A Cogent Argument that Supports the Conjecture of Keane in Kolakoski Sequence A000002

Electric vehicle has aroused peoples concern with soaring energy crisis and environmental degradation. However, it has not been widely used due to some drawbacks, such as the short driving range, long charging time, frequent charging requirements and high price. In order to solve these problems, the roadway-powered electric vehicles (RPEVs) based on an inductive power transfer (IPT) has been proposed. In the segmented RPEVs system, efficiency and annual cost are affected by the track distance, tracks interval, number of tracks and installed capacity of each track, etc. Aiming to such problem, the nonlinear programming (NLP) model for segmented tracks planning of RPEVs system is studied in this paper. Meanwhile, the relationship between the system efficiency and the number of loads is analyzed as a cogent argument to the application of segmented tracks.

Download Full-text

Epilogue

10.5406/illinois/9780252038006.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Black Intellectuals ◽

Untimely Death ◽

Intellectual Engagement ◽

Publication History ◽

Black Intellectual ◽

History Of ◽

Cogent Argument ◽

The Creation

This concluding chapter likewise contains a eulogy from the other editors of this book, as well as a commentary on the publication history of Barrett's posthumous manuscript. Through discussing the aims of compiling Barrett's work into a “clear, cogent argument” and the emotional forces that had shaped the creation of this volume, the chapter turns to the effects of a lack of closure for Barrett's untimely death. It briefly details the circumstances thereof, while also noting a disturbing trend of several other murders of prominent gay black intellectuals in recent years. The chapter ends on an uplifting note, however, as it closes with some hopeful remarks from the editors on continuing with Barrett's legacy to a tradition of black intellectual engagement.

Download Full-text

Characterization in Malory's Tale of Arthur and Lucius

PMLA ◽

10.2307/459579 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 65 (5) ◽

pp. 877-895

Author(s):

Mary E. Dichmann

Keyword(s):

Round Table ◽

Sir Thomas Malory ◽

Careful Examination ◽

King Arthur ◽

Cogent Argument ◽

Thomas Malory

One of the most important recent publications in the field of late mediaeval literature is Eugène Vinaver's edition of The Works of Sir Thomas Malory,1 which has made available a more accurate text for the study of Malory's writings than any scholar has previously had at his disposal. As Vinaver points out in the Preface to this work (i, vi), his edition, which is based on the recently discovered Winchester MS.,2 is much closer to what Malory actually wrote than is Caxton's emended version, and consequently invalidates many conjectures made by those who have known Malory only as he is presented by Caxton. A careful examination of this MS. and a painstaking comparison of it with the sources on which Malory drew have caused Vinaver to reverse several opinions that he previously supported by cogent argument3 and have led him to two general conclusions: (1) that Malory's writings should not be regarded as a unified account of the rise and fall of King Arthur and the Round Table, but rather as eight separate romances whose subjects were drawn independently from the Arthurian cycle (I, XXIX-XXXV) and (2) that the order of composition of the tales was not in the sequence presented by both Caxton and the Winchester MS., since evidence shows (I, XXV-XL) that the story of the war with Rome, which Vinaver calls the Tale of the Noble King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius (Caxton Book v), was written before the Tale of King Arthur (Caxton Books I, II, III, and IV).4

Download Full-text

Anniversary dinner 1958: Speech by the Rt Hon. D. Heathcoat-Amory, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Anniversary Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, 1 December 1958

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1959.0001 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 2-11

Keyword(s):

Cogent Argument

Mr President, Your Excellencies, Your Worship, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: IT is your flattering custom to invite a member of H.M. Government to 1 address you at your Anniversary Dinner. It is an honour, I know, which any of my colleagues would eagerly accept, but none more eagerly than myself, for, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I feel a special sense of responsibility, of indebtedness, to the progress of science, and, if I may say so, a modicum of responsibility too. When I considered your kind invitation my first thought, conscious as I was of the slight feeling of inferiority that we politicians suffer from when our talents are compared with those of scientists, was that here was an opportunity of making the case for the politician by cogent argument.

Download Full-text

Status Offenders Can Be Different:

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112878302900303 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 365-379 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Thomas M. Kelley

Keyword(s):

Due Process ◽

Juvenile Court ◽

Status Offenders ◽

Status Offense ◽

Cogent Argument

Numerous scholars and program planners have argued vehemently for the removal of status offenders from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Perhaps the most cogent argument for the removal of such offenses from the juvenile codes concerns the vagueness of status offense statutes, which permits flexible interpretation and serves as an invitation to arbitrary and capricious enforcement as well as procedural and due process inequities.

