change over time.
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Duke-Williams, Oliver, and John Stillwell. "Temporal and Spatial Consistency." In Technologies for Migration and Commuting Analysis, 89–110. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-755-8.ch005.
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One of the major problems challenging time series research based on stock and flow data is the inconsistency that occurs over time due to changes in variable definition, data classification and spatial boundary configuration. The census of population is a prime example of a source whose data are fraught with these problems, resulting in even the simplest comparison between the 2001 Census and its predecessor in 1991 being difficult. The first part of this chapter introduces the subject of inconsistencies between related data sets, with general reference to census interaction data. Various types of inconsistency are described. A number of approaches to dealing with inconsistency are then outlined, with examples of how these have been used in practice. The handling of journey to work data of persons who work from home is then used as an illustrative example of the problems posed by inconsistencies in base populations. Home-workers have been treated in different ways in successive UK censuses, a factor which can cause difficulties not only for researchers interested in such working practices, but also for those interested in other aspects of commuting. The latter set of problems are perhaps more pernicious, as users are less likely to be aware of the biases introduced into data sets that are being compared. In the second half of this chapter, we make use of a time series data set of migration interaction data that does have temporal consistency to explore how migration propensities and patterns in England and Wales have changed since 1999 and in particular since the year prior to the 2001 Census. The data used are those that are produced by the Office of National Statistics based on comparisons of NHS patient records from one year to the next and adjusted using data on NHS patients re-registering in different health authorities. The analysis of these data suggests that the massive exodus of individuals from major metropolitan across the country that has been identified in previous studies is continuing apace, particularly from London whose net losses doubled in absolute terms between 1999 and 2004 before reducing marginally in 2005 and 2006. Whilst this pattern of counterurbanisation is evident for all-age flows, it conceals significant variations for certain age groups, not least those aged between 16 and 24, whose migration propensities are high and whose net redistribution is closely connected with the location of universities. The time series analyses are preceded by a comparison of patient register data with corresponding data from the 2001 Census. This suggests strong correlation between the indicators selected and strengthens the argument that patient register data in more recent years provide reliable evidence for researchers and policy makers on how propensities and patterns change over time.
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McMahon, Joan D. "Ethical Issues in Web-Based Learning." In Handbook of Research on Technoethics, 729–35. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch047.
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If you were to survey course syllabi on your campus, you would probably find the standard syllabi to include: • Course title and number • Instructor’s name and contact information • Course objectives • A list of required and recommended readings/ materials • A detailed outline of the topics for consideration • Detailed descriptions of assignments and due dates • Percentage of final grade • A schedule of topics by date You would also find a campus curriculum or departmental committee that initially approves such courses. Once the course is approved, it is not usually subject to review or scrutiny by the campus, unless the department requests a course change. Meanwhile, faculty who teach the course change the syllabus at will based on new material in their discipline, changes in textbooks, and so forth. This is encouraged so that the students get the most up-to-date information in the discipline. If faculty switch courses, retire, or resign, then their syllabus is passed on to the successor to revise, again at will. There seems to be little or no systematic accounting of the legitimacy of the course originally approved to the course now taught. Department chairs are supposed to do this. Many take their responsibility for quality control seriously; many others delegate this to their capable administrative assistant who may not know enough about the subtleties of the curriculum to have recognized that an inconsistency exists.
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Lutsevich, Lyudmila F. "“Moon Friend” / “Lost Child”: A. Blok in the Memoir of Z. Gippius." In Merezhkovskys’ Circle: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Z.N. Gippius, 157–83. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0679-6-157-183.
