This article compares two attempts to return realism after Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’. Quentin Meillassoux, representing the ‘speculative realism’ school, rejects both Kantian and post-Kantian idealism in favour of a materialism based on epistemology modern sciences. But Meillassoux is unaware element choice his philosophical position, he does not solve essential problem posed by which conc...

Over the past decade functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has emerged as a powerful technique to locate activity of human brain while engaged in a particular task or cognitive state. We consider the inverse problem of detecting the cog-nitive state of a human subject based on the fMRI data. We have explored classification techniques such as Gaussian Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbour and ...

A form-finding problem for tensegrity structures is studied; given an abstract graph, we show an algorithm to decide whether it can be the underlying graph of a tensegrity in R (typically d = 2, 3) with vertices in general position. Furthermore, our algorithm allows to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the relative position of the vertices, for what we propose both a geometric and a...

the prediction of the joint angle position, especially during tremor bursts, can be useful for detecting, tracking, and forecasting tremors. thus, this research proposes a new model for predicting the wrist joint position during rhythmic bursts and inter‑burst intervals. since a tremor is an approximately rhythmic and roughly sinusoidal movement, neural oscillators have been selected to underli...

CDIS is a pattern based, nearly lossless compression system for scanned document images. In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical lossy pattern instance position coding technique which results in a significant improvement in compression with no visible artifacts. CDIS codes text positions by automatically formatting blocks of text, then transmitting the position errors for each pattern. Lossy...

Another example closer to our biological subject matter is to define probabilities of amino acids or nucleotides. For instance, at a position of a protein sequence, we assume an amino acids a occurs at random with probability q . In another words, the amino acid at this position is possible to be one of the twenty types, each type a has probability to occur. The probability is a number between ...

This paper investigates whether sentence structure analysis—examining who appears in subject versus object position— can illuminate who academic articles portray as having agency in labor relations. We extract subjects and objects from a corpus of 3,800 academic articles, and compare both the relative occurrence of different groups (workers, women, employers) in each position and the verbs that...

Simultaneous attention to 49 spatial positions resulted in the processing of threshold information from one of those positions essentially identical to the processing when the subject knew in advance that that position would be tested. This result held true when the task consisted of detection of the presence of a briefly presented dot. The same result held true for 9 spatial positions when the...

Robotic systems that operate in environments without access to global references like GNSS normally estimate their position by odometry. The incremental nature of this measurement is subject to drift that accumulates to large errors in the position estimate. We minimize this drift by exploiting scene knowledge in form of vanishing directions. These provide a scene referenced orientation measure...

A sampling device based on a telephone headset was developed and used to support a sampler close to the mouth during personal exposure monitoring of solder fume. In a field trial, it was compared with the established method of mounting the sampler on the arm of a pair of spectacles, and a linear correlation was evident between the two positions (slope 1.56 +/- 0.05, r(2) = 0.98). Although the h...