Trope theory is the view that the world is a world of abstract particular qualities. But if all there is are tropes, how do we account for the truth of propositions ostensibly made true by some concrete particular? A common answer is that concrete particulars are nothing but tropes in compresence. This answer seems vulnerable to an argument (first presented by F. H. Bradley) according to which ...

background: abnormal pap smear consists of premalignant or malignant cervical lesions. many of premalignant cervical lesions will never progress to invasive malignancy, or even may regress over the time. thus, there is always a risk of overtreatment of patients with an abnormal pap smear. a long-term follow-up of these patients can reveal final events associated with each  subtype of abnormal p...

Culture change is an incident individual experience when he exposed to environment of different cultural components ideally differing the home culture; Additionally, it refers sense confusion that a person may have adapting new culture as result immigration or travel, changing social situations, just adopting more varied way life. (Macionis, 2010) This research identifies some major causes and ...

We propose a new account of calibration according to which calibrating technique shows that the does what it is supposed do. To motivate our account, we examine an early twentieth-century debate about chlorophyll chemistry and Mikhail Tswett’s use chromatographic adsorption analysis study it. argue experiments established his was reliable in special case without relying on either theory or stan...

This paper presents a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model combined with Bootstrapping to assess performance of one of the Data mining Algorithms. We applied a two-step process for performance productivity analysis of insurance branches within a case study. First, using a DEA model, the study analyzes the productivity of eighteen decision-making units (DMUs). Using a Malmquist index, DEA deter...

Contemporary biomedical research is conducted amidst regimes of national and transnational regulation. Regulation, like rules generally, cannot specify all the practicalities of their application. Regulations for biomedical research impose considerable constraints on laboratories and others. In principle, there is a never-ending regress whereby scientists have to provide increasingly more guara...

Abstract Strong dispositional monism (SDM), the position that all fundamental physical properties consist in relations to other properties, is naturally construed as property structuralism. J. Lowe’s circularity/regress objection (CRO) constitutes a serious challenge SDM questions possibility of purely relational determination essences. The supervenience thesis A. Bird’s graph-theoretic asymmet...