Grist to the Mill of Anti-evolutionism: The Failed Strategy of Ruling the Supernatural Out of Science by Philosophical Fiat     

Maarten Boudry  Stefaan Blancke  Johan Braeckman 《Science & Education》2012,21(8):1151-1165

According to a widespread philosophical opinion, science is strictly limited to investigating natural causes and putting forth natural explanations. Lacking the tools to evaluate supernatural claims, science must remain studiously neutral on questions of metaphysics. This (self-imposed) stricture, which goes under the name of ??methodological naturalism??, allows science to be divorced from metaphysical naturalism or atheism, which many people tend to associate with it. However, ruling the supernatural out of science by fiat is not only philosophically untenable, it actually provides grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism. The philosophical flaws in this conception of methodological naturalism have been gratefully exploited by advocates of intelligent design creationism to bolster their false accusations of naturalistic bias and dogmatism on the part of modern science. We argue that it promotes a misleading view of the scientific endeavor and is at odds with the foremost arguments for evolution by natural selection. Reconciling science and religion on the basis of such methodological strictures is therefore misguided.  相似文献   

Computer-based 3D simulation: a study of communication practices in a trauma team performing patient examination and diagnostic work     

Ingeborg Krange  Anne Moen  Sten Ludvigsen 《Instructional Science》2012,40(5):829-847

Diagnostic work in trauma teams is critical for the patient’s condition and for the possibility of survival. It is a difficult situation to train due to the inherently unpredictable and time-critical practice when an injured patient presents in the Emergency Room (ER). Different types of simulations have been developed for specialized training of specific skills and on contribution to teamwork, but there are hardly any studies reporting on opportunities to train realistic, multidisciplinary collaboration and communicative skills in such time-critical settings. In this article we report on a collaboration-oriented simulation where a trauma team performs diagnostic work: examining a patient in an ER at a hospital. The setting studied is arranged as a design experiment and video data constitute the basis for our interaction analysis. Our main finding is that highly-specialized simulations are useful as an arena for communication training among trauma team members. Doctors and nurses manage to make the simulated representations relevant in their talk, share medical observations and examinations, and consecutively include these findings into their collaborative diagnostic trajectory.  相似文献   

Balancing exploration and exploitation in listwise and pairwise online learning to rank for information retrieval     

Katja Hofmann  Shimon Whiteson  Maarten de Rijke 《Information Retrieval》2013,16(1):63-90

As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank, retrieval systems can learn directly from implicit feedback inferred from user interactions. In such an online setting, algorithms must obtain feedback for effective learning while simultaneously utilizing what has already been learned to produce high quality results. We formulate this challenge as an exploration–exploitation dilemma and propose two methods for addressing it. By adding mechanisms for balancing exploration and exploitation during learning, each method extends a state-of-the-art learning to rank method, one based on listwise learning and the other on pairwise learning. Using a recently developed simulation framework that allows assessment of online performance, we empirically evaluate both methods. Our results show that balancing exploration and exploitation can substantially and significantly improve the online retrieval performance of both listwise and pairwise approaches. In addition, the results demonstrate that such a balance affects the two approaches in different ways, especially when user feedback is noisy, yielding new insights relevant to making online learning to rank effective in practice.  相似文献   

Learning to engage: how positive attitudes about the news,media literacy,and video production contribute to adolescent civic engagement     

Renee Hobbs  Jonathan Friesem  Mary Moen 《Educational Media International》2013,50(4):231-246

Many students enroll in video production courses in high school as part of a vocational, career, or technical program. While there has been an explosion of scholarly work in digital literacy in informal settings, less is known about how digital and media literacy competencies are developed through school-based video production courses. This study explores the relationship between civic engagement and the various multimedia instructional practices used in a high school video production course with a single-school convenience sample and an ethnically diverse population of students. Findings reveal that the best predictors of the intent to participate in civic engagement are having positive attitudes about news, current events, reporting, and journalism. Media literacy attitudes and a range of in-classroom learning experiences with video production are also associated with civic engagement.  相似文献   

