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Margis S, Kyriakou I, Incerti S, Bordage MC, Emfietzoglou D. Sub-keV corrections to binary encounter cross section models for electron ionization of liquid water with application to the Geant4-DNA Monte Carlo code. Appl Radiat Isot 2023; 194:110693. [PMID: 36731390 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The electron ionization cross section of water is one of the most important input in Monte Carlo studies of cellular radiobiological effects. Analytical cross section models of the binary-encounter type have the potential of reducing simulation time and facilitate application to a variety of biological materials (other than water). The Binary-Encounter-Bethe (BEB) and Binary-Encounter-Dipole (BED) models of NIST are perhaps the most popular of such models giving reliable results for atoms and molecules in the gas-phase over a wide energy range. However, the use of such models to sub-keV electron energies in liquid water raises concerns due to the neglect of condensed phase effects that leads to a significant overestimation when compared to medium-specific dielectric models. PURPOSE To modify the BEB and BED models towards better agreement with the recommended low-energy dielectric model of Geant4-DNA (Option 4). To implement the new modifications to the existing BEB model of the Option 6 physics constructor of Geant4-DNA and re-evaluate fundamental transport quantities for sub-keV electrons. METHODS In analogy to a Yukawa potential a simple, yet physically-motivated, modification of the Burgess correction term is proposed to account for the reduction of the Coulomb interaction due to the polarizability of the target. The magnitude of the correction is guided by the dielectric-based ionization cross section implemented in Option 4. RESULTS Differential, total and stopping ionization cross sections for low-energy electrons in liquid water are presented. When combined with the Vriens correction (which is not included in Option 6), the proposed modification to the BEB and BED models brings the ionization and stopping cross sections in much better agreement against those used in the Option 4 dielectric model of Geant4-DNA, with up to 30% and 10% deviation, respectively. Implementation of the new correction to the Option 6 constructor of Geant4-DNA and re-evaluation of fundamental transport quantities, such as electron penetration ranges and dose-point-kernels, reduced the discrepancies from Option 4 at sub-keV energies from 20 to 100% (or more) to well below 10% in most cases. CONCLUSIONS A simple modification to the BEB and BED analytic models was found to improve their performance for sub-keV electrons in liquid water medium. Implementation of the new modification to the Option 6 constructor of Geant4-DNA significantly improved the agreement with the recommended low-energy Option 4 constructor for a variety of fundamental quantities related to electron transport.
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- Stefanos Margis
- Medical Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110, Ioannina, Greece
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- Medical Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110, Ioannina, Greece
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- Bordeaux University, CNRS/IN2P3, CENBG, UMR 5797, F-33170, Gradignan, France
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- Medical Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110, Ioannina, Greece.
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Kauffman SA, Radin D. Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence. Biosystems 2023; 223:104820. [PMID: 36442739 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real Possibles that do not obey Aristotle's law of the excluded middle, and ontologically real Actuals that do. Based on this view, which bears resemblance to von Neumann's 1955 proposal (von Neumann, 1955), and more recently by Stapp and others (Stapp, 2007; Rosenblum and Kuttner, 2006), measurement that is registered by an observer's mind converts Possibles into Actuals. This quantum-oriented approach raises the intriguing prospect that some aspects of mind may be quantum, and that mind may play an active role in the physical world. A body of empirical evidence supports these possibilities, strengthening our proposal that the mind-brain relationship may be partially quantum.
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Lin D. The 2+1-Dimensional Special Relativity. Symmetry (Basel) 2022; 14:2403. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14112403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In the new mathematical description of special relativity in terms of the relativistic velocity space, many physical aspects acquire new geometric meanings. Performing conformal deformations upon the 2-dimensional relativistic velocity space for the (2+1)-dimensional special relativity, we find that these conformal deformations correspond to the generalized Lorentz transformations, which are akin to the ordinary Lorentz transformation, but are morphed by a global rescaling of the polar angle and correspondingly characterized by a topological integral index. The generalized Lorentz transformations keep the two fundamental principles of special relativity intact, suggesting that the indexed generalization may be related to the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs (BMS) group of the asymptotic symmetries of the spacetime metric. Furthermore, we investigate the Doppler effect of light, the Planck photon rocket, and the Thomas precession, affirming that they all remain in the same forms of the standard special relativity under the generalized Lorentz transformation. Additionally, we obtain the general formula of the Thomas precession, which gives a clear geometric meaning from the perspective of the gauge field theory in the relativistic velocity space.
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Shen L, Zhang H. Corrosion inhibition and adsorption behavior of (3-aminopropyl)-triethoxysilane on steel surface in the simulated concrete pore solution contaminated with chloride. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Heimbach P. The Computational Science of Klaus Hasselmann. Comput Sci Eng 2022. [DOI: 10.1109/mcse.2022.3195105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Szostek R. Explanation of What Time in Kinematics Is and Dispelling Myths Allegedly Stemming from the Special Theory of Relativity. Applied Sciences 2022; 12:6272. [DOI: 10.3390/app12126272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics is explaining what time is. The paper explains what time is in kinematics theories. It has been proved that in the kinematics of Special Theory of Relativity (STR) and Special Theory of Ether (STE) time is measured by the light clock. Therefore, all properties of time in kinematics result from the properties of a signal clock. The paper explains the time dilation phenomenon on the basis of STE. The presented explanation is not only a classic description of time dilation but is based on the construction of an innovative technical model of this phenomenon. Time dilation is due to the properties of the light clock. It is a natural property of this clock. The article shows that the claim that the speed of light in a vacuum is the maximum speed in the real world has no theoretical basis. In modern physics, such a doctrine has been adopted as a result of an overinterpretation of the mathematics on which the Special Theory of Relativity is based. The presented model shows how, using atomic clocks, it may be possible to determine the movement in relation to the universal frame of reference in which electromagnetic signals propagate. This article contains only original research.
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Jeong HM, Park S. Temperature gradient of vertical air column in gravitational field. Sci Rep 2022; 12:6756. [PMID: 35474085 PMCID: PMC9043203 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10525-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The negative temperature gradient under gravity was observed with a vertical air column inside a practically insulated aluminum cylinder filled with sawdust. The temperature drop rate measured between 90 and 10 cm height positions was as much as 2.22 Km−1 when the diameter of the air column was 60 cm. This drop rate is much larger than the mean lapse rate of the earth’s troposphere (0.0045–0.0065 Km−1) and the previously reported experimental value (0.07 Km−1) by Graeff for the air column in a relatively small system. We proposed a kinetic model based on classical mechanics to account for this temperature drop, which is significantly larger than the values previously reported. The negative temperature gradient of the air column inside the cylinder showed a tendency to decrease sensitively as the positive temperature gradient of the ambient air outside the cylinder increased, although it was practically insulated. In addition, the temperature drop rate increased as the air column's diameter increased. These results suggest that as the size of the system increases, the external influence that relaxes the negative temperature gradient of the air column is diluted, and thus the negative temperature gradient becomes more pronounced.
