We report in-situ doping of polysilicon grown on glass substrates by a LPCVD process. The growth rate, the resistivity and the dopant concentration of boron in-situ doped polysilicon layers are studied as a function of the deposition pressure and the dopant gas to silane mole ratio. A dependence of the axial uniformity on pressure and B2H6/S1H4 mole ratio is put forward, and this effect appears...

The smart cable with embedded distributed fiber optical Bragg grating (FBG) sensors was chosen as the object to study a new diagnosis method about broken wires of bridge cable. The diagnosis strategy based on cable force and stress distribution state of steel wires was put forward. By establishing bridge cable and cable steel wires model, the broken wires sample database was simulated numerical...

1. Introduction No other philosopher had such a deep and long-standing impact on Western science as Aristotle. In the fourth century BC he developed a fully comprehensive worldview that would with only few modifications stand for about two thousand years. Rather than just collecting isolated facts, he posed fundamental questions about nature and about the methods to study nature. Physics in the...

In this paper I offer a synthesis of previous contributions on Aristotle’s economic thought. Aristotle dealt with the economic issues in his practical philosophy. He thus considered ‘the economic’ within an ethical and political frame. This vision is coherent with Aristotle’s specific ontological analysis of ‘the economic’. In this paper, I consider this ontology and the consequences of it for ...

A predicate logic typically has a heterogeneous semantic theory. Subjects and predicates have distinct semantic roles: subjects refer; predicates characterize. A sentence expresses a truth if the object to which the subject refers is correctly characterized by the predicate. Traditional term logic, by contrast, has a homogeneous theory: both subjects and predicates refer; and a sentence is true...

We propose new axiomatizations of the 24 assertoric syllogisms of Aristotle’s syllogistic, and the 2 n n-ary operations of Boole’s algebraic logic. The former organizes the syllogisms as a 6 × 4 table partitioned into four connected components according to which term if any must be inhabited. We give two natural-deduction style axiomatizations, one with four axioms and four rules, the second wi...

Aristotle's Politics does not itself articulate any consolidated account of how the nature and scope of inquiry into politics are to be conceived. For that we need to turn to statements elsewhere in his writings, and particularly at the beginning and end oftheNicomachean Ethics. Adoption of this expository strategy is just one index of the fact that for Aristotle ethics and politics are not two...

In this paper, I put forward that in many instances, thinking mechanisms are equivalent to artificial intelligence modules programmed into the human mind.

A recent study has put forward a physiologically plausible population model that implements a parts-based shape-coding scheme for macaque visual area V4.

Convergence is an issue being widely concerned about. Thus, in this paper, we mainly put forward two types of concepts of convergence in mean and convergence in distribution for the sequence of uncertain random variables. Then some of theorems are proved to show the relations among the three convergence concepts that are convergence in mean, convergence in measure and convergence in distributio...