This paper describes a system that uses evolutionary computation to evolve tower-like structures. The construction takes place in a computer simulated gravitational environment. The evolution targets the morphology; each chromosome carries structural description of the entity. Fitness functions evaluate the structural integrity and “goodness” of each individual based on indicators such as joint...

L-sets over a base set X are generalizations of classical sets where subsets are not specified by characteristic functions from X to {0, 1} but rather by functions from X to a lattice L. For an L-set a ∈ L and an element x ∈ X, a(x) is interpreted as the grade of membership of x in a. Stratified L-topological spaces are generalizations of topological spaces to the L-set case [1]. In [2], strati...

We study the connection between the Goodwillie tower of the identity and the lower central series of the loop group on connected spaces. We define the simplicial theory of homotopy n-nilpotent groups. This notion interpolates between infinite loop spaces and loop spaces. We prove, that the set-valued algebraic theory obtained by applying π0 is the theory of ordinary n-nilpotent groups. Finally ...

Research has shown that conventional adaptive control and more sophisticated nonlinear approaches can suffer from a lack of robustness and transparency. In this paper, a multiple model technique is proposed that effectively incorporates established linear control methods within an inherently nonlinear framework. The resulting local model network (LMN) was found to describe the nonlinear dynamic...

Although clinical picture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a stereotypical one, resulting from combination of signs secondary to dysfunction of both upper motor neuron (UMN) and lower motor neuron (LMN), clinical heterogeneity is a consistent feature of the disease. Age of onset, relative mix of UMN and LMN signs, duration of the disease and association with other conditions are major ...

Contrastive learning is a form of distance that aims to learn invariant features from two related representations. In this work, we explore the hypothesis an image and caption can be regarded as different views underlying mutual information, train model unified vision-language representation space encodes both modalities at once in modality-agnostic manner. We first identify difficulties one-to...

The sequential $p$-convergence in a fuzzy metric space, in the sense of George and Veeramani, was introduced by D. Mihet as a weaker concept than convergence. Here we introduce a stronger concept called $s$-convergence, and we characterize those fuzzy metric spaces in which convergent sequences are $s$-convergent. In such a case $M$ is called an $s$-fuzzy metric. If $(N_M,ast)$ is a fuzzy metri...

based on a complete heyting algebra l, the relations between lfuzzifyingconvergence spaces and l-fuzzifying topological spaces are studied.it is shown that, as a reflective subcategory, the category of l-fuzzifying topologicalspaces could be embedded in the category of l-fuzzifying convergencespaces and the latter is cartesian closed. also the specialization l-preorderof l-fuzzifying convergenc...

BACKGROUND In worms, as in other organisms, many tissue-specific promoters are sequestered at the nuclear periphery when repressed and shift inward when activated. It has remained unresolved, however, whether the association of facultative heterochromatin with the nuclear periphery, or its release, has functional relevance for cell or tissue integrity. RESULTS Using ablation of the unique lam...

a definition of two jointly asymptotically nonexpansive mappings s and t on uniformly convex banach space e is studied to approximate common fixed points of two such mappings through weak and strong convergence of an ishikawa type iteration scheme generated by s and t on a bounded closed and convex subset of e. as a consequence of the notion of two jointly asymptotically nonexpansive maps, we c...