Linear regression is one of the most prevalent techniques in data analysis. Given a large collection of samples composed of features x and a label y, linear regression is used to find the best prediction of the label as a linear combination of the features. However, it is also common to use linear regression for its explanatory capabilities rather than label prediction. Ordinary Least Squares (...

Abstract Philosophical work on science and values has come to engage with the concerns of society stakeholders affected by policy, leading socially relevant philosophy engaged science. This special issue showcases instances science, featuring contributions a diversity topics Janet Kourany, Andrew Schroeder, Alison Wylie, Kristen Intemann, Joyce Havstad, Justin Biddle, Kevin Elliott, Ingo Brigan...

Programs have to be designed in such a way as to make them looking good and being handy for all users. Adaptive interface, with all the numerous achievements throughout 30 years of its history, contains and in reality is based on one fundamental flaw – on the assumption that designer knows better than anyone else what is good for users in each and all cases. The new type of programs – user-driv...

Explicitly or implicitly, feminist or not, much of the literature employing a political economy perspective has assumed the existence of two largely separate spheres: a public sphere located in the formal economy and dominated by men, and a private sphere confined to the household and managed by women. For non-feminist theorists, this assumption is evident in the focus on the formal economy to ...

The goals of sustainable development have been outlined in the outcome document UN Summit “Transforming our world: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, and they remain main model all countries world. is formed ensured by various determinants, among which legal values occupy not last place. They provide identification objects recognized as benchmarks form value-legal orientations subjects w...

Classical bourgeois political theory articulated the political revolution that established possessive individualism as the basis of legitimate government and the foundation of civil society. In this respect, it inaugurated the systematic investigation of the objective rules governing subjective human existence. The work of Thomas Hobbes and of John Locke, like classical political economy and mo...

The paper considers the usefulness of the concept of civil society—both as an analytical construct and a policy tool—in non-Western contexts drawing on a selected review of literature on Africa from anthropology and development studies. Rejecting arguments that the concept has little meaning outside its Western origins, and critical of the sometimes crude export of the concept by Western donors...