the purpose of this article is to study the factors contributing to the political alienation of the students at shiraz university. to explain the concept of alienation, geyer’s theoretical framework in the social psychology was used. the statistical universe of the research consisted of 6822 persons, of which 400 were taken randomly, using couckran formula. the results show that the variables s...

In standard computation, non-determinism is used for specifying programs’ behaviour, without having to specify details of implementation. In quantum computation, non-determinism is either meant to be “classical” probabilism or it is not considered at all, since quantum computation is the physical theory of computation and thus it does not deal with non-implementable features. In this work we wi...

One key challenge in statistical relational learning (SRL) is scalable inference. Unfortunately, most realworld problems in SRL have expressive models that translate into large grounded networks, representing a bottleneck for any inference method and weakening its scalability. In this paper we introduce Preference Relaxation (PR), a two-stage strategy that uses the determinism present in the un...

Consistent History Approach to quantum theory, introduced in explicit form by Griffiths [1], provides an extension of the interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics. While standard quantum theory is based on the concept of event, represented by a projection operator E of the Hilbert spaceH describing the system, CHA is based on the concept of history, which is a finite ordered sequenc...

State-machine-based replication is an effective way to increase the availability and dependability of mission-critical applications. However, all practical applications contain some degree of non-determinism. Consequently, ensuring strong replica consistency in the presence of application non-determinism has been one of the biggest challenges in building dependable distributed systems. In this ...

This paper presents rational, theoretical, and empirical grounds for doubting the principle of determinism in nature and in the brain, and discusses implications of this for free will and the chaos model of the brain. Small number particle systems are practically indeterministic and may be intrinsically indeterministic. Determinism in nature has often been taken to preclude free will. Strict de...

The article puts forward a branching-style framework for the analysis of determinism and indeterminism of scientific theories, starting from the core idea that an indeterministic system is one whose present allows for more than one alternative possible future. We describe how a definition of determinism stated in terms of branching models supplements and improves current treatments of determini...

The notion of deterministic execution of concurrent systems has appeared in many guises throughout Edward A. Lee’s œuvre, but few really grasp how powerful, important, subtle, and flexible the concept really is. Determinism can be thought of as an abstraction boundary that delineates where control is passed from a system designer to the implementation. This paper surveys some of the many forms ...