A Blind Spot in the Reframing of a Universe of Possibles: Towards a Suitable Model for Decision-Making Theory and A.I.

Bayesian inference model is an optimal processing of incomplete information that, more than other models, better captures the way in which any decision-maker learns and updates his degree of rational beliefs about possible states of nature, in order to make a better judgment while taking new evidence into account. Such a scientific model proposed for the general theory of decision-making, like all others in general, whether in statistics, economics, operations research, A.I., data science or applied mathematics, regardless of whether they are time-dependent, have in common a theoretical basis that is axiomatized by relying on related concepts of a universe of possibles, especially the so-called universe (or the world), the state of nature (or the state of the world), when formulated explicitly. The issue of where to stand as an observer or a decision-maker to reframe such a universe of possibles together with a partition structure of knowledge (i.e. semantic formalisms), including a copy of itself as it was initially while generalizing it, is not addressed. Memory being the substratum, whether human or artificial, wherein everything stands, to date, even the theoretical possibility of such an operation of self-inclusion is prohibited by pure mathematics. We make this blind spot come to light through a counter-example (namely Archimedes’ Eureka experiment) and explore novel theoretical foundations, fitting better with a quantum form than with fuzzy modeling, to deal with more than a reference universe of possibles. This could open up a new path of investigation for the general theory of decision-making, as well as for Artificial Intelligence, often considered as the science of the imitation of human abilities, while being also the science of knowledge representation and the science of concept formation and reasoning.

Special issue on Networked sensing,decision-making and control

Networked sensing and control has attracted significant interest in recent years due to its wide applications. For example, sensor networks, especially wireless sensor networks, have found important applications in environmental monitoring, agriculture, building and industrial automation, machine condition monitoring, intelligent transportation systems, health care, surveillance, and defense. On the other hand, due to the flexibility and significant COSt-saving,

Emancipatory reflection on a nursing practice-based ethical issue about nurses' paternalistic decision-making for patients

Objective: This study aimed to demonstrate and promote the skill of critical emancipatory reflection through reflecting on a nursing practice-based ethical issue about nurses' paternalistic decision-making for patients. Meanwhile, critical awareness will be developed and the underlying issues of paternalism in nursing decision-making will be analyzed. Then, by applying the procedure, improvement in nursing decision-making practice will be expected.Methods: Taylor's model of emancipatory reflection with four steps, including construction, deconstruction, confrontation, and reconstruction, is utilized to guide the author's reflection.Results: Guided by the socialization theory, the author's personal and professional socialization is seen to be associated with the formation of the value of paternalism. The theory of reflexivity is applied to unearth the related issues, including deeper personal value,work environment, as well as historical and cultural contexts. Moreover, the power derived from policy, work relationship, and nursing administration, which could induce paternalism in the author's nursing decision-making practice, was critically debated using the hegemony theory. Finally, new insights into paternalism will be achieved, which enable change in terms of how to facilitate patients' autonomous decision-making.Conclusions: The process of refection makes it clear that respecting patients' right and performing patient-centered caring are the bases to change the paternalism existing in the nursing decision-making practice currently. The reconstruction step assists the author in terms of how to value the patients' autonomy and balance patients' safety and choice, rather than being overprotective; carry out risk assessment, and search for strong evidence to counterbalance the positive and negative aspects of risk-taking; communicate with patients appropriately in a manner that they can comprehend; spend more time to explore patients' preference and choice; make every effort to elevate the patients' decision-making capacity; implement patient-centered care and shared decision-making in nursing practice; consult with other colleagues and obtain the required support when limitations or challenges exist; try to justify and avoid hidden paternalism behind policy or guidelines; deal with the power in hand well and fairly; and also positively face the powers that constrain the author.