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- Han Mo Jeong
- Department of Chemistry, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, Republic of Korea.
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Gough MP. Information Dark Energy Can Resolve the Hubble Tension and Is Falsifiable by Experiment. Entropy (Basel) 2022; 24:e24030385. [PMID: 35327896 PMCID: PMC8947162 DOI: 10.3390/e24030385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We consider the role information energy can play as a source of dark energy. Firstly, we note that if stars and structure had not formed in the universe, elemental bits of information describing the attributes of particles would have exhibited properties similar to the cosmological constant. The Landauer equivalent energy of such elemental bits would be defined in form and value identical to the characteristic energy of the cosmological constant. However, with the formation of stars and structure, stellar heated gas and dust now provide the dominant contribution to information energy with the characteristics of a dynamic, transitional, dark energy. At low redshift, z < ~1.35, this dark energy emulates the cosmological constant with a near-constant energy density, w = −1.03 ± 0.05, and an energy total similar to the mc2 of the universe’s ∼1053 kg of baryons. At earlier times, z > ~1.35, information energy was phantom, differing from the cosmological constant, Λ, with a CPL parameter difference of ∆wo = −0.03 ± 0.05 and ∆wa = −0.79 ± 0.08, values sufficient to account for the H0 tension. Information dark energy agrees with most phenomena as well as Λ, while exhibiting characteristics that resolve many tensions and problems of ΛCDM: the cosmological constant problem; the cosmological coincidence problem; the H0 tension, and the σ8 tension. As this proposed dark energy source is not usually considered, we identify the expected signature in H(a) that will enable the role of information dark energy to be falsified by experimental observation.
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- Michael Paul Gough
- Department of Engineering and Design, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QT, UK
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Hao T, Hao T. Quantized conductance and superconductivity of twisted graphene and other 2D crystals explained with the Eyring’s rate process theory and free volume concept. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Truong TT. Dynamical Symmetries of the 2D Newtonian Free Fall Problem Revisited. Symmetry (Basel) 2022; 14:27. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14010027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Among the few exactly solvable problems in theoretical physics, the 2D (two-dimensional) Newtonian free fall problem in Euclidean space is perhaps the least known as compared to the harmonic oscillator or the Kepler–Coulomb problems. The aim of this article is to revisit this problem at the classical level as well as the quantum level, with a focus on its dynamical symmetries. We show how these dynamical symmetries arise as a special limit of the dynamical symmetries of the Kepler–Coulomb problem, and how a connection to the quartic anharmonic oscillator problem, a long-standing unsolved problem in quantum mechanics, can be established. To this end, we construct the Hilbert space of states with free boundary conditions as a space of square integrable functions that have a special functional integral representation. In this functional space, the free fall dynamical symmetry algebra is shown to be isomorphic to the so-called Klink’s algebra of the quantum quartic anharmonic oscillator problem. Furthermore, this connection entails a remarkable integral identity for the quantum quartic anharmonic oscillator eigenfunctions, which implies that these eigenfunctions are in fact zonal functions of an underlying symmetry group representation. Thus, an appropriate representation theory for the 2D Newtonian free fall quantum symmetry group may potentially open the way to exactly solving the difficult quantization problem of the quartic anharmonic oscillator. Finally, the initial value problem of the acoustic Klein–Gordon equation for wave propagation in a sound duct with a varying circular section is solved as an illustration of the techniques developed here.
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A collection of short stories about Oleg Ivanovich Zatsarinny (1953–2021) to whom this Special Issue of Atoms is dedicated.
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By analyzing the energy-momentum tensor and equations of state of ideal gas, scalar, spinor and vector potential in detail, we find that the total mass density of all matter is always positive, and the initial total pressure is negative. Under these conditions, by qualitatively analyzing the global behavior of the dynamical equation of cosmological model, we get the following results: (i) K=1, namely, the global spatial structure of the universe should be a three-dimensional sphere S3; (ii) 0≤Λ<10−24ly−2, the cosmological constant should be zero or an infinitesimal; (iii) a(t)>0, the initial singularity of the universe is unreachable, and the evolution of the universe should be cyclic in time. Since the matter components considered are quite complete and the proof is very elementary and strict, these conclusions are quite reliable in logic and compatible with all observational data. Obviously, these conclusions will be very helpful to correct some popular misconceptions and bring great convenience to further research other problems in cosmology such as the properties of dark matter and dark energy. In addition, the macroscopic Lagrangian of fluid model is derived.
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Hnilo AA, Agüero MB, Kovalsky MG. Proposal to Test a Transient Deviation from Quantum Mechanics' Predictions for Bell's Experiment. Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:1589. [PMID: 34945896 PMCID: PMC8700000 DOI: 10.3390/e23121589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Quantum mechanics predicts correlations between measurements performed in distant regions of a spatially spread entangled state to be higher than allowed by intuitive concepts of Locality and Realism. These high correlations forbid the use of nonlinear operators of evolution (which would be desirable for several reasons), for they may allow faster-than-light signaling. As a way out of this situation, it has been hypothesized that the high quantum correlations develop only after a time longer than L/c has elapsed (where L is the spread of the entangled state and c is the velocity of light). In shorter times, correlations compatible with Locality and Realism would be observed instead. A simple hidden variables model following this hypothesis is described. It is based on a modified Wheeler-Feynman theory of radiation. This hypothesis has not been disproved by any of the experiments performed to date. A test achievable with accessible means is proposed and described. It involves a pulsed source of entangled states and stroboscopic record of particle detection during the pulses. Data recorded in similar but incomplete optical experiments are analyzed, and found consistent with the proposed model. However, it is not claimed, in any sense, that the hypothesis has been validated. On the contrary, it is stressed that a complete, specific test is absolutely needed.
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- Alejandro Andrés Hnilo
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones (CEILAP), UNIDEF (MINDEF-CONICET), CITEDEF, J.B. de La Salle 4397, Villa Martelli 1603, Argentina; (M.B.A.); (M.G.K.)
