Towards Assessing Necessary Competence
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چکیده
We sketch a series of studies and experiments designed to provide empirical evidence about the truth or falsity of claims that non-prescriptive approaches to standards demand greater competence from regulators than prescriptive approaches require. Keywords—safety; argument; evidence; experiment; prescriptive; goal-based; fantasy
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1404.6803 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014