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Game changers in science and technology- now and beyond

The recent devastating pandemic has drastically reminded humanity of the importance of constant scientific and technological progress. A strong interdisciplinary dialogue between academic and industrial scientists of various specialties, entrepreneurs, man ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Emotions in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey

Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research explorin ...

Routledge2023

First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

We recently put forward an argument, the Unfolding Argument (UA), that integrated information theory (IIT) and other causal structure theories are either already falsified or unfalsifiable, which provoked significant criticism. It seems that we and the cri ...

Elsevier2022

Einstein-Cartan gravity, matter, and scale-invariant generalization

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, Sebastian Zell

We study gravity coupled to scalar and fermion fields in the Einstein-Cartan framework. We discuss the most general form of the action that contains terms of mass dimension not bigger than four, leaving out only contributions quadratic in curvature. By res ...

Springer Nature2020

Formal Approaches to Querying Big Data in Shared-Nothing Systems

Bas Ketsman

To meet today's data management needs, it is a widespread practice to use distributed data storage and processing systems. Since the publication of the MapReduce paradigm, a plethora of such systems arose, but although widespread, the capabilities of these ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

From experimental evidence to mechanical modeling and design expressions: The Critical Shear Crack Theory for shear design

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Many research efforts have so far been devoted to the topic of shear design of members without transverse reinforcement since the first development in structural concrete. This has allowed a number of significant advances in the understanding of the phenom ...

2019

The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness

Michael Herzog, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

How can we explain consciousness? This question has become a vibrant topic of neuroscience research in recent decades. A large body of empirical results has been accumulated, and many theories have been proposed. Certain theories suggest that consciousness ...

2019

The Unfolding Argument: Why Recurrent Processing Cannot Explain Consciousness

Michael Herzog, Aaron Schurger, Adrien Christophe Doerig

Neuroscientific theories aim to explain paradigm cases of consciousness such as masking, binocular rivalry or the transition from dreamless sleep to wakefulness. The most popular theories are based on computational principles. Recurrent processing is a key ...

2018

A Proposition for a Design Method of Service Systems

Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

This research is in the domain of service science and proposes a method for designing service systems. We consider three levels of design – individual, organizational, and implementation. The proposed design method links these three levels by explicit inpu ...

2017

Gauging nonrelativistic field theories using the coset construction

Alexander Monin, Georgios Karananas

We discuss how nonrelativistic spacetime symmetries can be gauged in the context of the coset construction. We consider theories invariant under the centrally extended Galilei algebra as well as the Lifshitz one, and we investigate under what conditions th ...

American Physical Society2016

Why our best theories of perception lead to Anti-reductionism

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig

Basic percepts and observation sentences, such as "the voltmeter is at 7A", provide the ground truth for realistic theories. Reduction is the second backbone of these theories linking, for example, neuroscience to physics. First, we will show, by mathemati ...

2016

Emergent Lorentz invariance with chiral fermions

Sergey Sibiryakov

We study the renormalization group flow in strongly interacting field theories in the fermion sector corresponding to the transition from theories without a Lorentz invariance at high energies to theories with an approximate Lorentz invariance in the infra ...

Springer Verlag2016

The early German production and use of modern hydraulic binders: between English influences and the search for a scientific approach, 1817-1839

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

Construction History Society2014

Euler-Poincare Approaches to Nematodynamics

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

Nematodynamics is the orientation dynamics of flowless liquid-crystals. We show how Euler-Poincar, reduction produces a unifying framework for various theories, including Ericksen-Leslie, Luhiller-Rey, and Eringen's micropolar theory. In particular, we sho ...

Springer Netherlands2012

The levels-of-approximation approach in MC 2010: application to punching shear provisions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

In order to address how new knowledge influences design expressions, design codes have in most cases become significantly more complex over the last decades. However, this tendency is leading to codes that are too complicated for preliminary design but sti ...

Structural Concrete2012

Viollet-le-Duc, architetto

Giulia Chemolli

The purpose of the thesis is to fill a gap in the publications about Viollet-le-Duc, outlining his profile as an architect through a chronological study of his projects, whether built or not, of his theoretic writings and, when useful, of his restoration w ...

EPFL2011

Chemical Biology Approaches to Membrane Homeostasis and Function

Kai Johnsson, Christian Heinis, Gerardo Turcatti, Luc Reymond, Howard Riezman, Stefan Matile

The study of membranes is at a turning point. New theories about membrane structure and function have recently been proposed, however, new technologies, combining chemical, physical, and biochemical approaches are necessary to test these hypotheses. In par ...

2011

On inconsistent entities. A reply to Colyvan

Francesco Piazza

In a recent article M. Colyvan has argued that Quinean forms of scientific realism are faced with an unexpected upshot. Realism concerning a given class of entities, along with this route to realism, can be vindicated by running an indispensability argumen ...

2010

Analyse non-linéaire des coques géodésiques multicouches à joints semi-rigides

Julius Natterer

In the 90ies the IBOIS-EPFL developed a new kind of shell structure. The ribs were made with simple boards waved together to form a spatial rib shell. However, the engineer currently does not have any effective method to calculate these kinds of spatial st ...

EPFL2010

Mathematicals Models in Science and Engineering

Alfio Quarteroni

Mathematical models, along with scientific theory and practical experiments, are a crucial part of modern engineering and science. The author takes a look at the role mathematical models play in topics ranging from vascular simulation to weather forecastin ...

2009