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Memoir, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Blok, Z.N. Gippius titled My moon friend. About Blok (1922). In this title, attention is drawn to the epithet lunar, which needs clarification. The semantic basis of the concept of the moon is a complex interweaving of subject conceptuality with mythical imagery and various centuries-old cultural associations. In Slavic mythology, the moon has long symbolized the female intuitive principle. In the era of the Silver Age, the experiments of the metaphorical, symbolist correlation of this heavenly body with the problems of gender, religion and culture are actualized. The author of the article focuses on two significant components of the memoir text of Gippius: firstly on the “lunar” connotations present in the writer’s creative thinking, and more broadly — in the philosophical consciousness of the Silver Age; and secondly, the central concept of the memoir is “the lost child”. These components determine the intentional orientation of the memoir image of Alexander Blok, created by Gippius. Her idea of the “lunar” in the character of the poet’s personality is determined by the mystical “femininity” with its spiritualism, melancholy, deception of opportunities that can be productive for the development of art, but which, due to the immaturity, and the inconsistency of the creative “rationality”, may turn out to be detrimental to the “right” choice of the model of social behavior by the artist.
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Bocheliuk, Vitalii, Liana Spytska, and Mykyta Panov. "SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF FORMATION OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES." In Priority areas for development of scientific research: domestic and foreign experience. Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-049-0-26.
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The article is devoted to the socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. The subject of research – socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. The purpose of the study is to empirically study the socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. Objectives of the study: to analyze the socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties and using psychodiagnostic techniques to determine which socio-psychological features provoke the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. Particular attention is paid to the socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. It is pointed out that in order to clarify the essence of deviant behavior, it is necessary to identify not only its external manifestations, but also the internal properties, without which it cannot exist. Any deviations (deviations) in human behavior are the result of inconsistency of his desires, aspirations, and claims with the social norms of the environment in which he operates: he lives, is brought up, studies and works. When a person does not agree or does not accept the demands of society, he challenges him in the form of any behavioral disorders, the content of which, of course, is determined by his physiological, psychological and social qualities. It can be noted that deviations in the adolescent environment (aggression, drug addiction, drunkenness, etc.) in their purpose, consequences differ significantly, say, from deviations among adults (criminal and economic crimes). Deviant behavior is defined as a personal challenge of a person, in particular, a teenager, to the social environment, which is caused by inconsistency between his personal demands and social requirements (norms, standards, rules, regulations) and is manifested by such social and behavioral actions and actions that are not approved (condemned)) close environment or society. The article describes the course and procedure of research organization. The results of research on each technique concerning definition of level of accentuation of character (Shmishek’s questionnaire), aggressiveness (Freiburg’s questionnaire), ways of mastering with difficult life situations are described (adaptation of the technique WCQ), level of hopelessness (Нореlеssnеss Sсаlе, Веck еt аl.). The conclusions indicate the socio-psychological features of the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. It is emphasized that unfavorable living and upbringing conditions in the family, problems of acquiring knowledge and related learning failures, inability to build relationships with others and conflicts arising on this basis, can lead to deviant behavior in adolescents. With the help of such psychodiagnostic techniques as character accentuations, aggression questionnaire, questionnaire of ways to master difficult life situations, the scale of hopelessness, it is determined which psychological features provoke the formation of deviant behavior in adolescents with learning difficulties. These are the presence of certain accentuations of character, the level of aggression above average and the methods that the teenager uses to master a difficult life situation. The conclusions reveal the prospects for further development.
Conference papers on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Farrow, Gary H., Andrew E. Potts, and Daniel G. Washington. "Investigations Into Fatigue Performance of Offshore Mooring Chains." In ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2017-62218.
