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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Universal law"”.
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Cosmos incognito : Vera Rubin shines light on dark matter
… galaxies spin at a faster speed than Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation allows. As a result of this finding, astronomers conceded that the universe must be filled with more material than they can see. Scientists call this mysterious substance dark matter. This submission explains the …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
… employed that characters to reaffirm God's universal law. He created the major figures in the allegorical method of dual characterization: Claggart, who represents Satan, is also a symbol of evil; Billy, a Christ figure, is also a symbol of innocence; Vere is both a representation of Pilate …
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Learning Theoretic Foundations for Understanding Quantum Systems
… upending previous beliefs about even fundamental laws and giving provably efficient algorithms for learning about quantum systems in settings previously conjectured to be intractable. Typically in quantum many-body systems, the particles in the system interact locally with respect to some geometry …
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Situations, incentives and reasons. Kant on rational agency and moral motivation
… assessment through the Categorical Imperative's universalisability test; our supposedly perennial consciousness of the moral law; and so on) seem not to square at all with our lived experience of agency. The latter problem, on the other hand, is a result of Kant's apparently claiming that when an …
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Static and Dynamical Properties of Ferroelectrics and Related Material in Bulk and Nanostructure Forms
… ab-initio methods to derive and prove there is a universal law that explicitly correlates various magnetic order parameters with the different types of oxygen octahedra rotations. FE or MFE possessing electrical vortices are experimentally shown to have a much lower critical voltage in …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… to resolve this regress, deriving his Formula of Universal Law from the Categorical Imperative. This argument defended with expressivism playing a crucial role. This chapter thus explains how Hare is entitled to universalizability in a way that avoids the shmoralising objection: it is not …
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The Laws of Clean and Unclean Animals of Leviticus 11: their Nature, Theology, and Rationale (an Intertextual Study)
… in Pentateuchal studies on the Mosiac dietary laws concerning clean and unclean animals by investigating the nature, theology, and rationale of the food regulations.</p> <p>My study is divided into four chapters. After an introduction (where the problem of the topic, methodology, limits, …
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Application of Hidden Markov Model to Auto Telematics Data and the Effect of Universal Demand Law Change on Corporate Risk Taking in the U.S. Property & Casualty Insurance Industry
… in this dissertation, that is, the effect of universal demand law change on corporate risk-taking in the U.S. property & casualty insurance industry, and the application of hidden Markov model to auto telematics data. The first chapter presents my study in the first theme and the rest two …