Reacting into new frameworks

New Frameworks of Rationality

The nature and extent of human rationality is an issue of ongoing debate. In the last two decades, this debate has been enlivened by the development and application of new theoretical frameworks. These include Bayesian notions of adjusting and using uncertain beliefs in an inductive manner as well as deductive probability-based logics as normative guidelines against which to weigh human judgmen...

Fitting Proteins into Metal Organic Frameworks

Proteins are no longer just ingredients for biologists: Proteinaceous materials are gradually stepping into the spotlight as highly functional next generation materials, despite the fact that “material science” has previously mainly been explored by chemists. In the September 16th issue of Journal of American Chemical Society, Tezcan and co-workers report an interesting methodology to prepare a...

Two New Frameworks for Learning

This paper presents two new formal frameworks for learning. The first framework requires the learner to approximate an unknown function, given examples for the funtion as well as some background information on it. It is shown that this framework is no more powerful than a framework that allows the learner to see examples but not background information. The second framework explores learning in ...

Mitophagy: New Insight into the Cardiovascular Aging  

River System Style Frameworks, New Approach to Management of rivers (Case Study: Karaj Arangeh basin)

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