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The Chain Finite Element Analysis of Residual Strength Joint Industry Project (Chain FEARS JIP) aimed to develop guidance for the determination of a rational discard criteria for mooring chains subject to severe pitting corrosion which would otherwise require immediate removal and replacement. Critical to the ability to evaluate the residual fatigue life of a degraded chain, is to have an accurate estimate of the chain in its as-new condition, thereby providing a benchmark for any loss in fatigue life associated with severe corrosion or wear. A non-linear multi-axial Finite Element Analysis (FEA) fatigue assessment method was developed and correlated against available fatigue test data as part of the JIP achieving this critical requirement. The development of this correlated methodology necessitated a review of: • The available mooring chain fatigue test data, to identify the factors influencing chain fatigue life and failure location. • FEA fatigue methodologies currently employed in the industry. • Current Class Rules relating to fatigue estimation. • The influence of material, manufacturing and operational factors on chain fatigue life. It was established that while the linear FEA fatigue method currently employed in the industry does not correlate with the fatigue test data, the non-linear multi-axial FEA fatigue method developed in the JIP afforded good correlation with test data. It was also demonstrated that the magnitude of mean chain tension and inconsistency in proof loading, as a consequence of the inconsistency in Class Minimum Break Load (MBL) specification, and with respect to chain size and the varying material ductility of steel grades, effects fatigue life. The identified inconsistency in the proofing indicates a likely inconsistency in conservatism embodied in the Class Rules fatigue formulation. Consequently it is possible that chains of certain size and grade may have significantly less fatigue life than anticipated by Class. Further work is recommended to establish a more rational proof load specification and to develop an alternative Class Rules fatigue formulation accounting for the identified factors influencing fatigue.
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Eroğlu, Feyzullah, and Şeyma Gün Eroğlu. "Strategic Inconsistency and Organizational Hypocrisy in an Environment of Mass Culture: A Research on Dormitories of “Credit And Dormitories Instituti." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c05.00877.
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Societies with mass culture adopt organizational structures and management behaviors which are not based on rational thinking and scientific mentality. In contrast with the appearance of contemporary management approaches and applications, these societies are in a widespread management populism. In this context, the web pages, formal records and expressions of organizations about management contain items that sound and look “charming”. However, in the actual operation and management; management behaviors with serious internal management pathologies are dominant. While strategic plans and items of organizations in mass societies are equipped with concepts about contemporary management approaches, a post-modern process where all these concepts are meaningless is effective. For example, there might be serious inconsistencies among “vision, mission and values” stated in formal expressions and the organization’s actual management behaviors. If the impression shows that these inconsistencies are not incidental and temporary; but intentionally constructed by management; this situation should be accepted as organizational hypocrisy. The research part of this study planned to be conducted in dormitories of “Credit and Dormitories Institution” in Denizli, which were observed to be suitable for theoretical and conceptual explanations of the subject. The survey prepared to test the trust perceptions of the management officers and inhabitant university students did not accepted by the general management of Credits and Dormitories Institution so the research could not be done by that way. Instead, the information about strategic items on the organization’s web page was collected. The real and actual operations on these subjects were compared according to ethics approach.
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Kumagai, Shogo, Keisuke Doman, Tomokazu Takahashi, Daisuke Deguchi, Ichiro Ide, and Hiroshi Murase. "Detection of Inconsistency Between Subject and Speaker Based on the Co-occurrence of Lip Motion and Voice Towards Speech Scene Extraction from News Videos." In 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ism.2011.56.
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Purcell, Anthony, and Ciaran Eising. "Classification of electromagnetic interference induced image noise in an analog video link." In 24th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference. Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56541/zanb2627.
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With the ever-increasing electrification of the vehicle showing no sign of retreating, electronic systems deployed in automotive applications are subject to more stringent Electromagnetic Immunity compliance constraints than ever before, to ensure the proximity of nearby electronic systems will not affect their operation. The EMI compliance testing of an analog camera link requires video quality to be monitored and assessed to validate such compliance, which up to now, has been a manual task. Due to the nature of human interpretation, this is open to inconsistency. Here, we propose a solution using deep learning models that analyse, and grade video content derived from an EMI compliance test. These models are trained using a dataset built entirely from real test image data to ensure the accuracy of the resultant model(s) is maximised. Starting with the standard AlexNet, we propose four models to classify the EMI noise level.
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Enzenhöfer, Andreas, Albert Peiret, Marek Teichmann, and József Kövecses. "A Unit-Consistent Error Measure for Mixed Linear Complementarity Problems in Multibody Dynamics With Contact." In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2018-85232.
