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Precompact Apartness Spaces [PDF]
We present a notion of precompactness, and study some of its properties, in the context of apartness spaces whose apartness structure is not necessarily induced by any uniform one. The presentation lies entirely with a Bishop-style constructive framework,
Douglas S Bridges
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Deconstructing the Anthropocene with Speculative Cosmology
This article proposes to deconstruct the philosophical foundations of the Anthropocene based on Whitehead’s philosophy or cosmology. After questioning the scientific or geological validity of this notion and having shown how this notion was inseparable ...
Elise Lamy-Rested
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The Hole Argument and Some Physical and Philosophical Implications
This is a historical-critical study of the hole argument, concentrating on the interface between historical, philosophical and physical issues. Although it includes a review of its history, its primary aim is a discussion of the contemporary implications
John Stachel
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Parameterized Algorithmics for Computational Social Choice: Nine Research Challenges [PDF]
Computational Social Choice is an interdisciplinary research area involving Economics, Political Science, and Social Science on the one side, and Mathematics and Computer Science (including Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems) on the other ...
Bredereck, Robert+5 more
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Mechatronic system usability evaluation
This study aimed to refine and validate a Mechatronic System Usability Evaluation (MSUE) questionnaire. A total of 626 users were selected using random sampling, from the area of West Thessaloniki, Greece.
Apostolos Tsagaris
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A TEXTBOOK FOR GENERAL SCIENCE [PDF]
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Science as collaborative knowledge generation [PDF]
The COVID‐19 pandemic points to the need for scientists to pool their efforts in order to understand this disease and respond to the ensuing crisis. Other global challenges also require such scientific cooperation. Yet in academic institutions, reward structures and incentives are based on systems that primarily fuel the competition between (groups of)
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Learning conversions in science: The case of vocational students in the UK [PDF]
The paper describes two aspects of a research project that focused on vocational science students. The paper begins with a general description of vocational science in the UK, to put the work in context.
Butterfield, Anne+2 more
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Polymer Science: The Next Generation [PDF]
Shiyong Liu The three of us have to confess we felt a bit over-age when the editors of the Macromolecular Journals approached us for editing a young investigators issue for Macromolecular Rapid Communications . Although we would prefer not to think about it, this forced us to admit that we are slowly reaching the senior scientist category (i.e., the ...
Lutz, Jean-François+2 more
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Towards a General Methodology for Second-Order Science [PDF]
In recent years a new science frontier emerged under the umbrella term of second-order science which creates new and challenging problems through a characteristic re-entry-operation like in pattern of patterns, learning of learning, cybernetics of ...
Karl H. Müller
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