Academic Articles & Research Papers

Collaboration in Software Engineering: A Roadmap

Software engineering projects are inherently cooperative, requiring many software engineers to coordinate their efforts to produce a large software system. Integral to this effort is developing shared understanding surrounding multiple arti...

Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction

Preface to the Third Edition CHAPTER 1: The Process of Policy Analysis * The Process of Policy Inquiry * Multidisciplinary Policy Analysis* Policy-Relevant Information* Policy-Informational Transformations* Policy-Analytic Methods* Three Ca...

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Policy Sciences at the Cross-Roads Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context Public Policy, Social Science and the State: An Historical Perspective POLICY PROCESSES Theories of the Policy Cycle Agenda...

Reframing Public Policy

Abstract In recent years a set of new ‘postempiricist’ approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analy...

Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

The article reviews ‘ideational’ analysis and theory in political science. It argues that this is an important area of research limited by lack of a clear sense of what ideas in politics are and of how to analyse them as directly as possibl...

The Positioning Different Types of Personality Resourcefulness in the Coordinates of "against-and-owing to"

The aim of the article was to establish the nature of the relationship between the types of resourcefulness of a personality based on empirical data. Methods. In the empirical study, the psychological survey methods were used, as well as ...

The Emergence of Mathematical Meaning

Contents: Preface. P. Cobb, H. Bauersfeld, Introduction: The Coordination of Psychological and Sociological Perspectives in Mathematics Education. P. Cobb, E. Yackel, T. Wood, The Teaching Experiment Classroom. P. Cobb, Mathematical Learnin...

The Rhetoric of a Health Technology: The Microprocessor Patient Card

Literature discussing rhetoric is mainly concerned with rhetoric per se — its structure, and the categorization of arguments by kind. Rarely do rhetorical studies examine the actual effects on audiences, and auditors' reactions. On the othe...

Argumentation approaches for explanaible AI in medical informatics

Artificial Intelligence algorithms are powerful in performing accurate predictions, but they are often considered black boxes as they do not provide any explanation about how outputs are derived from inputs or why a decision is taken. There...

Terms and Notions in the Diplomatic Documentation of 16th-century Muscovy: A Comparative Analysis of Crimean and Turkish Embassy Books

This paper, using materials from embassy books as a historical source, examines concepts that were used in the 16th century by Russian, Crimean, and Turkish diplomats in international dialogue. These are terms associated with the name of th...

The Study of Meaning and the Meaning of Life

In one form or another, the phenomena associated with “meaning transfer” become central issues in a lot of recent work on semantics. This study is our contribution towards clarifying the expression “The Meaning of Life” in the proceedings...

Les structures argumentatives de la locution adverbiale polyvalente jusqu’à un certain point

This paper sketches out possible argumentation structures that are activated by the use of the adverbial jusqu’à un certain point as found in a corpus of examples taken from Le Monde. It is in fact a multifunctional adverbial with both quan...

PubNavigator Activity to Promote Science Argumentation in Introductory Biology.

Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

Argumentation in artificial intelligence