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Avner S. Conceiving Particles as Undulating Granular Systems Allows Fundamentally Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:e23101338. [PMID: 34682062 PMCID: PMC8534518 DOI: 10.3390/e23101338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The strange behavior of subatomic particles is described by quantum theory, whose standard interpretation rejected some fundamental principles of classical physics such as causality, objectivity, locality, realism and determinism. Recently, a granular relativistic electrodynamical model of the electron could capture the measured values of its observables and predict its mass from the stability of its substructure. The model involves numerous subparticles that constitute some tight nucleus and loosely bound envelope allegedly forming real waves. The present study examines whether such a substructure and associated dynamics allow fundamentally realist interpretations of emblematic quantum phenomena, properties and principles, such as wave-particle duality, loss of objectivity, quantization, simultaneous multipath exploration, collapse of wavepacket, measurement problem, and entanglement. Drawing inspiration from non-linear dynamical systems, subparticles would involve realist hidden variables while high-level observables would not generally be determined, as particles would generally be in unstable states before measurements. Quantum mechanics would constitute a high-level probabilistic description emerging from an underlying causal, objective, local, albeit contextual and unpredictable reality. Altogether, by conceiving particles as granular systems composed of numerous extremely sensitive fluctuating subcorpuscles, this study proposes the possible existence of a local fundamentally realist interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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- Stéphane Avner
- CNRS, Univ. Rennes, IGDR-UMR 6290, F-35000 Rennes, France
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By means of Clifford Algebra, a unified language and tool to describe the rules of nature, this paper systematically discusses the dynamics and properties of spinor fields in curved space-time, such as the decomposition of the spinor connection, the classical approximation of the Dirac equation, the energy-momentum tensor of spinors and so on. To split the spinor connection into the Keller connection Υμ∈Λ1 and the pseudo-vector potential Ωμ∈Λ3 not only makes the calculation simpler, but also highlights their different physical meanings. The representation of the new spinor connection is dependent only on the metric, but not on the Dirac matrix. Only in the new form of connection can we clearly define the classical concepts for the spinor field and then derive its complete classical dynamics, that is, Newton’s second law of particles. To study the interaction between space-time and fermion, we need an explicit form of the energy-momentum tensor of spinor fields; however, the energy-momentum tensor is closely related to the tetrad, and the tetrad cannot be uniquely determined by the metric. This uncertainty increases the difficulty of deriving rigorous expression. In this paper, through a specific representation of tetrad, we derive the concrete energy-momentum tensor and its classical approximation. In the derivation of energy-momentum tensor, we obtain a spinor coefficient table Sabμν, which plays an important role in the interaction between spinor and gravity. From this paper we find that Clifford algebra has irreplaceable advantages in the study of geometry and physics.
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Oane M, Mahmood MA, Popescu AC. A State-of-the-Art Review on Integral Transform Technique in Laser-Material Interaction: Fourier and Non-Fourier Heat Equations. Materials (Basel) 2021; 14:ma14164733. [PMID: 34443257 PMCID: PMC8401693 DOI: 10.3390/ma14164733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Heat equations can estimate the thermal distribution and phase transformation in real-time based on the operating conditions and material properties. Such wonderful features have enabled heat equations in various fields, including laser and electron beam processing. The integral transform technique (ITT) is a powerful general-purpose semi-analytical/numerical method that transforms partial differential equations into a coupled system of ordinary differential equations. Under this category, Fourier and non-Fourier heat equations can be implemented on both equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermo-dynamical processes, including a wide range of processes such as the Two-Temperature Model, ultra-fast laser irradiation, and biological processes. This review article focuses on heat equation models, including Fourier and non-Fourier heat equations. A comparison between Fourier and non-Fourier heat equations and their generalized solutions have been discussed. Various components of heat equations and their implementation in multiple processes have been illustrated. Besides, literature has been collected based on ITT implementation in various materials. Furthermore, a future outlook has been provided for Fourier and non-Fourier heat equations. It was found that the Fourier heat equation is simple to use but involves infinite speed heat propagation in comparison to the non-Fourier heat equation and can be linked with the Two-Temperature Model in a natural way. On the other hand, the non-Fourier heat equation is complex and involves various unknowns compared to the Fourier heat equation. Fourier and Non-Fourier heat equations have proved their reliability in the case of laser-metallic materials, electron beam-biological and -inorganic materials, laser-semiconducting materials, and laser-graphene material interactions. It has been identified that the material properties, electron-phonon relaxation time, and Eigen Values play an essential role in defining the precise results of Fourier and non-Fourier heat equations. In the case of laser-graphene interaction, a restriction has been identified from ITT. When computations are carried out for attosecond pulse durations, the laser wavelength approaches the nucleus-first electron separation distance, resulting in meaningless results.
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- Mihai Oane
- National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Magurele, 077125 Ilfov, Romania;
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- National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Magurele, 077125 Ilfov, Romania;
- Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Magurele, 077125 Ilfov, Romania
- Correspondence: (M.A.M.); (A.C.P.); Tel.: +40-21-4574550 (ext. 2414/2423) (M.A.M. & A.C.P.)
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- National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Magurele, 077125 Ilfov, Romania;
- Correspondence: (M.A.M.); (A.C.P.); Tel.: +40-21-4574550 (ext. 2414/2423) (M.A.M. & A.C.P.)
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Tamm M. Is Causality a Necessary Tool for Understanding Our Universe, or Is It a Part of the Problem? Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:886. [PMID: 34356427 DOI: 10.3390/e23070886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this paper, the concept of causality in physics is discussed. Causality is a necessary tool for the understanding of almost all physical phenomena. However, taking it as a fundamental principle may lead us to wrong conclusions, particularly in cosmology. Here, three very well-known problems-the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the accelerating expansion and the asymmetry of time-are discussed from this perspective. In particular, the implications of causality are compared to those of an alternative approach, where we instead take the probability space of all possible developments as the starting point.
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The Carnot cycle and the attendant notions of reversibility and entropy are examined. It is shown how the modern view of these concepts still corresponds to the ideas Clausius laid down in the nineteenth century. As such, they reflect the outmoded idea, current at the time, that heat is motion. It is shown how this view of heat led Clausius to develop the entropy of a body based on the work that could be performed in a reversible process rather than the work that is actually performed in an irreversible process. In consequence, Clausius built into entropy a conflict with energy conservation, which is concerned with actual changes in energy. In this paper, reversibility and irreversibility are investigated by means of a macroscopic formulation of internal mechanisms of damping based on rate equations for the distribution of energy within a gas. It is shown that work processes involving a step change in external pressure, however small, are intrinsically irreversible. However, under idealised conditions of zero damping the gas inside a piston expands and traces out a trajectory through the space of equilibrium states. Therefore, the entropy change due to heat flow from the reservoir matches the entropy change of the equilibrium states. This trajectory can be traced out in reverse as the piston reverses direction, but if the external conditions are adjusted appropriately, the gas can be made to trace out a Carnot cycle in P-V space. The cycle is dynamic as opposed to quasi-static as the piston has kinetic energy equal in difference to the work performed internally and externally.
