in this paper, the effect of different boundary conditions on the free vibration analysis response of a sandwich plates is presented using higher order shear deformation theory. the face sheets are orthotropic laminated composite that follow the first order shear deformation theory (fsdt) based on rissners-mindlin (rm) kinematics field. based on energy method and hamilton's principle, the ...

In existing models of decision under uncertainty where the decision maker may have multiple beliefs (vague beliefs) the different beliefs are not distinguished by their degree of reliability. This paper extends the model of vague beliefs in this direction: the decision maker may have multiple beliefs, but also has a complete order over them (a belief over his own beliefs, or higher order belief...

Due to their reliance on constitutive higher-order representing to generate the qualities of which the subject is consciously aware, I argue that the major existing higher-order representational theories of consciousness insulate us from our first-order sensory states. In fact on these views we are never properly conscious of our sensory states at all. In their place I offer a new higher-order ...