kant’s ethical theory is one the most important theories in philosophy of ethics, which has always attracted the attention of the commentators and critics. although it has many positive points, there are some objections to this theory just as to any other human theory. in this article, it is attempted to point out the critiques that seem to have been leveled against kant’s ethics. some of these...

In this work, we argue the importance of including in web service descriptions also the high-level communication protocol, used by a service to interact with a client. We will motivate this claim by setting web services in a multi-agent framework, in the same line of that research area from which the DAML-S language derived. In our proposal, interaction is interpreted as the effect of action ex...

in this article economic loss means those losses occurring independently of physical damage to things or to a person's body or health. there are two main positions about reparability of these losses: in some countries like french, belgium, spain, italy and luxembourg as a principle rule economic loss is recoverable and there is no difference between economic loss and other losses. but in s...

One of the main applications of Kolmogorov complexity ideas to data processing is via the Minimum Description Length principle (see, e.g., 1, 11, 13] and references therein). According to this principle, if several diierent models (or theories) are consistent with the same observations, then we should choose a model with the shortest description, i.e., crudely speaking, a model with the smalles...

Mutants of several pneumococcal types have been described which form smaller amounts of capsular polysaccharides than the parent or normally encapsulated strain from which they derived. S transforming principles from these mutants confer on certain R strains of pneumococcus the capacity to produce amounts of polysaccharide characteristic of the S mutants. I t has been suggested that the transfo...

1. INTRODUCI7ON We study certain Sobolev-type regularizations of the hyperbolic conservation laws that add terms simulating both dissipative and dispersive processes. These evolution equations have the form with the auxiliary specification The behaviour in L'(R) of the solutions of problem (S), as well as the value of (S) as an approximation to problem (C), is studied. Convergence results, with...

We prove a large deviation principle (LDP) for m-fold products of empirical measures and for U -empirical measures, where the state space (S,S) of the underlying i. i. d. sequence of random variables is an arbitrary measurable space. For this LDP we choose a suitable subset MΦ(S ) of all probability measures on (S,S) and endow it with a topology, which is stronger than the τ -topology and makes...

this paper deals with the behavior at infinity of solutions to a class of wave equations with nonlinear dampingterms defined in a semi-infinite cylinder. the spatial behavior of solutions is studied and an alternative ofphragmén-lindelöf type theorems is obtained in the results. the main point in the contribution is the use of energy method.