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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"Permissible"”.
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Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible
… issues, whether abortion should be legally permissible and if so, under what conditions.</p> <p>Posing this question we see people covering the whole strictness spectrum of either abortion-supporting or abortion-condemning groups, advocating their stances, based on arguments that they find …
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Limits of Permissible Damage in Strong-Post W-Beam Guardrail
Crash tests of strong-post w-beam guardrail have focused entirely on the performance of new guardrail. The risk posed by minor damage modes, e.g. small deflections and missing posts, has never been evaluated. Using finite element models validated by real world crash tests, this study assessed the …
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Optimal and Permissible Sampling Rates for First-Order Sampling of Two-Band Signals
… with optimal and total identification of all permissible sampling rates for two-band passband signals is studied in this work. A rigorous proof for all the sampling rates is presented. It is shown that the new sampling rates are much lower than the industrial standard. Therefore, the new …
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Reliability-based Approaches to Quantify Maximum Permissible Penetration Level of Electric Vehicles in Power Systems
… this part provides algorithms to determine permissible penetration level of EVs at different regions (buses) of power systems. Part II of this dissertation describes several proposed smart charging/discharging strategies for EVs to increase their penetration level in power systems with …
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Static and dynamic inventory models under inflation, time value of money and permissible delay in payment
… such as inflation, time value of money and permissible delay in payment were considered in developing the models. Nonlinear optimization techniques were used to obtain the optimal policies for the systems.;First, a static single-item inventory model was considered in which shortages are …
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Water intrusion in underground structures
This thesis presents a study of the permissible groundwater infiltration rates in underground structures, the consequences of this leakage and the effectiveness of mitigation measures. Design guides and codes do not restrict, address or make clear recommendations for permissible inflows in …
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Radionuclide concentrations and radiation hazard assessment in the soil of Otjiwarongo, Namibia
… ± 0.43 mSv/y which are all below the maximum permissible limit of 1 mSv/y, according to the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) reference level for public exposure control. Furthermore, the mean effective dose rates in seven of the areas are relatively low and below 0.2 …
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A comparison of techniques for estimating the hazard of chemicals in the aquatic environment
… in rivers, lakes, and streams. Estimates of permissible levels for short term exposures differed by an order of magnitude. Single species toxicity tests indicated that a level of 46.1 ug Cd/L would affect only 5% of taxa. The corresponding estimate from the community level test was 459.4 ug …
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Deception in Sport: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis
… deceptive practices should be deemed ethically permissible for use and which tactics should not be a part of an athlete’s repertoire. By understanding which categories of deception are permissible, the most fair and athletically excellent contest can be created between the opposing players of …
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Ethics for artificial agents
… be designed to behave only in ways that would be permissible for a human agent to behave, and that only artificial agents that have been designed in this way are morally permissible for human beings to use. Chapter 2 critically assesses two versions of the agential theory-one that assumes that …
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The Moral Permissibility of Punishment
… 1) Why may we punish? Why is it in principle permissible to inflict harm on criminal offenders?: 2) Why should we punish? Is there a compelling reason to do so?: 3) How may we punish? What principles should constrain impositions of punishment? And finally,: 4) who is properly subject to …
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An Inquiry Into the Effects of Statutory Climate on the Political Attitudes and Behavior of State-Level Public Administrators
… that may lead these workers to shy away from permissible political activities. The study included officials employed in Pennsylvania, which has a restrictive political activity statute, and New Jersey, which has generally permissive laws. Mail questionnaires were sent to 962 officials, 512 …
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Logic Synthesis for Engineering Changes
… already rectified network. Compatible sets of permissible functions are utilized to increase the effectiveness of optimization. The final network produced by SYLON-EC is both rectified and optimized.
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Assessment of natural radioactivity in the soils of the Ohorongo Cement plant and the town of Otavi, Namibia
… plant and town are both less than the maximum permissible effective dose rate of 1.0 mSv/y recommended for the public by the International Commission on Radiological Protection. In order to evaluate the associated health hazard, the concentrations were also used to calculate the mean Radium …
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A Duty to Deceive? Using New and Deceptive Technologies to Enhance the Lives of Dementia Patients
… that if current dementia care practices are permissible, then AIIT ought to be as well. This means that AIIT is no more morally problematic than current dementia care practices. To make this claim I evaluate and compare AIIT to current practices from three different perspectives/potential …
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ΙΣΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ ΚΙΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΦΟΡΤΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΙΔΙΩΝ ΣΕ ΑΠΟΜΟΝΩΜΕΝΑ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΙΚΑ ΖΕΥΓΗ ΥΛΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΩΝ
… SYSTEM. USING THE STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD, THE PERMISSIBLE AREAS OFMOTION ARE DERIVED THROUGH THEIR ZERO-VELOCITY CONTOURS. THESE CONTOURS REVEAL A NUMBER OF EQUILIBRIUM POINTS ON EACH EQUATORIAL PLANE, THE STABILITY OF WHICH IS STUDIED BY MEANS OF THE CHARACTERISTIC EXPONENTS. NEXT, SOME …
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Development of a Wireless Borehole Extensometer for Monitoring Convergence in Underground Mines
… network. The extensometer is hard-wired into the permissible MIDAS datalogger, where results can be obtained wirelessly via the MIDAS user interface. Lab tests have indicated that the device produces displacement data. The device was installed in one underground coal mine to review its …
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Improvement of constrained searches
… presenting a heuristic for choosing amongst permissible reorderings, and showing how to restore equivalence that might be lost in the reordering process. Heuristic search in restricted memory is another constrained search. We present a new method called speculative search which is competitive …
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Persons and partiality: limitations on consequentialist justifications
… using torture for the greater good is not only permissible but also obligatory. One of the key goals of my thesis is to undermine this sort of claim. Contemporary consequentialists, such as Philip Pettit, hold that an agent is always permitted to bring about a certain state of affairs solely on …
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Liberalism, self-determination, and secession.
… implication that unlimited secession is permissible from all existing states. I then suggest that our disinclination to allow unlimited secession is instructive since it indicates not only that we believe a consentual justification is morally unnecessary, but also that a state is …
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