scholarly journals Varieties and Levels of Knowledge

Epistemology ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Ernest Sosa

This chapter considers the different types and levels of knowledge, focusing on apt judgment (and judgmental belief) and on corresponding knowledge above mere subcredal animal knowledge. In a best-case scenario, the agent who judges aptly knows that they would likely enough affirm correctly if they affirmed as they intended. The agent affirms alethically fully and aptly only if guided to a correct and apt affirmation by second-order awareness of their competence to so affirm. The affirmation must be safe because the agent must know that they would succeed aptly if they tried, so that if he affirmed they would do so correctly, which is tantamount to safety of affirmation and, in turn, to safety of judgment.

Author(s):  
Sandip Moi ◽  
Suvankar Biswas ◽  
Smita Pal(Sarkar)

AbstractIn this article, some properties of neutrosophic derivative and neutrosophic numbers have been presented. This properties have been used to develop the neutrosophic differential calculus. By considering different types of first- and second-order derivatives, different kind of systems of derivatives have been developed. This is the first time where a second-order neutrosophic boundary-value problem has been introduced with different types of first- and second-order derivatives. Some numerical examples have been examined to explain different systems of neutrosophic differential equation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin ◽  
Catherine Griff

Much of the present debate about content on the internet revolves around how to control the distribution of different sorts of harmful or undesirable material. Yet there are considerable issues about whether sufficient sorts of desired cultural content will be available, such as ‘national’, ‘Australian’ content. In traditional broadcasting, regulation has been devised to encourage or mandate different types of content, where it is believed that the market will not do so by itself. At present, such regulatory arrangements are under threat in television, as the Productivity Commission Broadcasting Inquiry final report has noted. But what of the future for certain types of content on the internet? Do we need specific regulation and policy to promote the availability of content on the internet? Or is such a project simply irrelevant in the context of gradual but inexorable media convergence? Is regulating for content just as quixotic and fraught with peril as regulating of content from a censorship perspective often appears to be? In this article, we consider the case of Australian content for broadband technologies, especially in relation to film and video, and make some preliminary observations on the promotion and regulation of internet content.


Author(s):  
Tarald O. Kvålseth

First- and second-order linear models of mean movement time for serial arm movements aimed at a target and subject to preview constraints and lateral constraints were formulated as extensions of the so-called Fitts's law of motor control. These models were validated on the basis of experimental data from five subjects and found to explain from 80% to 85% of the variation in movement time in the case of the first-order models and from 93% to 95% of such variation for the second-order models. Fitts's index of difficulty (ID) was generally found to contribute more to the movement time than did either the preview ID or the lateral ID defined. Of the different types of errors, target overshoots occurred far more frequently than undershoots.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 262-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alona Mykhaylenko ◽  
Ágnes Motika ◽  
Brian Vejrum Waehrens ◽  
Dmitrij Slepniov

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of factors that affect offshoring performance results. To do so, this paper focuses on the access to location-specific advantages, rather than solely on the properties of the offshoring company, its strategy or environment. Assuming that different levels of synergy may exist between particular offshoring strategic decisions (choosing offshore outsourcing or captive offshoring and the type of function) and different offshoring advantages, this work advocates that the actual fact of realization of certain offshoring advantages (getting or not getting access to them) is a more reliable predictor of offshoring success. Design/methodology/approach – A set of hypotheses derived from the extant literature is tested on the data from a quantitative survey of 1,143 Scandinavian firms. Findings – The paper demonstrates that different governance modes and types of offshored function indeed provide different levels of access to different types of location-specific offshoring advantages. This difference may help to explain the ambiguity of offshoring initiatives performance results. Research limitations/implications – Limitations of the work include using only the offshoring strategy elements and only their limited variety as factors potentially influencing access to offshoring advantages. Also, the findings are limited to Scandinavian companies. Originality/value – The paper introduces a new concept of access, which can help to more reliably predict performance outcomes of offshoring initiatives. Recommendations are also provided to practitioners dealing with offshoring initiatives.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-416

Mesophilic biomass and thermophilic biomass samples were isolated and used to remove Dorasyn Red dye from aqueous solutions. The biosorption kinetics of dye uptake by four different types of biomass at three temperatures (20, 30, and 40 °C) were investigated using pseudo-first order kinetics, pseudo-second order kinetics, intraparticle diffusion, Elovich, and Bangham models. The pseudo-second-order kinetics model and the first stage of the intraparticle diffusion model were effective in describing the experimental kinetics data. The biosorption results showed that the mesophilic biomass samples could be useful for removing dye under acidic conditions.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe ◽  
Egon Noe

<p>Cross-disciplinary use of science is needed to solve complex, real-world problems, but carrying out scientific research with multiple very different disciplines is in itself a non-trivial problem. Perspectives matter. In this paper we carry out a philosophical analysis of the perspectival nature of science, focusing on the synchronic structure of scientific perspectives across disciplines and not on the diachronic, historical structure of shifting perspectives within single disciplines that has been widely discussed since Kuhn and Feyerabend. We show what kinds of cross-disciplinary disagreement to expect due to the perspectival structure of science, suggest how to handle different scientific perspectives in cross-disciplinary work through perspectives of a second order, and discuss some fundamental epistemic differences between different types of science.</p>


