Contemporary phenomenal externalists are motivated to a large extent by the transparency of experience and by the related doctrine of representationalism. On their own, however, transparency and representationalism do not suffice to establish externalism. Hence we should hesitate to dismiss phenomenal internalism, a view shared by many generations of competent philosophers. Rather, we should ke...

The increased usage of embedded pre-designed reusable cores necessitates a core-based test strategy, in which cores are tested as separate entities. IEEE P1500 Standard for Embedded Core Test (SECT) is a standard-underdevelopment that aims at improving ease of reuse and facilitating interoperability with respect to the test of core-based system chips, especially if they contain cores from diffe...

Section 1: Introduction . Industrialization has an important role to play in the process of economic development. The importance of industrialisation as a means for achieving rapid growth and prosperity had been recognised in the development strategy of independent India. The bold program of industrialization in India was started with the second five-year plan by realizing the need of the econo...

We are searching for an unknown horizontal or vertical line in the plane under the competitive framework. We design a well-suited framework for all cylcic strategies that result in two-sequence functionals. For optimizing such functionals we apply a method that combines two main paradigms. The given solution shows that the combination method is of general interest. Finally, we obtain the curren...

In this work we consider the application of two metaheuristics, namely evolution strategies and scatter search, to the problem of fitting rectangular signals to time-data series. The application background is to search for exoplanet-transit signals in stellar photometric observation data.

We apply evolution strategies to optimize the instability growth of several pairs of vortices which model the wake of airplanes in landing configuration. For the case of two pairs, the evolution strategy finds a set of optimal parameters strikingly similar to those found in the linear stability analysis of Crouch (1997). The case of four pairs is also considered and leads to a larger distortion...

This paper proves that, for a normal membership conditional term rewriting system (MCTRS), (1) a reducible term has a needed redex if the MCTRS is nonoverlapping, and (2) whether a redex is nv-needed is decidable.

The current trend in Online Dispute Resolution focuses mostly on the development of technological tools that allow parties to solve conflicts through telecommunication means. However, this tendency leaves aside key issues, namely the context information that was previously available in traditional Alternative Dispute Resolution processes. The main weakness of this approach is that conflict reso...

This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a “vertical” treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only accept or quit. In a “horizontal” treatment, the insiders decide by consensus. Our 2-by-2 design also co...