Circuits composed of threshold gates (McCulloch-Pitts neurons, or perceptrons) are simplified models of neural circuits with the advantage that they are theoretically more tractable than their biological counterparts. However, when such threshold circuits are designed to perform a specific computational task, they usually differ in one important respect from computations in the brain: they requ...

This paper sets out a framework for discussing operations whose cost can be made to approach zero by subdividing the operation into an increasing number (K) of stages. Examples of such processes include what thermodynamics books call quasistatic processes with wasted work as the cost. More generically, they include processes taking place with near-equilibrium conditions between the participants...

In the present study, an analytical investigation on the entropy generation examination for viscoelastic fluid flow involving inclined magnetic field and non-linear thermal radiation aspects with the heat source and sink over a stretching sheet has been done. The boundary layer governing partial differential equations were converted in terms of appropriate similarity transformations to non-line...