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Embodiment and embodied design
Picture this. A preverbal infant straddles the center of a seesaw. She gently tilts her weight back and forth from one side to the other, sensing as each side tips downward and then back up again. This child cannot articulate her observations in simple words, let alone in scientific jargon. Can she learn anything from this experience? If so, what is she learning, and what role might such learning play in her future interactions in the world? Of course, this is a nonverbal bodily experience, and any learning that occurs must be bodily, physical learning. But does this nonverbal bodily experience have anything to do with the sort of learning that takes place in schools - learning verbal and abstract concepts? In this chapter, we argue that the body has everything to do with learning, even learning of abstract concepts. Take mathematics, for example. Mathematical practice is thought to be about producing and manipulating arbitrary symbolic inscriptions that bear abstract, universal truisms untainted by human corporeality. Mathematics is thought to epitomize our species’ collective historical achievement of transcending and, perhaps, escaping the mundane, material condition of having a body governed by haphazard terrestrial circumstance. Surely mathematics is disembodied
Automated Microbial Metabolism Laboratory Final report
Photosynthesis activity during phosphate soil analysi
Land use of northern megalopolis
The major objective is to map and digitize the land use of northern megalopolis, the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and to evaluate ERTS as a planning tool for megalopolitan areas. The southern New England region provides a good test ERTS's capabilities because of its complex landscape. Not only are there great differences in the degree of urban development, but in relief and vegetative cover as well
Recognition of settlement patterns against a complex background
Photointerpretation of aerial color infrared photography for analysis of urban land us
Performance of the coupled cluster singles and doubles method on two-dimensional quantum dots
An implementation of the coupled-cluster single- and double excitations
(CCSD) method on two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. Advantages and
limitations are studied through comparison with other high accuracy approaches
for two to eight confined electrons. The possibility to effectively use a very
large basis set is found to be an important advantage compared to full
configuration interaction implementations. For the two to eight electron ground
states, with a confinement strength close to what is used in experiments, the
error in the energy introduced by truncating triple excitations and beyond is
shown to be on the same level or less than the differences in energy given by
two different Quantum Monte Carlo methods. Convergence of the iterative
solution of the coupled cluster equations is, for some cases, found for
surprisingly weak confinement strengths even when starting from a
non-interacting basis. The limit where the missing triple and higher
excitations become relevant is investigated through comparison with full
Configuration Interaction results.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, 5 table
Evaluation of ERTS-1 data for acquiring land use data of northern Megalopolis
State planners are increasingly becoming interested in ERTS as a possible method for acquiring land use data. An important consideration to them is whether ERTS can provide such data at a savings in both time and money over alternative systems. A preliminary evaluation of ERTS as a planning tool is given
Estimating the Expected Value of Partial Perfect Information in Health Economic Evaluations using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation
The Expected Value of Perfect Partial Information (EVPPI) is a
decision-theoretic measure of the "cost" of parametric uncertainty in decision
making used principally in health economic decision making. Despite this
decision-theoretic grounding, the uptake of EVPPI calculations in practice has
been slow. This is in part due to the prohibitive computational time required
to estimate the EVPPI via Monte Carlo simulations. However, recent developments
have demonstrated that the EVPPI can be estimated by non-parametric regression
methods, which have significantly decreased the computation time required to
approximate the EVPPI. Under certain circumstances, high-dimensional Gaussian
Process regression is suggested, but this can still be prohibitively expensive.
Applying fast computation methods developed in spatial statistics using
Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) and projecting from a
high-dimensional into a low-dimensional input space allows us to decrease the
computation time for fitting these high-dimensional Gaussian Processes, often
substantially. We demonstrate that the EVPPI calculated using our method for
Gaussian Process regression is in line with the standard Gaussian Process
regression method and that despite the apparent methodological complexity of
this new method, R functions are available in the package BCEA to implement it
simply and efficiently
Properties from relativistic coupled-cluster without truncation: hyperfine constants of , , and
We demonstrate an iterative scheme for coupled-cluster properties
calculations without truncating the dressed properties operator. For
validation, magnetic dipole hyperfine constants of alkaline Earth ions are
calculated with relativistic coupled-cluster and role of electron correlation
examined. Then, a detailed analysis of the higher order terms is carried out.
Based on the results, we arrive at an optimal form of the dressed operator.
Which we recommend for properties calculations with relativistic
coupled-cluster theory.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 5 table
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