Philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists have often divided the mind into fundamental component parts. Does this intuition carry over into folk philosophy of mind? In a series of large-scale studies, we explore intuitive distinctions among different kinds of mental phenomena and consider how these distinctions might organize the conceptual space of the diverse “intelligent” and “social”...

Picture with me an old cottage nestled in the woods. There is a small house built of clay bricks that were thoughtfully stacked and interlaced by a master bricklayer so as to produce a repeated interlocking pattern. The house has a thatched roof consisting of bundles of straw. The straws in each bundle are oriented in a common direction to direct rainwater off the roof, and are lashed together ...

In this paper, a new nonlinear adaptive filter is presented. This filter consists of three main parts. In the first part, the input space is mapped into the high dimensional space, HDS, using the RBF kernel. The second part employs the Kalman filter as a smoother in HDS. The RLS adaptation algorithm is used for weight updating in the third part. The innovation of this work lies in using Kalman ...

In this study, a method for fabricating actuators made of various silicone materials is proposed to improve the flexural performance soft-body actuators. Specifically, redundant deformation part soft actuator was replaced with material higher hardness limit actuator. Materials lower were used produce main actuator, so that body could perform greater bending under same air pressure and create fo...

Architecture has been identified as a main tool for high quality system development. It encapsulates the earliest design decisions of the system under development. These decisions constrain heavily the overall design space; therefore it is worth emphasis on the reasons behind architectural choices. Methods for architecting process have been suggested by various researches. Unfortunately, they f...

AIM: to determine the prospects for preventive endoprosthetics of abdominal wall at preventing development postoperative ventral hernias.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: A meta-analysis literature data performed effectiveness prevention hernia formation. Topographical study has been conducted explore most promising levels mesh location.
 RESULTS: During it found that performing endoprosthesis...