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Mechanism (philosophy)
Publications associées (13)
Hands-on tasks make learning visible: a learning analytics lens on the development of mechanistic problem-solving expertise in makerspaces
Richard Lee Davis, Bertrand Roland Schneider
This study investigated the impact of participating in a year-long digital-fabrication course on high-school seniors' problem-solving skills, with a focus on problems involving mechanistic systems. The research questions centered on whether working in a ma ...
New York2023Neural adaptation accounts for the dynamic resizing of peripersonal space: evidence from a psychophysical-computational approach
Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel
Interactions between the body and the environment occur within the peripersonal space (PPS), the space immediately surrounding the body. The PPS is encoded by multisensory (audio-tactile, visual-tactile) neurons that possess receptive fields (RFs) anchored ...
2018Computational methods and modeling of cellular function for the optimization of protein production and the study of cellular disease states
Systems biology is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together all the basic sciences through the use of computational and bioinformatics tools, to provide a more integrative view of the complex molecular interactions taking place within and among cells ...
EPFL2017Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies
Natural and artificial societies often divide the workload between specialized members. For example, an ant worker may preferentially perform one of many tasks such as brood rearing, foraging and nest maintenance. A robot from a rescue team may specialize ...
EPFL2013Efficient Computation of Sensitivity Coefficients of Node Voltages and Line Currents in Unbalanced Electrical Networks
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Konstantina Christakou
The problem of optimal control of power distribution systems is becoming increasingly compelling due to the progressive penetration of distributed energy resources in this specific layer of the electrical infrastructure. Distribution systems are, indeed, e ...
2012Speciation-dependent kinetics of uranium(VI) bioreduction
Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Harish Veeramani
The kinetics of uranium(VI) reduction by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 was studied for varied pH and concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and calcium. These are key variables affecting U(VI) speciation in aqueous systems. For all conditio ...
Taylor & Francis2011Renato Salvi, Architect
Architect Renato Salvi has an atypical professional career. His constructed works unfold over two different fields that influence each other and are also complementary: civil engineering highway constructions on the one hand, and a varied architectural pro ...
Birkhäuser2011Wear and frictional mechanisms of copper-based bearing alloys
The present study investigated the role of alloy microstructure and surface roughness on wear and friction behavior of leaded and unleaded tin bronzes. Ball-on-disk experiments were carried out under dry conditions with steel balls sliding against bronze d ...
2011Bounded Asynchrony: Concurrency for Modeling Cell-Cell Interactions
Maria-Emanuela-Canini Mateescu
We introduce bounded asynchrony, a notion of concurrency tailored to the modeling of biological cell-cell interactions. Bounded asynchrony is the result of a scheduler that bounds the number of steps that one process gets ahead of other processes; this all ...
Springer2008Punching shear strength of reinforced concrete slabs without transverse reinforcement
A mechanical explanation of the phenomenon of punching shear in slabs without transverse reinforcement is presented on the basis of the opening of a critical shear crack. It leads to the formulation of a new failure criterion for punching shear based on th ...
ACI Structural Journal2008