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Description:: Volunteers play an essential role in humanitarian and non-profit organizations that strive to improve society. 30% of the population in the United States volunteered in 2019, and this percentage has been stable for the past two decades. This dissertation is motivated by the scheduling decision process in nonprofit organizations. These...
Keyword:: volunteer scheduling and nonprofit operations
Subject:: Logic and Operations research
Creator:: Escallon-Barrios, Mariana
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16687 and etdadmin_upload_1009527

Description:: There is more responsibility on heaven and earth than dreamt of in most philosophy. This dissertation explores three debates in three sub-fields of philosophy, highlighting in each responsibilities agents find themselves with whether they like it or not. In the chapter Trust Logic, Not Tortoises, I propose an answer to...
Keyword:: Morality, Logic, Bioethics, Epistemic Injustice, Responsibility, and Epistemology
Subject:: Logic
Creator:: Beverley, John Christopher
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_863772 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15873

Description:: Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding of transformational syntax, which typically proceeds bottom-up. As part of our exploration, I develop an incremental head-driven parsing algorithm for Minimalist Grammars. The two main innovations of this parsing algorithm...
Keyword:: semantics, minimalist grammars, incremental, parsing, movement chains, and syntax
Subject:: Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
Creator:: Baumann, Peter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/06/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_843180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15711

Description:: The analytical paradigm in philosophy has as a pillar an analysis of the sentence as a basic entity. New sentences may be built from old sentences recursively through the application of logical constants, recently including intensional operators. Models are built on how these logical constants interact with each other, and...
Keyword:: Conditionals, Modality, Abstract Algebra, Lambda Calculus, Generative Grammar, and Intension
Subject:: Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
Creator:: Cook, Ezra Joseph
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_618271 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14415

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