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How objective are biological functions?

John Searle has argued that functions owe their existence to the value that we put into life and survival. In this paper, I will provide a critique of Searle’s argument concerning the ontology of functions. I rely on a standard analysis of functional predicates as relating not only a biological entity (e.g., the heart), an activity that constitutes the function of this entity (e.g., pumping blo...

Objective Model Architecture Mechanism What ? How ? Assurance

Information systems of the future will be large-scale, highly decentralized, pervasive, span organizational boundaries and evolve rapidly. EEective security in this cyberspace will require engineering authority and trust relationships across organizations and individuals. In this paper we propose the four-layer OM-AM framework for this purpose. OM-AM comprises objective , model, architecture an...

Objective Pain Assessment: How Far Are We?

Pain treatment is one of the major challenges in clinical practice due to its subjectivity for communicative patients but also due to no pain measurement device for non-communicative patients. It is crucial to have an optimal pain treatment in order to avoid issues as overor under-dosing; long period of recovery, etc. Therefore, an objective pain assessment is of key importance step in providin...

How to develop objective - driven comprehensive science outreach initiatives aiming

How to develop objective-driven comprehensive science outreach initiatives aiming at 1 multiple audiences 2 3 4 5 Sanjai Patel and Andreas Prokop* 6 7 8 9 Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK 10 11 Running title: comprehensive science outreach strategies 12 13

How not to be objective; Collaborative Virtual Environments