Pathologies of recognition

Implications of ocular pathologies for iris recognition reliability

Informational Pathologies of Bicameralism

A common rationale for bicameralism is that a second look at proposed legislation results in the enactment of informationally better legislation than that enacted by unicameral legislatures. This argument neglects that choices by bicameral chambers to acquire information arise within the strategic environment formed by the interplay of the chambers. Because information is costly, bicameral cham...

Legal Recognition of Intersex Persons; From Negative Recognition to Positive Recognition

Incontrovertibly each person’s body has an undeniable role in shaping personality and in self- definition of ego. Nowadays and based on scientific efforts, we know sex and accordingly, gender, as a spectrum in inter bodily experience. Over the long years intersex status was considered a "disorder", but recently and in the light of modern medical, psychiatric and cognitive science, "different" e...

Social Pathologies of Adaptive Agents

Multiagent systems do not always behave as their designers intend. In some cases, a simple flaw in design or implementation causes sub-optimal behavior, and such flaws are often easy to remedy. In other cases, sub-optimal behavior is caused by fundamental characteristics of system structure or problem representation, and these flaws can be difficult to understand and avoid. Such cases are often...

Pathologies of Power: CHAPTER ONE

Growth of GNP or of industrial incomes can, of course, be very important as means to expanding the freedoms enjoyed by the members of the society. But freedoms depend also on other determinants, such as social and economic arrangements (for example, facilities for education and health care) as well as political and civil rights (for example, the liberty to participate in public discussion and s...