For a company to be consistently oriented toward its customers and their processes, it needs to customize its intra-corporate processes and systems. Customer process-oriented portals that integrate companies’ systems and provide transparent access to information objects stored in these systems seem to offer a solution. However, one key problem is finding relevant information objects in systems ...

Cette brève note se focalise sur deux aspects du travail de Philippe Sagant relatifs à l’histoire des populations au Népal : la conquête avant tout technique Indo-Népalais, bâtisseurs rizières, et l’expansion capitalisme britannique comme explication premières migrations l’étranger (en Inde en l’occurrence).

The author defends the view that the notion of concept, if used in the logical (not cognitivist) tradition, should be explicated procedurally (i.e., not set-theoretically). He argues that Tichý’s Transparent Intensional Logic is an apt tool for such an explication and derives the respective definition. Some consequences of this definition concern the notions of emptiness, simple concepts, empir...

III 1964 the author proposed as an explication of a prior’ probability the probability meawe induced on output strings by a universal Turing machine with unidirectional output tape and a randomly coded unidirectional input tape. L&n bas &own tbat if F,&(x) is an mmormalized form of this measure, and P(x) is any computable probability measure on stings, x, then

The issue of controversial assessment the use medical terminology in professional communication is considered. It noted that terms between a doctor and an adult patient can trigger emotional tension mistrust doctor’s recommendations. At same time, it was established patients who are familiar with consider by doctors to be significant factor indicating quality services provided. question arises ...

Mechanistic analysis of infarction along the boundary zones between the major arterial territories (watersheds) in the brain is herein described as an example of a scientific explanatory shift. The two explanations for the pathogenesis of watershed infarciion were both logically deduced from radicallv different emvirical laws of fluid mechanics. The first exvlanation becamhthe orthodox dr recei...

Explication is the conceptual cornerstone of Carnap’s approach to the methodology of scientific analysis. From a philosophical point of view, it gives rise to a number of questions that need to be addressed, but which do not seem to have been fully addressed by Carnap himself. This paper reconsiders Carnapian explication by comparing it to a different approach: the ‘formalisms as cognitive tool...

1 Background This note proposes a formal explication of the notion of \actual cause" as in, for example, \Socrates drinking hemlock was the actual cause of Socrates death." The philosophical literature has been struggling with this notion at least since Mackie (1965) put forward his famous INUS condition and, as we shall outline shortly, no satisfactory solution has emerged from either the logi...