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From introspections, brain scans, and memory tests to the role of social context:advancing research on interaction and learning
The goal of this epilogue is to use the methodological contributions of the studies presented in this special issue as a starting point for suggestions about methodology in conducting future interaction research. As is the case in most developing fields, interaction research develops methods internally as it continually borrows and extends techniques used in other disciplines and revitalizes older techniques by adding new or different angles unique to interaction. Interaction researchers have also begun to forge relationships in new areas (e.g., by working with psychologists and developing working memory [WM] tests). This sort of cooperation is an important step in the drive to uncover more information about the relationship between interaction and learning. As several contributors to this special issue have noted, the most recent advances in methodology have been driven by questions about how interaction works (as opposed to whether it works). In turn, some of the methodological innovations discussed here will also ultimately allow new questions to be asked. Indeed, the relationship between questions (i.e., suggestions about what needs to be investigated next) and methods (i.e., plans for how to carry out such investigations) is particularly close in interaction research, which is a relatively new but vibrant and quickly developing area. Consequently, this epilogue considers both methods and questions conjointly, beginning with a discussion of methodological issues in the most recent theorizing about the interaction hypothesis
Magnetic response of magnetic molecules with non-collinear local d-tensors
Investigations of molecular magnets are driven both by prospective
applications in future storage technology or quantum computing as well as by
fundamental questions. Nowadays numerical simulation techniques and computer
capabilities make it possible to investigate spin Hamiltonians with realistic
arrangements of local anisotropy tensors. In this contribution I will discuss
the magnetic response of a small spin system with special emphasis on
non-collinear alignments of the local anisotropy axes.Comment: 8 pages, 18 figures, accepted for a special issue of Condensed Matter
Physics (CMP), typos correcte
Purge Systems for LDCM and Contamination Instruments Projects
The presentation includes: Contamination Overview, Introduction to tools and techniques, Overview on Landsat 8 (LDCM), Tools, Techniques, Works Cited, Special Thanks. and Questions
Instabilities in the Nuclear Energy Density Functional
In the field of Energy Density Functionals (EDF) used in nuclear structure
and dynamics, one of the unsolved issues is the stability of the functional.
Numerical issues aside, some EDFs are unstable with respect to particular
perturbations of the nuclear ground-state density. The aim of this contribution
is to raise questions about the origin and nature of these instabilities, the
techniques used to diagnose and prevent them, and the domain of density
functions in which one should expect a nuclear EDF to be stable.Comment: Special issue "Open Problems in Nuclear Structure Theory" of
Jour.Phys.G - accepted. 7 pages, 2 figure
Model Checking the Quantitative mu-Calculus on Linear Hybrid Systems
We study the model-checking problem for a quantitative extension of the modal
mu-calculus on a class of hybrid systems. Qualitative model checking has been
proved decidable and implemented for several classes of systems, but this is
not the case for quantitative questions that arise naturally in this context.
Recently, quantitative formalisms that subsume classical temporal logics and
allow the measurement of interesting quantitative phenomena were introduced. We
show how a powerful quantitative logic, the quantitative mu-calculus, can be
model checked with arbitrary precision on initialised linear hybrid systems. To
this end, we develop new techniques for the discretisation of continuous state
spaces based on a special class of strategies in model-checking games and
present a reduction to a class of counter parity games.Comment: LMCS submissio
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