is so great as to cause the omission of large portions of the subject there are grave objections to the plan. The author of the small work before us says in the preface that " brevity" has been his aim, so that busy practitioners, who have not time to read " more comprehensive " works, may yet be able to turn to his in the hour of need. Most men in active practice do not, however, read text-boo...

hat kinds of moral objections are there to W such interventions as xenotransplantation, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering generally? Ethicists today often divide moral objections firmly into two sets, those that point to dangerous consequences and those saying that the act itself is intrinsically wrong. Of course this division between act and consequence is often useful. But unless the t...

The topic of this paper is our knowledge of the natural numbers, and in particular, our knowledge of the basic axioms for the natural numbers, namely the Peano axioms. The thesis defended in this paper is that knowledge of these axioms may be gained by recourse to judgements of probability. While considerations of probability have come to the forefront in recent epistemology, it seems safe to s...

This paper aims at presenting our method to generate drum tracks to accompany guitar tracks. Our approach was to work on songs in the Midi format, separate them into several segments and then design our own features for the input guitar tracks as well as for the output drum tracks. We performed clustering algorithms (K-means, mixture of Gaussian, DBSCAN) as well as K-nn to group similar guitar ...

This paper concerns the extent to which uncertain propositional reasoning can track probabilistic reasoning, and addresses kinematic problems that extend the familiar Lottery paradox. An acceptance rule assigns to each Bayesian credal state p a propositional belief revision method Bp, which specifies an initial belief state Bp(⊤), that is revised to the new propositional belief state B(E) upon ...

BACKGROUND This study compares mortality outcomes of Medicaid-reimbursed nursing home residents with and without do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in two diverse states. METHODS We used 1994 Minimum Data Set Plus (MDS+) information on 3215 nursing home residents from two states. We used Kaplan-Meier analyses to examine unadjusted mortality among those with and without DNR orders across states. ...