Power and the use of force are central concerns in liberal political theory. Yet, it is claimed that theory fails to account for power exerted through, example, personalised nudging based on Big Data. We dispute this claim through a reappraisal concept negative liberty we show how psychological interference can be both coercive manipulative. This partly achieved an examination equivalents physi...

System identification techniques are powerful tools that help improve modeling capabilities of real world dynamic systems. These techniques are well established and have been successfully used on countless systems in many areas. However, wind turbines provide a unique challenge for system identification because of the difficulty in measuring its primary input: wind. This thesis first motivates ...

The conifer leaf model LIBERTY (Leaf Incorporating erties of individual leaves (Aber, 1994). Leaves are an Biochemistry Exhibiting Ref lectance and Transmittance important component of forest canopies, and it is the Yields) is an adaptation of radiative transfer theory for deconcentration of their biochemical constituents, namely, termining the optical properties of powders. LIBERTY pigments, w...

The practice of sex selection for social reasons has raised serious criticism. Advocates of this practice, however, insist that objections to it are unfounded and that legal bans are ethically unjustified. Usually, proponents use a rights-based liberal approach as the framework to evaluate this practice. Under this framework, reproductive choice is a basic freedom and interference with individu...

What is the relationship between the status of women and the cause of liberty in modern times? The very tone of the question may suggest the anachronistic nature of this article. After all, the major battles over the status of women in the United States were fought long ago. They were, as it is sometimes difficult to remember, battles over civil capacity (for example, during the nineteenth cent...