The paper reports on creation of analogue models of structures in virtual reality, using an emergent, or bottom-up approach, inspired by laws of Complexity. This approach focuses on component based modelling using fundamental laws of physics. The creation of system models is then achieved through interaction of the components, from the bottom-up, leading to a self-organisation of the system mod...

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Fault diagnosis of analogue linear systems poses many challenges, such as the size of the search space that must be explored and the possibility of simulation instabilities introduced by particular fault classes. We study a novel algorithm that addresses both problems. This algorithm dynamically modifies the simulation model during diagnosis by pruning parametrized components that cause discont...

We develop a quantum algorithm to solve combinatorial optimization problems through quantum simulation of a classical annealing process. Our algorithm combines techniques from quantum walks, quantum phase estimation, and quantum Zeno effect. It can be viewed as a quantum analogue of the discrete-time Markov chain Monte Carlo implementation of classical simulated annealing. Our implementation re...

This paper describes an original neural simulation platform designed as a tool for computational neuroscience. The system, based on artificial electronic neurons implemented in specific integrated circuits, computes in real-time and emulates in analogue mode the electrical activity of single neurons or small neural networks. Neurons are modelled using a biologically realistic description of mem...

background: literature recommends that refractory cases with lumbar disc herniation and appropriate indications are better to be treated surgically, but do all the patients throughout the world consent to the surgery with a same disability and pain threshold? we aim to elucidate the prevalence and severity of disabilities and pain in iranian patients with lumbar disc herniation who have consent...

Simulations explored the inability of the TRACE model of spoken-word recognition to model the effects on human listening of acoustic-phonetic mismatches in word forms. The source of TRACE's failure lay not in its interactive connectivity, not in the presence of interword competition, and not in the use of phonemic representations, but in the need for continuously optimised interpretation of the...

background tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (tdf) is a new effective treatment option for patients with chronic hepatitis b (chb). objectives to evaluate tdf efficacy in nucleos(t)ide analogues (nas)-naive iranian patients with chb. patients and methods the na-naive patients received tdf for at least six months. the primary endpoint was the proportion of patients achieving a complete virological r...