In this study I will analyze the concept of damage as it is used in tort law. To do this, address three questions: first, there a single or multiple concepts harm? Second, what explanatory power comparative versus non-comparative criteria for determining constitutes Third, how are harm, interest and well-being linked? propose, first all, to these questions on basis certain debates held moral po...

A concurrent engineering approach integrating analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with quality function deployment (QFD) in combination with cost factor measure (CFM) has been delineated to rank and subsequently select candidate-suppliers undermultiple, conflicting-in-nature criteria environmentwithin a value-chain framework. Engineering requirements and customer requirements governing the selecti...

Whilst Third Way Urban Policy (TWUP) often associates itself with a kind of anarchic vision of self-regulating and self-reproducing local communities, it can in fact be thought of as a thinly veiled moral crusade targeted towards vulnerable residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Sustainable communities are defined as those who can stand on their own two feet within the terms set down by neo...

This paper presents the top level goals and perception concepts of the ASys Framework. This is an unified framework for cognitive, autonomous systems to be used both in the analysis of natural phenomena and in the synthesis of artificial autonomous systems. Perception in ASys is conceived within an holonic, systemic concept, not as an isolated phenomenon. This general perspective allows: (1) In...

Contrary to duties (CTD) are dealt with in the framework of standard deontic logic (SDL), and ordinary Kripke possible world models. Given a world t, one associates statically a non-empty set I(t) of ideal worlds for t and t Oq (q is obligatory for t) if q holds in all the worlds of I(t). This is a static perception of obligation. If we have to list as t the set of all obligations for the world...

Because of the increased volume of information available to physicians from advanced medical technology, the obtained information of each symptom with respect to a disease may contain truth, falsity and indeterminacy information. Since a single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) consists of the three terms like the truth-membership, indeterminacy-membership and falsity-membership functions, it is v...

territorial songs, and by vervet monkey alarm calls. We are not yet sure exactly what is conveyed by whale songs, but a reasonable default hypothesis would seem to be that they convey messages of the same expressive power as complex birdsongs. We may be wrong about this, but the current belief is thus that any human language is capable of communicating the sum total of all that any animal speci...

The following narrative by Robert M. Yerkes of his creation of the famous colony of chimpanzees at Orange Park, Florida, has been extracted by his daughter, Roberta W. Yerkes, from an extensive autobiographical manuscript. Readers of this selective account might think Professor Yerkes a man of one idea. So he was, for from 1916 to the end of his life, a period of 40 years, he thought, planned, ...

The recent (2018–2020) appearance of a voluminous (though incomplete) corpus annotated translations the biographical section Historical Records Three Kingdoms (Samguk sagi) — oldest surviving Korean chronicle into English warrants us to compare it with Russian translation undertaken in 2000–2002. A comparative analysis will allow highlight characteristic features both styles, identify discrepan...