Highly-functional Material World Osaka 2014

Material efficiency in a multi-material world.

Material efficiency--using less of a material to make a product or supply a service--is gaining attention as a means for accomplishing important environmental goals. The ultimate goal of material efficiency is not to use less physical material but to reduce the impacts associated with its use. This article examines the concept and definition of material efficiency and argues that for it to be a...

Envisioning the Material World

Efforts to understand human vision have largely focused on our abilities to perceive the geometric properties of objects and have neglected the perception of materials. However correctly perceiving materials is at least as important as perceiving object geometry, and human vision allows us to tell if objects are hard or soft, smooth or rough, clean or dirty, fresh or spoiled, and dead or alive....

relation of material world to dahr world: a new interpretation

in this paper, we try to determine the status of the relation between dahr world and matrial world. the conclusion shows the subjective duality and objective unity of dahr and material entities. two interpretations of this duality can be suggested. in the first interpretation, this unity, and the duality supposed, are explained on the basis of different intellectual cognition of immaterial and ...

Functional Analysis ( 2014 / 15 )

These lecture notes are based on my course from winter semester 2014/15. Compared to the notes from three years ago, several details and very few subjects have been changed. I mostly kept the contents of the results discussed in the lectures, but the numbering has been shifted in some parts. Typically, the proofs and calculations in the notes are a bit shorter than those given in class. Moreove...

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