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Foundations of Inference [PDF]

open access: yesAxioms, 2012
We present a simple and clear foundation for finite inference that unites and significantly extends the approaches of Kolmogorov and Cox. Our approach is based on quantifying lattices of logical statements in a way that satisfies general lattice symmetries.
Kevin H. Knuth, John Skilling
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Results Chains: a Tool for Conservation Action Design, Management, and Evaluation

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Every day, the challenges to achieving conservation grow. Threats to species, habitats, and ecosystems multiply and intensify. The conservation community has invested decades of resources and hard work to reduce or eliminate these threats. However, it
Richard Margoluis   +7 more
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Palliative care and human rights in patient care: an Armenia case study

open access: yesPublic Health Reviews, 2017
This paper examines palliative care within the human rights in patient care framework, which clarifies state obligations and addresses the rights of both patients and providers.
Gabriela Barros de Luca   +4 more
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Multi-person selection of the best wind turbine based on the multi-criteria integrated additive-multiplicative utility function

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2014
Energy generation and savings is a vital problem for the social and economic development of a modern world. The construction of wind farms is a challenge of crucial importance to Lithuania. Offshore wind farms are one of the possibilities of the multiple
Vygantas Bagočius   +2 more
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Survivors of childhood cancer in Latin America: Role of foundations and peer groups in the lack of transition processes to adult long‐term follow‐up

open access: yesCancer Reports, 2022
Background Over the last decade, the population of childhood cancer survivors has rapidly increased in Latin America, opening a long chapter of challenges for healthcare providers in these countries to provide follow‐up and adult care. Aim In the process
Nuria Rossell   +2 more
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Between Popular Demand for Education and Budgetary Constraints: The Example of the Organisation of Hamlet Schools in Savoy (1860–1880)

open access: yesNordic Journal of Educational History, 2022
In the early nineteenth century, the populations of the former Duchy of Savoy increased the number of hamlet schools. These schools were integrated into the mountain socio-economic system and mainly financed by private funds, but were considered by the ...
Jean-Yves Julliard
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Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO [PDF]

open access: yesFoundations and Trends® in Signal Processing, 2020
Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to jointly serve it, instead of creating autonomous cells.
Ozlem Tugfe Demir   +2 more
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Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: Machines, Machineries and Perpetual Motion [PDF]

open access: yesActa Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2015
This paper is the second part of our recent paper ‘Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: How Science and Technique Work’ (Pisano & Bussotti 2014a).
Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti
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The role of foundations: Rockefeller Foundation [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Reviews, 2016
The consequences of climate change and the impacts of human activity on the environment have made it clearer than ever before that we must evolve our current model of public health to better account for the inextricable link between human health and the natural systems on which it depends-creating a "public health 2.0" that builds on the innovations of
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Univalent foundations as structuralist foundations [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2016
Univalent foundations (UF), which grew out of homotopy-theoretic models of Martin-Löf type theory, replace sets with homotopy types as fundamental objects. In the paper under review, the author argues that UF may provide a suitable formalisation of the structuralist approach to mathematics.
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