Philosophical Ethics: Normative ethics attempts to derive the criteria for judging alternative technical options from universal principles by taking, for instance, the categorical imperative or the utility maximization rule [Ferré, 1995; Mitcham, 1994; Beauchamps, 2001]. Precisely which of these approac...
The Random Field Ising model (RFIM)1,2 has a great significance for studies of the effect of disorder in the ferromagnetic hysteresis3 and the Barkhausen effect4,5,6,7. In athermal (T = 0) and nonequilibrium case, the model has a disorder induced transition8,9,10 in dimensions 2...
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The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionally affected parents with young children whose incomes are below the federal poverty threshold. However, studies examining life changes related to parents’ mental well-being due to pandemic effects are limited. In addition, given the racial disparities in mental hea...
Asked why there was little help for people on benefits, the chancellor said he had cut the Universal Credit taper rate last year and this year he has announced extra funding for local councils to help the most vulnerable. He added the best way to h...
credit market through big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other technologies. Therefore, the deep integration of finance and technology creates new opportunities to better serve the real economy, helping enterprises to obtain more funds, prompting them to use more funds for expanding ...
image or pre-set the number of segmentation thresholds. This makes it more universal and can be applied to various types of images without relying on specific a priori knowledge. However, the computation of the traditional Kapur entropy requires traversing all possible segmentation thresholds and sele...
When exploring the mechanisms driving ESs, both the supply of and demand for ESs should be explicitly taken into account to mitigate uncertainty in ecosystem management, with the potential threshold effects of socio-ecological factors meriting special attention. CRediT authorship contribution statement ...
online credit control function. The PCEF110interacts with OCS125to check credit and report credit status over the Gy interface, for example. An off-line charging system (OFCS)135receives events from the PCEF110over the Gz interface and generates charging data records (CDRs) for the billing ...
If we give credit to Jung’s observations of a “collective unconscious,” then it should come as no surprise that this motif is part of our shared and very common psychic make–up; a symbol deeply imprinted in the depths of our psyche. Whether my dream was the manifesta...