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Contingency (philosophy)
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Contingent
, Contingent propositions
, Logical contingency
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In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of propositions that are neither true under every possible valuation (i.e. tautologies) nor false…
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2015
Highly Cited
2015
Fuzzy Clustering with a Modified MRF Energy Function for Change Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
D. Subbarao
2015
Corpus ID: 18598915
In this paper, we put forward a novel approach for change detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The approach…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy
Sven Spieker
2008
Corpus ID: 191741704
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat…
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2003
2003
From race to citizenship: The indigenization debate in post-socialist Tanzania
R. Aminzade
2003
Corpus ID: 54012397
Neoliberal economic reforms in post-socialist Tanzania heightened racial as well as anti-foreign hostilities, while liberal…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Aspects of Data Modeling and Query Processing for Complex Multidimensional Data
T. Pedersen
2000
Corpus ID: 7255195
This thesis is about data modeling and query processing for complex multidimensional data. Multidimensional data has become the…
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2000
2000
Consumer-Directed Long-Term-Care Services: Evolving Perspectives and Alliances
N. Eustis
2000
Corpus ID: 68718975
Young adults with physical disabilities, people of all ages with cognitive impairments, and older people with functional…
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1999
1999
Reform of Ethiopian higher education financing: conceptual and policy issues
B. Chapman
1999
Corpus ID: 54508998
This paper examines two issues related to higher education financing. The first is conceptual and involves an explanation of the…
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Review
1994
Review
1994
Non-Cooperative Planning Theory
P. Bogetoft
1994
Corpus ID: 60356034
1: Introduction.- 1. Basic Concepts and Approaches.- 1.1. Planning and Incentives.- 1.2. Decision Theory.- 1.3. Social Choice…
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1987
1987
Corrigendum to "Convex Subcones of the Contingent Cone in Nonsmooth Calculus and Optimization"
D. Ward
1987
Corpus ID: 120974340
The tangential approximants most useful in nonsmooth analysis and optimization are those which lie "between" the Clarke tangent…
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1979
1979
Cholera, fever and English medicine
R. Morris
Medicina e historia
1979
Corpus ID: 20486174
This book deals with the implications of an "official doctrine" towards epidemic fever, and uses the response to cholera to…
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1978
1978
Logic and philosophy: A modern introduction
Howard Kahane
1978
Corpus ID: 123551462
Preface to the Eleventh Edition. Preface to the Tenth Edition. 1. Introduction. The Elements of an Argument. Deduction and…
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