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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the implementation of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulations as a politically formative process. Integrating insights from global value chain (GVC) research with the assumptions of legal struggles and legal endogeneity, the article analyses how administrative practice shapes the meaning and ...
Christian Scheper
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governance of sustainable development increasingly relies on voluntary standards and commitments, the credibility and effectiveness of which hinge on accountability—ensuring actors align with shared goals and follow through on them. However, voluntary initiatives operate outside traditional control structures and blend elements of state ...
Elina Vikstedt +3 more
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Fuzzy FOIL: A fuzzy logic based inductive logic programming system.
, 1996 In many domains, characterizations of a given attribute are imprecise, uncertain and incomplete in the available learning examples. The definitions of classes may be vague. Learning systems are frequently forced to deal with such uncertainty. Traditional
Chen, Guiming.
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Vagueness as Cost Reduction : An Empirical Test [PDF]
, 2011 This work was funded in part by an EPSRC Platform Grant awarded to the NLG group at ...
Green, Matthew James +3 more
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Open theories, consistency and related results in fuzzy logic
, 1997 The paper deals with fuzzy logic in the narrow sense of Lukasiewicz style, i.e. a special kind of many-valued logic which is aimed at modeling of vagueness phenomenon.
Vilém Novák, Novák, Vilém
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Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the expression ‘critical thinking’ (CT) is understood and used by the general public in the United States, using the tools of experimental philosophy. Based on responses from 288 non‐philosopher participants, our findings suggest that CT is commonly associated with problem solving, decision making and logical ...
Céline Schöpfer +2 more
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Advances in Electrical and Computer EngineeringIn the era of multi-cloud environments, the challenge for end users or organizations is to select the most appropriate cloud service provider (CSP) due to the complexity and variability of service-level offerings by various CSPs.
SARAF, V., ADHAO, R., PACHGHARE, V.
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Knowledge agents via logic programming and fuzzy reasoning [PDF]
, 2007 Implementing knowledgeable applications benefits from the ability to model problems on the knowledge level. In practice, this usually means engagement with the logical description of problems.
Nykänen, O.
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More Than Regulation: Challenging Habermas on the Future of the Public Sphere
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bernardo Ferro
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