Global change calls for more active approaches to forest risk management. To avoid unforeseen backlashes, it is necessary to examine the general public's acceptance of the risk management strategies. By drawing on different theoretical approaches (threat and prevention, performance evaluations, and forest cognitions), the present study examines predictors of acceptability in the general public ...

Classical logic has many appealing features for knowledge representation and reasoning. But unfortunately it is awed when reasoning about inconsistent information, since anything follows from a classical inconsistency. This problem is addressed by introducing the notions of \argument" and of \acceptability" of an argument. These notions are used to introduce the concept of \argumentative struct...

Acceptability of case ellipsis on focused subjects and objects exhibits clear asymmetry which so far has not received a plausible explanation. Case ellipsis on focused direct objects occurs naturally, whereas case ellipsis on focused transitive subjects is unnatural whether the subject is contrastively focused or not. The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that the d...

Chinese character structure has often been described as representing a kind of grammar, but the notion of character grammar has hardly been explored. Patterns in character element reduplication are particularly grammar-like, displaying discrete combinatoriality, binarity, phonology-like final prominence, and potentially the need for symbolic rules (X→XX). To test knowledge of these patterns, Ch...

Political action can reduce introductions of diseases caused by invasive forest pathogens (IPs) and public support is important for effective prevention. The public's awareness of IP problems and the acceptability of policies aiming to combat these pathogens were surveyed in nine European countries (N = 3469). Although awareness of specific diseases (e.g., ash dieback) varied, problem awareness...

From an inconsistent database non-trivial arguments may be constructed both for a proposition, and for the contrary of that proposition. Therefore, inconsistency in a logical database causes uncertainty about which conclusions to accept. This kind of uncertainty is called logical uncertainty. We define a concept of "acceptability" , which in­ duces a means for differentiating arguments. The mor...

INTEREST in contraceptive acceptability research began in the mid-1970s when it became clear that access to and knowledge of new contraceptive methods were not enough to ensure their use. Although the initial impulse that gave rise to this research was a desire to expand contraceptive prevalence, there was also a commitment on the part of some investigators to make the scientific enterprise mor...

This paper is centered on the family of Dung’s finite argumentation frameworks when the attacks relation is symmetric (and nonempty and irreflexive). We show that while this family does not contain any well-founded framework, every element of it is both coherent and relatively grounded. Then we focus on the acceptability problems for the various semantics introduced by Dung, yet generalized to ...

Data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as “items”. Items contain two types of acceptability measures that measure the invalidity of item instances. Objects are item building operators that also contain two types of acceptability measures. These acceptability measures define a graduated acceptability region for data, information and knowledge. This region repre...

Sensory properties and physico-chemical parameters of 10 most popular brands of commercial set-type Turkish yoghurts were evaluated and correlation coefficients between the two indices were investigated. The results indicated that increases in volatile compounds (acetaldehyde, 2-butanone, 2-nanonane, ethyl acetate), titratable acidity, ash and fat contents inversely correlated with the overall ...