Merging ontologies requires interlocking instituitional worlds by Colomb, Robert Micheal, Ahmad, Mohammad Nazir

“…They are systems of institutional facts which are interlocking. The argument is based on the literature of the federated database problem and on the concepts of speech act and institutional fact.…”

Testimony and the knowledge of God: Sounding biblical and phenomenological motifs of witness for their contribution to theological epistemology by Turnbull, A

“…</p> <p>From this introductory chapter, the argument proceeds through three stages - the biblical, the philosophical/phenomenological, and the theo-constructive. …”

Class, ethnic relations and the unconventional housing in Malaysia : a study on spatial and social segregation in squatter settlements / by Saari Omar, Architectural Association Graduate School, London

“…On the basis of the argument, further discussions are made by higlighting aspects that relate to the role of the state. …”

Problems relating to valuation of variation rules in government's lump sum contract by Ling, Yean Yng.

“…Many problems arise from these, such as valuation for the changes in order to compensate the contractor, disruption to the contractor's work flow and argument on whether the contract period will be affected. …”
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International political economy of defence offsets. by Gonzalez Lozano Alma Arcelia.

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The here and now. by Ng, Darryl Han Ming.

“…In communicating Descartes’ famous argument: that it would be impossible to differentiate dreaming from wakefulness because of the realistic quality of sensory experience during dream states (Descartes, 1642), the project suggests that no one can be sure if he is awake or asleep. …”
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The transformation of reality through art by Stephanie Ismail Sheriff

“…Because of the ephemerality of language the notion of factual reality becomes unimportant, and is disregarded, as language is able to invent reality. My argument will focus on the inventive power of language and art, and how they represent, reimagine and invent reality in John Banville’s, The Sea.…”
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Steven Hall's the raw shark texts : reimagining the novel in media ecology by Chia, Johanna Wai Teng

“…Using Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts as a site of investigation, we look at how the novel employs the technique of graphic experimentation, and interweaving of various multimedia into its narrative, so as to stay competent in an electronic era. Then, the argument that digital technologies will soon cause the death of the novel finds itself displaced by the notion that they in fact liberalize the novel, and even enhance it.…”
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Divergent identities : the creation of Singapore’s nationalism by Teo, Harold Soon Wei

“…This dissertation aims to explore how Singaporean nationalism had been conceived and developed before Singapore’s independence. The primary argument of this thesis is that Singaporean nationalism had been paradoxically conceived within Malayan nationalism. …”
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Were it physically safe, reproductive human cloning may be acceptable by Devolder, K

“…Moreover, to the extent that some concerns are justified, the question remains whether they can support a conclusive argument against human reproductive cloning. This will depend on how strong reasons for reproductive cloning are. …”

Animals' mobilities by Hodgetts, T, Lorimer, J

“…The conclusion highlights what these fields gain from this synthesis, and identifies the empirical, political and conceptual contributions that this concept makes to geographical research. The argument is illustrated with examples of large, terrestrial mammals, especially bears.…”

Paradigms and russell's resemblance regress by Rodriguez-Pereyra, G

“…Resemblance Nominalism is the view that denies universals and tropes and claims that what makes F-things F is their resemblances. A famous argument against Resemblance Nominalism is Russell's regress of resemblances, according to which the resemblance nominalist falls into a vicious infinite regress. …”

Signature inversion for monotone paths by Chang, J, Duffield, N, Ni, H, Xu, W

“…In particular, this implies that the probability of picking up a “wrong” path is exponentially small in N. The argument relies on a probabilistic interpretation of the signature for monotone paths.…”

Scope of the directed dihydroxylation: application to cyclic homoallylic alcohols and trihaloacetamides. by Donohoe, T, Mitchell, L, Waring, M, Helliwell, M, Bell, A, Newcombe, N

“…Interestingly, in all cases examined, trifluoroacetamides were found to be superior to trichloroacetamides as directing groups and an argument is presented which rationalises this observation.…”

ON THE LOWER CRITICAL DIMENSIONALITY OF THE ISING-MODEL IN A RANDOM FIELD by Chalker, J

“…A combination of the Peierls argument with a rescaling transformation leads to a lower bound for the magnetisation, which is non-zero at low temperatures, provided the random field is not too strong.…”

Forgiveness between remembrance and forgetting: Overcoming the power of past evil by Zachhuber, J

“…It needs both remembrance and forgetting in order to become possible. I close my argument with some reflections on the possibility of divine forgiveness and divine forgetting.…”

Isomorphism invariance and overgeneration by Griffiths, O, Paseau, A

“…We consider five possible precisifications of the overgeneration argument and find them all unconvincing.…”

Williamson on inexact knowledge by Mahtani, A

“…I show that this claim is unfounded: there are cases of inexact knowledge where Williamson's argument for margin for error principles does not go through. …”

Early Christianity about the notions of time and the redemption of the soul by Ene Draghici-Vasilescu, E

“…Early Christians and the authors representing them fathomed that the human soul, despite being created, transcends historical time; from a limited existence (peculiar to it as a created entity) it is apt to progress to the time of God, and thus to be redeemed. The argument of this paper is that they held such a conviction because of a genuine belief in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit within, and not because of a need to console themselves for disappointments in connection with eschatological promises, as some researchers suggested. …”

hp-Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic Problems: Error Analysis and Adaptivity by Suli, E, Houston, P, Senior, B

“…Sharp a posteriori error bounds are derived using a duality argument. The bounds exhibit an exponential rate of convergence under hp-refinement if either the primal or the dual solution is an analytic function over the computational domain. …”