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Functional Architecture for Identification and Distinction
Published in Denise Bedford, Knowledge Architectures, 2020
A distinction is a difference or contrast between similar things or people. Distinguishing is the process of defining the differences among things, in this case, knowledge assets. We might have two people who look the same, two people with the same name, the same birth date, or the same parents. It is the combination of attributes that allow us to distinguish one asset from another. Or, perhaps we want to see all of the knowledge assets associated with a person. Still, we want to be able to distinguish which are his or her tacit knowledge assets, project roles, network memberships, and scholarly articles he or she has published. In this case, we need to be able to reliably identify the individual but distinguish assets based on their association with the individual. Identification is also the foundation for authentication (we are authenticating an instance against a known identity), for assigning security classifications, and for determining surrogates, derivatives, interpretations, and translations of knowledge assets. Without a reliable form of identity, these architectures and functions are less reliable. All of these are dependent upon our ability to determine that an asset is what it purports to be.
Enhancing Ethical Awareness in Future Generations of Engineers
Published in Harriet B. Nembhard, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Katherine M. Coperich, Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2019
William P. Schonberg, Joel P. Dittmer, Kevin C. Skibiski
We hope that in this chapter we have helped illuminate some of the interdisciplinary approaches taken in educating Missouri S&T engineering students in ethics. As should be hopefully apparent, we get students to explore, and actually do, ethics through the consideration of a number of case studies and examples. In our chapter, we have made a distinction between morality and ethics, and emphasized the importance of looking at issues in not just a moral way but also an ethical way. Once again, the ethical approach is one that examines issues in light of the contextual features of the institution under which they take place. Finally, we encourage students to think of the possibility of being a “good engineer” is not fully exhausted by simply being a “good employee.” Instead, it may be the case that because of the unique position engineers are in whereby they are able to help the plight and problems of others, engineers are then ethically required to align and focus their work to, in fact, help others. We hope to instill this responsibility in our students by making our courses more “anthropological,” in that we hope to educate students that they must be aware of what various groups, in fact, actually need and desire, and what they, in fact, actually value.
Engineering classifications of rock masses
Published in Benjamín Celada Tamames, Z.T. Bieniawski von Preinl, Mario Fernández Pérez, Juan Manuel Hurtado Sola, Isidoro Tardáguila Vicente, Pedro Varona Eraso, Eduardo Ramón Velasco Triviño, Ground Characterization and Structural Analyses for Tunnel Design, 2020
Z.T. Bieniawski von Preinl, Benjamín Celada Tamames, Isidoro Tardáguila Vicente
Taxonomy is the formal name of the science of classification and it deals with theoretical aspects of classification, including its basis, principles, procedures and rules. A distinction should be made between classification and identification; classification is defined as the arrangement of objects into groups on the basis of their relationship, whereas identification means the allocation or assignment of additional unidentified objects to the correct class, previously established.
Unraveling the contribution of left-right language on spatial perspective taking
Published in Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2021
In sum, while not deterministic, our results strongly suggest that there is a causal relationship between left-right language acquisition and task performance. How might language help on non-egocentric left-right perspective-taking tasks such as this? At a minimum, language focuses speakers’ attention on certain distinctions, making them more salient than they would otherwise be. Such priming effects may underlie many of the weaker effects of language on cognition to have been demonstrated (e.g., Boroditsky, 2011; Landau et al., 2010; Wolff & Holmes, 2011). In our task, knowledge of left-right terms may have drawn the children’s attention to the relevant dimension of the task – a notion that was suggested by the greater tendency of the rural Tseltal-speaking children to incorrectly search for the coin on the front-back axis (although we note that this could also have been due to other community-level factors).