Many realist writings exemplify the spirit of ‘recipe realism’. Here I characterise recipe realism, challenge it, and propose replacing it with ‘exemplar realism’. This alternative understanding of realism is more piecemeal, robust, and better in tune with scientists’ own attitude towards their best theories, and thus to be preferred.

The primary goal of this paper is to investigate whether an ontology of thisness is forthcoming. Given some individual x, a thisness is the property of being x, or the property of being identical to x. Thisnesses—as I will be conceiving of them—are also primitive and purely non-qualitative properties; in other words, they are not instantiated by individuals derivatively or in virtue of standing...

This article undertakes an attempt to prove validity of the claim that play Kochana Wisełko, Najdroższy Zbyszku can be seen as exemplification feminist ethics care, especially in reference its interpretation by theorist Nel Noddings. The methodological tools used, include textual analysis script well adaptation phenomenological approach. categories a general assessment introduced alongside this...

This work is a sample of designing a simple object, just like a coffee machine, using innovative methodologies as Quality Function Deployment, Value Analysis and Design for Assembly. These are three methods which serve to improve quality during the process of design; they are part of the famous designing technique which is named Concurrent Engineering. The first one, QFD, is structuring all the...

In general, two types of dependence need to be considered when estimating the probability of the top event (TE) of a fault tree (FT): "objective" dependence between the (random) occurrences of different basic events (BEs) in the FT and "state-of-knowledge" (epistemic) dependence between estimates of the epistemically uncertain probabilities of some BEs of the FT model. In this article, we study...

In this work we present a reactions module for “Chaos Many-Body Engine” (Grossu et al., 2010 [1]). Following our goal of creating a customizable, object oriented code library, the list of all possible reactions, including the corresponding properties (particle types, probability, cross-section, particles lifetime etc.), could be supplied as parameter, using a specific XML input file. Inspired b...

This paper proposes a new 3-phase flux-switching permanent-magnet (FSPM) motor termed as modular FSPM (MFSPM) motor, for high reliability applications. Due to PMs in the stator, the proposed motor offers high efficiency, simple and robust rotor structure, and good thermal dissipation conditions. The key is the new motor topology which incorporates the concept of faulttolerant teeth to provide t...