The idea of the (“perfect”) cosmological principle (CP), viz. that the Universe presents the same aspect from any place at any time, is traced to the ancient Greek philosophers, who also suggested how such a cosmic order might work. The antithesis of this view, i.e. the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic world-picture, was to become the hallmark of the Dark Ages. The Copernican revolution constitutes the f...

The rise of China is no doubt the most important event in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. The institutional theory of development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions cannot explain China’s rise. This article argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly ...

3. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/PROGRAM DIRECTOR 3a. NAME (Last, first, middle) MUSTARI.Michael J. 3c. POSITION TITLE Associate Professor, Neurology 3e. DEPARTMENT, SERVICE, LABORATORY, OR EQUIVALENT Neurology 3f. MAJOR SUBDIVISION School of Medicine 3g. TELEPHONE AND FAX (Area cede, number and extension) TEL: 404:727-9194 FAX: 404:727-9294 4 HUMAN SUBJECTS 4b. Human Subjects Assurance No. RPSFARPH F...

This paper presents findings on using crowdsourcing via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to obtain Arabic nicknames as a contribution to exiting Named Entity (NE) lexicons. It demonstrates a strategy for increasing MTurk participation from Arab countries. The researchers validate the nicknames using experts, MTurk workers, and Google search and then compare them against the Database of Arabic Nam...

In this paper some basic aspects of the theory of graded consequence are reconsidered, based on many results that appeared since the inception of graded consequences in 1986. Relationships of the notion of graded consequence with the notions of consequence in many-valued and fuzzy logics are discussed. Following this, a detailed study is carried out on the necessary conditions that follow from ...

The development of a maintenance programme for construction projects is a highly complex and data intensive undertaking. This exercise is characterised by the lack of relevant data on the one hand and the overwhelming amount of extraneous data on the other. The uncertainties and complexities have resulted in increased conservatism in the development of lifecycle evaluation of building maintenan...

We show which implicational relations hold between the three principles ex falso sequitur quodlibet, tertium non datur, and double negation elimination, on the basis of minimal logic.

to compare the success of patients with ocular hypertension, secondary to pars plana vitrectomy and silicon oil tamponade, who had an ex-press glaucoma filtration device p50 (alcon laboratories, inc. fort worth, texas, usa) to those who had conventional trabeculectomy this study has been performed. the records of 10 eyes of 10 consecutive subjects who had ex-press implants and 9 eyes of 9 conse...