In this report we have followed the Dugan format as much as possible. To make the progress report self-contained we have inserted the original four page proposal into the Project Overview Section (adding only several references that should have been there). Since this is a DOE progress report we have not included a “Broader Impact” section. The “Results of Prior Research” contains our progress ...

*Supported by DOE and ONR The transport and matching problem for a low energy transport system is approached from a control theoretical viewpoint. We model the beam dynamics and transport section using the KV envelope equations. To this model we apply the principles of optimal control to formulate techniques which aid in the design of the transport and matching section. The techniques are appli...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

Many studies probe for interpretations of by having people evaluate truth-table cases (e.g., , , , <not-A_not-C) as making the rule true or false, or being irrelevant. We argue that a single case can never prove a general rule to be true, as philosophy of science has taught any researcher. Giving subjects the impossible ‘true’ option would therefore bias res...

Kevin Scharp’s ‘Replacing Truth’ is an ambitious and far reaching account of the semantic paradoxes. In this critical discussion we examine one the books central claims: to have provided a theory of truth that avoids the revenge paradoxes. In the first part we assess this claim, and in the second part we investigate some features of Scharp’s preferred theory of truth, ADT, and compare it with e...

The past two decades have witnessed the great success of algorithmic modeling framework advocated by Breiman et al. (2001). Nevertheless, excellent prediction performance these black-box models rely heavily on availability strong supervision, i.e. a large set accurate and exact ground-truth labels. In practice, supervision can be unavailable or expensive, which calls for techniques under weak s...

The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

We proffer the thesis that, in the process of defeating an inference on the basis of a factual truth that falsifies it, people move from a hypothetical truth-value to a factual truth-value of the conclusion. We will present evidence that shows (a) that some people spontaneously make a truth assumption and constrain their inferences to logically valid inferences, (b) that people tend to abandon ...