“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

The authors retain copyright over this work. This work was presented at the CrossFAB workshop at CHI 2016. Abstract This paper introduces embedded device generation, a design and synthesis process that allows anyone who can write code to develop embedded hardware. The key insight is that a simple program can serve as a complete design specification for the embedded device that runs it. We envis...

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

A theorem prover f o r part of ar i thmet ic in described which proves theorems by represent ing them in the form of a diagram or network. The nodes of t h i s network represent ' i d e a l i n t e g e r s ' , i . e . objects which have a l l the propert ies of in tegers , without being any p a r t i cular in toger . The l i nks in the network represent re la t ionsh ips between ' i dea l i n t...

A novel type of leaf-like poly (p-phenylenediamine) (PpPD) microcrystal was prepared under mild conditions, which was successfully applied to the visual detection of Co(2+)in vitro and in tissue based on the extinction and light scattering features owing to the special etching effect of Co(2+) on the surface of the leaf-like microcrystal.

Two-band algorithms that use the ratio of reflectances at 672 and 704 nm have already proved successful for chlorophyll a retrieval in a range of coastal and inland waters. An analysis of the effect of reflectance measurement errors on such algorithms is made. It provides important indications of the range of validity of these algorithms and motivates the development of an entirely new type of ...

The title of the reported project is “Nordic Nuclear Safety Research (NKS) Workshop on Knowledge Management in Nordic NPPs”. One important objective of this workshop was to explore if and how knowledge retention activities could be coordinated between the various Nordic utilities. The main conclusions of the workshop can be summed up as follows: Establishing good knowledge management routines i...

One approach to user experience (UX) is phenomenology, but there are no well-defined methods for how to conduct UX research using phenomenology, especially not in a professional design practice. One well-defined approach developed in psychology is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), which in this paper is adapted to professional UX research practice. The adaptation is put to test in...

A new optical mode of propagation is described, which is the natural eigenmode (supermode) of a fiber (or any optical waveguide) with two cospatial periodic gratings. The mode frustrates the backward Bragg scattering from the grating by destructive interference of its two constituent submodes (which are eigenmodes of a uniform waveguide). It can be used in a new type of spatial mode conversion ...