Some Concepts of Negative Dependence

Some Concepts of Consciousness

Consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different "consciousnesses". Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be in that state. The mark of access-consciousness, by contrast, is availability for use in reasoning and rationally guiding speech and action. These concepts are often partly or totally conflated, ...

A Logical Analysis of Existential Dependence and Some Other Ontological Concepts - A Comment to Some Ideas of Eugenia Ginsberg-Blaustein

This paper deals with several problems concerning notion of existential dependence and ontological notions of existence, necessity and fusion. Following some ideas of Eugenia Ginsberg-Blaustein, the notions are treated in reference to objects, in relation to the concepts of state of affairs and subject of state of affairs. It provides an axiomatic characterization of these concepts within the f...

Density dependence in ungulates: a review of causes, and concepts with some clarifications

Negative dependence in sampling

The strong Rayleigh property is a new and robust negative dependence property that implies negative association; in fact it implies conditional negative association closed under external fields (CNA+). Suppose thatX1, . . . , XN and Y1, . . . , YN are two families of 0-1 random variables that satisfy the strong Rayleigh property and let Zi := Xi + Yi. We show that {Zi} conditioned on ∑ iXiYi = ...

Some concepts in toxicology.

Toxicology seeks to understand and quantify injurious chemico-biological interactions. The application of this understanding is prediction of the likelihood of occurrence of injury to human health or to undesirable alteration of ecological balance. The key to understanding chemical induced biological injury is development of improved methods of measuring changes in cellular function and structu...