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Modeling multibody systems subject to unilateral contacts and friction efficiently is challenging, and dynamic formulations based on the mixed linear complementarity problem (MLCP) are commonly used for this purpose. The accuracy of the MLCP solution method can be evaluated by determining the error introduced by it. In this paper, we find that commonly used MLCP error measures suffer from unit inconsistency leading to the error lacking any physical meaning. We propose a unit-consistent error measure which computes energy error components for each constraint dependent on the inverse effective mass and compliance. It is shown by means of a simple example that the unit consistency issue does not occur using this proposed error measure. Simulation results confirm that the error decreases with convergence toward the solution. If a pivoting algorithm does not find a solution of the MLCP due to an iteration limit, e.g. in real-time simulations, choosing the result with the least error can reduce the risk of simulation instabilities.
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Cosham, Andrew, Kenneth A. Macdonald, Ian MacRae, and Malcolm Carr. "ECAs and Lateral Buckling." In ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2019-95529.
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Abstract An engineering critical assessment (ECA) is commonly conducted during the design of an offshore pipeline in order to determine the tolerable size of flaws in the girth welds. API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 2016 and BS 7910:2013+A1:2015 Incorporating Corrigenda Nos. 1 and 2 give guidance on conducting fitness-for-service assessments of cracks and crack-like flaws. DNVGL-RP-F108, 2017 Assessment of flaws in pipeline and riser girth welds describes a methodology to satisfy the fracture and fatigue limit states in DNVGL-ST-F101, 2017 based on Option 2 with ductile tearing in BS 7910:2013. It requires that the stress-strain curve used in a strain-based fracture mechanics analysis should represent a high yield strength combined with low strain-hardening properties (a characteristic high stress-strain curve with low strain hardening), and that used in a stress-based fracture mechanics assessment should represent a low yield strength. A pipeline operating at high temperatures and/or high pressures is subject to high compressive axial forces. The pipeline might then relieve these forces by buckling. A design that incorporates controlled lateral buckling is an efficient solution to the problem of high compressive axial stresses. Lateral buckling does, however, give rise to relatively high tensile axial strains (possibly exceeding 0.4 percent) in the pipe wall, and, relatively high fatigue loading associated with movement of the buckle under start-up and shut-down cycles. The calculated tensile axial strain in the pipe wall in a lateral buckle depends on the assumed stress-strain curve. It tends to be higher if a low yield strength combined with low strain-hardening properties is assumed. There is then an apparent inconsistency between the two sets of assumptions. A deterministic assessment of a circumferentially-orientated, internal surface crack-like flaw in a girth weld in a lateral buckle is used to investigate the significance of this apparent inconsistency.
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Muldoon, Kellen. "Cyclic Operation of Supercritical High Pressure Feedwater Heater Study." In ASME 2013 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2013-98317.
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As more renewable energy sources come on line with the inherent inconsistency of load dispatch feedwater heaters become subject to more frequent and rapid cyclic operation. In a recent project, American Exchanger Services (AM-EX) was asked to gather and analyze operating information on a high pressure feedwater heater during daily rapid load changes. This particular supercritical coal plant was designed to operate in flexible load environments, thus acquiring data during the summer months was optimal. The heater was run from rest to full power while temperature data was acquired. All data from the study and supporting plant information was used to generate models for preparing maintenance projections, informing future designs, and repair recommendations. The primary component of focus is the desuperheating zone exhaust where tube failure tends to be greatest caused by wet wall conditions. The result of the analysis was less conclusive than was anticipated. Actual performance of the heaters is a key issue and there were specific indications that the heaters were not performing to specifications. A more detailed thermal performance analysis using the ASME PTC12.1 should be considered to accurately determine the extent to which the heaters are meeting design performance.
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Hassanien, Sherif, Len Krissa, and Vitaly Vorontsov. "Pipeline Coating Selection Process: A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Based Approach." In 2014 10th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2014-33264.
