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Moral asymmetries and the semantics of many
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 We present the results of four experiments concerning the evaluations people make of sentences involving many, showing that two sentences of the form many As are Bs and many As are Cs need not be equivalent when evaluated relative to a background in ...
Paul Egré, Florian Cova
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Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1999 The considerations of this paper are based on fuzzy equality relations. First, using such relations in the function axioms, the author defines vague mappings, and vague binary operations. Next, fuzzy equality relations in the group axioms lead to the notions of vague semigroups, monoids and groups.
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.A continuous electrocatalytic desalination system powered by CO2 electroreduction that eliminates electrolyte replacement through a self‐balancing circulating design. Using a five‐chamber architecture and an efficient cobalt‐based catalyst, it achieves ultrafast salt removal, high CO production efficiency, and stable long‐term operation, offering a ...
Man Liang +8 more
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Ambiguity and vagueness in the definition of teachers’ beliefs
ESTOA: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de CuencaConfusion, lack of clarity or lack of consensus are the main qualifications used by those who have dealt with the conceptualization problems of teachers’ beliefs.
Diego Hidalgo-Burneo
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Fuzzy modelling of powder snow avalanches [PDF]
, 2004 This paper examines powder snow avalanches by introducing a predetermined degree of variation, or fuzziness, in model parameters. Given a value of vagueness in the parameters, fuzzy set theory makes it possible to evaluate the vagueness in the results ...
Barpi, Fabrizio
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AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.This study shows that UI prevalence rose steadily in both the USA and UK during the 2010s, driven by aging, comorbidities, and educational changes, with women accounting for 65% of the projected increase in UI cases by 2030. These findings underscore the need for gender‐responsive UI prevention and care strategies, including targeted interventions for ...
Xiyin Chen +5 more
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A Rational Approach to Soft Rationality
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2011 Vagueness is commonly presented as natural language imprecise meaning that is analyzed as borderline cases and formalized in various ways by ‘classical’ theories of vagueness.
Moti Suess
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