Contradiction detection is a task to recognize contradiction relations between a pair of sentences. Despite the effectiveness of traditional context-based word embedding learning algorithms in many natural language processing tasks, such algorithms a...
This paper tackles automatic detection of contradictions in Spanish within the news domain. Two pieces of information are classified as compatible, contradictory, or unrelated information. To deal with the task, the ES-Contradiction dataset was creat...
We undertake a thorough examination of George Boole’s claim that, as he discovered by means of his algebra, the law of idempotence is “more fundamental” than the law of non-contradiction (The Laws of Thought, Chapter III, Propositio...
The process of human understanding of the world starts from viewing complex chaos, proceeding to monism followed by the contradiction theory, and finally returning to complexity theory, but without giving up the pursuit of monism. Lao-Tzu and Heracli...
The impacts on the environment of many commercial products have not been fully considered in past years. For the sustainable development of Earth’s resources, future product design should move towards not only innovation, but also fundamentally...
Due to the past tP and the future tF being divided into a pair of opposing times by the now tN, the generation mechanism of the contradiction is attributed in this paper as the process in which the time increment Δt and Δt’ are tran...
Voice phishing (vishing) causes financial and psychological harm, yet deployed detectors that scan transcripts for scam vocabulary are more fragile than their benchmark scores suggest: their near-perfect accuracy on standard Korean corpora is memoriz...
The contradiction between population and cultivated land has always been an urgent global problem, and one that is particularly prominent in China. Based on the spatial–temporal evolution of cultivated land, this paper discusses the human–land contra...
Requirements documents can contain several thousand individual requirements. They must be error-free to avoid unnecessary complications and costs in the later product development stages. An important part of this is to identify contradictions between...
This paper represents the first steps towards constructing a paraconsistent theory of probability based on the Logics of Formal Inconsistency (LFIs). We show that LFIs encode very naturally an extension of the notion of probability able to express so...
Thematic learning features sustain exploratory activities focused on a selected theme, which contributes to developing students’ core competencies, including problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills, supporting sustainable devel...
This study addresses the challenge of promoting sustainable organizational change in educational settings by focusing on the early identification of systemic contradictions within a kindergarten prior to a Change Laboratory intervention. Grounded in...
China’s rural revitalization strategy has led to the emergence of a new group of immigrant entrepreneurs. As they manage industries in villages, social contradictions with the native individuals inevitably arise. To reveal the social contradict...
The analysis of user-generated content on the Internet has become increasingly popular for a wide variety of applications. One particular type of content is represented by the user reviews for programs, multimedia, products, and so on. Investigating...
Socrates’ use of performative contradiction against sophistic theories is a recurrent motif in Plato’s dialogues. In the case of Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias, Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras’ homo mensura doctrine...
Engaged archaeology, like other forms of research, is replete with contradictions. Over the last several years, members of the Punta Laguna Archaeology Project—a community-based endeavor in Yucatan, Mexico—have encountered and sought to a...
The asymmetric matching pennies contradiction posits that contrary to the prediction of mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium, experimental subjects’ choices are, in practice, based heavily on the magnitudes of their own payoffs. Own-payoff effects a...
The growing environmental crisis, particularly water pollution from detergents, necessitates a shift from reactive compliance to proactive eco-innovation, as current methods often fail to systematically resolve trade-offs between performance, safety,...
Digital exclusion compounds the challenges that migrant and refugee parents already face in supporting their children’s education. As schooling becomes increasingly digitally mediated, this shift can intensify existing inequalities, particularl...
This essay begins by surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them. It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one. The problems with many r...
Ensuring legislative consistency is increasingly difficult as legal systems expand and change more frequently, and the problem is sharper where two language versions are equally binding. This systematic review examines artificial intelligence applied...
Ecotourism in Potatso National Park has been developing for more than 15 years, which has had important guiding significance for the development of China’s national parks. This paper analyzes ecotourism practices in Potatso by extracting related trav...
Ensuring local and sustainable food security is gaining an important role in rural development strategies at national and regional scales in Europe. This relies to an important degree upon the implementation of new, or old, agri-environmental policy,...
In this paper, I shall argue that the law of non-contradiction can be used to constructively reframe the univocalist debate. Duns Scotus argued famously that a term is univocal in two statements if its unity is sufficient for a contradiction. This lo...
Distinctive for its pungent and oftentimes rotten odor, the thorny fruit of durian (Durio spp.) is considered a delicacy throughout Asia. Despite its burgeoning global recognition, durian remains a fruit of contradiction—desirable to some yet r...
