Epistemologists and philosophers of science have often attempted to express formally the impact of a piece of evidence on the credibility of a hypothesis. In this paper we will focus on the Bayesian approach to evidential support. We will propose a new formal treatment of the notion of degree of confirmation and we will argue that it overcomes some limitations of the currently available approac...

A new kinematic formula for the support measures of convex bodies is proved. The underlying operation is the convex hull operation for pairs of convex bodies. Further, the concept of mixed support measures is introduced and kinematic relations for these new functionals are indicated.

A clonal strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) was isolated in 1999 at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, after five unrelated children with cystic fibrosis (CF) died from severe lung disease aged <5 yrs. Subsequently, more than half of the patients in the clinic with PA were found to harbour this strain, and segregation measures were instituted at the hospital to prevent furt...

For decades, there have been discussions on measures of merits (MOM) that include measures of effectiveness (MOE) and measures of performance (MOP) for system-level performance. As the amount of sensed and collected data becomes increasingly large, there is a need to look at the architectures, metrics, and processes that provide the best methods for decision support systems. In this paper, we o...

In this paper the author introduces the common and different features of signals intelligence and electronic warfare support measures, as well as interprets the content of intelligence and combat information. The paper shows the role of low probability of intercept transmission modes in the modern tactical communications. It focuses on the challenges to signals intelligence and electronic warfa...

This study investigated the different ways of evaluating the social support in Brazilian studies. A surveying of scientific Brazilian publications from 1987 to 2007 was done in the Indexpsi, Pepsic, SciELO and Lilacs databases according to keywords social support and social network. Fifty-five studies included some type of assessing social support in Brazilian samples. The results indicated a r...

For decades, it is known that surgical outcomes vary by surgeon. Numerous studies have shown that surgeons (and hospitals) with higher volumes have better outcomes. More recently, Birkmeyer et al demonstrated that surgical skills (referring to the gentleness, tissue exposure, instrument handling, time and motion, and flow of operation) are associated with outcomes and that a surgeon’s skills ar...

The present paper is mainly concerned with establishing conditions which .assure that all lattice regular measures have additional smoothness properties or that simply all two-valued such measures have such properties and are therefore Dirac measures. These conditions are expressed in terms of the general Wallman space. The general results are then applied to specific topological lattices, yiel...

SUMMARY Four aspects of sustainability assessment requiring greater attention and improvement are identified and discussed. These aspects are resource depletion, production scale effects, safety and reliability. LCA methodology is based on inputs as well as outputs. Materials and energy consumption are of key importance from the perspectives of resource depletion, and impacts in resource extrac...

Cognitive appraisals of the trauma play a key role in children&rsquo;s adjustment following a traumatic event, but how these appraisals develop is not well understood. Cognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that social support is a key influence on the development of appraisals, and we aimed to explore this relationship further. As predicted by cognitive models of PTSD...