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Entropy, Information, and the Updating of Probabilities

Entropy, 2021
This paper is a review of a particular approach to the method of maximum entropy as a general framework for inference. The discussion emphasizes pragmatic elements in the derivation.
Ariel Caticha
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Partition and Pluralism: Perceiving Epistemic Terrains of Hope and Resilience in Divided by Partition, United by Resilience – 21 Inspirational Stories from 1947

Southeast Asian Review of English, 2023
Before India gained independence from Britain in 1947, when the partition was announced, the subcontinent instantly descended into riots, death, and destruction, culminating in one of the largest human waves of migration in history. Muslims in India were
Goutam Karmakar, Payel Pal
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Decolonization Projects

Voices in Bioethics, 2023
Photo ID 279661800 © Sidewaypics|Dreamstime.com ABSTRACT Decolonization is complex, vast, and the subject of an ongoing academic debate. While the many efforts to decolonize or dismantle the vestiges of colonialism that remain are laudable, they can
Cornelius Ewuoso
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“This is no Eden:” Three generations of researchers coping with team conflicts in an outstanding research environment

Högre Utbildning, 2022
Based on interviews with three generations of professors reflecting upon their development as early career researchers in an outstanding research environment within the STEM-field, this study aimed to explore how they had coped with relationship ...
Eva Brodin, Thomas Sewerin
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Epistemic Peer Disagreement [PDF]

, 2019
We offer a critical survey of the most discussed accounts of epistemic peer disagreement that are found in the recent literature.
Ferrari, Filippo, Pedersen, Nikolaj J. L. L.   +1 more
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Knowledge and emancipation

Journal of Digital Social Research
This essay explores Latin America's struggle for epistemic independence against dominant Global North informational flows in science and technology. It addresses the impact of knowledge production domination on the region, including epistemic injustice
Thaiane Oliveira, Tatiane Mendes Pinto
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Reasoning About the Reliability of Multi-version, Diverse Real-Time Systems [PDF]

, 2010
This paper is concerned with the development of reliable real-time systems for use in high integrity applications. It advocates the use of diverse replicated channels, but does not require the dependencies between the channels to be evaluated.
Burns, A., Littlewood, B.
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Conditional Independence for Iterated Belief Revision

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Conditional independence is a crucial concept for efficient probabilistic reasoning. For symbolic and qualitative reasoning, however, it has played only a minor role. Recently, Lynn, Delgrande, and Peppas have considered conditional independence in terms
G. Kern-Isberner, Jesse Heyninck, C. Beierle   +2 more
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A reliability analysis method including confidence level and probability reliability under epistemic and aleatory uncertainty

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Reliability analysis is a synthesis problem affected by both epistemic and aleatory uncertainties, due to the difficulties such as lack of statistical data and insufficient subjective information, which implies that the reliability analysis method has ...
Xiao-Feng Xue, Yun-Wen Feng, Cheng Lu
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Reconciling independence and accountability in judicial systems

Utrecht Law Review, 2008
The article analyses recent European experience in applying new managerial mechanisms of accountability to justice systems. A common outcome has been a confrontation between demands for accountability faced with appeals to judicial independence.
Francesco Contini, Richard Mohr
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