-NEW: “the novel is the form of literature which most fully reflects this individualist and innovating reorientation” (13) -Locke‟s “principle of individuation” (21) -particularity reflects new philosophical direction of the 18 th century -rejection of traditional plots -rejection of typed characters, turn toward more individualized characters -particulization of time; turn toward historical sp...

We propose a novel approach to the characterization of geometric regions by use of wavelet coefficients. We show that in the absence of noise, geometric regions with edges behave differently from other regions as far as the evolution of their wavelet coefficients through scales is concerned. We use this particularity to identify piecewise smooth subimages in a noisy context on which we perform ...

A key challenge in conceptualizing ecological complexity is to allow simultaneously for particularity, contingency, and structure, and for such structure to be internally differentiated, dynamically tied to its context, and subject to restructuring. Because all organisms live in such dynamic ecological circumstances, philosophy of ecology could become the leading site for addressing difficult c...

In the present article, we discuss the case of 67-year-old female patient diagnosed with inferior limbs calciphylaxis and hemodialyzed since 2006. The clinical manifestations and pathological lab findings are typical for this rare and extremely severe complication in chronic hemodialyzed individuals. The favorable treatment response to sodium thiosulfate, not often used as elected therapy in in...

In this paper we illustrate a fuzzy logic system design strategy based on a high level description. Employing this high level description, the knowledge base is described in a language in appearance close to the natural language with the particularity that it uses a hardware description language (VHDL) directly synthesizable on an FPGA circuit. In addition, we analyze FPGA implementations of di...

A new crane design, labeled ”SpiderCrane”, is proposed to handle fast load displacements. Its main particularity is the absence of heavy mobile components. The system beeing underactuated, its control is challenging. Hence, as a step towards easier and more efficient control, this paper proposes a dynamic model and investigates the two control-relevant properties of flatness and observability. ...