منابع مشابه
Forbidding undesirable agreements
The purpose of this contribution1 is to set up a language to evaluate the results of concerted action among interdependent agents against predetermined properties that we can recognise as desirable from a deontic point of view. Unlike the standard view of logics to reason about coalitionally rational action, the capacity of a set of agents to take a rational decision will be restricted to what ...
متن کاملDetecting regions with undesirable curvature
The use of Brzier curves or Brzier surfaces as "faired" interpolation (approximation) curves or surfaces occasionally yields inflection points or changes of sign of the Gaussian curvature which are undesirable in some applications, notably the fairing of ship lines (surfaces) or the fairing of car body surfaces. In the following investigation we use a polarity to detect such undesirable points,...
متن کاملEstimating a Socially Undesirable Behaviour
This article reports the findings of an experiment designed to evaluate the effect of four questionnaire formats on the willingness of drivers convicted of drunken driving to admit to this socially undesirable behaviour. Four samples of convicted drunk drivers each received a different version of a mail questionnaire about driving behaviour and attitudes. Two versions of the questionnaire inclu...
متن کاملMonroe Are Causality Violations Undesirable ?
Causality violations are typically seen as unrealistic and undesirable features of a physical model. The following points out three reasons why causal-ity violations, which Bonnor and Steadman identified even in solutions to the Ein-stein equation referring to ordinary laboratory situations, are not necessarily undesirable. First, a space-time in which every causal curve can be extended into a ...
متن کاملHow to overcome undesirable effects
Power transformers are still among the most costly and critical components in an electrical power network. Thus, the importance of a reliable condition assessment of these assets increases due to the aging of transformer fleets. The Sweep Frequency Response Analysis (SFRA) has become an important standard test and provides comprehensive information about the mechanical and electrical integrity ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.65