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Showing 1 to 20 of 335 for “"justifying"”.
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Justifying Bayesianism
Bayesianism, in its traditional form, consists of two claims about rational credences. According to the first claim, probabilism, rational credences form a probability function. According to the second claim, conditionalization, rational credences update by conditionalizing on new evidence. The …
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Justifying war : an account of just and merely justifying causes for war
… substantive accounts of the Just Cause and Justifying Cause conditions: the reasons that can make it just and permissible (respectively) to go to war against our opponents. My contention is that each of these requires us to focus on the rights of our individual opponents, and that once we do …
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Justifying Coercion: Nurses' Experiences Medicating Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
… theory methodology to uncover the process of Justifying Coercion that participating California psychiatric nurses use to resolve this problem. The process consists of three stages: (a) Assessment of Need, (b) Interpersonal Negotiation, and if the negotiation reaches an impasse, (c) Justifying …
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Green's functions methods for justifying quasi-particle models
The individual particle theory of many body systems was studied starting from a microscopic point of view. A technique which is equivalent to a generalized thermodynamics was used to show that, under the appropriate conditions of temperature and external field, the quasi-particle approach is …
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Towards justifying computer algebra algorithms in Isabelle/HOL
As verification efforts using interactive theorem proving grow, we are in need of certified algorithms in computer algebra to tackle problems over the real numbers. This is important because uncertified procedures can drastically increase the size of the trust base and under- mine the overall …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
Hard-line anti-communists in the United States recognised the potential for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to embroil their super-power rival in a ‘Vietnam-like quagmire.’ Their covert operation to arm the mujahedeen is well documented. This dissertation argues that propaganda and …
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
Despite its ubiquity in debate over the justifiability of civil disobedience and conscientious objection, “conscience” remains an opaque concept. The attempt to define and employ it properly is not a purely academic exercise. The political language and behavior we associate with conscientiousness …
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Justifying Another’s Suppressed Prejudice: Racist Speech and Freedom of Expression
Anti-Black prejudice is generally socially unacceptable to express, and people meet harsh punishments for expressing it. A common theme in the news and on social media in response to these punishments is that they violate the expresser’s right to freedom of speech. Seven studies investigate my …
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Justifying the Inevitable: How Observers of Mistreatment Can Perpetuate Mistreatment
Observers of workplace mistreatment are embedded within organizations—the same organizations in which mistreatment has occurred. Importantly, organizations represent social systems: they provide structure, create predictability, and offer resources to its employees. Attributes of the organizational …
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Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1763-1783
The colonial clergymen who justified political resistance to British authorities from 1763 to 1783 did so in continuity with previous justifications of political resistance found within Reformed Protestantism. Clergymen such as Jonathan Mayhew who justified a right of resistance in the eighteenth …
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Justifying Bioethical Case Decisions: Reflective Equilibrium and Mid-Level Moral Principles
Bioethics is a practical enterprise intended to produce morally acceptable solutions to clinical case problems. Although answers can be derived from deductivist or principle-driven methods of deliberation, these solutions may be too abstract to be accepted as appropriate to the circumstances, …
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Justifying power : ruling group dominance and regime justification in multi-ethnic states
… groups in the population, drives a regime's justifying argument to be either rooted in the presence of universally lauded institutions (democratic-institutional), the regime's demonstrated record of economic and social developmental achievements (economic-social developmental), or the …
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Justifying War in Ukraine: An Analysis of Speeches, Excerpts and Interviews by Vladimir Putin
<p>For two years now the war in Southeast Ukraine has claimed approximately 10, 000 lives and countless casualties. Pegged as a civil war, the conflict is waging on between pro-Western nationalists and pro-Russian separatists. The war ignited after the public ousting of President Yanukovch in …
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CNL as Educator: Justifying the Need for a Certified Diabetes Educator on the Medical Surgical/Telemetry Unit
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This improvement project aims to justify the need for a certified diabetes educator (CDE) on the medical surgical/telemetry unit of a rural community hospital. A microsystem and gap analysis indicates lack of comprehensive, efficient and effective diabetes care education. The …
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The search for new axioms
… I set the stage by examining three approaches to justifying the axioms of standard set theory (stage theory, G6del's approach, and reflection principles) and argue that the approach via reflection principles is the most successful. In Chapter 2 I analyse the limitations of ZF and use this analysis …
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Beyond the Meat Paradox: Psychological Factors Underpinning Animal Product Consumption and Abstention Among Different Dietary Groups
… about animals, their moral emotions, their justifying beliefs and cognitive-related dissonance strategies associated with animal product consumption, and their dietary motivations. The groups that consume specific animal products (e.g., pescatarians who consume fish) versus the groups who do …
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The application of deep learning to nucleus images for early cancer diagnostics
… crucial that computational models are capable of justifying themselves when used in critical decisions such as diagnosing a patient with cancer. In this thesis, we use machine learning techniques on two dimensional nuclei images to show that computational models are capable of presenting human …
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Measuring Policy Barriers in the American Steel Industry, 1950--1998
… Present Value considerations alone, and thereby justifying the institutional emphasis of this study.
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On Hypothetical Contracts
… religious, or philosophical reasons from justifying the ideal conception of justice. Consequently, Rawls completely separates politics from any nonpolitical grounding. I argue, however that Rawls’s project cannot account for its normative commitments unless it makes use of a nonpolitical …
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