The following topics related to radionuclide transport in the vicinity of the repository in the 1996 performance assessmentfor the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are presented (i) mathematical description of models, (ii) uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results arising from subjective (i.e., epistemic) uncertainty for individual releases, (iii) construction of complementary cumulative distribu...

We are interested in how individuals and communities develop opinions as they design and use new mobile, public-sphere technologies. We situate our work among new considerations of ethnography, mobile technologies and rhetoric and describe the design and pilot installation of a new technology called TexTales designed to support mobile public discourse. Mobility in the end may supply the means b...

Stringent limits on , the energy density in a gravitational wave background per logarithmic frequency interval in units of the closure density, have recently been suggested by Thorsett and Dewey using observational data of PSR B1855+09. We show that their use of the Neyman-Pearson test of hypotheses cannot, in the general case, provide reliable upper limits on an unknown parameter. The alternat...

The historical relationship between pragmatism and critical theory is one in which the antifoundational and practice-oriented dimensions of pragmatism appear to exist in tension, if not outright conflict, with the emancipatory commitments of the neo-Marxist legacy of critical theory. While Deweyan pragmatism is most often understood in its deliberative, experimental, open-ended, and contextual ...

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) was conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and published in 1876. Nowadays, DDC serves as a library classification system in about 138 countries worldwide. Recently, the German translation of the DDC was launched, and since then the interest in DDC has rapidly increased in German-speaking countries. The complex DDC system (Ed. 22) allows to synthesize (to build...