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Theory of descriptions
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Why computational complexity may set impenetrable barriers for epistemic reductionism
Michael Herzog, Christian Sachse, Adrien Christophe Doerig
According to physicalism, everything is physical or metaphysically connected to the physical. If physicalism were true, it seems that we should - in principle - be able to reduce the descriptions and explanations of special sciences to physical ones, for e ...
Dordrecht2023Asymptotic freedom, Haldane gap and edge states of SU(N) spin chains
In this thesis we study various one-dimensional quantum spin systems with SU(2) and SU(N) symmetry. We investigate the short-distance behavior of the SU(2) Heisenberg model in the limit of large spin and show that there exists an extended regime where pert ...
EPFL2020DNA-protein interactions explored by atomic force microscopy
Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas
DNA-protein interactions play an important role in all living organisms on Earth. The advent of atomic force microscopy permitted for the first time to follow and to characterize interaction forces between these two molecular species. After a short descrip ...
Elsevier2018Between the Lines: On the Explicit and Implicit in Writing and Building
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: both weave between the human, personal and emotional experience of place and the physical, spatial and atmospheric place – a dialogue between the inner and ...
2018Contribution of polymeric materials to progress in xenotransplantation of microencapsulated cells - A review
Sandrine Gerber, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Jutta Christine Wandrey, Redouan Mahou, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard
Cell microencapsulation and subsequent transplantation of the microencapsulated cells require multidisciplinary approaches. Physical, chemical, biological, engineering, and medical expertise has to be combined. Several natural and synthetic polymeric mater ...
2016The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 Challenge Results
Yang Li, Kwang Moo Yi, Bo Li, Jiri Matas
The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2014, VOT2014, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. Results of 38 trackers are presented. The number of tested trackers makes VOT 2014 the ...
Springer-Verlag Berlin2015ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases
This paper describes the first edition of the Arabic writer identification competition using AHTID/MW and KHATT databases held in the context of the 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2014). This competition has use ...
2014ECMA-407: A New 3D audio codec implementation up to NHK 22.2
Marco Mattavelli, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Junaid Jameel Ahmad
ECMA-407, the first 3D audio standard worldwide, introduces a new concept of static models to lower bitrate coding, which may be equally applied with channels, channels and objects and Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA). Static models may either operate in time ...
2014Equivalent Theories of Liquid Crystal Dynamics
Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci
There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the Eringen micropolar approach. Up to this day, these two descriptions have remained distinct in spite of several attempts to show that the mi ...
Springer Verlag2013Acoustic Echoes Reveal Room Shape
Martin Vetterli, Yue Lu, Ivan Dokmanic, Reza Parhizkar, Andreas Walther
Imagine that you are blindfolded inside an unknown room. You snap your fingers and listen to the room’s response. Can you hear the shape of the room? Some people can do it naturally, but can we design computer algorithms that hear rooms? We show how to com ...
National Academy of Sciences2013