All variants of pragmatism share the flaw that their concepts of practice rely on the idea of the local value of actions with respect only to locally defined aims and not on the criterion of a universal goodness.This paper claims that such a criterion can be found with the aid of an ontologically founded Gift Card theory of the Good, which regards

The incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma has increased dramatically in recent years reaching epidemic-like proportions.Data has emerged not only showing that these cancers are a unique entity with distinct molecular characteristics but that they also have a significantly improved prognosis as a re

Research Question: What is the role of Information Technology on the development of effective internal controls of companies? Motivation: Companies can now support operations with IT systems to improve operating performance.As a result, companies must adapt their technique and method of internal control in accordance with computerization (AIS) to e

Addiction is a multifactorial biological and behavioral disorder that is studied using animal models, based on simple behavioral responses in isolated individuals.A couple of decades ago it was shown that Drosophila melanogaster can serve as a model organism for behaviors related to alcohol, nicotine and copyright (COC) addiction.Scoring of COC-ind

The study proposes an outlier refinement methodology for automatic distortion rectification of Trailer Lighting wide-angle and fish-eye lens camera models in the context of streamlining vision-based tasks.The line-members sets are estimated in a scene through accumulation of line candidates emerging from the same edge source.An iterative optimizati