To the degree that citizens have participated in, or derived benefits from, social institutions that have helped cause serious, life-threatening, or rights-threatening environmental injustice (EIJ), this article argues that they have duties either to stop their participation in these institutions or to compensate for it by helping to reform them. (EIJ occurs whenever children, poor people, mino...

cosmo-theological argument is one of the theological arguments for [proving] the existence of god, which has been mooted since long ago and has recently been recognized in the theo-philosophical tradition of the west and become famous as theological argument. while examining the viewpoints related to the appearance of the world, particularly the big bang theory, this article undertakes to analy...

The coamoeba of any complex algebraic plane curve V is its image in the real torus under the argument map. The area counted with multiplicity of the coamoeba of any algebraic curve in (C∗)2 is bounded in terms of the degree of the curve. We show in this Note that up to multiplication by a constant in (C∗)2, the complex algebraic plane curves whose coamoebas are of maximal area (counted with mul...

We present the use of Bayesian belief networks to formalise reasoning about software dependability, so as to make assessments easier to build and to check. Bayesian belief networks include a graphical representation of the structure of a complex argument, and a sound calculus for representing probabilistic information and updating it with new observations. We illustrate the method and show its ...

Conversation is how people compare ideas, solve problems and identify disagreements as part of daily life. The internet contains several good information sources which can provide facts and general information, but it is less obvious where to find meaningful discussions and arguments that are grounded with evidence. User generated content can be found in social networking sites, add comments se...

By combining the advantages of argument map and Bayesian network, a case description model based on evidence (CDMBE), which is suitable to continental law system, is proposed to describe the criminal cases. The logic of the model adopts the credibility logical reason and gets evidence-based reasoning quantitatively based on evidences. In order to consist with practical inference rules, five typ...

Regular edge-colored graphs encode colored triangulations of pseudo-manifolds. Here we study families of edge-colored graphs built from a finite but arbitrary set of building blocks, which extend the notion of p-angulations to arbitrary dimensions. We prove the existence of a bijection between any such family and some colored combinatorial maps which we call stuffed Walsh maps. Those maps gener...

I briefly describe a system for automatically creating an implemented grammar of a natural language based on answers to a web-based questionnaire, then present a grammar of Sahaptin, a language of the Pacific Northwest with complex argument-marking and agreement patterns, that was developed to test the system. The development of this grammar has proved useful in three ways: (1) verifying the co...