DEFICIENCIES OF PLATO’S DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM

Democratic Approach to Electronic Publishing in a Non-Democratic System

“As we prepare to enter the twenty-first century, the world faces two important challenges to both its political stability and its potential for sustainable growth. The first is the growing gap between the science-rich countries of the North and the science-poor countries of the South in the production and use of scientific and technological knowledge. The second is the increasing complexity of...

Parsing Deficiencies of the Pc-kimmo System

In this paper, we discuss the possibilities and limitations of the PC-KIMMO system as a recognition device of compound formations in a language like Modern Greek, where compounding interacts with derivation, inflection and lexical phonology. We deal with the computational processing of nominal and verbal compounds and try to show certain limitations of the PCKIMMO software with respect to the p...

COVID-19: The potential role of nutritional deficiencies, global climatic changes, and immune system dysfunction

Vitamin Deficiencies and the Nervous System

The modern science of nutrition may be regarded as having developed within the past three decades. Approximately thirty years ago McCollum, and Osborne and Mendel made the initial discoveries upon which the modern animal-feeding technics are based. Use of these newer methods has since resulted in the discovery and development of what is essentially a new science. In any brief treatment of the t...

A Multiagent System for Modeling Democratic Elections

We address the problem of simulate democratic elections via a set of competing agents. We propose a logical model based on a set of non-cooperative agents which compete for attracting a maximum number of votes from a population. Each agent builds a set of strategies (formed by the promises, actions and proposals of the agent) used to convince to the potential voters.