Using Citizens to Do Science Versus Citizens as Scientists

Fair versus unFair : How Do CHinese Citizens view Current inequalities ?

Since the country’s post-1978 reforms, China has experienced sweeping changes in the principles of remuneration and distribution of benefits and opportunities. These changes have brought about corresponding— and generally increased—inequalities among the citizenry. The fact of these inequalities is not in dispute. But how do ordinary Chinese citizens view them? What do they think of the country...

Discriminating Citizens: Making Judgements About Science

Sustainability Science and Citizens Participation: Building a Science-Citizens-Policy Interface to Address Grand Societal Challenges in Europe

Patterns as first class citizens

The pure pattern calculus generalises the pure lambda-calculus by basing computation on pattern-matching instead of beta-reduction. The simplicity and power of the calculus derive from allowing any term to be a pattern. As well as supporting a uniform approach to functions, it supports a uniform approach to data structures which underpins two new forms of polymorphism. Path polymorphism support...

Using qualitative information to predict citizens' satisfaction

In studies concerned with sustainability the underlying models are, in most cases, not strictly numerical since they depend on many conditions that can be regarded as qualitative. In this paper, a model to evaluate citizens satisfaction learnt from data collected from a survey is presented. The model, which involves the use of RBF neural networks, will provide local councillors with useful info...