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- David Sands
- Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
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Jiang B, de Rijke C. Structural Beauty: A Structure-Based Computational Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image. J Imaging 2021; 7:jimaging7050078. [PMID: 34460674 PMCID: PMC8321336 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging7050078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Revised: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that beauty is largely subjective so varies from person to person. While the subjectivity view is commonly held, there is also an objectivity view that seeks to measure beauty or aesthetics in some quantitative manners. Christopher Alexander has long discovered that beauty or coherence highly correlates to the number of subsymmetries or substructures and demonstrated that there is a shared notion of beauty-structural beauty-among people and even different peoples, regardless of their faiths, cultures, and ethnicities. This notion of structural beauty arises directly out of living structure or wholeness, a physical and mathematical structure that underlies all space and matter. Based on the concept of living structure, this paper develops an approach for computing the structural beauty or life of an image (L) based on the number of automatically derived substructures (S) and their inherent hierarchy (H). To verify this approach, we conducted a series of case studies applied to eight pairs of images including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. We discovered among others that Blue Poles is more structurally beautiful than the Mona Lisa, and traditional buildings are in general more structurally beautiful than their modernist counterparts. This finding implies that goodness of things or images is largely a matter of fact rather than an opinion or personal preference as conventionally conceived. The research on structural beauty has deep implications on many disciplines, where beauty or aesthetics is a major concern such as image understanding and computer vision, architecture and urban design, humanities and arts, neurophysiology, and psychology.
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An ongoing debate in the first-principles description of conduction in molecular devices concerns the correct definition of current in the presence of non-local potentials. If the physical current density j=(−ieℏ/2m)(Ψ*∇Ψ−Ψ∇Ψ*) is not locally conserved but can be re-adjusted by a non-local term, which current should be regarded as real? Situations of this kind have been studied for example, for currents in saturated chains of alkanes, silanes and germanes, and in linear carbon wires. We prove that in any case the extended Maxwell equations by Aharonov-Bohm give the e.m. field generated by such currents without any ambiguity. In fact, the wave equations have the same source terms as in Maxwell theory, but the local non-conservation of charge leads to longitudinal radiative contributions of E, as well as to additional transverse radiative terms in both E and B. For an oscillating dipole we show that the radiated electrical field has a longitudinal component proportional to ωP^, where P^ is the anomalous moment ∫I^(x)xd3x and I^ is the space-dependent part of the anomaly I=∂tρ+∇·j. For example, if a fraction η of a charge q oscillating over a distance 2a lacks a corresponding current, the predicted maximum longitudinal field (along the oscillation axis) is EL,max=2ηω2qa/(c2r). In the case of a stationary current in a molecular device, a failure of local current conservation causes a “missing field” effect that can be experimentally observable, especially if its entity depends on the total current; in this case one should observe at a fixed position changes in the ratio B/i in dependence on i, in contrast with the standard Maxwell equations. The missing field effect is confirmed by numerical solutions of the extended equations, which also show the spatial distribution of the non-local term in the current.
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Zorick T, Gaines KD, Berenji GR, Mandelkern MA, Smith J. Information Transfer and Multifractal Analysis of EEG in Mild Blast-Induced TBI. Comput Math Methods Med 2021; 2021:6638724. [PMID: 33927783 PMCID: PMC8051525 DOI: 10.1155/2021/6638724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mild, blast-induced traumatic brain injury (mbTBI) is a common combat brain injury characterized by typically normal neuroimaging findings, with unpredictable future cognitive recovery. Traditional methods of electroencephalography (EEG) analysis (e.g., spectral analysis) have not been successful in detecting the degree of cognitive and functional impairment in mbTBI. We therefore collected resting state EEG (5 minutes, 64 leads) from twelve patients with a history of mbTBI, along with repeat neuropsychological testing (D-KEFS Tower test) to compare two new methods for analyzing EEG (multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) and information transfer modeling (ITM)) with spectral analysis. For MF-DFA, we extracted relevant parameters from the resultant multifractal spectrum from all leads and compared with traditional power by frequency band for spectral analysis. For ITM, because the number of parameters from each lead far exceeded the number of subjects, we utilized a reduced set of 10 leads which were compared with spectral analysis. We utilized separate 30 second EEG segments for training and testing statistical models based upon regression tree analysis. ITM and MF-DFA models both generally had improved accuracy at correlating with relevant measures of cognitive performance as compared to spectral analytic models ITM and MF-DFA both merit additional research as analytic tools for EEG and cognition in TBI.
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- Todd Zorick
- Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, USA
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- Greater Los Angeles VA Department of Nuclear Imaging, University of California, Irvine, USA
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- Greater Los Angeles VA Department of Nuclear Imaging, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, USA
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After a brief digression on the current landscape of theoretical physics and on some open questions pertaining to coherence with experimental results, still to be settled, it is shown that the properties of the deformed Minkowski space lead to a plurality of potential physical phenomena that should occur, provided that the resulting formalisms can be considered as useful models for the description of some aspects of physical reality. A list is given of available experimental evidence not easy to be interpreted, at present, by means of the more established models, such as the standard model with its variants aimed at overcoming its descriptive limits; this evidence could be useful to verify the predictions stemming from the properties of the deformed Minkowski space. The list includes anomalies in the double-slit-like experiments, nuclear metamorphosis, torsional antennas, as well as the physical effect of the “geometric vacuum” (as defined in analogy with quantum vacuum), in the absence of external electromagnetic field, when crossing critical thresholds of energy parameter values, energy density in space and energy density in time. Concrete opportunities are suggested for an experimental exploration of phenomena, either already performed but still lacking a widely accepted explanation, or conceivable in the application of the approach here presented, but not tackled until now. A tentative list is given with reference to experimental infrastructures already in operation, the performances of which can be expanded with limited additional resources.
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In this paper, we argue in favor of first-order homogeneous Lagrangians in the velocities. The relevant form of such Lagrangians is discussed and justified physically and geometrically. Such Lagrangian systems possess Reparametrization Invariance (RI) and explain the observed common Arrow of Time as related to the non-negative mass for physical particles. The extended Hamiltonian formulation, which is generally covariant and applicable to reparametrization-invariant systems, is emphasized. The connection between the explicit form of the extended Hamiltonian H and the meaning of the process parameter λ is illustrated. The corresponding extended Hamiltonian H defines the classical phase space-time of the system via the Hamiltonian constraint H=0 and guarantees that the Classical Hamiltonian H corresponds to p0—the energy of the particle when the coordinate time parametrization is chosen. The Schrödinger’s equation and the principle of superposition of quantum states emerge naturally. A connection is demonstrated between the positivity of the energy E=cp0>0 and the normalizability of the wave function by using the extended Hamiltonian that is relevant for the proper-time parametrization.
