Parallelism is often required for performance. In these situations an excess of non-determinism harmful as it means the program can have several different behaviours or even results. Even in domains such high-performance computing where parallelism crucial performance, computed value should be deterministic. Unfortunately, programs also allows dynamic scheduling tasks, reacting to first task th...

Understanding how teaching affects students' attitudes and beliefs is notoriously difficult, specifically in a quickly evolving societally relevant field such as genetics. The aim of this survey study to capitalize our previous research examine relates Finnish secondary school students’ liking of, self-concept experienced utility genetics, attitude towards gene technology belief genetic determi...

Franson showed that Aspect’s experiment to test Bell’s inequality did not rule out local realistic theories with delayed determinism. A class of local, deterministic discrete mathematical models with delayed determinism is described that may be consistent with existing experiments. These are not hidden variables theories in the sense that they are not theories of particles plus hidden variables...

It is argued that an approach characterised by either genetic or environmental determinism fails to adequately describe the contingencies involved in the evocation and maintenance of challenging behaviors in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Instead, challenging behavior should be considered as a result of the interaction of genetic and environmental variables. This arg...

Technological determinism is the belief that science and technology are autonomous and the main force for change in society. It is neither new nor particularly original but has become an immensely powerful and largely orthodox view of the nature of social change in highly industrialised societies. In this paper I analyse the presence of technological determinism in general discourses about the ...

The attempts to clarify (purify) the conceptual foundations of family therapy by means of "epistemology" have bred excitement, boredom, irritation and confusion. In the belief that at least the confusion can be alleviated, the present paper is offered as a study guide and something of a Rosetta Stone for translating the work of Gregory Bateson and Humberto R. Maturana. The paper demonstrates th...