In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt criticises the “abstract nakedness” of human rights and the dangers of statelessness. She invokes the “right to have rights” as the only universal right, identifying the fundamental aporia of human rights: despite the claim to universality, rights are only ever granted to those belonging to particular political communities. Through the case of th...

Mostly philosophers cause trouble. I know because on alternate Thursdays I am one -and I live in a philosophy department where I watch all of them cause trouble. Everyone in artificial intelligence knows how much trouble philosophers can cause (and in particular, we know how much trouble one philosopher -John Searle -has caused). And, we know where they tend to cause it: in knowledge representa...

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting trouble information from Twitter. One useful approach is based on machine learning techniques such as SVMs. However, trouble information is a fraction of a percent of all tweets on Twitter. In general, imbalanced distribution is not suitable for machine learning techniques to generate a classifier. Another approach is to extract trouble informat...

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo abordar as principais concepções de um importante conceito das discussões contemporâneas nas ciências humanas: biopolítica. As referidas sobre o termo biopolítica serão tratadas a partir três referenciais da filosofia contemporânea. Para uma melhor compreensão, após apresentação tais conceitos, tentar-se-á realizar respeito certo diálogo entre distintas per...

Discussion forums are an indispensable interactive component for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). However, the organization of current discussion forums is not well-designed. Trouble-shooting threads are valuable for both learners and instructors, but they are drowned out in the forums with huge amounts of threads. This work first built a labeled data set for trouble-shooting thread structur...

PURPOSE The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality-of-life questionnaire-OG25 was developed to evaluate the quality of life in patients with stomach and esophageal cancer. The following are included in the OG25 but not in the STO22: odynophagia, choked when swallowing, weight loss, trouble eating with others, trouble swallowing saliva, trouble talking, and trouble wi...