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Tripathi J, Vasu B, Subba Reddy Gorla R, Chamkha AJ, Murthy PVSN, Anwar Bég O. Blood Flow Mediated Hybrid Nanoparticles in Human Arterial System: Recent Research, Development and Applications. j nanofluids 2021. [DOI: 10.1166/jon.2021.1769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Blood flow dynamics contributes an elemental part in the formation and expansion of cardiovascular diseases in human body. Computational simulation of blood flow in the human arterial system has been widely used in recent decades for better understanding the symptomatic spectrum of
various diseases, in order to improve already existing or develop new therapeutic techniques. The characteristics of the blood flow in an artery can be changed significantly by arterial diseases, such as aneurysms and stenoses. The progress of atherosclerosis or stenosis in a blood vessel
is quite common which may be caused due to the addition of lipids in the arterial wall. Nanofluid is a colloidal mixture of nanometer sized (which ranges from 10–100 m) metallic and non-metallic particles in conventional fluid (such as water, oil). The delivery of nanoparticles is an
interesting and growing field in the development of diagnostics and remedies for blood flow complications. An enhancement of nano-drug delivery performance in biological systems, nanoparticles properties such as size, shape and surface characteristics can be regulated. Nanoparticle offers
remarkably advantages over the traditional drug delivery in terms of high specificity, high stability, high drug carrying capacity, ability for controlled release. Highly dependency has been found for their behavior under blood flow while checking for their ability to target and penetrate
tissues from the blood. In the field of nano-medicine, organic (including polymeric micelles and vesicles, liposomes) and inorganic (gold and mesoporous silica, copper) nanoparticles have been broadly studied as particular carriers because as drug delivery systems they delivered a surprising
achievement as a result of their biocompatibility with tissue and cells, their subcellular size, decreased toxicity and sustained release properties. For the extension of nanofluids research, the researchers have also tried to use hybrid nanofluid recently, which is synthesized by suspending
dissimilar nanoparticles either in mixture or composite form. The main idea behind using the hybrid nanofluid is to further improve the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics. Nanoparticles are helpful as drug carriers to minimize the effects of resistance impedance to blood flow
or coagulation factors due to stenosis. Discussed various robust approaches have been employed for the nanoparticle transport through blood in arterial system. The main objective of the paper is to provide a comprehensive review of computational simulations of blood flow containing hybrid-nanoparticles
as drug carriers in the arterial system of the human body. The recent developments and analysis of convective flow of particle-fluid suspension models for the axi-symmetric arterial bodies in hemodynamics are summarized. Detailed existing mathematical models for simulating blood flow with
nanoparticles in stenotic regions are reviewed. The review focuses on selected numerical simulations of physiological convective flows under various stenosis approximations and computation of the temperature, velocity, resistance impedance to flow, wall shear stress and the pressure gradient
with the corresponding boundary conditions. The current review also highlights that the drug carrier nanoparticles are efficient mechanisms for reducing hemodynamics of stenosis and could be helpful for other biomedical applications. The review considers flows through various stenoses and
the significances of numerical fluid mechanics in clinical medicine. The review examines nano-drug delivery systems, nanoparticles and describes recent computational simulations of nano-pharmacodynamics.
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- Jayati Tripathi
- Department of Mathematics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj 211004, U.P., India
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- Department of Mathematics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj 211004, U.P., India
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- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 45433, USA
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- Faculty of Engineering, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Doha District, 35004, Kuwait
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- Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Salford University, Salford, M54WT, UK
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Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are now widely used because of their synthesis compatibility and less toxicity in several biomedical applications such as cancer treatment. From the fluid mechanics point of view, we examine the behavior of a mixture of gold and Titanium Oxide nanoparticles, which suspended in the blood as a base fluid in the diseased coronary artery. The main goal of this paper is to examine and shed light on the hybrid nanofluid flows through a vertical diseased artery in the presence of the catheter tube with heat transfer. The mathematical model is established and then solved with the Laplace and the finite Hankel transforms. The inverse of the transformed functions has been calculated numerically. The velocity, the pressure, the impedance and the heat transfer are discussed graphically. It is noteworthy to mention that the mixture of the nanoparticles dispersed in the blood needs high pressure to push it. The impedance of blood is proportional to the overall volume concentration of the nanoparticles and Reynolds number.
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- M. A. EL KOT
- Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences and Arts, Dhahran Aljanoub, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Suez University, Suez, Egypt
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- University of Jeddah, College of Science and Arts at Khulis, Department of Mathematics, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University (Assiut Branch), Assiut, Egypt
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Porcelli EB, Filho VS. Trouton-Noble-like experiments on suspended capacitors. IOPSciNotes 2021. [DOI: 10.1088/2633-1357/abddc9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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We performed several measurements of angular velocities on a suspended monolayer capacitor subjected to high electric voltages. The experimental setup is similar to that reported by Trouton and Noble, but which presented negative results for the rotation of the device. The measurements were made without or with electromagnetic shielding in the capacitor. We measured a small torque on the device which caused its rotation in both configurations. The runs performed with and without electromagnetic shielding covering the capacitor, more or less insulation covering the elements of setup, several changes in the space separation between those elements and the small magnitude of the monitored current in the capacitor indicates that ion wind, electrostatic interaction and also the interaction with the Earth's magnetic field via leakage current cannot explain the magnitude of angular velocity or rotation effect. We hope that the data of our experiments can contribute for enhancement of understanding of the old puzzle.
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Architecture has an ancient relationship to mathematics, and symmetry—in the broad sense of the term—is a core topic of both. Yet the contemporary application of theories of symmetry to architecture and built environments is a surprisingly immature area of research. At the same time, research is showing a divergence between the benefits of and preferences for natural environments on the one hand, and built environments on the other, demonstrating relatively deleterious effects of many contemporary built environments. Yet the research cannot yet pinpoint the actual geometric factors of architecture and urbanism that could produce such an important divergence. This paper explores this research gap, surveying the literature across a range of fields, and assessing current evidence for the impacts of symmetry in the built environment upon human perception and well-being. As an emerging case study, it considers the recent work by Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros, two trained mathematicians who have made notable contributions to architecture and urbanism. The conclusion proposes a new research agenda toward further development of this immature subject area.
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Recent tests measured an irrotational (curl-free) magnetic vector potential (A) that is contrary to classical electrodynamics (CED). A (irrotational) arises in extended electrodynamics (EED) that is derivable from the Stueckelberg Lagrangian. A (irrotational) implies an irrotational (gradient-driven) electrical current density, J. Consequently, EED is gauge-free and provably unique. EED predicts a scalar field that equals the quantity usually set to zero as the Lorenz gauge, making A and the scalar potential () independent and physically-measureable fields. EED predicts a scalar-longitudinal wave (SLW) that has an electric field along the direction of propagation together with the scalar field, carrying both energy and momentum. EED also predicts the scalar wave (SW) that carries energy without momentum. EED predicts that the SLW and SW are unconstrained by the skin effect, because neither wave has a magnetic field that generates dissipative eddy currents in electrical conductors. The novel concept of a “gradient-driven” current is a key feature of US Patent 9,306,527 that disclosed antennas for SLW generation and reception. Preliminary experiments have validated the SLW’s no-skin-effect constraint as a potential harbinger of new technologies, a possible explanation for poorly understood laboratory and astrophysical phenomena, and a forerunner of paradigm revolutions.
