Reduced pesticide use is one of the reasons given by Europeans for accepting new genetic engineering techniques. According to the advocates of these techniques, consumers are likely to embrace the application of cisgenesis to apple trees. In order to verify the acceptability of these techniques, we estimate a Bayesian multilevel structural equation model, which takes into account the multidimen...

Franz Huber’s (2008) attempt to unify inductivist and hypothetico-deductivist intuitions on confirmation by means of a single measure are examined and compared with previous work on the theory of verisimilitude or truthlikeness. The idea of connecting ‘the logic of confirmation’ with ‘the logic of acceptability’ is also critically discussed, and it is argued that ‘acceptability’ takes necessari...

Although Multiple Subject Constructions in Korean have received significant attention in theoretical literature, few experimental investigations of various syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions have been conducted. In this study, we administered a Magnitude Estimation (ME) experiment in order to compare the acceptability of Multiple Subject and related Single Subject Construc...

This paper presents the design and develops of voltage acceptability curves for LED lamps. It is done with the mathematical representation of DC bus voltage of LED lamps internal ballast circuit during voltage sags. First, experimental analysis was done to determine the effect of voltage sag of LED lamp. From the findings on the variation of DC bus voltage during voltage sag, a mathematical equ...

Argumentation is a promising model for reasoning with uncertain and inconsistent knowledge. The key concept of acceptability enables to differentiate arguments and defeaters: The certainty of a proposition can then be evaluated through the most acceptable arguments for that proposition. In this paper, we investigate different complementary points of view: an acceptability based on the existence...

Safety is typically demonstrated by identifying hazards, mitigating those hazards, and then by showing that the remaining risk is acceptable. This paper begins by setting out some principles for assessing tests of risk acceptability. It then categorises and examines existing methods of testing for risk acceptability against those principles, and finds that they fall short. A new measure of risk...

The web is a source of a large amount of arguments and their acceptability statuses (e.g., votes for and against the arguments). However, relations existing between the fore-mentioned arguments are typically not available. This study investigates the utilisation of acceptability semantics to statistically estimate an attack relation between arguments wherein the acceptability statuses of argume...