Usually, the need for research arises when there is a discrepancy between theoretical and practical data. For example, RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) Rules describe two navigation areas yachts: unrestricted area with significant wave height of not more than 4 m. In GL (Germanischer Lloyd) Rules, it proposed to assign maximum that ship can meet, taking into account its speed design features. Th...

The simplicity of producing and consuming online content makes it difficult to estimate how much attention will be devoted from Internet users to any given content. This work presents a general overview of temporal patterns in the access to content on a huge collaborative platform. We propose a model for predicting the popularity of promoted content, inspired by the analysis of the page-view dy...

In our recent paper on the nomenclature of the African species of the genus Stenodactylus (Metallinou & Crochet 2013) we argued that the lectotype designation made for Stenodactylus stenurus Werner, 1899 by Kratochvil et al. (2001) was invalid because the authors did not provide an express statement of the taxonomic purpose of the designation. This argument was based on Article 74.7.3 of the In...

We define a general concept of pseudo algebras over theories and 2-theories. A more restrictive such notion was introduced in [5], but as noticed by M. Gould, did not capture the desired examples. The approach taken in this paper corrects the mistake by introducing a more general concept, allowing more flexibility in selecting coherence diagrams for pseudo algebras.

Gould’s Structure of Evolutionary Theory argues that Darwinism has undergone significant revision. Although Gould succeeds in showing that hierarchical approaches have expanded Darwinism, his critique of adaptationism is less successful. Gould claims that the ubiquity of developmental constraints and spandrels has forced biologists to soften their commitment to adaptationism. I argue that Gould...

Abstract Visual perception is widely taken to present properties such as redness, roundness, and so on. This in turn might be thought give rise accuracy conditions for experience, content, regardless of which metaphysical view one endorses. An influential version this argument —Susanna Siegel’s ‘Argument from Appearing’ — aims establish the existence content common ground between representation...

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