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Yock P. Comparison of Rutherford’s atomic model with the Standard Model of particle physics and other models. J R Soc N Z 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2020.1848888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Philip Yock
- Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Hatsugai T, Nakayama R, Tomura S, Akiyoshi R, Nishitsuka S, Nakamura R, Takeya S, Ohmura R. Development and Continuous Operation of a Bench‐Scale System for the Production of O
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Hydrates. Chem Eng Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ceat.202000044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Tomomi Hatsugai
- IHI Corporation, 1 Shin-Nakahara-Cho, Isogo-ku 235-8501 Yokohama Japan
- Keio University Department of Mechanical Engineering 223-8522 Yokohama Japan
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- IHI Corporation, 1 Shin-Nakahara-Cho, Isogo-ku 235-8501 Yokohama Japan
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- IHI Plant Services Corporation Toyosu IHI Bldg., 1-1, Toyosu 3-chome, Koto-ku 135-0061 Tokyo Japan
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- IHI Plant Services Corporation Toyosu IHI Bldg., 1-1, Toyosu 3-chome, Koto-ku 135-0061 Tokyo Japan
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- IHI Plant Services Corporation Toyosu IHI Bldg., 1-1, Toyosu 3-chome, Koto-ku 135-0061 Tokyo Japan
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- IHI Plant Services Corporation Toyosu IHI Bldg., 1-1, Toyosu 3-chome, Koto-ku 135-0061 Tokyo Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Central 5, 1-1-1, Higashi 305-85654 Tsukuba Japan
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- Keio University Department of Mechanical Engineering 223-8522 Yokohama Japan
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Since early cybernetics studies by Wiener, Pask, and Ashby, the properties of living systems are subject to deep investigations. The goals of this endeavour are both understanding and building: abstract models and general principles are sought for describing organisms, their dynamics and their ability to produce adaptive behavior. This research has achieved prominent results in fields such as artificial intelligence and artificial life. For example, today we have robots capable of exploring hostile environments with high level of self-sufficiency, planning capabilities and able to learn. Nevertheless, the discrepancy between the emergence and evolution of life and artificial systems is still huge. In this paper, we identify the fundamental elements that characterize the evolution of the biosphere and open-ended evolution, and we illustrate their implications for the evolution of artificial systems. Subsequently, we discuss the most relevant issues and questions that this viewpoint poses both for biological and artificial systems.
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- Andrea Roli
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Campus of Cesena, I-47522 Cesena, Italy
- European Centre for Living Technology, I-30123 Venezia, Italy
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Khan U, Shafiq A, Zaib A, Sherif EM, Baleanu D. MHD Radiative Blood Flow Embracing Gold Particles via a Slippery Sheet through an Erratic Heat Sink/Source. Mathematics 2020; 8:1597. [DOI: 10.3390/math8091597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Cancer remains one of the world’s leading healthcare issues, and attempts continue not only to find new medicines but also to find better ways of distributing medications. It is harmful and lethal to most of its patients. The need to selectively deliver cytotoxic agents to cancer cells, to enhance protection and efficacy, has prompted the implementation of nanotechnology in medicine. The latest findings have found that gold nanomaterials can heal and conquer it because the material is studied such as gold (atomic number 79) which produces a large amount of heat and contribute to the therapy of malignant tumors. The purpose of the present study is to research the consequence of heat transport through blood flow (Casson model) that contains gold particles in a slippery shrinking/stretching curved surface. The mathematical modeling of Casson nanofluid containing gold nanomaterials towards the slippery curved shrinking/stretching surface is simplified by utilizing suitable transformation. Numerical dual solutions for the temperature and velocity fields are calculated by using bvp4c methodology in MATLAB. Impacts of related parameters are investigated in the temperature and velocity distribution. The results indicate that the suction parameter accelerates the velocity in the upper branch solution and decelerates it in the lower branch solution, while the temperature diminishes in both solutions. In addition, the Casson parameter shrinks the thickness of the velocity boundary-layer owing to rapid enhancement in the plastic dynamics’ viscosity. Moreover, the nanoparticle volume fraction accelerates the viscosity of blood as well as the thermal conductivity. Thus, findings suggested that gold nanomaterials are useful for drug moving and delivery mechanisms since the velocity boundary is regulated by the volume fraction parameter. Gold nanomaterials also raise the temperature field, so that cancer cells can be destroyed.
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Lucia U, Grisolia G, Kuzemsky AL. Time, Irreversibility and Entropy Production in Nonequilibrium Systems. Entropy (Basel) 2020; 22:e22080887. [PMID: 33286657 PMCID: PMC7517493 DOI: 10.3390/e22080887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of this review is to shed light on time and irreversibility, in order to link macroscopic to microscopic approaches to these complicated problems. After a brief summary of the standard notions of thermodynamics, we introduce some considerations about certain fundamental aspects of temporal evolution of out-of-equilibrium systems. Our focus is on the notion of entropy generation as the marked characteristic of irreversible behaviour. The concept of time and the basic aspects of the thermalization of thermal radiation, due to the interaction of thermal radiation with matter, are explored concisely from complementary perspectives. The implications and relevance of time for the phenomenon of thermal radiation and irreversible thermophysics are carefully discussed. The concept of time is treated from a different viewpoint, in order to make it as clear as possible in relation to its different fundamental problems.
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- Umberto Lucia
- Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-011-090-4558
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- Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy;
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- Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia;
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There is extensive evidence today linking exposure to natural environments to favorable changes in mental and even physical health. There is also a growing body of work indicating that there are specific geometric properties of natural scenes that mediate these effects, and that these properties can also be found in artificial structures like buildings, especially those designed before the emergence of modernism. These geometries are also associated with aesthetic preference–we seem to like what is good for us. Here, using a questionnaire-based survey, we have tried to elucidate some of the parameters that play a role in formulating a preference for one form over the other. The images used were nature scenes from the Alpine landscape with various manipulations to alter their complexity, or with additions of computer graphics or various buildings. In all cases, the presence of a natural scaling hierarchy and of either fractal graphics or of ornate, non-local pre-modern buildings was always preferable to the alternative. We discuss these findings under the light of recent evidence in the field and conclude that they support the idea of the existence of a preference of our perceptive system for certain types of visual organization.
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- Alexandros A. Lavdas
- Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, Italy
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- Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Salingaros NA, Sussman A. Biometric Pilot-Studies Reveal the Arrangement and Shape of Windows on a Traditional Façade to be Implicitly “Engaging”, Whereas Contemporary Façades are Not. Urban Science 2020; 4:26. [DOI: 10.3390/urbansci4020026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The human brain evolved to implicitly approach or avoid objects in its surroundings. Requisite for survival, this behavior happens without conscious awareness or control, honed over 60 million years of primate evolution. Biometric technologies, including eye tracking, reveal these unconscious behaviors at work and allow us to predict the initial response of a design experience. This paper shows how a biometric tool, 3M-VAS (Visual Attention Software), can be effectively used in architecture. This tool aggregates 30 years of eye-tracking data, and is commonly applied in website and signage design. A pilot-study uses simplified drawings of building elevations to show 3M-VAS’s predictive power in revealing implicit human responses of engagement and disengagement to buildings. The implications on the impact of a structure in creating the public realm suggest recommendations for approving new architecture.
