Peer reviewing is the common way used for validating writings and requests of financing in order to measure and to test their property, possibility and strictness, etcetera; and, in spite of its failures, faults and mistakes, it seems the best way to get quality assurance for scientific publishing. Nevertheless, there are many people who are in disagreement with this methodology and criticize i...

In this paper I criticize the current standards for the acceptability of expert testimony in current US legislation. The standards have been the subject of much academic literature after the Frye and Daubert cases. I expose what I call the Paradox of Proof, and argue that the historical and current standards have sidestepped the problem of determining who is an expert and who is not in a court ...

What is an adequate philosophy for knowledge management for an ontologist working in information science? I will contend that the relevant part of knowledge management, namely the theory of knowledge representation, lacks proper foundations. In particular, I will criticize the traditional philosophical approach to knowledge representation, which I call pragmatist conceptualism. I argue on the o...

In paper [1] the unified approach to the construction of confidence intervals and confidence limits for a signal with a background presence, in particular for Poisson distributions, has been proposed. The method is widely used for the presentation of physical results [2] though a number of investigators criticize this approach [3] In present paper we propose a simple method for construction of ...

We consider the problem of representing plans for mixed-initiative planning, where several participants cooperate to develop plans. V~re claim that in such an environment, a crucial task is plan communication: the ability to suggest aspects of a plan, accept such suggestions from other agents, criticize plans, revise them, e~c., in addition to building plans. The complexity of this interaction ...

International strategic alliances have become overwhelmingly used in today’s business environment. However, most of these alliances feature a very high rate of unsuccessfulness. Usually, business partners’ cultural distance is regarded as one of the main reasons that lead these alliances to their failure. Therefore, it is thought that companies belonging to similar national cultural environment...

This article argues that Vygotsky’s choice of word meaning as the basic unit of analysis for cultural psychology connects him to a German psycholinguistic tradition—exemplified in the work of G. W. F. Hegel and J. G. Herder—distinct from the Marxist tradition. While later commentators criticize Vygotsky’s reliance on word meaning, arguing that it cannot explain the formation of consciousness, t...

This study aims at exploring postcolonial themes raised by Andrea Hirata’s Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors). Specifically, it will reveal the characteristics of hybridity found in the novel that prove this literary work may be categorized as postcolonial writing despite the fact that western or white colonialism has no impact or trace at all in the novel. Furthermore, the study will prove that...

Hackethal and Schmidt (2003) criticize a large body of literature on the financing of corporate sectors in different countries that questions some of the distinctions conventionally drawn between financial systems. Their criticism is directed against the use of net flows of finance and they propose alternative measures based on gross flows which they claim re-establish conventional distinctions...

Henry et al. (2007) present a cogent analysis of the use of propranolol in preventing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They express a wide range of unanswered questions regarding this use of propranolol and criticize the report of the President’s Council on Bioethics (2003) on pharmacologic memory suppression on grounds of its obviously conservative agenda. The authors’ greatest concern i...