A DECISION SUPPORT AID FOR BEEF CATTLE INVESTMENT USING EXPERT SYSTEMS

The beef cattle investment decision provides an excellent opportunity to increase the economic efficiency of beef cattle production. The investment questions that face beef cattle producers are of interest to beef cattle producers, educators, and financial institutions involved in lending to beef cattle producing firms. This study develops a decision support aid utilizing expert system technology to assist beef cattle producers in making well-founded investment decisions with respect to the firm's beef cattle herd.Beef cattle investment, Decision support, Export systems, Livestock Production/Industries,

Richard Rufus\u27s reformulations of Anselm\u27s Proslogion argument

In a Sentences Commentary written about 1250 the Franciscan Richard Rufus subjects Anselm\u27s argument for God\u27s existence in his Proslogion to the most trenchant criticism since Gaunilon wrote his response on behalf of the fool. Anselm\u27s argument is subtle but sophistical, claims Rufus, because he fails to distinguish between signification and supposition. Rufus therefore offers five reformulations of the Anselmian argument, which we restate in modem formal logic and four of which we claim are valid, the fifth turning on a possible scribal error. Rufus\u27s final conclusion is that the formulation in Proslogion, chapter 3, is convincing, but not that of chapter 2