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Dannenberg R. Position Dependent Planck’s Constant in a Frequency-Conserving Schrödinger Equation. Symmetry (Basel) 2020; 12:490. [DOI: 10.3390/sym12040490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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There is controversial evidence that Planck’s constant shows unexpected variations with altitude above the earth due to Kentosh and Mohageg, and yearly systematic changes with the orbit of the earth about the sun due to Hutchin. Many others have postulated that the fundamental constants of nature are not constant, either in locally flat reference frames, or on larger scales. This work is a mathematical study examining the impact of a position dependent Planck’s constant in the Schrödinger equation. With no modifications to the equation, the Hamiltonian becomes a non-Hermitian radial frequency operator. The frequency operator does not conserve normalization, time evolution is no longer unitary, and frequency eigenvalues can be complex. The wavefunction must continually be normalized at each time in order that operators commuting with the frequency operator produce constants of the motion. To eliminate these problems, the frequency operator is replaced with a symmetrizing anti-commutator so that it is once again Hermitian. It is found that particles statistically avoid regions of higher Planck’s constant in the absence of an external potential. Frequency is conserved, and the total frequency equals “kinetic frequency” plus “potential frequency”. No straightforward connection to classical mechanics is found, that is, the Ehrenfest’s theorems are more complicated, and the usual quantities related by them can be complex or imaginary. Energy is conserved only locally with small gradients in Planck’s constant. Two Lagrangian densities are investigated to determine whether they result in a classical field equation of motion resembling the frequency-conserving Schrödinger equation. The first Largrangian is the “energy squared” form, the second is a “frequency squared” form. Neither reproduces the target equation, and it is concluded that the frequency-conserving Schrödinger equation may defy deduction from field theory.
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Conti S, Neilson D, Peeters FM, Perali A. Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as Strategy for High Temperature Electron-Hole Superfluidity. Condensed Matter 2020; 5:22. [DOI: 10.3390/condmat5010022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Condensation of spatially indirect excitons, with the electrons and holes confined in two separate layers, has recently been observed in two different double layer heterostructures. High transition temperatures were reported in a double Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer system. We briefly review electron-hole double layer systems that have been proposed as candidates for this interesting phenomenon. We investigate the double TMD system WSe 2 /hBN/MoSe 2 , using a mean-field approach that includes multiband effects due to the spin-orbit coupling and self-consistent screening of the electron-hole Coulomb interaction. We demonstrate that the transition temperature observed in the double TMD monolayers, which is remarkably high relative to the other systems, is the result of (i) the large electron and hole effective masses in TMDs, (ii) the large TMD band gaps, and (iii) the presence of multiple superfluid condensates in the TMD system. The net effect is that the superfluidity is strong across a wide range of densities, which leads to high transition temperatures that extend as high as T B K T = 150 K.
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Egoavil CM, Tuells J, Carreras JJ, Montagud E, Pastor-Villalba E, Caballero P, Nolasco A. Trends of Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Reports of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in the Valencian Community—Spain (2008–2018). Vaccines (Basel) 2020; 8:vaccines8010117. [PMID: 32131535 PMCID: PMC7157534 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines8010117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vaccine safety surveillance is essential in vaccination programs. We accomplished a descriptive study of surveillance AEFI-reporting rate in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine administered in the Valencian Community, Spain. Data were obtained from Spanish Pharmacovigilance Adverse Reactions Data (FEDRA). Reporting rates were calculated using local net doses distributed as the denominator. Trends were assessed using joinpoint regression with annual percent change (APC) reported. The AEFI-reports decreased between 2008 and 2018 in two periods, a fast decreasing rate from 2009 to 2011 (from 192.2 to 24.93 per 100000 doses; APC, −54.9%; 95%CI [−75.2; −17.7]), followed by a stable trend (−13% APC, 95%CI [−26.1; 2.4]). For the age group analysis, only the group aged 14–15 years old followed the same trend with -58.4% (95%CI [−73.9; −33.8]) APC during 2008–2011, and −8.8% (95%CI [−27.7; 15]) APC during 2011-2018. The majority of the reports (73.82%) were nonserious, involving reactions at or near the vaccination site, headache, and dizziness events. No death was reported. AEFI-reporting rates for HPV immunization in the Valencian Community have decreased considerably with two trend periods observed for girls aged 14–15 years old. Currently, the AEFI reporting rate shows a decreasing trend, perhaps following the Weber effect, and it could also be affected by media attention and coverage.
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- Cecilia M. Egoavil
- Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, 03010 Alicante, Spain;
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- Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain; (P.C.); (A.N.)
- Correspondence:
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- Centro de Farmacovigilancia de la Comunidad Valenciana, Dirección General de Farmacia y Productos Sanitarios, Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública, 46010 Valencia, Spain;
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- Hospital Universitario del Vinalopó, Elche, 03293 Alicante, Spain;
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- Dirección General de Salud Pública y Adicciones. Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública, 46021 Valencia, Spain;
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- Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain; (P.C.); (A.N.)
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- Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain; (P.C.); (A.N.)
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Irwin K, Amaral M, Chester D. The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Entropy (Basel) 2020; 22:E247. [PMID: 33286021 DOI: 10.3390/e22020247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2020] [Revised: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obeying the principle of efficient language axiom. This leads to ontological interpretations about quantum mechanics. We also discuss some implications of the self-simulation hypothesis such as an informational arrow of time.
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Zwirn H. The measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics: Convivial Solipsism. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202024401010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The problem of measurement is often considered an inconsistency inside the quantum formalism. Many attempts to solve (or to dissolve) it have been made since the inception of quantum mechanics. The form of these attempts depends on the philosophical position that their authors endorse. I will review some of them and analyze their relevance. In this paper, I defend a new position, the “Convivial Solipsism”, according to which the outcome that is observed is relative to the observer, different but in close parallel to the Everett’s interpretation and sharing also some similarities with Rovelli’s relational interpretation and Quantum Bayesianism. I also show how “Convivial Solipsism” can help getting a new standpoint about the EPR paradox providing a way out of the seemingly unavoidable non-locality of quantum mechanics.
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We study the behaviour of a superconductor in a weak static gravitational field for temperatures slightly greater than its transition temperature (fluctuation regime). Making use of the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equations, we find a possible short time alteration of the static gravitational field in the vicinity of the superconductor, providing also a qualitative behaviour in the weak field condition. Finally, we compare the behaviour of various superconducting materials, investigating which parameters could enhance the gravitational field alteration.
