Excerpt: I used to lead a university-wide network dedicated to developing the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Every second Tuesday at the dot of 1pm, 10-15 or so staff would shuffle into a room (refreshments in hand) to learn about the evaluation of a pedagogical initiative, to critically review a colleague’s promising idea for a new curriculum project, to puzzle over something SoT...

Although it is well established that paraplegia results in dramatic lifestyle changes, little is understood about living in the community with paraplegia, especially from the perspective of the person with paraplegia. To develop insight into this experience, in-depth, personal interviews were conducted with seven individuals with paraplegia who had been living back in the community for less tha...

The paper examines Axiomatic Design in the light of its possible links to an evolved version of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, TRIZ. The paper highlights incompatibilities between the the Independence Axiom and the Ideality concept contained within TRIZ, but also several areas of mutually beneficial integration between the two methods – at philosophical, methodological and working too...

This study discusses belief-change as the problem of deciding which previously-accepted belief, or premise, to abandon, when an inference from an initial belief set is subsequently contradicted. The data concern how "disbelieving" a previously-accepted conditional premise is realized as a particular modification to that premise. The types of revisions that are made are influenced by the kind of...

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This paper tries to explore the concept of ‘contradiction’ in order to use it in dynamic designs for organizational change. The paper distinguishes between contradictions in the information sphere and contradiction in reality, both terms to be defined in the paper. Formalizing our approach by the use of some game-theoretic concepts opens up the possibility to discuss the intluence of new inform...

Two recent claims by A. Neumaier (quant-ph/0001011) and P. Ghose (quant-ph/0001024) that Bohmian mechanics is incompatible with quantum mechanics for correlations involving time are shown to be unfounded.

We provide a number of simplified and improved separations between pairs of Resolution-with-bounded-conjunction refutation systems, Res(d), as well as their tree-like versions, Res∗(d). The contradictions we use are natural combinatorial principles: the Least number principle, LNPn and an ordered variant thereof, the Induction principle, IPn. LNPn is known to be easy for Resolution. We prove th...

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