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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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13 August 2021

Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,166 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2024

In the paper, we study the robust synchronization of complex dynamic networks (CDNs) with deviating arguments and parameter uncertainties via self-feedback control, the model involves both advanced and delayed arguments. In addition, based on the Gro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,770 Views
41 Pages

12 May 2022

The general problem of tiling finite regions of the plane with polyominoes is NP-complete, and so the associated computational geometry problem rapidly becomes intractable for large instances. Thus, the need to reduce algorithm complexity for tiling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,963 Views
13 Pages

On the Highly Accurate Evaluation of the Voigt/Complex Error Function with Small Imaginary Argument

  • Yihong Wang,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Bubin Wang,
  • Rong Zhao,
  • Qi Liu and
  • Minglu Dai

19 January 2022

A rapidly convergent series, based on Taylor expansion of the imaginary part of the complex error function, is presented for highly accurate approximation of the Voigt/complex error function with small imaginary argument y ≤ 0.1. Error analysis an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,941 Views
11 Pages

Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can be an important element of argumentative discourse. It might, for instance, provide information on the position of another party in the discussion or fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,453 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2025

Socioscientific issues are a key aspect of science education, enhancing citizens’ understanding of the intricate relationships among global concerns and fostering their engagement in informed decision making on these problems. To this end, teac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,493 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2023

This paper is about Dirichlet averages in the matrix-variate case or averages of functions over the Dirichlet measure in the complex domain. The classical power mean contains the harmonic mean, arithmetic mean and geometric mean (Hardy, Littlewood an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,226 Views
22 Pages

7 April 2023

This work was greatly influenced by the opinions of one of the authors (JS), who demonstrated in a recent book that it is important to distinguish between “fractal models” and “fractal” (power-law) behaviors. According to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,956 Views
13 Pages

Argumentation is an important aspect in the field of education because of its impact on learning processes. At the same time, argumentation is a complex activity in terms of cognitive, relational, emotional and social dynamics. In this paper, I inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,544 Views
18 Pages

Conventional Implicatures in Argumentation

  • Annette Hautli-Janisz,
  • Katarzyna Budzynska and
  • Chris Reed

30 December 2022

Despite the ubiquity of conventional implicatures in language and the critical role they play in argumentation, they have heretofore been almost entirely absent from theories of argument and the linguistic expression of reasoning. In this paper, we d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,796 Views
21 Pages

A Toulmin Model Analysis of Student Argumentation on Artificial Intelligence

  • Mátyás Turós,
  • Attila Zoltán Kenyeres,
  • Georgina Balla,
  • Emma Gazdag,
  • Emília Szabó and
  • Zoltán Szűts

16 September 2025

This study examines the structure of student argumentation on artificial intelligence (AI) within the framework of the Toulmin model. We analyzed essays on AI written by 452 Hungarian secondary school students, coding for the presence of the six Toul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,060 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2024

Here, we study the extension of p-trigonometric functions sinp and cosp family in complex domains and p-hyperbolic functions sinhp and the coshp family in hyperbolic complex domains. These functions satisfy analogous relations as their classical coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,249 Views
28 Pages

This article approaches written argumentation as a concept of promoting geographical literacy. It is argued that student-centered peer feedback is an effective method with which to improve individual students’ argumentative texts. This research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,393 Views
26 Pages

15 February 2023

Multidisciplinary clinical decision-making has become increasingly important for complex diseases, such as cancers, as medicine has become very specialized. Multiagent systems (MASs) provide a suitable framework to support multidisciplinary decisions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
859 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2025

This paper aims to analyze adults’ responses to children’s argumentative contributions within children–adult dialogic interactions. More precisely, we focus on the phenomenon of children opening subdiscussions within argumentative i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,638 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2022

We study the thermodynamic limit of very long walks on finite, connected, non-random graphs subject to possible random modifications and transportation capacity noise. As walks might represent the chains of interactions between system units, statisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,650 Views
9 Pages

21 January 2010

The outstanding levels of knowledge attained today in the research on animal communication, and the new available technologies to study visual, vocal and chemical signalling, allow an ever increasing use of information theory as a sophisticated tool...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,230 Views
13 Pages

Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quasi-Monochromatic Beams

  • Yuriy Egorov and
  • Alexander Rubass

We investigate the concept that the value of the spin-orbit coupling is the energy efficiency of energy transfer between orthogonal components. The energy efficiency changes as the beam propagates through the crystal. For a fundamental Gaussian beam,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
583 Views
25 Pages

Topology for Gaze Analyses—Raw Data Segmentation

  • Oliver Hein and
  • Wolfgang H. Zangemeister

Recent years have witnessed a remarkable growth in the way mathematics, informatics, and computer science can process data. In disciplines such as machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, computational neurology, molecular biology, inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,444 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2022

The fallacy of ignoring qualifications, or secundum quid et simpliciter, is a deceptive strategy that is pervasive in argumentative dialogues, discourses, and discussions. It consists in misrepresenting an utterance so that its meaning is broadened,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,828 Views
12 Pages

10 October 2022

Farmland market regulation and related political interventions are prominent in the current discussion, in particular, because the market faces big price increases. This discussion is often shaped by subjective and emotional perceptions. Its complexi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,104 Views
25 Pages

Fostering argumentation competences in geography classrooms is critical from both a language-aware and content-complexity perspective. Peer feedback can be a successful method for geography teachers to successfully promote written argumentation skill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,536 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2024

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a research area that clarifies AI decision-making processes to build user trust and promote responsible AI. Hence, a key scientific challenge in XAI is the development of methods that generate transparent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,711 Views
11 Pages

