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Bacille Calmette–Guérin dosage; challenging dogmas and changing paradigms

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aju.2015.09.006 2090-598X 2015 Arab Association of Urology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). A ‘dogma’ is defined as a belief that is proposed by authority figures to be ‘true’ even though no or marginal data exist to support the belief. Since Mora...

Two Dogmas of Belief Revision

The paper attacks the widely held view that belief revison theories, as they have been studied in the past two decades, are founded on the Principle of Informational Economy. The principle comes in two versions. According to the rst, an agent should, when accepting a new piece of information, aim at a minimal change of his previously held beliefs. If there are di erent ways to e ect the belief ...

The Dangerous Dogmas of Software Engineering

To legitimize itself as a scientific discipline, the software engineering academic community must let go of its non-empirical dogmas. A dogma is belief held regardless of evidence. This paper analyzes the nature and detrimental effects of four software engineering dogmas – 1) the belief that software has “requirements”; 2) the division of software engineering tasks into analysis, design, coding...

Positivist Dogmas , Rhetoric , and the Education Science

Two Dogmas About Quantum Mechanics

We argue that the intractable part of the measurement problem—the ‘big’ measurement problem—is a pseudo-problem that depends for its legitimacy on the acceptance of two dogmas. The first dogma is John Bell’s assertion that measurement should never be introduced as a primitive process in a fundamental mechanical theory like classical or quantum mechanics, but should always be open to a complete ...