Preface to the special issue on seismotectonics of Asia: Progress in seismotectonic studies at Peking University

Seismotectonics is one of the new research areas of seismology with its main focus on studying the detailed seismic structure of lithosphere and upper mantle using seismic records, particularly the records collected at portable seismic arrays. Development of new seismic methods utilizing seismic arrays such as receiver functions, SKS-splitting analysis, body- and surface-wave tomography, and recently ambient noise tomography （Langston, 1977; Dueker and Sheehan, 1997;

Special Issue in Celebration of the 120^th Anniversary of Southwest Jiaotong University

As one of the oldest universities of modern China, Southwest Jiaotong University has experienced its grand journey transcending 3 centuries, witnessing 18 relocations. Known as ＂the Cornell of the East＂ and the birthplace of China＇s modern education in transportation, mining and metallurgy and civil engineering, the university is now on the list of China＇s ＂211 Project＂, ＂985 Project Innovation Platform＂ and ＂2011 Plan＂. As the front-runner of rail transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University is now playing its active role in facilitating the globalization of China＇s high-speed railway.

Special Issue for the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

The special issue of this Journal has been organized for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China （UESTC）.

A Brief Introduction of Journal of China Textile University(English Edition)

1. The "Journal of China Textile University (referred to hereafter as CTU)", formerly called "Journal of East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology" that first issued in 1956, also named as "Journal of Shanghai College of Textile Technology", and changed to the present name in 1986, is a comprehensive academic journal of natural science and engineering feature textile science and technology, sponsored by the Academic Committee of CTU and edited by the Editoral Board, Journal of CTU. This journal is assigned to carry mainly original works of scientific research of our teachers and students, reflects important academic papers and scientific research accomplishments of our university, promote

A Brief Introduction of Journal of China Textile University (English Edition)

1. The "Journal of China Textile University(referred to hereafter as CTU)", formerlycalled "Journal of East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology" that first issued in1956, also named as "Journal of Shanghai College of Textile Technology", and changed to thepresent name in 1986, is a comprehensive academic journal of natural science and

A Brief Introduction of Journal of China Textile University(English Edition)

1.The“Journal of China Textile University(referred to hereafter as CTU)”、called“Journal of East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology“that first issued in1956,also named as“Journal of Shanghai Cqllege of Textile Technology”,and changed to thepresent name in 1986,is a comprehensive academic journal of science and

Discussion on the Logical Coordination between Legal Theory and Legal Practice——from the Perspective of the Legal Basis of NPC5s Discussion and Decisiomaking Power on Major Issues

The decision of local people's congresses to discuss major issues is a basic right granted to local people's congresses by the Chinese Constitution and laws.However,in practice,the implementation of the power of deliberation of major issues by local people's congresses is worrying.By applying the theory of Chinese traditionalism and unity in the theory of law,the theory of"sovereignty in the people"in the social contract theory of Western natural law school,Austin's"legal command theory55 in Western positivist law and Hart's"recognition""Rules theory"to argue that the integrity of rights necessarily involves the dual factors of decision-making and execution.At the same time,the existence and operation of the law always reflects the development of the political system.The realistic political situation requires us to make more precise and meticulous refinement of the external form and specific technical links of the legal system,and to coordinate the rules to make up the legal theory and Conflicts and conflicts in legal practice help to reform social institutions.

To Club or Not to Club, That Is the Question Debating the Meaning of Catholic Identity for Universities in Today’s World

This case study presents the dilemma faced by a French university with Christian identity regarding a students’request to officially approve a club for the LGBTQ+community:which would be the most prudent response considering all matters involved?The case is disguised:it combines elements taken from very similar cases impacting today more than a few Catholic universities around the globe.Part A describes this university:history,principles and values,academic and financial information,relations with its stakeholders,etc.This part also describes its religious context and some relevant statistics regarding the LGTBQ+community.Finally,a series of opinions regarding the issue and how to answer the students’request presented in the form of an open discussion at the university’s steering committee provides different arguments in favor or against the approval.Part B offers some guidelines useful to take a prudent response considering all matters involved:legal,ethical,governance,and communicative.These guidelines are divided in three chapters:what should be the framework for such a discussion,strategic recommendations,and practical suggestions.Their aim is to provide a sort of a blueprint for university heads and administrators,to design a tailor-made response fitting the identity and stakeholders’map of their own university.

