Toupin's version of the Saint-Venant's principle in linear elasticity is generalized to the case of linear elastic porous materials. That is, it is shown that, for a straight prismatic bar made of a linear elastic material with voids and loaded by a self-equilibrated system of forces, at one end only, the internal energy stored in the portion of the bar which is beyond a distance s from the loa...

The introduction of the notion of family resemblance represented a major shift in Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the meaning of words, moving away from a belief that words were well defined, to a view that words denoted less well defined categories of meaning. This paper presents the use of the notion of family resemblance in the area of machine learning as an example of the benefits that can accru...

because many diseases are multifactorial disorders, the scientific progress in genomics and genetics should be taken into consideration in public health research. in this context, genomic databases will constitute an important source of information. consequently, it is important to identify and characterize the state's role and authority on matters related to public health, in order to verify w...

In this work we consider a quantum analog of Newton’s bucket experiment in a flat spacetime: we take an Unruh-DeWitt detector in interaction with a real massless scalar field. We calculate the detector’s excitation rate when it is uniformly rotating around some fixed point and the field is prepared in the Minkowski vacuum and also when the detector is inertial and the field is in the Trocheries...

Over the past two decades, naturalistically minded philosophers have expended a fair amount of ______________________________ This paper presents the leading idea of my doctoral dissertation and thus has been shaped by the reactions of all the members of my thesis committee: Charles Chastain, Walter Edelberg, W. Kent Wilson, Dorothy Grover, and Charles Marks. I am especially grateful for the he...

I discuss the principle that bridges neural firing and perception. I start from the assumption that in order to understand perception, the state of neural firing in the brain is necessary and sufficient (the neuron doctrine in perception). I argue that the concept of response selectivity, currently the de facto central dogma in explaining the relation between neural firing and the brain, is inc...

The numerical action variational principle is used to find fully nonlinear solutions for the orbits of the mass tracers given their present redshifts and angular positions and the cosmological boundary condition that the peculiar velocities are small at high redshift. A solution predicts the distances of the mass tracers, and is tested by a comparison with measured distances. The current numeri...

In this work we consider a quantum analog of Newton’s bucket experiment in a flat spacetime: we take an Unruh-DeWitt detector in interaction with a real massless scalar field. We calculate the detector’s excitation rate when it is uniformly rotating around some fixed point and the field is prepared in the Minkowski vacuum and also when the detector is inertial and the field is in the Trocheries...

Talagrand’s positivity principle, Section 6.6 in [8], states that one can slightly perturb a Hamiltonian in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in such a way that the overlap of two configurations under the perturbed Gibbs’ measure will become typically nonnegative. In this note we observe that abstracting from the setting of the SK model only improves the result and does not require any modifica...

We shall show that a recent version of Ekeland's principle in F-type topological spaces due to Fang from 1996 is implied by the Brezis-Browder principle on ordered sets. We give a series of equivalent formulations of Ekeland's principle in F-type topo-logical spaces, i.e. Penot's ower petal theorem, Takahashi's minimization principle and two theorems due to Oettli and Th era and show the equiva...