Download Full-text

Proserpina Unbound: John Ruskin, Maria La Touche, and Victorian Floriculture

Victorian Literature and Culture ◽

10.1017/s1060150319000184 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 633-663

Author(s):

Lindsay Wells

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Plant Breeding ◽

Limited Attention ◽

John Ruskin ◽

History Of ◽

Cogent Argument ◽

Love Life ◽

Flower Breeding

Filled with caustic statements on artificial plant breeding and florist flowers, John Ruskin's botanical essay collection, Proserpina (1875–86), advances a cogent argument against commercial floriculture and, by extension, the commodification of vegetal life. However, the eco-political stakes of this text have received limited attention. Past studies have primarily interpreted Proserpina as a testament to Ruskin's disquiet about Darwinism and as a memorial to his late love, Rose La Touche. In this article, I argue that beneath these scientific and personal imperatives, Proserpina urges readers to resist the consumption of floral commodities engineered by Victorian nurserymen and florists. My reading draws together the history of nineteenth-century flower breeding with recent inquiries from the field of critical plant studies in order to illuminate how Ruskin's botanical prose dovetails with present-day debates on vegetal ethics. Flower-breeding motifs figure prominently in a series of letters written for Proserpina by Rose's mother, Maria La Touche, whose contributions to this book have long been overlooked. Analyzing Proserpina's floricultural subtext will not only recover La Touche's letters from the shadow of Ruskin's love life but also underscore an unexplored facet of Ruskin's antipathy toward Darwin, who celebrated florist flowers in his own botanical writings.

Download Full-text

Disease Genes Are Not Patentable: A Rebuttal of McGee

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0963180198004149 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 425-428 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

JON F. MERZ ◽

MILDRED K. CHO

Keyword(s):

Disease Genes ◽

Cogent Argument

Dr. McGee presents a cogent argument for the patentability of the diagnosis of gene forms that are found to be associated with disease or other phenotypic manifestations. We're convinced he's wrong. An analogy will help explain why.

Download Full-text

The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality By Tali Mendelberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 320p. $52.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055402610366 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 96 (3) ◽

pp. 647-648 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vincent L. Hutchings

Keyword(s):

Racial Attitudes ◽

Substantial Effect ◽

Racial Stereotypes ◽

Campaign Strategy ◽

Princeton University ◽

Candidate Evaluations ◽

Cogent Argument ◽

Race Cues ◽

Verbal Messages ◽

The Impact

Tali Mendelberg's The Race Card offers a methodologically rich and convincing account of the impact of subtle race cues in contemporary American politics. Although her thesis is a controversial one, Mendelberg develops a careful and cogent argument that racial attitudes can have a substantial effect on candidate evaluations—provided that candidates craft a racial appeal that appears to be about something other than race. She argues that the success of implicit antiblack appeals, ones juxtaposing visual references to race with ostensibly nonracial verbal messages on issues such as crime or welfare, are due to four “A” factors: ambivalence about racial stereotypes, accessibility and priming, awareness of one's reliance on racial attitudes, and the ambiguity of the racial cue.

Download Full-text

Incommensurability in ethics

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-l144-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Erik Carlson

Keyword(s):

Ethical Theory ◽

Practical Rationality ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Ratio Scale ◽

Moral Theories ◽

Cogent Argument ◽

Minor Improvement ◽

Better Than

In ethics and neighbouring subjects, incommensurability has been attributed to at least three different kinds of entities, namely moral theories or traditions, abstract values, and particular bearers of value. Even when confined to a given kind of entity, ‘incommensurable’ and its cognates are used in several different senses. Moral theories or traditions have been judged incommensurable in the sense that rational agreement or disagreement between their proponents is impossible. Incommensurability of abstract values may mean that any bearer of a particular value is better than any bearer of some other value, or that all or some bearers of one value are incomparable in value to all or some bearers of another value. In either case, incommensurability of abstract values reduces to incommensurability of value bearers. Applied to value bearers, there is one usage of ‘incommensurable’ according to which items are incommensurable if they cannot be measured on a common cardinal, i.e. interval or ratio, scale. Another usage identifies incommensurability with incomparability. Since there are competing understandings of incomparability, this usage gives rise to different notions of incommensurability. Finally, incommensurability of value bearers may be understood in terms of vagueness in the betterness relation. Many arguments for incommensurability, understood primarily as incomparability of value bearers, have been given. Often such arguments appeal to the apparent diversity of values, or to the alleged fact that value is not amenable to ‘calculation’. The latter consideration is not, however, a cogent argument for incomparability. Two further influential arguments for incomparability are the ‘minor improvement’ argument, and the argument from ‘constitutive incommensurability’. A further question concerns the consequences of incommensurability for ethical theory and practice. Incommensurability of moral theories or traditions appears to yield far-reaching theoretical consequences. Incommensurability of value bearers may affect the cogency of certain moral theories, as well as theories of the good. Furthermore, the possibility of incommensurable value bearers is often thought to impinge on the scope of practical rationality.

Download Full-text