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A Comparative Study Of Various Strategies Used For The Mitigation Of Global Warming, Adnan Adnan, Sikandar Khan

Thriving Through Climate Change and Pandemic 2021

The global temperature has risen yearly by a bit more than 1 degree Celsius during the industrial revolution. Many experts believe that if current greenhouse gas emissions continue, the planet will become hotter, ocean level will rise and climatic conditions will change excessively. Temperatures are expected to rise faster in the coming decades than they have in the previous 10,000 years, according to some scientists. Greenhouse gases are thought to be the most important factor causing climate change. CO2 is by far the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas, with concentration in the atmosphere rising by more than 80% between 1970 …

Commentary: Critique Of “Evidence Based Medicine And Contemporary Vaccine Hesitancy”, Brian Macpherson

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In this short critique of Tarun Kattumana's paper on vaccine hesitancy, I argue that the key cause of vaccine hesitancy in the lay public is not the so-called dry, detached population-level approach to research of evidenced based medicine, but rather complacency due to vaccine success in reducing disease incidence. In turn, this complacency sets the stage for receptivity to misinformation regarding vaccine efficacy and safety from a network of individuals that people hold in high esteem but who may have no legitimate authority in epidemiology.

Assessing Evidence Relevance By Disallowing Assessment, John Licato, Michael Cooper

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Guidelines for assessing whether potential evidence is relevant to some argument tend to rely on criteria that are subject to well-known biasing effects. We describe a framework for argumentation that does not allow participants to directly decide whether evidence is potentially relevant to an argument---instead, evidence must prove its relevance through demonstration. This framework, called WG-A, is designed to translate into a dialogical game playable by minimally trained participants.

Commentary On: Julder Gómez, “The Incommensurability Of Values Problem”, Alice Toniolo

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Deliberation, Practical Reasoning And Problem-Solving, Douglas Walton, Alice Toniolo

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We present a series of realistic examples of deliberation and discuss how they can form the basis for building a typology of deliberation dialogues. The observations from our examples are used to suggest that argumentation researchers and philosophers have been thinking about deliberation in overly simplistic ways. We argue that to include all the kinds of argumentation that make up realistic deliberations, it is necessary to distinguish between different kinds of deliberations. We propose a model including a problem-solving type of deliberation based on practical reasoning, characterised by revisions of the initial issue made necessary by the agents’ increased knowledge …

Exploring Argumentation, Objectivity, And Bias: The Case Of Mathematical Infinity, Ami Mamolo

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This paper presents an overview of several years of my research into individuals’ reasoning, argumentation, and bias when addressing problems, scenarios, and symbols related to mathematical infinity. There is a long history of debate around what constitutes “objective truth” in the realm of mathematical infinity, dating back to ancient Greece (e.g., Dubinsky et al., 2005). Modes of argumentation, hindrances, and intuitions have been largely consistent over the years and across levels of expertise (e.g., Brown et al., 2010; Fischbein et al., 1979, Tsamir, 1999). This presentation examines the interrelated complexities of notions of objectivity, bias, and argumentation as manifested in …

Argumentation Mining In Parliamentary Discourse, Nona Naderi

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In parliamentary discourse, politicians expound their beliefs and goals through argumentation, and, to persuade the audience, they communicate their values by highlighting some aspect of an issue, an action which is commonly known as framing. The choices of frames are typically dependent upon the speaker’s ideology.

In this proposed doctoral work, we will computationally analyze framing strategies and present a model for discovering the latent structure of framing of real-world issues in Canadian parliamentary discourse.

Modern Study Of Environmental Pollution From The Emission Of Alpha Particles In Human Blood Samples In The City Of Najaf, Iraq, Basim A. Almayahi

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Simpler But Not Worse: Comparing Two Methods For Mapping Soil Conservation Service Of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Yihe Lv, Liwei Zhang, Bojie Fu

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Challenges In Environmental Governance: A Case Study Of Risk Perceptions Of Environmental Agencies Involved In Flood Management In The Hawesbury-Nepean Region, Australia, S. Masud

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Governance Of Oil/Gas Sector In Nigeria: Impacts On Water Resources In The Niger-Delta Region, Felix Olufemi Ogele

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Participatory Approach Of River Conservation With Special Focus To Bagmati River, Nepal, Khey Raj Dahal, Ganga Ram Prajapati

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Different Nitrogen Forms And Denitrifying Bacteria Space Distribution Characteristics In Surface Sediments Of Different Outfalls Of Nanfei River, C. Yang, S. Shen

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Bioactivity Effect Of Two Macrophytes Extracts On Growth Performance Of Two Bloom-Forming Cyanophytes, Mary Guendy Ghobrial, H. S. Nassr, A. W. Kamil

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Rice Husk Derived Engineered Biochar For Glyphosate Removal In Aqueous Media, Indika Herath Mr

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Endophytes: An Indicator For Improved Phytoremediation Of Environmental Pollutants, R. O. Anyasi, H. I. Atagana

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Characterization And Phytoremediation Of Crude Oil Contaminated Wetland, E. O. Nwaichi, L. I. Opara, P. A. Nwoha

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Effect Of Oil And Dispersants From The Gulf Of Mexico On Estuarine Fish Species, Nancy D. Denslow, Olanike K. Adeyemo, Kevin J. Kroll

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Determining The Most Sensitive Indicators For Each Species: A Cross-Species Comparison Of Passerines, D. S. Henshel, D. W. Sparks

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Trees Carbon Sequestration Of Different Reclamation Patterns In Antaibo Opencast Mine, Shanxi, China, Zhongqiu Zhao

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Land Cover Monitoring (2006-2010) Of Three Pacific Northwest Ecoregions Of The United States To Explore The Application Of The Weld Landsat Data, Saroj Thapa, Darrell E. Napton

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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The Great Lakes Area Climate Change (Temperature And Precipitation) Forecast For The Year 2050: Based On Precis High Resolution Rcm (25km X 25km) Analysis Results, L. Zhang, Y. Zhao, T. Janes, D. Hein, M. Chowdury, J. Ciborowski

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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How Damming Is Modifying Riverine Nutrient Fluxes, Philippe Van Cappellen, Taylor Maavara

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Kinetic And Thermodynamic Studies On Adsorption Of Copper (Ii) Ions Onto The Olive Pomace Lignocellulosic In The Region Of Beni Mellal (Morocco), Aziz Menichi, Abdeslam Chagraoui, Abdenajib Moussaoui

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Agricultural Soil Profile Temperature In A Hot And Arid Ecosystem: Can It Be A Useful Indicator Of Environmental Change?, Abdirashid Elmi

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Biomonitoring Of Wastewater Based On Assesment Of A Functional State Of Crayfish, Svetlana Sladkova

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Wastewater Treatment And Emerging Wastewater Contaminants In Developing Countries, Obinna J. Opata

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Comparison Of The Effect Of Some Medicinal Plant Extracts On Germination And Growth Of A Dicotyledonous Plant Lentils (Lens Culinaris) And Monocotyledonous Plant Maize (Zea Mays), A. A. Baeshen, B. M. Abdullatif

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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Enhancing Biodegredation Of Herbicides Using Biobed Systems, B. Chu, Frieda Eivazi

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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In Vivo Mutagenic And Oxidative Stress Modulatory Effects Of Fenthion In Freshwater African Catfish Clarias Garienpinus (Burchell 1882), Christopher D. Nwani, E. O. Ogueji, P. S. Onas

21st International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI 2015)

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