高校权力问题的外部性分析及其规制策略研究

高校权力问题及其规制是大学治理的重点任务和关键环节。为揭示和阐明高校权力问题的基本规律与底层逻辑,将经典的外部性理论引入大学治理情境,提出并建构了集叙事和诊断于一体的高校权力问题分析框架。进一步分析认为,权力负外部性影响了高校办学资源使用效益、降低了大学治理效能,是引发高校权力问题的主要原因。为了有效规制高校权力问题,需要构建高校党委权威领导下的跨权力协调机制。基于OECD提出的跨权力协调分类方法,结合我国大学治理实际与权力外部性分析,将党委权威领导下的跨权力协调机制丰富为一致性机制、结构性机制、程序性机制和补偿性机制四个组成部分。

在滇高校留学生“讲好中国故事”的关键性问题探究

高校留学生“讲好中国故事”是来华留学生教育全过程育人的体现,也是云南教育对外开放高质量发展和打造“留学中国学在云南”教育品牌的要求。当前,在滇高校留学生“讲好中国故事”的云南实践,需要解决四个方面的问题:一是如何通过人才培养目标与专业培养方案的协同,解决在滇高校留学生“讲好中国故事”的理念问题;二是如何通过强化国情、省情教育的“趋同化”管理,解决在滇高校向留学生“讲好中国故事”的问题;三是如何通过加强思想教育,解决在滇高校留学生我想“讲好中国故事”的意识问题;四是如何通过整合、丰富传播载体,解决在滇高校留学生“讲好中国故事”的传播媒介问题。

Rational and Continuous Measurement of Emotional-Fingerprint, Emotional-Quotient and Categorical vs Proportional Recognition of Facial Emotions with M.A.R.I.E., Second Half

Context: The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires modeling prior to its implementation in algorithms for most human skills. This observation requires us to have a detailed and precise understanding of the interfaces of verbal and emotional communications. The progress of AI is significant on the verbal level but modest in terms of the recognition of facial emotions even if this functionality is one of the oldest in humans and is omnipresent in our daily lives. Dysfunction in the ability for facial emotional expressions is present in many brain pathologies encountered by psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, mental health professionals including social workers. It cannot be objectively verified and measured due to a lack of reliable tools that are valid and consistently sensitive. Indeed, the articles in the scientific literature dealing with Visual-Facial-Emotions-Recognition (ViFaEmRe), suffer from the absence of 1) consensual and rational tools for continuous quantified measurement, 2) operational concepts. We have invented a software that can use computer-morphing attempting to respond to these two obstacles. It is identified as the Method of Analysis and Research of the Integration of Emotions (M.A.R.I.E.). Our primary goal is to use M.A.R.I.E. to understand the physiology of ViFaEmRe in normal healthy subjects by standardizing the measurements. Then, it will allow us to focus on subjects manifesting abnormalities in this ability. Our second goal is to make our contribution to the progress of AI hoping to add the dimension of recognition of facial emotional expressions. Objective: To study: 1) categorical vs dimensional aspects of recognition of ViFaEmRe, 2) universality vs idiosyncrasy, 3) immediate vs ambivalent Emotional-Decision-Making, 4) the Emotional-Fingerprint of a face and 5) creation of population references data. Methods: M.A.R.I.E. enables the rational, quantified measurement of Emotional Visual Acuity (EVA) in an individual observer and a population aged 20 to 70 years. Meanwhile, it can measure the range and intensity of expressed emotions through three Face- Tests, quantify the performance of a sample of 204 observers with hypernormal measures of cognition, “thymia” (defined elsewhere), and low levels of anxiety, and perform analysis of the six primary emotions. Results: We have individualized the following continuous parameters: 1) “Emotional-Visual- Acuity”, 2) “Visual-Emotional-Feeling”, 3) “Emotional-Quotient”, 4) “Emotional-Decision-Making”, 5) “Emotional-Decision-Making Graph” or “Individual-Gun-Trigger”, 6) “Emotional-Fingerprint” or “Key-graph”, 7) “Emotional-Fingerprint-Graph”, 8) detecting “misunderstanding” and 9) detecting “error”. This allowed us a taxonomy with coding of the face-emotion pair. Each face has specific measurements and graphics. The EVA improves from ages of 20 to 55 years, then decreases. It does not depend on the sex of the observer, nor the face studied. In addition, 1% of people endowed with normal intelligence do not recognize emotions. The categorical dimension is a variable for everyone. The range and intensity of ViFaEmRe is idiosyncratic and not universally uniform. The recognition of emotions is purely categorical for a single individual. It is dimensional for a population sample. Conclusions: Firstly, M.A.R.I.E. has made possible to bring out new concepts and new continuous measurements variables. The comparison between healthy and abnormal individuals makes it possible to take into consideration the significance of this line of study. From now on, these new functional parameters will allow us to identify and name “emotional” disorders or illnesses which can give additional dimension to behavioral disorders in all pathologies that affect the brain. Secondly, the ViFaEmRe is idiosyncratic, categorical, and a function of the identity of the observer and of the observed face. These findings stack up against Artificial Intelligence, which cannot have a globalist or regionalist algorithm that can be programmed into a robot, nor can AI compete with human abilities and judgment in this domain. *Here “Emotional disorders” refers to disorders of emotional expressions and recognition.