The definition and the subsequent development of eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have been deeply based on the application of industrial ecology theory, which pays specific attention to metabolic exchanges within industrial processes to address a deep re...
How to protect the ecological environment is an important international issue for achieving the sustainable development goals. Using survey data of 2628 farmers in 52 administrative villages in 13 prefecture-level cities of the China Land Economic Su...
Universities depend on faculty service to support teaching, research, and everyday institutional functioning, yet their evaluation systems devalue this work through policy and practice. Although the prioritization of teaching and research over servic...
Past research has shown mixed results regarding the persuasiveness of two-sided messages. Various underlying constructs were suggested to explain the differences in results. This study draws on the Yin-Yang Balancing (YYB) theory and the construct of...
With the rapid acceleration of socio-economic development, the potential contradiction between urbanization and green development becomes a concerning issue. Ascertaining their relationship is conducive to new-type urbanization transformation and eco...
The blind spot can be defined as the area around the vehicle where the driver cannot see through the mirrors without turning their head or taking their eyes off the road. Similar blind spots occur in energy policy. Blind spots can occur in forecastin...
Classical logic is typically concerned with abstract analysis. The problem for a synthetic logic is to transcend and unify available data to reconstruct the object as a totality. Three rules are proposed to pass from classic logic to synthetic logic....
In recent years, the number of new organizations aiming to accomplish principles of sustainability has rapidly grown, leading analysts and scholars to announce almost a new industrial revolution. An example of this is the proliferation of the so-call...
The Riemann Hypothesis (RH) asserts that all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line Re(s) = 0.5, yet no general proof exists despite extensive numerical verification. This study introduces a machine learning–bas...
Smallholder farmers, key actors in agri-food supply chains, still face persistent challenges in applying sustainability strategies due to limited resources, context variability, and weak-performance monitoring systems. Their multidimensional needs, a...
The Bell inequality constrains the outcomes of measurements on pairs of distant entangled particles. The Bell contradiction states that the Bell inequality is inconsistent with the calculated outcomes of these quantum experiments. This contradiction...
eHealth interventions are utilized as a solution to address the current demographic challenges in society, as the number of old people increases. Thus, working life, work practice, and professional requirements needed for providing healthcare service...
This paper aims to examine the critical discourse on responses to worship regulations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Diverse responses emanated from the media, religious leaders, and civil society organizations in the Indonesian context....
The purpose of this study is to examine whether FinTech companies believe that the growing dependence on regulation represents a potential risk for their development. In 2021, we conducted a survey among Latvian FinTech companies to ascertain their a...
Innovations within the medical device sector are constantly and rapidly emerging due to increasing demand, especially for orthosis systems, which usually constitute built rigids with low comfort, due mainly to the standardized production process. Thi...
Multiple object tracking (MOT) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) videos is a fundamental task and can be applied in many fields. MOT consists of two critical procedures, i.e., object detection and re-identification (ReID). One-shot MOT, which incorpor...
Fake news often manipulates fine-grained knowledge elements such as entities, events, claims, temporal expressions, attributes, and source credibility. Existing information extraction methods usually require task-specific annotations or focus on gene...
We present a rational introduction to the logical processes that govern, how tokens in a sequence—the DNA—determine the assembly of commutative tokens—the cell’s constituents—in a quasi-bijective way. We discuss the relation of sequences to commutati...
Truthteller liar puzzles are popular in science and also in recreational mathematics. In this paper, we compare five different types of puzzles. In each of our puzzles, the persons of the puzzle may state some statements about their types. In strong...
Most people in the world now live in cities. Urbanisation simultaneously isolates people from nature and contributes to biodiversity decline. As cities expand, suburban development and the road infrastructure to support them widens their impact on wi...
Normative AI assistants are increasingly used in domains governed by duties, permissions, prohibitions, exceptions, priorities, and institutional policies. Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and legal AI benchmarks evaluate answer accuracy...
An Al/JP-10/oleic acid nanofluid fuel system has demonstrated potential in advanced combustion for aviation turbine engines. To improve the energy density of nanofluid fuel, a higher Al concentration requirement needs to be met. Correspondingly, a hi...
First-order logic is an important part of mathematical logic, and automated theorem proving is an interdisciplinary field of mathematics and computer science. The paper presents an automated theorem prover for first-order logic, called
The increasing demand for sustainable outdoor lighting has accelerated the development of solar-powered lighting systems. However, conventional solar lamps typically employ fixed illumination levels and simple day–night switching mechanisms, re...
Straightening rolls used in aluminum strip production are progressively contaminated by metal particles and fine debris that adhere to their surfaces. Periodic polishing is therefore required to restore the surface condition of the rolls while avoidi...
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