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Relaxing Goodness Is Still Good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDIs) are planar hybrid systems, whose dynamics are defined in terms of constant differential inclusions, one for each of a number of polygonal regions partitioning the plane. The reachability problem for SPDIs is known to be decidable, but depends on the goodnessassumption -- which states that the dynamics do not allow a ...
Pace, Gordon J.   +2 more
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cui prodest

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2017
As Bulgakov’s Yeshua said, there are no evil people. People always aim for goodness. But the problem is that the idea of goodness has not yet become common to all mankind.
Elena Grigoryeva
doaj   +1 more source

The overreliance on statistical goodness-of-fit and under-reliance on model validation in discrete choice models: A review of validation practices in the transportation academic literature

open access: yes, 2021
An examination of model validation practices in the peer-reviewed transportation literature published between 2014 and 2018 reveals that 92% of studies reported goodness-of-fit statistics, and 64.6% reported some sort of policy-relevant inference ...
G. Parady, D. Ory, Joan L. Walker
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multivariate goodness-of-fit tests based on Wasserstein distance [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Statistics, 2020
Goodness-of-fit tests based on the empirical Wasserstein distance are proposed for simple and composite null hypotheses involving general multivariate distributions.
M. Hallin, Gilles Mordant, J. Segers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Distance of Heaven: An Analysis of the Guodian Wu Xing

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2017
This paper argues that the Guodian Wu Xing consists of two interrelated sections that reflect its distinction between goodness (a characteristic of humans) and virtue (a trait of Heaven).
Matthew James HAMM
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Category Structure and Categorical Perception Jointly Explained by Similarity-Based Information Theory

open access: yesEntropy, 2018
Categorization is a fundamental information processing phenomenon in the brain. It is critical for animals to compress an abundance of stimulations into groups to react quickly and efficiently.
Romain Brasselet, Angelo Arleo
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Russian Elders: Aesthetics of Good-Imaged Beauty

open access: yesДискурс, 2020
Introduction. The paper substantiates the application of aesthetic characteristics to the examination of the image of Russian elders. It is proposed to move away from the traditional understanding of aesthetics only as a philosophy of art and beauty and ...
D. Yu. Dorofeev
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Do Everything for the Glory of God

open access: yesReligions, 2021
St. Paul writes, “whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10: 31 NABRE).” This essay employs the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and the recent philosophical work of Daniel Johnson (2020) on this command to investigate a series of ...
W. Scott Cleveland
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An Adamsian Theory of Moral Obligations but without Divine Commands [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023
Theological Voluntarism is the view according to which certain moral properties or statuses have to be explained in terms of God’s commands, will, or other voluntary states of God.
Seyyed Abbas Kazemi Oskooei
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Is it better to be good or to do good?

open access: yesSouth African Dental Journal, 2021
People have contemplated what it entails to be good and to do good. Philosophers propose that being good is an idea about yourself or others, while doing good is an action, towards yourself or others. Other theorists feel that those who want to ‘be good’ actually want to ‘be seen as good’, while those who strive to ‘do good’ are more concerned with ...
Leanne Sykes   +2 more
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