Author(s):  
Jose María Alvarez-Rodríguez ◽  
Roy Mendieta ◽  
Valentín Moreno ◽  
Miguel Sánchez-Puebla ◽  
Juan Llorens

This paper introduces a mechanism to recover traceability links between the requirements and logical models in the context of critical systems development. Currently, lifecycle processes are covered by a good number of tools that are used to generate different types of artifacts. One of the cornerstone capabilities in the development of critical systems lies in the possibility of automatically recovery traceability links between system artifacts generated in different lifecycle stages. To do so, it is necessary to establish to what extent two or more of these work products are similar, dependent or should be explicitly linked together. However, the different types of artifacts and their internal representation depict a major challenge to unify how system artifacts are represented and, then, linked together. That is why, in this work, a concept-based representation is introduced to provide a semantic and unified description of any system artifact. Furthermore, a traceability function is defined and implemented to exploit this new semantic representation and to support the recovery of traceability links between different types of system artifacts. In order to evaluate the traceability function, a case study in the railway domain is conducted to compare the precision and recall of recovery traceability links between text-based requirements and logical model elements. As the main outcome of this work, the use of a concept-based paradigm to represent that system artifacts are demonstrated as a building block to automatically recover traceability links within the development lifecycle of critical systems.


1973 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Thiel ◽  
Carol L. Cousins ◽  
D. R. Westgarth ◽  
F. K. Neave

SummaryLarge differences in new infection rates occurred with half-udder milking machines in which one half of the cluster operated substantially free from vacuum fluctuations while the other half was subjected to various combinations of different types of fluctuation in vacuum. To increase the rate of new infection all teats were contaminated before and after each milking by immersion in a suspension of Streptococcus agalactiae and Str. dysgalactiae. A series of short-duration trials indicated that neither irregular nor cyclic fluctuations in vacuum acting alone were able to increase new infection rate. However, either the Nyhan and Cowhig irregular fluctuation, or a variant of it in combination with cyclic fluctuations in vacuum, was able to do so under the particular experimental conditions used.


The axons of the primary photoreceptor cells of the compound eye of the fly interweave in a complex but definite pattern before they terminate upon the second-order neurons. Of approximately 650 short retinula axons from behind 120 facets of the eye none terminated at an incorrect lamina cartridge. Six, seven, or eight first-order terminals upon one pair of second-order cells are arranged in a rotational sequence that is related to the positions of the retinula cells within the ommatidia. Errors in location of the terminal among its neighbours occurred only ten times. The asymmetry of the receptor pattern in the dorsal half of the eye has a mirror image in the ventral half. Along the equator of the eye is a plane of symmetry which many axons necessarily cross in maintaining the appropriate connexions of their receptors. Axons which cross this plane of symmetry have somehow found their appropriate second-order cells, although to do so they must have grown through a milieu which is the mirror image of that in their own half of the eye. Each pair of second-order axons proceeding from the lamina forms a small bundle with the axons of the two long retinula cells that have the same visual axis. Between the lamina and the medulla is a chiasma (with the crossing in the horizontal plane) through which bundles from the lamina pass to project in exactly reverse order upon the medulla. No errors of projection have been found at the single neuron level in this chiasma.


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S375-S376
Author(s):  
C.M. Carrillo de Albornoz Calahorro ◽  
A. Porras ◽  
M. Guerrero ◽  
J. Cervilla Ballesteros

IntroductionSeveral epidemiological studies describe the association between substance abuse and appearance of psychotic symptoms. There is a higher prevalence of psychotic symptoms among cannabis and cocaine consumers compared to the general population.The cannabinoid receptors regulate the release of dopamine and cocaine has a strong inhibitory action on reuptake of the same. This may explain the greater proportion of subjects moderately or heavily dependent on cocaine or cannabis experience symptoms of psychotic sphere.Objectives/AimsDescribing the profile of drug consumption among a group of patients diagnosed with delusional disorder.MethodsOur data come from a case register study of delusional disorder in Andalucía (Spanish largest region). By accessing digital health data, we selected 1927 cases who meet criteria DSM 5 for delusional disorder collecting different toxic consumption habits.ResultsIt was found that 1070 (93.4%) of patients diagnosed as delusional disorder according DSM 5 did not consume cannabis, compared to 75 (6.6%) who do so. Among patients diagnosed as “other psychoses”, 243 (85%) did not use drugs and 43 (15%) consume other drugs of different types of cannabis.ConclusionIn our sample, we found that the use of drugs such as cannabis and cocaine is less common among patients diagnosed with delusional disorder compared with other individuals diagnosed as “other psychosis”.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.


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