Talk of “rights” is notoriously ambiguous. Rights and Demands—henceforth R&D—focuses on a particular idea right.1 I call the corresponding rights “demand-rights”. Crucially, to have demand-right action standing or authority demand that right's addressee. Demand-rights are clear practical utility. Your understanding given against you may be enough for act accordingly, without my needing exercise...

Precis: This paper estimates capacity output for Irish manufacturing industry using the Wharton School linked-peaks method, updating an index produced in McMahon and Smyth (1974). It then pre­ sents a capacity output series using a production function approach. This approach involves estimating a production function and then replacing the actual values of the inputs with estimated full capacity...

In this paper, we consider the Précis problem of sampling K representative yet diverse data points from a large dataset. This problem arises frequently in applications such as video and document summarization, exploratory data analysis, and pre-filtering. We formulate a general theory which encompasses not just traditional techniques devised for vector spaces, but also non-Euclidean manifolds, ...

BACKGROUND Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) designs range from highly selective resulting in lack of external validity to more inclusive, requiring large sample sizes to observe significant results. Few publications, however, have compared excluded to enrolled participants. We aimed to assess our trial's design based on the effectiveness versus efficacy continuum using the Pragmatic-Explanatory ...

This book precis describes the motives behind my recent attempt to bring to bear “ruthlessly reductive” results from cellular and molecular neuroscience onto issues in the philosophy of mind. Since readers of this journal will probably be most interested in results addressing features of conscious experience, I highlight these most prominently. My main challenge is that philosophers (even scien...

MOTIVATION There have been several endeavours to address the problem of annotating sequence data computationally, but the task is non-trivial and few tools have emerged that gather useful information on a given sequence, or set of sequences, in a simple and convenient manner. As more genome projects bear fruit, the mass of uncharacterized sequence data accumulating in public repositories grows ...

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Abstract: All classical acceptance sampling plans were constructed with the proportion of defective that is crisp value. In the manufacturing processes, this parameter in a production lot may not be precis ely known. Hence it is meaningful to treat such parameter as fuzzy quantities. In this paper we have argued for the acceptance double sampling plan when the proportion of defective items is a...