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Rosada A, Cardone F, Avino P. The astonishing 63Ni radioactivity reduction in radioactive wastes by means of ultrasounds application. SN Appl Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-1391-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Vujanac A, Srejovic I, Zivkovic V, Jeremic N, Jeremic J, Bolevich S, Bolevich S, Jakovljevic V. Quantum nature of consciousness - Double slit diffraction experiment in medicine. Med Hypotheses 2019; 133:109382. [PMID: 31470243 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The essence of our hypothesis is quantum properties of conscious processes as well as the possibility to measure changes in conscious attention by using quantum double-slit experiment. We supposed that the act of observing in state of focused attention cause a wave function collapse in double-slit diffraction. In order to test the hypothesis, 26 participants took part in the study divided into physical and physiological parts of the experiment. The purpose of the physical system was to reproduce the brain quantum process via hypothesized quantum entanglement. The physical part consisted of a red laser source, neutral density filter, double-slit diaphragm, and linear couple charged camera, while the physiological part of the experiment was significant for the physiological quantifying state of attention. Physiological data were collected by using 29 channel electrophysiological unit with 21 channel electroencephalograph. The study had control and experimental group according to dependent variables measured in the physical part of the experiment. The data in the experimental group were collected over ten studies (sessions). Results obtained in hypothesis testing showed significant increases in corpuscular properties of the electromagnetic wave as well as significant quantum entanglement between the brain and external double-slit quantum system. Our results also offer insight into the connection between the chaotic dynamic of the electroencephalographic signals and uncertainty in the physical system due to focused attention effect. We also hypothesized that the state of concentrated attention was highest during the first several seconds. The last hypothesis considered possible backward time referral effect of cognitive evoked potential p300.
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Walleczek J, von Stillfried N. False-Positive Effect in the Radin Double-Slit Experiment on Observer Consciousness as Determined With the Advanced Meta-Experimental Protocol. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1891. [PMID: 31507481 PMCID: PMC6714546 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Prior work by Radin et al. (2012, 2016) reported the astonishing claim that an anomalous effect on double-slit (DS) light-interference intensity had been measured as a function of quantum-based observer consciousness. Given the radical implications, could there exist an alternative explanation, other than an anomalous consciousness effect, such as artifacts including systematic methodological error (SME)? To address this question, a conceptual replication study involving 10,000 test trials was commissioned to be performed blindly by the same investigator who had reported the original results. The commissioned study performed confirmatory and strictly predictive tests with the advanced meta-experimental protocol (AMP), including with systematic negative controls and the concept of the sham-experiment, i.e., counterfactual meta-experimentation. Whereas the replication study was unable to confirm the original results, the AMP was able to identify an unacceptably low true-negative detection rate with the sham-experiment in the absence of test subjects. The false-positive detection rate reached 50%, whereby the false-positive effect, which would be indistinguishable from the predicted true-positive effect, was significant at p = 0.021 (σ = -2.02; N = 1,250 test trials). The false-positive effect size was about 0.01%, which is within an-order-of-magnitude of the claimed consciousness effect (0.001%; Radin et al., 2016). The false-positive effect, which indicates the presence of significant SME in the Radin DS-experiment, suggests that skepticism should replace optimism concerning the radical claim that an anomalous quantum consciousness effect has been observed in a controlled laboratory setting.
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Hajizadeh A, Shah NA, Zaman FD, Animasaun IL. Analysis of Natural Convection Bionanofluid Between Two Vertical Parallel Plates. BioNanoSci 2019; 9:930-6. [DOI: 10.1007/s12668-019-00668-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Sabbadini SA, Vitiello G. Entanglement and Phase-Mediated Correlations in Quantum Field Theory. Application to Brain-Mind States. Applied Sciences 2019; 9:3203. [DOI: 10.3390/app9153203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The entanglement phenomenon plays a central role in quantum optics and in basic aspects of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. We review the dissipative quantum model of brain and the role of the entanglement in the brain-mind activity correlation and in the formation of assemblies of coherently-oscillating neurons, which are observed to appear in different regions of the cortex by use of EEG, ECoG, fNMR, and other observational methods in neuroscience.
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The origin of terrestrial bioorganic homochirality is one of the most important and unresolved problems in the study of chemical evolution prior to the origin of terrestrial life. One hypothesis advocated in the context of astrobiology is that polarized quantum radiation in space, such as circularly polarized photons or spin-polarized leptons, induced asymmetric chemical and physical conditions in the primitive interstellar media (the cosmic scenario). Another advocated hypothesis in the context of symmetry breaking in the universe is that the bioorganic asymmetry is intrinsically derived from the chiral asymmetric properties of elementary particles, that is, parity violation in the weak interaction (the intrinsic scenario). In this paper, the features of these two scenarios are discussed and approaches to validate them are reviewed.
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The basic concepts of exterior calculus for space–time multivectors are presented: Interior and exterior products, interior and exterior derivatives, oriented integrals over hypersurfaces, circulation and flux of multivector fields. Two Stokes theorems relating the exterior and interior derivatives with circulation and flux, respectively, are derived. As an application, it is shown how the exterior-calculus space–time formulation of the electromagnetic Maxwell equations and Lorentz force recovers the standard vector-calculus formulations, in both differential and integral forms.
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Christopher Alexander published his longest and arguably most philosophical work, The Nature of Order, beginning in 2003. Early criticism assessed that text to be a speculative failure; at best, unrelated to Alexander’s earlier, mathematically grounded work. On the contrary, this review presents evidence that the newer work was a logically consistent culmination of a lifelong and remarkably useful inquiry into part-whole relations—an ancient but still-relevant and even urgent topic of design, architecture, urbanism, and science. Further evidence demonstrates that Alexander’s practical contributions are remarkably prodigious beyond architecture, in fields as diverse as computer science, biology and organization theory, and that these contributions continue today. This review assesses the potential for more particular contributions to the urban professions from the later work, and specifically, to an emerging “science of cities.” It examines the practical, as well as philosophical contributions of Alexander’s proposed tools and methodologies for the design process, considering both their quantitative and qualitative aspects, and their potential compatibility with other tools and strategies now emerging from the science of cities. Finally, it highlights Alexander’s challenge to an architecture profession that seems increasingly isolated, mired in abstraction, and incapable of effectively responding to larger technological and philosophical challenges.
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In systems with non-local potentials or other kinds of non-locality, the Landauer-Büttiker formula of quantum transport leads to replacing the usual gauge-invariant current density
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which has a non-local part and coincides with the current of the extended Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics. It follows that the electromagnetic field generated by this current can have some peculiar properties and in particular the electric field of an oscillating dipole can have a long-range longitudinal component. The calculation is complex because it requires the evaluation of double-retarded integrals. We report the outcome of some numerical integrations with specific parameters for the source: dipole length ∼10−7 cm, frequency 10 GHz. The resulting longitudinal field
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