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He rarely goes into detail on personal events, and it leaves one with the aforementioned sense of incompleteness.

Data quality from the SINASC, regarding its incompleteness in the Alto do Jurua region, was first analyzed for the group of five municipalities together, through absolute and relative frequency of "not declared" for each year and variable.

Effectiveness of the Live Births Information System in the Far-Western Brazilian Amazon/Eficacia do Sistema de Informacao de Nascidos Vivos na Amazonia Extremo-Ocidental Brasileira

Cappelen and Lepore maintain that Incompleteness Arguments for context sensitivity are fallacious.

Ratio: Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2014

But we can see that in the proof of Godel's incompleteness theorem, all possible situations are not considered.

Neutrosophic examples in physics

But that incompleteness was fixed and now Travelers are supported with on-line search and booking opportunities on guiding services worldwide.

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Faber defends four major theses: 1) Whitehead's late work is a deconstruction of the traditional idea of metaphysics that reveals any and all metaphysics to be essentially incomplete; 2) metaphysical incompleteness is expressed as cultural incompleteness, where reason must always operate from a condition of cultural and historical immanence (with all the fallibility conditions that follow from such immanence); 3) given the fundamental universality of process, all metaphysical claims will be marked by a 'transcendental incompleteness'; and 4) Whitehead's late works are explorations of the paradoxes associated with the metaphysical aim at 'rational comprehensiveness' and the transcendental incompleteness that follows from the universality of process (92-102).

Roland Faber, Brian G. Henning, Clinton Combs, eds.: Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought

Also on the program are the political drama Anatole, by Haiti's Foudize Theatre Association; Relato de una criatura, by Ecuador's Zona Bastarda Teatro Experimental, based on poems by Brecht; and the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization's documentary piece Infinite Incompleteness.

Barrancabermeja, Colombia

The difficulties students have in understanding proofs have been studied (Padula 2003, 2006) but not exhaustively, and although Feferman (2006b) remarks that Godel's incompleteness paper is a "classic .

The logical heart of a classic proof revisited: a guide to Godel's 'incompleteness' theorems

But Einstein's views on quantum mechanics are often oversimplified For observable phenomena, he accepted the statistical view of quantum mechanics; his main concern was its incompleteness (in his view) in describing reality.

A skeptic of quantum theory explains his misgivings

This volume collects some 100 papers from the July 2010 14th International Conference on Information Visualization, which is devoted to using computer-aided techniques for the visualizing of complex information and data and thereby enabling tools for decision making, extracting simplicity from complexities, and revealing uncertainties and incompleteness across the disciplinary spectrum of the sciences and the humanities.

Information visualization; proceedings

Partly because of this incompleteness, survival calculations based on registry data make UK cancer survival rates seem worse than they really are.

DEATH rates from breast cancer [...]

As explained in an obtuse program note by Belgian dramaturge Guy Cools, House picked up on the idea of desire as an act of reaching out to fill a sense of incompleteness.