Criminal Policy, Security, and Justice in the Time of COVID-19

This study explains the necessary elements in controlling and reducing harmful and incompatible social phenomena with the nature of existence to design correct and challenging social and scientific models using comprehensive approaches to criminal policy and chaos theory.

Strengthening local volcano observatories through global collaborations

We consider the future of volcano observatories in a world where new satellite technologies and global data initiatives have greatly expanded over the last two decades. Observatories remain the critical tie between the decision-making authorities and monitoring data. In the coming decade, the global scientific community needs to continue to collaborate in a manner that will strengthen volcano observatories while building those databases and scientific models that allow us to improve forecasts of eruptions and mitigate their impacts. Observatories in turn need to contribute data to allow these international collaborations to prosper.

Conclusion

The conclusion, We’re Supposed to Be Engaging, acknowledges that public relations creates, shapes and promotes a politics that is embedded in our major institutions, our common practices of mediated debate, and the way we collectively think about what “the public” is and what it ought to do. This conception of democratic politics is so deeply engrained in our habits of action that even when we fight for better representation of those voices that are continually left unheard or denied participation or the right to engage, we retain its premises instead of attempting to challenge it at its base. Rather than turn to publicity to inform, engage, and mobilize, we call for a return to the authority of scientific models of inquiry in the fields of culture and politics.

A model-based approach to social ontology

This paper argues for theoretical modeling and model-construction as central (but not necessarily the only) types of activities that philosophers of social ontology (in the analytic tradition) engage in. This claim is defended through a detailed case study and revisionary interpretation of Raimo Tuomela’s account of the we-perspective. My interpretation is grounded in Ronald Giere’s account of scientific models, and argued to be compatible with, but less demanding than Tuomela’s own description of his account as a philosophical theory of the social world. My approach is also suggested to be applicable to many (but not necessarily all) other methodologically naturalist accounts of collective intentionality and social ontology.

Falcon Optimization Algorithm for Bayesian Networks Structure Learning

In machine-learning, one of the useful scientific models for producing the structure of knowledge is Bayesian network, which can draw probabilistic dependency relationships between variables. The score and search is a method used for learning the structure of a Bayesian network. The authors apply the Falcon Optimization Algorithm (FOA) as a new approach to learning the structure of Bayesian networks. This paper uses the Reversing, Deleting, Moving and Inserting operations to adopt the FOA for approaching the optimal solution of Bayesian network structure. Essentially, the falcon prey search strategy is used in the FOA algorithm. The result of the proposed technique is compared with Pigeon Inspired optimization, Greedy Search, and Simulated Annealing using the BDeu score function. The authors have also examined the performances of the confusion matrix of these techniques utilizing several benchmark data sets. As shown by the evaluations, the proposed method has more reliable performance than the other algorithms including producing better scores and accuracy values.

An Attachment Point for Meaningful Musculoskeletal Learning

A robust understanding of body systems is elusive for many students. For instance, musculoskeletal structures and mechanisms often remain abstract and difficult for students to truly understand, even when teachers provide visual representations and accurate anatomical and physiological information. This article (1) presents a lesson for teaching about the musculoskeletal system by having students develop and build a physical model of an arm and (2) describes how teachers can use this experience to promote a deep understanding of the role of muscles, ligaments, and tendons in movement. This concrete learning experience and resulting arm model establishes a foundation for developing a more robust understanding of anatomical, physiological, and general biological principles. This lesson sequence also embeds questions that overtly draw students’ attention to important features of scientific models, which is an important nature of science issue appearing in the Next Generation Science Standards. The instructional sequence has been utilized as the foundation of an entire musculoskeletal unit in an elective anatomy and physiology course for ninth grade students, and it can easily be adapted for use in a middle school life science class or a general high school biology course.

Teaching Kazakh novels with electronic book applications; Teacher and student opinions

Changes in the understanding of Education have led to the emergence of new approaches to teaching, strategies for teaching teachers, tools, methods and techniques. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the preparation of Kazakh novels for a book with electronic additions from the point of view of teachers and students. This study is based on high-quality research models, real scientific models. To collect data, the researcher created a semi-structured type of interview with the teacher and a semi-structured type of interview with the student. Study participants include 25 literature teachers from Almaty and Kazakhstan secondary schools and 122 students from various secondary schools. The study was conducted in the 2020-2021 academic year. As a result of the study, part of reading Kazakh novels in print or electronic form was evaluated, and it was noted that the teacher likes printed stories. The results of students ' responses also show that reading printed Kazakh stories is higher than reading electronic Kazakh teaching. Keywords: e-book; Kazakh stories; myth; Kazakh mythology; memories of students; memories of teachers.

Basics of Consciousness Theory

The verifiable concepts of classical physics proved unsuitable to create physics of small distances, high speeds, and large masses. Is there any chance that the verifiable notions of reality developed by modern physics and other branches of science will prove suitable to create a scientific theory of consciousness, which one day should appear? The paper examines what prevents the creation of scientific models of consciousness that can effectively represent empirical experience, and what theoretical construct (abstract object) is needed to create these models.

Our spatial reality and God

Modern scientific models of cosmological space and the theological concept of God’s immensity seem to exclude the possibility that God himself is personally present with us humans at particular places in space. Are God and our spatial reality incompatible? Or, is it possible to conceive the connection between God and space as ‘positive’, that is, in such a way that God himself can be fully and personally present with us at particular places in space? This essay explores how this question may be addressed in a theology which accepts the results of the natural sciences and acknowledges that God is the free creator of physical space. It describes how space can be conceptualised, and presents an overview of five different views on a positive relation between God and space in recent protestant theology. It concludes by some considerations on the question whether a positive relation between God and space requires that God himself is spatial.Contribution: This article contributes to the conversation between natural science and theology by making three points. (1) The scientific understanding of cosmological space and the biblical witness of God’s personal and local presence with humans require an alternative for the traditional theological view on God and space in terms of God’s immensity and omnipresence. (2) It is argued that new theological models for the interrelation between God and space have serious weaknesses. (3) A ‘positive’ relation between God and space may be articulated in terms of the correspondence among God’s uncreated movement, multiplicity and relationality, and the movement, multiplicity and relationality in the physical space of creation.