Tracking Truth

Tracking Truth
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780191534485
ISBN-13 : 019153448X
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tracking Truth by : Sherrilyn Roush

Download or read book Tracking Truth written by Sherrilyn Roush and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth - an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick - has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologists rightly concluded that Nozick's theory was not viable, but a simple revision of that view is not only viable but superior to other current views. In this new tracking account of knowledge, in contrast to the old view, knowledge has the property of closure under known implication, and troublesome counterfactuals are replaced with well-defined conditional probability statements. Of particular interest are the new view's treatment of skepticism, reflective knowledge, lottery propositions, knowledge of logical truth, and the question why knowledge is power in the Baconian sense. Ideally, evidence indicates a hypothesis and discriminates it from other possible hypotheses. This is the idea behind a tracking view of evidence, and Sherrilyn Roush provides a defence of a confirmation theory based on the Likelihood Ratio. The accounts of knowledge and evidence she offers provide a deep and seamless explanation of why having better evidence makes one more likely to have knowledge. Roush approaches the question of epistemological realism about scientific theories through the question what is required for evidence, and rejects both traditional realist and traditional anti-realist positions in favour of a new position which evaluates realist claims in a piecemeal fashion according to a general standard of evidence. The results show that while anti-realists were immodest in declaring a priori what science could not do, realists were excessively sanguine about how far our actual evidence has so far taken us.

Tracking Humans

Tracking Humans
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780762794829
ISBN-13 : 0762794828
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tracking Humans by : David Diaz

Download or read book Tracking Humans written by David Diaz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracker. The very word evokes images of buckskin-clad braves crouching over the ground, carefully studying the signs before them—a part of history. But the modern world has not put behind it the need for the earthy business of tracking. Such skills are still routinely used by the military, rescue personnel, and law enforcement, as well as by hunters and people living at subsistence level throughout the world. Tracking Humans is the ultimate authoritative guide to this most complex pursuit. A great resource for military, law enforcement, and rescue professionals, Tracking Humans is also useful for outdoor enthusiasts. Users will find it invaluable as an on-site manual to assist in any ongoing search. Unlike many tracking manuals, this guide focuses on tracking humans, whether they're enemy combatants or lost children. Author David Diaz explains what it takes to be an expert tracker, from the physical stamina to the focus and perception necessary to do the job correctly. He explains the tools of the tracker and presents essential safety tips every tracker should know. Tracking Humans is an important tool for anyone dealing with missing persons—it could be an essential lifesaver.

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 757
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ISBN-10 : 9783030926359
ISBN-13 : 3030926354
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing by : Honghao Gao

Download or read book Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing written by Honghao Gao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2021, held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 62 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The papers reflect the conference sessions as follows: Optimization for Collaborate System; Optimization based on Collaborative Computing; UVA and Traffic system; Recommendation System; Recommendation System & Network and Security; Network and Security; Network and Security & IoT and Social Networks; IoT and Social Networks & Images handling and human recognition; Images handling and human recognition & Edge Computing; Edge Computing; Edge Computing & Collaborative working; Collaborative working & Deep Learning and application; Deep Learning and application; Deep Learning and application; Deep Learning and application & UVA.

Science of Cyber Security

Science of Cyber Security
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 575
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ISBN-10 : 9783031175510
ISBN-13 : 3031175514
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Science of Cyber Security by : Chunhua Su

Download or read book Science of Cyber Security written by Chunhua Su and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2022, held in Matsu, Japan in August 2022. The 36 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: blockchain and applications; cryptography and applications; network security; cyber-physical system; malware; mobile system security; system and web security; security in financial industry; social engineering and personalized security; privacy and anonymity.

Manhunter

Manhunter
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Publisher : The Crowood Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780719820519
ISBN-13 : 0719820510
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Manhunter by : Ian Maxwell

Download or read book Manhunter written by Ian Maxwell and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhunter is the ultimate guide to tracking skills in both wild and urban environments. Written by an experienced tracker, the book looks at the qualities and skills you need to track successfully, the different methods involved, the psychology of tracking, and strategies to deal with counter-tracking techniques. Covering Combat Tracking, Hunter Force, Tactical Tracking, Counter IED, Border Patrol, Police Search, Search and Rescue and Surveillance, Manhunter will help hone the tracking skills needed to find anyone on any terrain or in any weather conditions. Aimed at those involved with search and rescue teams, outdoor pursuit teachers, livestock owners and gamekeepers, and all outdoor enthusiasts, and with expert insights into famous cases of kidnap and missing persons.

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 830
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ISBN-10 : 9783030301460
ISBN-13 : 303030146X
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing by : Xinheng Wang

Download or read book Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing written by Xinheng Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2019, held in London, UK, in August 2019. The 40 full papers, 8 short papers and 6 workshop presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers reflect the conference sessions as follows: cloud, IoT and edge computing, collaborative IoT services and applications, artificial intelligence, software development, teleportation protocol and entanglement swapping, network based on the neural network, scheme based on blockchain and zero-knowledge proof in vehicle networking, software development.

The Tracking Wars

The Tracking Wars
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Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0815720211
ISBN-13 : 9780815720218
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Tracking Wars by : Tom Loveless

Download or read book The Tracking Wars written by Tom Loveless and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to "tracking," the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by level of difficulty. Officials in two states, Massachusetts and California, adopted policies urging middle schools to reduce or abandon tracking. In this book, Tom Loveless describes how schools reacted to these recommendations and discusses why some schools went along with detracking while others bitterly resisted the reform. Loveless explains that the state policies were adopted without strict mandates, financial incentives, legal threats, or new bureaucratic structures. They were also adopted without convincing evidence that detracking brings lasting benefits to students. But advocates framed tracking reform as a policy supporting greater educational equity. In response, urban schools, low-achieving schools, and schools serving disadvantaged children have reacted sympathetically to the reform. Suburban schools, high-achieving schools, and schools serving wealthier families have been less willing to detrack. Drawing on extensive survey and case study data, Loveless concludes that this reform's fate is in the hands of local decisionmakers. Schools formulate tracking policy based on their own institutional, organizational, political, and technical considerations. All school reform entails risks. One troubling implication of this study is that the risks of detracking are being assumed by schools with some of society's most vulnerable youngsters.