A prominent and publicly influential literature challenges the quality of democratic decision making, drawing on political science findings with specific claims about ubiquity cognitive bias to lament citizens’ incompetence. competing in theory defends wisdom crowds, a cluster models support capacity ordinary citizens produce correct outcomes. In this Letter, we draw recent psychology demonstra...

this paper addresses the problem of quantifying the mechanical contribution of rockbolts installed systematically around tunnels (regularly spaced around the tunnel) excavated in rock masses. assuming that the mechanical contribution of grouted rockbolts is that of increasing internal pressure within a broken rock mass, a new procedure for computation of ground response curves for a circular tu...

A data warehouse architecture (DWA) has been developed for the purpose of integrating data from multiple heterogeneous, distributed, and autonomous external data sources (EDSs) as well as for providing means for advanced analysis of integrated data. The major components of this architecture include: an external data source (EDS) layer, and extraction-transformation-loading (ETL) layer, a data w...