Rational and Continuous Measurement of the Emotional Decision Making in Visual Recognition of Facial Emotional Expressions with M.A.R.I.E.: First Half

Context: The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires modeling prior to its implementation in algorithms for most human skills. This observation requires us to have a detailed and precise understanding of the interfaces of verbal and emotional communications. The progress of AI is significant on the verbal level but modest in terms of the recognition of facial emotions even if this functionality is one of the oldest in humans and is omnipresent in our daily lives. Dysfunction in the ability for facial emotional expressions is present in many brain pathologies encountered by psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, mental health professionals including social workers. It cannot be objectively verified and measured due to a lack of reliable tools that are valid and consistently sensitive. Indeed, the articles in the scientific literature dealing with Visual-Facial-Emotions-Recognition (ViFaEmRe), suffer from the absence of 1) consensual and rational tools for continuous quantified measurement, 2) operational concepts. We have invented a software that can use computer-morphing attempting to respond to these two obstacles. It is identified as the Method of Analysis and Research of the Integration of Emotions (M.A.R.I.E.). Our primary goal is to use M.A.R.I.E. to understand the physiology of ViFaEmRe in normal healthy subjects by standardizing the measurements. Then, it will allow us to focus on subjects manifesting abnormalities in this ability. Our second goal is to make our contribution to the progress of AI hoping to add the dimension of recognition of facial emotional expressions. Objective: To study: 1) categorical vs dimensional aspects of recognition of ViFaEmRe, 2) universality vs idiosyncrasy, 3) immediate vs ambivalent Emotional-Decision-Making, 4) the Emotional-Fingerprint of a face and 5) creation of population references data. Methods: With M.A.R.I.E. enable a rational quantified measurement of Emotional-Visual-Acuity (EVA) of 1) a) an individual observer, b) in a population aged 20 to 70 years old, 2) measure the range and intensity of expressed emotions by 3 Face-Tests, 3) quantify the performance of a sample of 204 observers with hyper normal measures of cognition, “thymia,” (ibid. defined elsewhere) and low levels of anxiety 4) analysis of the 6 primary emotions. Results: We have individualized the following continuous parameters: 1) “Emotional-Visual-Acuity”, 2) “Visual-Emotional-Feeling”, 3) “Emotional-Quotient”, 4) “Emotional-Deci-sion-Making”, 5) “Emotional-Decision-Making Graph” or “Individual-Gun-Trigger”6) “Emotional-Fingerprint” or “Key-graph”, 7) “Emotional-Finger-print-Graph”, 8) detecting “misunderstanding” and 9) detecting “error”. This allowed us a taxonomy with coding of the face-emotion pair. Each face has specific measurements and graphics. The EVA improves from ages of 20 to 55 years, then decreases. It does not depend on the sex of the observer, nor the face studied. In addition, 1% of people endowed with normal intelligence do not recognize emotions. The categorical dimension is a variable for everyone. The range and intensity of ViFaEmRe is idiosyncratic and not universally uniform. The recognition of emotions is purely categorical for a single individual. It is dimensional for a population sample. Conclusions: Firstly, M.A.R.I.E. has made possible to bring out new concepts and new continuous measurements variables. The comparison between healthy and abnormal individuals makes it possible to take into consideration the significance of this line of study. From now on, these new functional parameters will allow us to identify and name “emotional” disorders or illnesses which can give additional dimension to behavioral disorders in all pathologies that affect the brain. Secondly, the ViFaEmRe is idiosyncratic, categorical, and a function of the identity of the observer and of the observed face. These findings stack up against Artificial Intelligence, which cannot have a globalist or regionalist algorithm that can be programmed into a robot, nor can AI compete with human abilities and judgment in this domain. *Here “Emotional disorders” refers to disorders of emotional expressions and recognition.

