This paper describes a run-time system (DesCaRTeS) that has been used for developing applications that run on a network of embedded system controllers. DesCaRTeS is written in Dynamic C and provides Dynamic C programs with easy-to-use functionality to run on such networks, send and receive messages, perform remote procedure calls, and dynamically create processes. This paper reports on some of ...

The “new mechanical philosophy” takes its inspiration from biology and simultaneously traces its origin to René Descartes. It pays little attention to Descartes’ mechanistic biology, however, which, admittedly, even most historians of philosophy and science mistakenly treat as a straightforward extension of Descartes’ attempt to explain natural phenomena in terms of shapes and movement of parts...

in descartes theological writing, he promotes two jointly puzzling theses: t1) god freely creates the eternal truths (i.e. the creation doctrine) and t2) the eternal truths are necessarily true. according to t1 god freely chooses which propositions to make necessary, contingent and possible. however the creation doctrine makes the acceptance of t2 tenuous for the creation doctrine implies that ...

Tratarei de uma noção controversa na filosofia Descartes: o que ele chamou ideia materialmente falsa. Essa suscita questões tanto internas quanto históricas. Neste artigo irei tratar unicamente do problema interno, especificamente colocando em questão a consistência da explicação Descartes. Para tanto, examinarei surpreendente falsidade material Terceira Meditação (seção I) e sua aplicação às m...

1 Reference Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (MaMEA), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France 2 INSERM U781, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France 3 Paediatric Neurology, Armand Trousseau Hospital and UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France 4 INSERM, U1016 and Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France 5 Paediatric Department, Antoine-Beclère Hospital, C...

While the majority of Descartes’ medical writings detail the machinery and mechanics of the human body – its material parts, their organization, and their lawful operations – Descartes’ correspondence with Princess Elisabeth highlights what is ultimately at stake in his medicine, namely, the health of the human being. Medicine is a significant theme in their correspondence, and their discussion...

The Descartes Rule of Signs, which establishes a bound on the number of positive roots of a polynomial with real coefficients, is extended to polynomials with complex coefficients. The extension is modified to bound the number of complex roots in a given direction on the complex plane, giving rise to the Descartes Signature of a polynomial. The search for the roots of a polynomial is sometimes ...

Université Paris Descartes, Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre d’Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, IHU Imagine, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Service d’Hématologie, IHU Imagine, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Servi...

We summarize the results of the cross-benchmarks for two univariate algebraic kernels (AK) developed in ACS. The kernels, developed at INRIA and MPI, were tested on 6 types of univariate polynomials of various degrees and bitsizes. The methods included were: Sturm, Sleeve, CF, NCF, NCF2 for the INRIA kernel, and Descartes and Bitstream-Descartes for the MPI kernel. NCF, NCF2, Descartes and Bits...