Introduction to this issue     

Maarten Valken 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2000,16(1):3-4

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Neural information retrieval: at the end of the early years     

Kezban Dilek Onal  Ye Zhang  Ismail Sengor Altingovde  Md Mustafizur Rahman  Pinar Karagoz  Alex Braylan  Brandon Dang  Heng-Lu Chang  Henna Kim  Quinten McNamara  Aaron Angert  Edward Banner  Vivek Khetan  Tyler McDonnell  An Thanh Nguyen  Dan Xu  Byron C. Wallace  Maarten de Rijke  Matthew Lease 《Information Retrieval》2018,21(2-3):111-182

A recent “third wave” of neural network (NN) approaches now delivers state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks, spanning speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. Because these modern NNs often comprise multiple interconnected layers, work in this area is often referred to as deep learning. Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth of research into NN-based approaches to information retrieval (IR). A significant body of work has now been created. In this paper, we survey the current landscape of Neural IR research, paying special attention to the use of learned distributed representations of textual units. We highlight the successes of neural IR thus far, catalog obstacles to its wider adoption, and suggest potentially promising directions for future research.  相似文献   

Neural information retrieval: introduction to the special issue     

Nick Craswell  W. Bruce Croft  Maarten de Rijke  Jiafeng Guo  Bhaskar Mitra 《Information Retrieval》2018,21(2-3):107-110

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How do elite ski jumpers handle the dynamic conditions in imitation jumps?     

Gertjan Ettema  Jo Hooiveld  Steinar Braaten  Maarten Bobbert 《Journal of sports sciences》2016,34(11):1081-1087

We examined the effect of boundary conditions in imitation ski jumping on movement dynamics and coordination. We compared imitation ski jumps with – and without – the possibility to generate shear propulsion forces. Six elite ski jumpers performed imitation jumps by jumping from a fixed surface and from a rolling platform. The ground reaction force vector, kinematics of body segments, and EMG of eight lower limb muscles were recorded. Net joint dynamics were calculated using inverse dynamics. The two imitation jumps differed considerably from each other with regard to the dynamics (moments, forces), whereas the kinematics were very similar. Knee power was higher and hip power was lower on the rolling platform than on the fixed surface. Mean EMG levels were very similar for both conditions, but differences in the development of muscle activity were indicated for seven of eight muscles. These differences are reflected in a subtle difference of the alignment of ground reaction force with centre of mass: the ground reaction force runs continuously close to but behind the centre of mass on the rolling platform and fluctuates around it on the fixed surface. This likely reflects a different strategy for controlling angular momentum.  相似文献   

Publishing non-fiction: “What is it about?”     

Maarten Asscher 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1998,14(2):41-45

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THE EDUCATIONAL MEANING OF COMMUNAL LAUGHTER: ON THE EXPERIENCE OF CORPOREAL DEMOCRACY     

Joris Vlieghe  Maarten Simons  Jan Masschelein 《Educational theory》2010,60(6):719-734

In this article Joris Vlieghe, Maarten Simons, and Jan Masschelein attempt to articulate a new way of dealing with the public character of education. Instead of discussing laughter as an instrument that one could use to facilitate established educational goals, the authors provide an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of laughter as a specific form of corporeal behavior. Their analysis demonstrates that when we laugh, we give an answer to a disorienting situation, but this answer is not the product of intentional agency. Instead, it consists in the uncontrollable spasmodic contraction of our diaphragm and other impersonal and automatic corporeal reactions. We are thus exposed to an ultimate loss of self‐control. The authors argue further that communal laughter—that is, when the lack of mastery over our own lives becomes a shared experience—results in what they call a “democracy of the flesh.” In this state, it is no longer possible to stick to well‐defined positions, nor is it tenable to defend any hierarchical ordering, including the strict hierarchy we typically find in the context of schooling and education. Common laughter makes equals out of us and grants the possibility of an unforeseen and unimaginable future. For precisely this reason, the authors conclude, communal laughter might be considered as an educational event itself.  相似文献