Introduction to Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

This chapter provides summaries of the chapter of this book and introduces the major themes and debates addressed in the volume. Discussed are Nietzsche’s metaphysics; his philosophy of mind in light of contemporary views; the question of panpsychism of Beyond Good and Evil 36; the rejection of dualism in favour of monism, in particular a monism of value; Nietzsche’s positions on consciousness and embodied cognition in light of recent cognitive science; a conception of freedom and agency based on an intrinsically motivating; embodied sense of self-efficacy; a Nietzschean account of valuing understood as drive-induced affective orientations of which an agent approves; the idea of ressentiment conceived as a process of intentional, not reflectively strategic, self-deception about one’s own conscious mental states; and a defence of a Nietzschean naturalism

Design of a Prototype Machine to Automate Satellite Wire Harness Assembly

Wire harness construction is a frequent source of delays in the satellite assembly process, due to a high rate of human error in the harness assembly process. While automated assembly could reduce the error rate and increase production efficiency, manipulation of wires with established robotic assembly methods is difficult because of their flexibility. This project introduces a novel machine to automate wire harness assembly by adopting a design similar to that of existing cartesian 3D printers, circumventing problems faced by established automation methods. The machine can rout wire onto a flat wire harness template and can cut and process up to eight different types of wire simultaneously, all without human interaction. This report details the conceptualization and design of such a machine, as well as the current assembly and validation status of the existing prototype. Although the prototype is incomplete at the closing of the 2020 MDP project cycle, it is concluded that the team’s current approach shows promise in successfully automating wire harness assembly and should be explored and refined further in future efforts.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/169574/1/Honors_Capstone_Wire_Harness_Automation_yuankail.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/169574/2/Honors_Capstone_NGWire_presentation_yuankail.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/169574/3/yuankail_capstone_video.mp

Relaxation and derelaxation of pure and hydrogenated amorphous silicon during thermal annealing experiments

The structural relaxation of pure amorphous silicon (a-Si) and hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) materials, that occurs during thermal annealing experiments, has been analysed by Raman spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. Unlike a-Si, the heat evolved from a-Si:H cannot be explained by relaxation of the Si-Si network strain, but it reveals a derelaxation of the bond angle strain. Since the state of relaxation after annealing is very similar for pure and hydrogenated materials, our results give strong experimental support to the predicted configurational gap between a-Si and crystalline silicon.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, 1 table to be published in Applied Physics Letter

Changes in the capacity of visual working memory in 5- to 10-year-olds

Using the Luck and Vogel change detection paradigm, we sought to investigate the capacity of visual working memory in 5-, 7-, and 10-year-olds. We found that performance on the task improved significantly with age and also obtained evidence that the capacity of visual working memory approximately doubles between 5 and 10 years of age, where it reaches adult levels of approximately three to four items

Hydrobiologia / Evaluating good-practice cases for river restoration across Europe: context, methodological framework, selected results and recommendations

This introductory paper presents 20 river restoration cases throughout Europe that were investigated in the EU-funded research project REFORM. In the following, this special issue provides seven specific papers that highlight and discuss the effects of restoration on the investigated river\u2013floodplain systems. Additionally, restoration success was estimated from a socio-economic perspective. The first part of this paper presents the overall study concept and the general sampling design of the field investigations. Each study site was examined with the same array of methods, covering habitat composition in the river and its floodplain, three aquatic and two floodplain-related organism groups, as well as food web composition and \u201caquatic terrestrial\u201d interactions as reflected by stable isotopes. An overview of the rivers and the study sites summarizes main attributes of all investigated sites, with emphasis on the large-scale restoration projects. Some of the projects represent the \u201cstate of the art\u201d restoration approaches for two major European river types: gravel-bed mountain rivers and sand-bed lowland rivers. Concluding, restoration efforts had positive effects even in the small restoration projects investigated but did not increase with project size. No \u201csingle best\u201d measure could be identified, but river widening generally had a larger effect compared to other restoration measures