A hard choice: to work or not to work?

2012 ◽  
pp. 62-90
Keyword(s):  
Hard Choice

A hard choice for Tomasello

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Joint Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Margaret Gilbert ◽  
Michael Bratman ◽  
Human Sense ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Michael Tomasello explains the human sense of obligation by the role it plays in negotiating practices of acting jointly and the commitments they underwrite. He draws in his work on two models of joint action, one from Michael Bratman, the other from Margaret Gilbert. But Bratman's makes the explanation too difficult to succeed, and Gilbert's makes it too easy.

Challenging Gender Hierarchies in Narratives of the Nation: Representations of Women in Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon and Hard Choice

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Epongse Nkealah ◽  
Olutoba Gboyega Oluwasuji
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Do So

Ideas of nationalisms as masculine projects dominate literary texts by African male writers. The texts mirror the ways in which gender differentiation sanctions nationalist discourses and in turn how nationalist discourses reinforce gender hierarchies. This article draws on theoretical insights from the work of Anne McClintock and Elleke Boehmer to analyse two plays: Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon by Bole Butake and Gilbert Doho and Hard Choice by Sunnie Ododo. The article argues that women are represented in these two plays as having an ambiguous relationship to nationalism. On the one hand, women are seen actively changing the face of politics in their societies, but on the other hand, the means by which they do so reduces them to stereotypes of their gender.

Hard Choice or Astronomers

Science News ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 225
Keyword(s):  
Hard Choice

Styles and principles in archaeological publication: Chester reviewed

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (240) ◽  
pp. 536-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Millett
Keyword(s):  
Primary Data ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Hard Choice

Big urban excavation campaigns are not easy to publish. The quantity of primary data is overwhelming and, even when only the essentials are published, a hard choice has to be made. By period? By area? By theme? In whole volumes? Or slice-by-slice in instalments or ‘fascicles’? The issues are here explored in reviewing a batch of publications from Chester, in the series, ‘Excavations at Chester: Grosvenor Museum Archaeological Excavation and Survey Reports’.

scholarly journals Implementation of Low density Parity Check system using Probabilistic Gradient Descent Bit Flipping Decoder

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2005-2009
Keyword(s):  
Gradient Descent ◽  
Random Sequence ◽  
Ldpc Codes ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Parity Check ◽  
Dynamic Architecture ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Low Density Parity Check ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Check System

This paper represents the concept of hard decision decoder in which PGDBF is suitable decoder for the basic model of hard-choice decoder as long as low-density parity check code (LDPC) which is increase the error correction. This design introduced dynamic architecture which reduce the capability of random disarrangement of the PGDBF. The design is working on the Short Random Sequence (SRS) that is replica cover on the PGDBF decoding guidelines. In each iteration flipping number of bits these are focusing on improvement in performance and decoding delay. The best SRS is essential to manage the wellknown decoding achievement of PGDBF, we introduced two kind of access with same hardware categories, but various LDPC codes are perform different behaviors. In this design we are modifying small hardware decoding unit for obtaining a good decoding explanation for present and further purpose.

Aggression and the symmetrical application of International Humanitarian Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Kalmanovitz
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Jus In Bello ◽  
Jus Ad Bellum ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Causes Of War ◽  
Widespread View

Recent scholarship in just war theory has challenged the principle of symmetrical application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). This revisionist work, which is increasingly dominating the field of contemporary war ethics, rejects the idea that the rules of conduct of war (jus in bello) should be agnostic about the justice of the decision to go to war (jus ad bellum). Just wars are perceived to be inherently at odds with the principle of symmetrical application of IHL, which appears to create a hard choice between justice and legality. I show that this challenge to IHL is misplaced. It derives from a widespread view among just war theorists according to which only one side in a just war can be justified in using force. By looking closely at the nature of adjudication of just causes of war, I show that there can be cases of war in which both sides are justified in using force, and cases in which, though not objectively justified, both sides may be excused for fighting. On the basis of this understanding of jus ad bellum, I argue that the principle of symmetrical application of IHL in fact best reflects the uncertainty and complexity that should characterize the practical doctrine of jus ad bellum.

scholarly journals Tibetan succession

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Hard Choice

China puts up its rural candidate for Panchen Lama and faces Tibet's religious leaders — with a hard choice

De Gramont Schedule is a Very Low Toxic and Effective Regimen in Low Performance Status Patients Affected by Metastatic Gastric Cancer: Preliminary Report

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. A21-A24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Rea ◽  
Gennaro Gadaleta Caldarola ◽  
Claudia Sandomenico ◽  
Mauro Colangelo ◽  
Aldo Filice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gastric Cancer ◽  
Overall Survival ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Median Overall Survival ◽  
Performance Status ◽  
Metastatic Gastric Cancer ◽  
Hard Choice ◽  
Major Response ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Grade 3

Summary Treatment of patients affected by metastatic gastric cancer with low performance status (PS) is a very hard choice. It is mandatory to define a very well-tolerated schedule to be employed in these subgroup of patients. Patients and Methods From June 1999 to December 2001, 21 patients (pts) affected by metastatic gastric cancer with low performance status (≥2 ECOG) were treated with bimonthly “de Gramont” schedule. Treatment was planned to perform 6 courses of chemotherapy for each patient plus other 2-4 if a response had been documented. Results A total of 161 courses of de Gramont schedule was administered to the 21 pts enrolled. We observed 8 PD (38%), 8 SD (38%), 5 objective responses (24% – 2 MR, 3 PR). Duration of objective responses (OR) was 5 months, 3 months for 3 PRs and 2 and 1 months for two MRs respectively. At time of observation (June 2002) median overall survival (OS) was 14 months, median survival from the starting de Gramont schedule was 8 months. Toxicity was very mild: grade 3 leukopenia in 1 pt, grade 1-2 anemia and piastrinopenia in 3 pts, grade 1-2 nausea vomiting in 5 pts, grade 1 diarrhea in 4 pts, grade 3 mucositis in 2 pts. No other side effect was renowned. PS ameliorated in 12 (57%) pts, even if a major response was not noted. Conclusions de Gramont schedule can be safely and effectively employed in metastatic gastric cancer pts with very low performance status.

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