Rational belief belongs to a cluster of normative concepts that also includes reasonable, justified, and warranted belief. Each of these notions is commonly used by epistemologists, and along with the notion of knowledge, they form a central part of the subject matter of epistemology. However, there is no generally agreed way of understanding these notions. Nor is there even agreement as to whe...

Though there is considerable research to support using Game-Based Learning (GBL) in higher education, its implementation is lagging behind K-12 education by an order of magnitude. By considering the current state of GBL from leadership, primary consumer, academic and technical perspectives, the authors frame the main issues involved with successfully implementing these efforts. These issues inv...

To support paediatric cardiologists in prognostic assessment and treatment planning, a decision-theoretic network for congenital heart disease is being constructed. The network is built in collaboration with a domain expert, using modelling methods commonly advocated in the literature. Although these methods prove to be useful in many cases, it was found that in some situations their applicabil...

There is a general consensus that homeownership has beneficial effects for both individuals and society in many outcomes. However, research regarding the effect of homeownership on individuals’ subjective well-being remains inconclusive. In this paper, for the first time, we provide empirical evidence for the link between homeownership and housing satisfaction using panel data. We use the eight...

This is a useful and compact little work, giving in small compass a complete description of the use and action of all drugs and preparations of the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain and America and of some foreign countries. Many " pharmacological disappointments" have wisely been omitted, and so whole subject-matter is arranged alphabetically. The dosage is given in the English as well as in the...

The authors address the main questions in the insanity defense debate: Should it be abolished? Should psychiatrists participate as expert witnesses? Is the profession damaged by such testimony? Is there a logical leap between providing psychiatric findings and providing an opinion to the ultimate question? Because the free will/determinism model underlying the current insanity defense positions...

One outcome of the fourth in a series of Workshops on Reflection (as an approach to research), the production of a jointly authored subject matter, is discussed in terms of both Pask’s Entailment Meshes, and Schön’s Reflective Practice. A modification of Pask’s specification is proposed for the process of exploring an incomplete subject matter and in progress authoring of an Entailment Mesh, wh...

The last decade has seen huge progress in the development of advanced machine learning models; however, those models are powerless unless human users can interpret them. Here we show how the mind‘s construction of concepts and meaning can be used to create more interpretable machine learning models. By proposing a novel method of classifying concepts, in terms of ‘form’ and ‘function’, we eluci...

This work addresses the definition and identification of key elements of robustness and resilience in the context of sustainable digital investigation capacity. After a review of prior work, we describe the results of a structured questionnaire that was sent to 72 law enforcement agencies and subject-matter experts in both online and oral formats (app. response rate 29%). Based on an in-depth a...

We present an empirical study of the relationship between subject matter and the perception of discourse segment boundaries in dialogue. In this study, we presented subjects with dialogues that had the same discourse structure, instantiated with content from different domains. They were asked to note where these dialogues started to digress. Our results indicate that there is a signi£cant assoc...