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The most critical component of external corrosion prevention on pipeline is the protective coating system. The coating selection process can be extremely challenging due to the sheer number of manufacturers and products/options that are offered — often with limited performance data available. Relying solely on manufacturer’s recommendations or information can be problematic when the anticipated service environment has not been adequately characterized, application parameters not completely understood, and/or when there is a misunderstanding of the product’s capabilities. Although there are many test methods for evaluation of pipe coatings, there are no commonly accepted test protocols or acceptance criteria for selecting coatings. Moreover, laboratory based testing is often complicated, expensive, and rarely provides an accurate simulation of field conditions. Although in-house subject matter experts (SMEs) and/or independent coating specialists provide some confidence in coating selection, the diversity of background and experience between these experts frequently creates inconsistency in coating evaluations and can produce divergent or conflicting recommendations. In this paper, an innovative approach is proposed to address these coating selection process challenges. The proposed approach incorporates a systematic analysis of critical material attributes within an expert environment, and applies established decision making techniques to the evaluation. Priorities are developed by structuring a hierarchy of criteria and eliciting technical judgment of company’s SMEs, stakeholders, and unbiased industry specialists. The Deterministic Analytic Hierarchy Process (d-AHP) is applied using pairwise comparisons for prioritizing coating products/options and achieving an optimal selection. The experts’ opinions can then be updated by technical lab-based results for a smaller selection of top ranked products. Laboratory tests would be expected to be completed annually based on smart selection of certain products and to ensure year-over-year consistency. This paper also presents a probabilistic approach that improves d-AHP in order to capture uncertainties in experts’ opinions and/or lab results through probabilistic AHP (p-AHP). Although this approach is not widely used within the pipeline industry, there is a potential opportunity to improve conventional approaches for selecting and approving coatings for pipelines based on a systematic/quantitative approach.
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Nishijima, Kazuyoshi, Michael Havbro Faber, and Marc A. Maes. "Probabilistic Assessment of Extreme Events Subject to Epistemic Uncertainties." In ASME 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2008-57172.
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Over the years the modeling and treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in probabilistic assessments has repeatedly been an issue of discussion and also some controversy. The philosophical and mathematical aspects may be said to be well appreciated, however, there are cases in practice where principles seem to be violated and frequently the effects of the epistemic uncertainty are treated inconsistently in the probabilistic modeling. The present paper first reviews the general principles for the modeling and treatment of uncertain characteristics subject to both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties. Thereafter, the general principles are applied considering three examples concerning the probabilistic modeling of extreme events; 1) the n-year maximum distribution, 2) the corresponding return period and 3) the exceedance probability in hazard analysis. Through these examples typical inconsistencies made in practical probabilistic assessments are pointed out. The results from the examples are interpreted and discussed from a structural design perspective and from a rational risk-based decision perspective. Finally, a practical solution to avoid the inconsistencies is suggested emphasizing the analogy of the analysis of extreme events with the analysis of portfolios.
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Choi, S. H., C. Pierre, and A. G. Ulsoy. "Consistent Modeling of Rotating Timoshenko Shafts Subject to Axial Loads." In ASME 1991 Design Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1991-0234.
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Abstract The equations of motion of a flexible rotating shaft have been typically derived by introducing gyroscopic moments, in an inconsistent manner, as generalized work terms in a Lagrangian formulation or as external moments in a Newtonian approach. This paper presents the consistent derivation of a set of governing differential equations describing the flexural vibration in two orthogonal planes and the torsional vibration of a straight rotating shaft with dissimilar lateral principal moments of inertia and subject to a constant compressive axial load. The coupling between flexural and torsional vibration due to mass eccentricity is not considered. In addition, a new approach for calculating correctly the effect of an axial load for a Timoshenko beam is presented based on the change in length of the centroidal line. It is found that the use of either a floating frame approach with the small strain assumption or a finite strain beam theory is necessary to obtain a consistent derivation of the terms corresponding to gyroscopic moments in the equations of motion. However, the virtual work of an axial load through the geometric shortening appears consistently in the formulation only when using a finite strain beam theory.
