The work of science teachers can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. In this article, teaching is seen as an activity in which teachers deliberate in the practical domain to decide on actions and goals. In the first part of the article, it is argued that, because practical reasoning is similar to scientific reasoning, a model of practical conceptual change can be developed that is analogo...

this article is concerned with eugene fontinell’s idea about personal immortality. fontinell has offered a specific view about the possibility of afterlife, through employing the experimental method, william james’s pragmatic method, and also developing william james’s field theory and his psychological ideas about the “self”.  fontinell believes that it is possible to imagine immortality in a ...

education satisfies the human primary need for knowledge. it is a mean helping to meet other fundamental needs and it facilitates continuance and expedition of community overall development. education provides required skillful labor for modern and traditional devisions and it increases the labor' skills and its production capacities. it is not olny a mean to improve current generation's income...

Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenge ofmonitoring state of key processes in their environment, including the state of their human users, and making periodic decisions based on such monitoring. The challenge is particularly difficult given the significant observational uncertainty, and uncertainty in the outcome of agent’s actions. POMDPs (partially observable...

The book Conducting Personal Network Research is a conceptual and methodological introduction to the structural study of personal networks. It part series recent monographs that have begun systematize knowledge generated in this field decades (Crossley, Bellotti, Edwards, Everett, Koskinen & Tranmer, 2015; Perry, Pescosolido Borgatti, 2018). In case, authors devoted much their career empirical ...

The schema produces derogatory implications in its practical domain in that working with the elderly is considered as something inferior as “Working with older people is seen as focusing on custodial activities that lack the “excitement” and status of other fields of social work practice” [3]. The schema and its associative labels have also given rise to a loss of voice for the elderly in that ...

An algorithm is presented for the fast and accurate definition of protein structural domains from coordinate data without prior knowledge of the number or type of domains. The algorithm explicitly locates domains that comprise one or two continuous segments of protein chain. Domains that include more than two segments are also located. The algorithm was applied to a nonredundant database of 230...

I argue that taking the Practical Conditionals Thesis (PCT) seriously demands a new understanding of the semantics of such conditionals. Practical Conditionals Thesis: A practical conditional [if A][ought(B)] expresses B’s conditional preferability given A Paul Weirich has argued that the conditional utility of a state of affairs B on A is to be identified as the degree to which it is desired u...