- the papar starts with a definition of the term 'science' by which it is meant the empirical science. then, the question is formulated whether the notion of the religious science is meaningful or meaningless. epistemologically spkeaking, three standpoints are considered, that is,unitarianism, cotradictory pluralism, interactional pluralism. after defining them, with the views of the ...

There is currently intense debate about the significance of user consent to data practices. Consent often taken legitimate virtually any practice, no matter how invasive. Many scholars argue, however, that typically so defective as be ‘meaningless’ and privacy should thus protected by substantive legislation does not rely (or heavily) on consent. I argue both views rest serious mistakes validit...

Assessment of diastolic function has emerged as another important contribution of echocardiography to the clinical care of patients. Diastolic dysfunction as diagnosed by echocardiography carries a negative prognostic value,1–3 and diastolic assessment is now a routine part of any complete echocardiographic report.4 Bhella et al,5 in this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, investigat...

A recent alert from the UK Committee on Safety of Medicines stated that the dangers of treatment of depression with paroxetine outweigh the benefits in those under 18. Such a warning should focus our minds on the evidence on which clinical practice is based. Antidepressant treatment of depression in the under-18s has been thought to be justified because clinical trials show that it works so wel...

PET was used to explore the neural network involved in the perception of meaningless action. In two conditions, subjects observed learned and unknown meaningless actions without any purpose. In two other conditions, subjects observed the same type of stimuli for later imitation. The control condition, which consisted of the presention of stationary hands, served as a baseline. Unsurprisingly, a...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n The e lementary form of undefinedness arises on the level of natural numbers, when the evaluation of a (closed) te rm M of type N a t does not terminate , i.e., when M does not have a normal form. Such a te rm is also often called meaningless. However, for higher types it is not so evident which terms should be called meaningless. Analogous to the situation for ground ...

We study convergence properties of the resistance distance on random geometric graphs for increasing sample size. It turns out that the suitably scaled resistance distance between two fixed points converges to a non-trivial limit. However, this limit no longer takes into account global properties of the graph, as for example the cluster structure. Quite to the opposite, the limit distance funct...