Reports on the topic "Subject' Inconsistency"
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Zakharov, P. A. The concept of the activities of officials of border authorities in the conduct of an administrative investigation in cases of administrative offenses. DOI CODE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/2074-1944-2021-0468.
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. In this article, based on the analysis of the main elements of the activities of officials of border agencies in the conduct of administrative investigation in cases of administrative offenses, its general and specific characteristics are highlighted, which together allowed the author to propose a definition of the investigated type of activity. Not only the current legal regulation in the field of application of the administrative investigation specified in Article 28.7 of the Administrative Code, but also the inconsistency of the emerging scientific-categorical apparatus of the affected subject area are subjected to critical consideration.
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zhixia, Zhang, Song Jiating, Pan lanlan, xiaoting Lin, and jing li. The Effect of different exercise methods in the treatment of cancer-related fatigue: a network meta-analysis. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.11.0004.
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Review question / Objective: To compare the clinical effects of different exercise methods for cancer fatigue by using mesh Meta-analysis, and to choose the best exercise method for cancer fatigue. Condition being studied: Cancer-related fatigue. Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria: (1) Study subjects: the patients is caused by fatigue.(2) Intervention: A group of patients used exercise intervention. (3) Study type: RCT. (4) Outcome index: Cancer-related fatigue score.(5) Grey literature is available.(6) Language in Chinese or English.Exclusion criteria:(1) Using oral drugs. (2) It can not provide complete data. (3) Repeatedly published literature. (4) Conference papers. (5) Literature with inconsistent data types:(1) Using oral drugs. (2) It can not provide complete data. (3) Repeatedly published literature. (4) Conference papers. (5) Literature with inconsistent data types.
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McDowell Peek, Katie, Blair Tormey, Holli Thompson, Allan Ellsworth, and Cat Hawkins Hoffman. Climate change vulnerability assessments in the National Park Service: An integrated review for infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources. National Park Service, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2293650.
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Climate changes are affecting virtually all National Park Service units and resources, and an assessment of climate vulnerabilities is important for developing proactive management plans to respond appropriately to these changes and threats. Vulnerability assessments typically evaluate exposure and sensitivity of the assessment targets and evaluate adaptive capacity for living resources. Chapters in this report review and evaluate climate vulnerability assessments of National Park Service units and resources including infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources. Striking results were the diversity of approaches to conducting vulnerability assessments, the small number of vulnerability assessments for National Park Service cultural resources, and the large differences in the “state of the science” of conducting assessments among the three resource groups. Vulnerability assessment methodologies are well established for evaluating infrastructure and natural resources, albeit with very different techniques, but far less is known or available for designing and/or conducting cultural resources assessments. Challenges consistently identified in the vulnerability assessments, or the chapters were: Limited capacity of park staff to fully engage in the design and/or execution of the vulnerability assessments. Most park staff are fully engaged in on-going duties. Inconsistent use of terms, definitions, and protocols, sometimes resulting in confusion or inefficiencies. Discovering and acquiring National Park Service vulnerability assessments because results were inconsistently archived. Aligning results with park needs due to differences in level of detail, scope, and/or resolution, or format(s) for reporting results. Best practices and recommendations identified in multiple chapters were: Ensure that vulnerability assessments are designed to match parks’ needs, and that results are reported in ways that inform identified management decisions. Prioritize resources to be thoroughly assessed so effort is directed to the most important threats and resources. Evaluate all components of vulnerability (not just exposure). Explicitly and systematically address uncertainty, recognizing the range of climate projections and our understanding of potential responses. Identify and, where possible, focus on key vulnerabilities that most threaten conservation or management goals. Embrace partnerships and engage others with necessary expertise. Good vulnerability assessments usually require expertise in a broad range of subject areas.
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Minero Alejandre, Gemma. Ownership of Databases: Personal Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights on Databases. Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gups.64578.
