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The impact of intransitivity on the Elo rating system. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hamilton AH, Kalenkova A, Roughan M.
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Information disclosure and questionnaires in public tenders

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Public tenders typically involve uncertainty and unforeseen costs, which might not be fully known to the bidders themselves. This uncertainty may also concern adaptation costs to the procurer after the delivery, and information about such adaptation costs may influence the bidding strategies, even though the cost is paid by the procurer ...
Thomas Greve, Hans Keiding
wiley   +1 more source

Transitivity, contextuality and decision making. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
Sulis WH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
wiley   +1 more source

Average distance between the processors of biswapped networks. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Prabhu S, Anitha M, Vidyarth NH, Manuel P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
wiley   +1 more source

Empathic Dimensions Influence Motor Resonance Magnitude During Transitive but Not Intransitive Action Observation: A Retrospective Investigation. [PDF]

Brain Sci
Guidali G, Franca M, Arrigoni E, Picardi M, Pisoni A, Bolognini N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Leibniz on Compossibility: Towards a Neo‐Logical Interpretation

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leibniz's concept of compossibility explains why not all possible substances are actualised, thereby resisting Spinoza's necessitarianism. Yet, the precise basis of incompossibility remains unresolved. The influential ‘logical’ interpretation—exemplified by the Hintikka–D'Agostino thesis—locates incompossibility in contradictions among ...
Jun Young Kim
wiley   +1 more source

A Full Halin Grid Theorem. [PDF]

Discrete Comput Geom
Georgakopoulos A, Hamann M.
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