An evolving computation is one whose characteristics vary during its execution. These variations have many di erent origins and can manifest themselves in several ways. Thus, for example, the parameters of a computation, such as the data it uses, may vary with time independently of the computational environment in which the computation is carried out. Alternatively, it may be that the data inte...

Unconventional myosins are proteins that bind actin filaments in an ATP-regulated manner. Because of their association with membranes, they have traditionally been viewed as motors that function primarily to transport membranous organelles along actin filaments. Recently, however, a wealth of roles for myosins that are not obviously related to organelle transport have been uncovered, including ...

My recent work has uncovered at least three general unconventional computational paradigms within which parallel algorithms lead to a superlinear improvement in performance (that is, speed and quality) with respect to their sequential counterparts. These paradigms, described in some detail below, are: computing in real time, computing within the bounds of laws of nature, and computing subject t...

Butterflies and stomatopods are certainly outliers in their unconventional colour sense and despite some similarities at first glance, in fact sample the world of colour very differently. In one way, butterflies are relatively conventional, possessing either tri-or tetrachromatic colour vision, then just adding one or several task-specific sub-mechanisms onto this. It is the stomatopods so far ...

This paper investigates a variety of unconventional quantum computation devices , including fermionic quantum computers and computers that exploit nonlinear quantum mechanics. It is shown that unconventional quantum computing devices can in principle compute some quantities more rapidly than 'conventional' quantum computers. Computers are physical: what they can and cannot do is determined by t...

We propose a new class of unconventional geometric gates involving nonzero dynamic phases, and elucidate that geometric quantum computation can be implemented by using these gates. Comparing with the conventional geometric gate operation, in which the dynamic phase shift must be removed or avoided, the gates proposed here may be operated more simply. We illustrate in detail that unconventional ...

− The paper present a simultaneous force and length variation mode shape memory alloy (SMA) robotic application. The robotic ankle contains 4 SMA actuators and a spherical articulation. In order to assure a high efficient robotic architecture, the mechanical and the control structure have to assure a real-time response to the work environment changes. The load variations or the difference betwe...

A 2-dimensional space-filling curve, here, is a surjective continuous map from an interval to a 2-dimensional space. To construct a new space-filling curve distinct and much different from Hilbert’s, Peano’s, and the Z-order, we first observe that all three of these curves are based on self-similar fractals–in particular, the recursive definition of the sequences of functions that converge to t...