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When we think on initiatives on access to and reuse of data, we must consider both the European Intellectual Property Law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The first one provides a special intellectual property (IP) right – the sui generis right – for those makers that made a substantial investment when creating the database, whether it contains personal or non-personal data. That substantial investment can be made by just one person, but, in many cases, it is the result of the activities of many people and/or some undertakings processing and aggregating data. In the modern digital economy, data are being dubbed the ‘new oil’ and the sui generis right might be con- sidered a right to control any access to the database, thus having an undeniable relevance. Besides, there are still important inconsistences between IP Law and the GDPR, which must be removed by the European legislator. The genuine and free consent of the data subject for the use of his/her data must remain the first step of the legal analysis.
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Granot, David, Scott Holaday, and Randy D. Allen. Enhancing Cotton Fiber Elongation and Cellulose Synthesis by Manipulating Fructokinase Activity. United States Department of Agriculture, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2008.7613878.bard.
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a. Objectives (a) Identification and characterization of the cotton fiber FRKs; (b) Generating transgenic cotton plants overproducing either substrate inhibited tomato FRK or tomato FRK without substrate inhibition; (c) Generating transgenic cotton plants with RNAi suppression of fiber expressed FRKs; (d) Generating Arabidopsis plants that over express FRK1, FRK2, or both genes, as additional means to assess the contribution of FRK to cellulose synthesis and biomass production. b. Background to the topic: Cellulose synthesis and fiber elongation are dependent on sugar metabolism. Previous results suggested that FRKs (fructokinase enzymes that specifically phosphorylate fructose) are major players in sugar metabolism and cellulose synthesis. We therefore hypothesized that increasing fructose phosphorylation may enhance fiber elongation and cellulose synthesis in cotton plants. Accordinlgy, the objectives of this research were: c. Major conclusions and achievements: Two cotton FRKs expressed in fibers, GhFRK2 and GhFRK3, were cloned and characterized. We found that GhFRK2 enzyme is located in the cytosol and GhFRK3 is located within plastids. Both enzymes enable growth on fructose (but not on glucose) of hexose kinase deficient yeast strain, confirming the fructokinase activity of the cloned genes. RNAi constructs with each gene were prepared and sent to the US collaborator to generate cotton plants with RNAi suppression of these genes. To examine the effect of FRKs using Arabidopsis plants we generated transgenic plants expressing either LeFRK1 or LeFRK2 at high level. No visible phenotype has been observed. Yet, plants expressing both genes simultaneously are being created and will be tested. To test our hypothesis that increasing fructose phosphorylation may enhance fiber cellulose synthesis, we generated twenty independent transgenic cotton plant lines overexpressing Lycopersicon (Le) FRK1. Transgene expression was high in leaves and moderate in developing fiber, but enhanced FRK activity in fibers was inconsistent between experiments. Some lines exhibited a 9-11% enhancement of fiber length or strength, but only one line tested had consistent improvement in fiber strength that correlated with elevated FRK activity in the fibers. However, in one experiment, seed cotton mass was improved in all transgenic lines and correlated with enhanced FRK activity in fibers. When greenhouse plants were subjected to severe drought during flowering and boll development, no genotypic differences in fiber quality were noted. Seed cotton mass was improved for two transgenic lines but did not correlate with fiber FRK activity. We conclude that LeFRK1 over-expression in fibers has only a small effect on fiber quality, and any positive effects depend on optimum conditions. The improvement in productivity for greenhouse plants may have been due to better structural development of the water-conducting tissue (xylem) of the stem, since stem diameters were larger for some lines and the activity of FRK in the outer xylem greater than observed for wild-type plants. We are testing this idea and developing other transgenic cotton plants to understand the roles of FRK in fiber and xylem development. We see the potential to develop a cotton plant with improved stem strength and productivity under drought for windy, semi-arid regions where cotton is grown. d. Implications, scientific and agricultural: FRKs are probably bottle neck enzymes for biomass and wood synthesis and their increased expression has the potential to enhance wood and biomass production, not only in cotton plants but also in other feed and energy renewable plants.