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Visualizing Ignorance

open access: yesEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2020
The Bank of England fan chart of inflation visualizes the uncertainty of the bank’s inflation projections. Visualization is away to tame uncertainty, in the sense that uncertainty is brought under the measure of a probabilistic distribution, in this case a (two-piece) normal distribution.
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The Comparative Semantic Analysis of "Ignorance" in Quran, Historical and Literary Texts [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2011
The word "Jahl" (ignorance) from which the term "Jahilyya" is derived, is considered the opposite of "Alm" (Knowledge) in the view point of some linguists and some others as the opposite of "Hilmn" (patience); but from Quran view point the main antonym ...
Sed Asghar Mahmoudabadi   +1 more
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The Problem of Ignorance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Holly Smith (2014) contends that subjective deontological theories – those that hold that our moral duties are sensitive to our beliefs about our situation – cannot correctly determine whether one ought to gather more information before acting.
Lee-Stronach, Chad
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Reducing Uncertainty and Confronting Ignorance about the Possible Impacts of Weathering Plastic in the Marine Environment

open access: yes, 2017
Plastic in the global oceans fulfills two of the three conditions for pollution to pose a planetary boundary threat because it is causing planetary-scale exposure that is not readily reversible.
Annika Jahnke   +11 more
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How to Live Safely with Bats? Ignorance(s) in post-Ebola Risk Communication (Guinea, Sierra Leone)

open access: yesSources, 2022
The 2013–6 Ebola disease epidemic in West Africa drove a surge of environmental communication campaigns in regions considered at-risk for Ebola, despite uncertainty about the disease’s transmission pathways from animals to humans.
Emmanuelle Roth
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Concept of Yonisomanasikāra ‘Proper Attention’ as a Buddhist Way to Social Peace

open access: yesJournal of International Buddhist Studies, 2022
The topic of this study is the concept of Yonisomanasikāra ‘Proper Attention’ as a Buddhist way to social peace. There are three objectives, namely: - 1) To study the concept of “Yonisomanasikāra (Proper attention)” in Buddhist canonical texts and other ...
Ven. Acchariya
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Ignoring ignorance and agreeing to disagree [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 1990
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Risk, uncertainty, ignorance and myopia: Their managerial implications for B2B firms

open access: yesIndustrial Marketing Management, 2020
Rare events are common: Even though any particular type of ‘rare event’ - a world war, global economic collapse, or pandemic for that matter - should only occur once every 100 years, there are enough of those types of ‘rare events’ that overall, they ...
J. Oehmen   +3 more
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Deliberate ignorance in project risk management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The management of project risk is considered a key discipline by most organisations involved in projects. Best practice project risk management processes are claimed to be self-evidently correct.
Hall, Mark L., Kutsch, Elmar
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Way of ignorance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Preprint of an article by Jules Winterton, Associate Director and Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal ...
Winterton, Jules
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