Judges, wrote Professor Harry Jones, "are human beings, not ex officio members of the communion of saints, and they often have to hammer out by discourse decisions and doctrines that are not foreordained by anything written in the skies." 1 Yet the literature about judicial decision making generally reflects concern with "the judge" as either an ideal abstract or a specific personality. Little ...

In this paper we extend Bayesian Kullback YING YANG BKYY learning into a much broader Bayesian Ying Yang BYY learning System via using di erent sep aration functionals instead of using only Kullback Diver gence and elaborate the power of BYY learning as a gen eral learning theory for parameter learning scale selection structure evaluation regularization and sampling design with its relations to...

ownload eral caged Garcinia xanthone natural products have potent bioactivity and a documented value in onal Eastern medicine. Previous synthesis and structure activity relationship studies of these natural cts resulted in the identification of the pharmacophore represented by the structure of cluvenone. In the t study, we examined the anticancer activity of cluvenone and conducted gene express...

The w orkpresents some simulation results concerning the application of robust model{based fault diagnosis to an industrial process by using iden ti cation and disturbance de{coupling techniques. The rst step of the considered approach iden ti es sev eral equation error models b y means of the input{output data acquired from the monitored system. Each model describes the di erent w orkingcondit...

Memetic algorithms, one type of algorithms inspired by nature, have been successfully applied to solve numerous optimization problems in diverse fields. In this paper, we propose a new memetic computing model, using a hierarchical particle swarm optimizer (HPSO) and latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method. In the bottom layer of hierarchical PSO, several swarms evolve in parallel to avoid being t...

In Ve ron ica Ro dri guez-Blanco’s thought ful and im por tant ar ti cle, “Rea sons in Ac tion v Trig ger ing Rea sons: A Re ply to Enoch on Rea son-Giv ing and Le gal Normativity,” she ex plores with great care the na ture of rea son-giv ing, in con nec tion with chal leng ing Da vid Enoch’s in flu en tial re cent work on rea son-giv ing and the law. While Ro dri guez-Blanco’s ar ti cle makes ...

In this paper we critically analyze the so far performed and proposed tests for measuring the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth with some of the existing accurately tracked artificial satellites. The impact of the 2nd generation GRACE-only EIGEN-GRACE02S Earth gravity model and of the 1st CHAMP+GRACE+terrestrial gravity combined EIGEN-CG01C Earth...