On how to achieve reference to covert social constructions

What does it mean to say that some features, such as gender, race and sexual orientation, are socially constructed? Many scholars claim that social constructionism about a kind is a version of realism about that kind, according to which the corresponding kind is a social construction, that it, it is constituted by social factors and practices. Social constructionism, then, is a version of realism about a kind that asserts that the kind is real, and puts forward a particular view about the nature of the kind, namely, that it is constituted by social factors and practices. Social constructivists about human kinds such as gender, race and sexual orientation often make an additional claim, namely, that these kinds are social constructions but they are typically believed to be biological kinds (that is, people are typically wrong about the nature of these kinds). Ron Mallon (2017) calls social constructions that are (falsely) taken to be biological kinds covert social constructions. This paper is about how we could have terms in our natural language that come to refer to covert social constructions

Eesti Arstide Päevad 2018 Tallinna Kultuurikatlas

Eesti Arst 2018; 97(5):238–239 &nbsp

Summands in locally almost square and locally octahedral spaces

We study the question whether properties like local/weak almost squareness and local octahedrality pass down from an absolute sum $X\oplus_F Y$ to the summands $X$ and $Y$.Comment: 14 page

Diametral strong diameter two property of Banach spaces is stable under direct sums with 1-norm

We prove that the diametral strong diameter 2 property of a Banach space (meaning that, in convex combinations of relatively weakly open subsets of its unit ball, every point has an "almost diametral" point) is stable under 1-sums, i.e., the direct sum of two spaces with the diametral strong diameter 2 property equipped with the 1-norm has again this property.Comment: 4 page

On a topological simple Warne extension of a semigroup

In the paper we introduce topological $\mathbb{Z}$-Bruck-Reilly and topological $\mathbb{Z}$-Bruck extensions of (semi)topological monoids which are generalizations of topological Bruck-Reilly and topological Bruck extensions of (semi)topological monoids and study their topologizations. The sufficient conditions under which the topological $\mathbb{Z}$-Bruck-Reilly ($\mathbb{Z}$-Bruck) extension admits only the direct sum topology and conditions under which the direct sum topology can be coarsened are given. Also, topological characterizations of some classes of $I$-bisimple (semi)topological semigroups are given

A biosemiotic conversation: Between physics and semiotics

In this dialogue, we discuss the contrast between inexorable physical laws and the semiotic freedom of life. We agree that material and symbolic structures require complementary descriptions, as do the many hierarchical levels of their organizations. We try to clarify our concepts of laws, constraints, rules, symbols, memory, interpreters, and semiotic control. We briefly describe our different personal backgrounds that led us to a biosemiotic approach, and we speculate on the future directions of biosemiotics

Tests based on characterizations, and their efficiencies: a survey

A survey of goodness-of-fit and symmetry tests based on the characterization properties of distributions is presented. This approach became popular in recent years. In most cases the test statistics are functionals of $U$-empirical processes. The limiting distributions and large deviations of new statistics under the null hypothesis are described. Their local Bahadur efficiency for various parametric alternatives is calculated and compared with each other as well as with diverse previously known tests. We also describe new directions of possible research in this domain.Comment: Open access in Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis de Mathematic

Erakorralise meditsiini arstide väljaõpe Eestis

Eesti Arst 2018; 97(5):276–277 &nbsp

Rainwater-Simons-type convergence theorems for generalized convergence methods

We extend the well-known Rainwater-Simons convergence theorem to various generalized convergence methods such as strong matrix summability, statistical convergence and almost convergence. In fact we prove these theorems not only for boundaries but for the more general notion of (I)-generating sets introduced by Fonf and Lindenstrauss.Comment: 10 pages, version 2, references added, one remark added, revised version accepted for publication in Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis de Mathematic

Geometry of Banach spaces with an octahedral norm

We discuss the geometry of Banach spaces whose norm is octahedral or, more generally, locally or weakly octahedral. Our main results characterize these spaces in terms of covering of the unit ball