7 February 2018

In an earlier paper, we gave a proof of the conjecture of the pinching of the bisectional curvature mentioned in those two papers of Hong et al. of 1988 and 2011. Moreover, we proved that any compact Kähler–Einstein surface M is a quotient of the com...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,162 Views
10 Pages

For dynamic analysis in seismic design, selection of input ground motions is of huge importance. In the presented scheme, complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is utilized to simulate stochastic ground motions from historical records of earthqua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,525 Views
26 Pages

Religions in Extractive Zones: Methods, Imaginaries, Solidarities

  • Terra Schwerin Rowe,
  • Christiana Zenner and
  • Lisa H. Sideris

23 June 2025

This essay serves as an expansive, conceptual anchor and scholarly argument that demonstrates the modality of “reflexive extractivist” religious studies and also orients the Special Issue on Religion in Extractive Zones. We demonstrate th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,853 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2021

The purpose of this study is to assess the learning effect of a multilingual web-based argumentative writing instruction model called the Ensayo Científico Multilingüe (ECM, Multilingual Scientific Essay) adapting the didactic model called Genre-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,173 Views
35 Pages

An Interactive Recommendation System for Decision Making Based on the Characterization of Cognitive Tasks

  • Teodoro Macias-Escobar,
  • Laura Cruz-Reyes,
  • César Medina-Trejo,
  • Claudia Gómez-Santillán,
  • Nelson Rangel-Valdez and
  • Héctor Fraire-Huacuja

The decision-making process can be complex and underestimated, where mismanagement could lead to poor results and excessive spending. This situation appears in highly complex multi-criteria problems such as the project portfolio selection (PPS) probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,344 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2025

Upper Kuskokwim (Athabaskan, Alaska) is a polysynthetic language with morphologically complex verbs involving pronominal affixes denoting clause arguments. One goal of this paper is to see how clauses in this kind of language are organized and operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
5,701 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Renewable Energy and Economic Complexity on Carbon Emissions in BRICS Countries under the EKC Scheme

  • Nuno Carlos Leitão,
  • Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente and
  • José María Cantos-Cantos

11 August 2021

Economic complexity makes it possible to assess the development of the countries, the relations of innovation, and the differentiation of products. The article considers the links between the hypotheses of the Kuznets environmental curve and economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,974 Views
20 Pages

One goal of environmental civic education is preparing students, both as citizens and as professionals, to use effective arguments in public debates. Such debates include dominantly economic claims, which are multifaceted and rarely taught in schools...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,095 Views
23 Pages

The impulsive response of the fractional vibration equation z(t)+bDtαz(t)+cz(t)=F(t), b>0,c>0,0α2, is investigated by using the complex path-integral formula of the inverse Laplace transform. Similar to the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,205 Views
24 Pages

25 November 2024

In his Middle Commentary on Posterior Analytics, the great Aristotelian Commentator Ibn Rushd defines “knowledge” (scientific knowledge, epistemē, ‘ilm) as one of Aristotle’s five intellectual virtues and the faculty of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,466 Views
14 Pages

Argumentation theorists need to command a clear view of the sources of the obligations that arguers incur, e.g., their burdens of proof. Theories of illocutionary speech acts promise to fill this need. This essay contrasts two views of illocutionary...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
979 Views
27 Pages

5 November 2025

The 17 sustainable development goals advocated by the United Nations have played a big role in focusing the minds of policy makers in terms of sustainability issues and have also highlighted the issue of social inclusion and the need to make society...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,938 Views
13 Pages

Private equity (PE) investments in health care have increased drastically over the last decade, and the profit interests of these companies have triggered a vivid discussion among medical professions. However, what are the key underlying perceptions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,350 Views
17 Pages

Argumentation Schemes in Technology-Mediated Open Innovation Product-Service Models: An Activity Systems Perspective

  • Emmanuel D. Adamides,
  • Nikos I. Karacapilidis and
  • Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos

20 December 2021

The paper uses activity theory for understanding and managing the complexity involved in the transition of a product-service organization from closed to the technology-mediated open mode of innovation. In particular, activity theory is used to facili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,932 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

Religion can be good and bad. For too long, the field of religion and peace has repeated this argument, cogently articulated by R. Scott Appleby in his field shaping The Ambivalence of the Sacred. It is time to examine whether there are other argumen...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,728 Views
23 Pages

Building on arguments by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke arguments for how the teaching of undergraduate econometrics could become more effective, I propose a redesign of graduate econometrics that would better serve most students and he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,402 Views
19 Pages

13 February 2025

Richard Hooker’s (1553–1600) magisterial defense of the Elizabethan Church, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, argued cogently for the authority of natural law and tradition in determining the constitution and practice of the national...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,953 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2022

This paper considers a class of fractional impulsive wave equations and improves a previous results. In fact, this paper adopts a new topological approach to prove the existence of classical solutions with a complex arguments caused by impulsive pert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,563 Views
27 Pages

This study proposes a framework that leverages natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning techniques to measure, identify, and classify examinees’ writing strategies. The framework integrates three categories of writing strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,086 Views
13 Pages

Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek

  • Artemis Alexiadou and
  • Elena Anagnostopoulou

27 December 2022

In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions. First, we will discuss the fact that the overwhelming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,444 Views
20 Pages

The intrinsic characteristics of humanities research require technological support and software assistance that also necessarily goes through the analysis of textual narratives. When these narratives become increasingly complex, pragmatics analysis (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,883 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2019

Based on the indeterminate character of the sustainability concept, a procedural and discursive understanding of sustainability decision making and corresponding approaches for education for sustainability (EFS) is proposed. A set of criteria for tea...

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