Recently John Turri (2015b) has argued, contra the orthodoxy amongst epistemologists, that reliability is not a necessary condition for knowledge. From this result, (2015a, 2017, 2016a, 2019) defends new account of knowledge — called abilism allows unreliable I argue Turri’s arguments fail to establish possible and false because must be

Five experiments were conducted to investigate a proposal by Butler, Kang, and Roediger (2009) that congruity (or fit) between target items and processing tasks might contribute, at least partly, to the mnemonic advantages typically produced by survival processing. In their research, no significant survival advantages were found when words were preselected to be highly congruent or incongruent ...

Maymin (1987) proved that for binary systems the path-cut lower bound is sharper than the minimax lower bound when the components are all highly reliable, which was originally conjectured by Barlow and Proschan (1981). This motivates us to consider the problem that whether this property for binary systems remains valid for the more general and complicated multistate systems. An example is const...

As Web Services have matured the interactions that the services have between themselves have gotten increasingly complex and sophisticated. Web services can be composed easily from other services, and these services can be made to orchestrate with each other in dynamic fashion. As web services have become dominant in the Internet and Grid systems landscape, a need to ensure guaranteed delivery ...

In this paper, consideration is given to the validity of “statistical science”, which is necessary for innovation of the development designing process, for use in a new issue involving numerical simulation technology (CAE) in development designing. This new application of statistical science is designed to aid the transition from the “prototype / experimental based real machine evaluation metho...

OBJECTIVE Patient care experience survey data might be useful for managing individual physician malpractice risk, but available evidence is limited. This study assesses whether patients' experiences with individual physicians, as measured by a validated survey, are associated with patient complaints and malpractice lawsuits. DESIGN Random samples of active patients in physicians' panels, with...

Reliability of long-term storage products is related to the availability of the whole system, and the evaluation of storage life is of great necessity. These products are usually highly reliable and little failure information can be collected. In this paper, an analytical method based on data from accelerated storage life test is proposed to evaluate the reliability index of the long-term stora...

This paper presents a multi-resolution approach for automatic extraction of roads from digital aerial imagery. Roads are modeled as a network of intersections and links between the intersections. of the image into context regions is done by texture analysis. The approach to detect roads is based on the extraction of edges in a high resolution image and the extraction of lines in an image of red...

Metacognition plays an essential role in learning mathematics. Due to missing tools for observation and evaluation of metacognitive activities in mathematics instruction, rarely anything is known about how metacognition is fostered in mathematics instruction. This paper presents the design of such an innovative tool. It also explains the methodology used to evaluate its reliability as well as t...

We report the development and validation of a scale to measure online shopping addiction. Inspired by previous theories and research on behavioral addiction, the Griffiths's widely accepted six-factor component model was referred to and an 18-item scale was constructed, with each component measured by three items. The results of exploratory factor analysis, based on Sample 1 (999 college studen...