There has been little empirical or conceptual work on conspiracy theories within a policing context. This gap is concerning given emerging evidence suggesting that beliefs can have significant consequences in several important personal, social, and political dimensions. Some of these may also impact both the operational environment police workforce. To address research gap, this study reviewed ...

We present a selective overview of the current state of our knowledge (more precisely of our ignorance) regarding the derivation of Fourier’s Law, J(r) = −κ∇T (r); J the heat flux, T the temperature and κ, the heat conductivity. This law is empirically well tested for both fluids and crystals, when the temperature varies slowly on the microscopic scale, with κ an intrinsic property which depend...

Call it the department chair’s dilemma: How do you get a swarm of independently minded minions moving in concert toward some useful goal? The problem may be inherently insoluble in a professorial setting, in part because the notion of academic motion is purely metaphoric. But encouraging signs of progress have emerged for a more literal analog. Researchers in control theory are perfecting a rep...

This paper proposes a novel research direction: to build the Theory Grid as cooperatively shared formal theories within a virtual organization, and then to implement Grid Theorists as the wisdom of crowds working based on the Theory Grid such that the grid theorists have the ability to find new theorems and propose new questions semi-automatically.

We study the computability-theoretic complexity and proof-theoretic strength of the following statements: (1) “If X is a well-ordering, then so is εX ”, and (2) “If X is a well-ordering, then so is φ(α,X )”, where α is a fixed computable ordinal and φ represents the two-placed Veblen function. For the former statement, we show that ω iterations of the Turing jump are necessary in the proof and ...