Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are an important factor in the socio-economic development of transitioning and developing countries. Given the importance of ICT in global social and economic development, many researchers have examined its development and growth strategies from national and governmental policy perspectives. However, understanding the consequences of information ...

On one interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike. On another interpretation, haecceitism is the doctrine that there are distinct possible worlds that are qualitatively just alike and also differ with respect to the de-re possibilities they represent for some individual— with respect, that is, to how they represent that ...

Growing clinical evidences indicate the benefits of human milk (HM) for appropriate growth and development of a newborns: the particular composition make it a unique and inimitable nutrient [1]. Mother’s own milk is the first choice for all neonates including preterm infants, when it is unavailable or in short supply, donor milk (DM) is an important alternative. DM should be provided from an es...

We recover the rays in the tensor product of Hilbert spaces within a larger class of so called ‘states of compoundness’, structured as a complete lattice with the ‘state of separation’ as its top element. At the base of the construction lies the assumption that the cause of actuality of a property of one individual entity is actuality of a property of the other.

The counterpart theorist has a problem: there is no obvious way to understand talk about actuality in terms of counterparts. Fara and Williamson have charged that this obstacle cannot be overcome. Here I defend the counterpart theorist by offering systematic interpretations of a quantified modal language that includes an actuality operator. Centrally, I disentangle the counterpart relation from...