It seems to be a platitude that belief is governed by a norm of truth. Isn’t the point of belief to believe truths ? Isn’t it a requirement of believing that we should not believe falsehoods? A number of philosophers, however, deny this. Although they recognise that there is an intimate connection between belief and truth, they reject the idea that this connection is normative. Indeed, they tel...

We performed a comparison between the interpolation methods of Kriging and Least Squares Collocation. This allowed to obtain an optimal velocity model earth’s crust for continental Ecuador from field ITRF2008 obtained with GNSS data in period 2008-2014. The best fitting semivariograms two components were Spherical Stable semivariogram. functional Collocation method was third order East componen...

A shortcoming of least-squares unrestricted factor analysis (UFA) procedures, which are widely used in psychometric applications is that a test statistic for assessing model-data fit cannot be easily derived from the minimum function value. This paper proposes chi-square type goodness-of-fit intended principal-axis, MINRES, and minimum-rank UFA proce...

In biological systems, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) can determine structural details of metal binding sites with high resolution. Here a method enabling an automated analysis of the corresponding EXAFS data is presented, utilizing in addition to least-squares refinement the prior knowledge about structural details and important fit parameters. A metal binding motif is characterized by th...

E-Government development and diffusion have emerged as fundamental issues for both researchers and practitioners across the globe. Understanding electronic government maturity requires an investigation of its antecedents and an evaluation of facilitating factors that influence the progress of online government information, tools, and services from diffusion to eventual adoption. The purpose of ...

Lower bounds are typically used to evaluate the performance of heuristics for solving combinatorial minimization problems. In the absence of tight analytical lower bounds, optimal objective-function values may be estimated statistically. In this paper, extreme value theory is used to construct confidence-interval estimates of the minimum makespan achievable when scheduling nonsimilar groups of ...