高等院校食堂食品安全问题及对策研究

高等院校食堂就餐情况特殊,食品安全的危害因素众多,关键控制点密集,加强高校食堂食品安全管理,减少乃至杜绝安全隐患,是高校安全工作的重点。本研究深入剖析高校食堂食品安全现存问题,并提出具有针对性的解决策略,促使食品安全管理科学、规范和高效,更好地保障学生的饮食安全,为提升高校食堂食品安全水平提供理论依据与实践指导。

高校附属医院党支部参与临床业务科室决策机制研究

附属医院作为高校与医疗事业的关键,临床科室是其发展核心。新时代下,加强党支部参与临床科室决策的机制,是贯彻党的领导、强化医院管理的必然要求。高校附属医院党支部具有的“双重”属性,通过在临床业务科室设立党支部参与决策的“核心组”,搭建高效决策平台,配套议事规则和监管措施构建机制实现其功能作用,深入剖析管理挑战并提出改进对策,以创建党支部决策新途径、新机制,推动党建与业务深度融合。

议题式教学在高校思想政治教学中的应用

当前,高校思想政治教育存在教材内容以及教学方法单一、学生参与度以及积极性不高、学生思辨能力以及创新精神不足等问题。议题式教学作为一种全新的教学方法,通过设置有挑战性的议题来引起学生的兴趣以及参与,并培养他们的思辨能力、创新精神、团队合作能力以及沟通能力。根据议题式教学的概念与特征,提出议题选择、教学活动与任务设计以及评价策略等实施策略。通过实证研究以及效果评价,验证议题式教学在高校思想政治教育中的有效性,包括学生成绩与学习动力的改善、学生思辨能力以及批判思维的提升,以及学生团队合作以及沟通能力的培养。

大数据背景下高校网络安全问题探究

随着互联网科技的不断发展,建立数字化校园成为高校现如今的重要发展目标之一。高校为社会培养高素质的人才,是重要的人才输出地,高校的网络安全至关重要。本文对大数据背景下高校网络安全建设进行探讨,对高校网络安全中存在的问题进行简单概述,同时针对这些问题提出相应的解决措施,以期为大数据背景下高校网络安全建设提供一定的理论依据。

基于虚拟化云桌面的高校实验室远程访问解决方案

在现代教育环境中,高校实验室越来越多地面临着远程教学和研究的需求。虚拟化云桌面技术因其能提供灵活、安全的远程访问能力而被视为解决该问题的关键技术。文中探讨了虚拟化云桌面在高校实验室远程访问中的应用,着重分析了常见的远程访问问题,并提出了相应的技术解决策略。研究结果表明,通过合理部署虚拟化云桌面,可以显著提高远程访问的效率和安全性,优化用户的操作体验,更好地支持高校实验室的教学和研究工作。