This opening article will offer a brief introduction to what it means understand accountability as virtue. To do so, I first propose definition of the condition accountability, which go on distinguish from responsibility. Based this definition, then present an account corresponding virtue accountability.

This paper presents a model that aims to support the visualization of the knowledge stored in digital repositories through semantic images. In this model images contain representations of the real world that are a priori known by the target group, and which have semantic structures that allows identifying the entities of the domain represented in each region. The proposed model is supported by ...

This paper describes how we used generic schema matching algorithms to align the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) and the GALEN Common Reference Model (CRM), two large models of human anatomy. We summarize the generic schema matching algorithms we used to identify correspondences. We present sample results that highlight the similarities and differences between the FMA and the CRM. We also i...

The need for a sharable resource that can provide deep anatomical knowledge and support inference for biomedical applications has recently been the driving force in the creation of biomedical ontologies. Previous attempts at the symbolic representation of anatomical relationships necessary for such ontologies have been largely limited to general partonomy and class subsumption. We propose an on...

Consider a world where exporting proof evidence into a well defined, universal, and permanent format is taken as “feature zero” for computational logic systems. In such a world, provers will communicate and share theorems and proofs; libraries will archive and organize proofs; and marketplaces of proofs would be open to any prover that admits checkable proof objects. In that world, proof checke...

Nonlocality refers to correlations between spatially separated parties that are stronger than those explained by the existence of local hidden variables. Quantum mechanics is known to allow some nonlocal correlations between particles in a phenomena known as entanglement. We explore several aspects of nonlocality in general and how they relate to quantum mechanics. First, we construct a hierarc...

INTRODUCTION Under the influence of Enlightenment epistemo-logical thought, the social sciences have exhibited a distinct tendency to prefer deterministic1 explanations of social phenomena. In the sociology of knowledge, for example, " foundational " researchers seek to arrive at objective knowledge of social phenomena through the application of " social scientific methodolog[ies] based on the ...