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The Substitution Principle Revisited [PDF]
In their Anachronic Renaissance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood identify two principles upon which, in fifteenth-century Europe, a work of art might establish its validity or authority: substitution and performance. It has become established wisdom
Stejskal, Jakub
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Patterns of Growth: Operationalizing Alexander’s “Web Way of Thinking”
Christopher Alexander was often characterized—and sometimes seemed to characterize himself—as “sui generis,” a radical and perhaps even eccentric thinker on architecture, technology, culture, and nature.
Michael W. Mehaffy
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Christopher Alexander Thomas, “Globalising sovereignty”? Pettit's neo-republicanism, international law, and international institutions (“Globalna suwereność”?
Lucyna Staniszewska
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All unital qubit channels are $4$-noisy operations [PDF]
We show that any unital qubit channel can be implemented by letting the input system interact unitarily with a $4$-dimensional environment in the maximally mixed state and then tracing out the environment.
Müller-Hermes, Alexander +1 more
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La recepción humboldtiana de Cristóbal Colón
This article explores Alexander von Humboldt’s reception of Christopher Columbus as a historical figure, mainly in his Relation historique and in his Examen critique.
Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky
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An experimental study of interceptors for drag reduction on high-performance sailing yachts [PDF]
Interceptors have been widely used in recent years in fast ferries and small high-speed leisure and commercial craft for ride and trim control, and steering.
Cooper, Christopher, Day, Alexander H.
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Christopher Alexander and His Life’s Work: The Nature of Order
This editorial briefly introduces Christopher Alexander, as a theorist, as a design practitioner, as an architect, and importantly as a scientist, as well as his life’s work—The Nature of Order—focusing not only on the trinity of ...
Bin Jiang
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Analyzing the Concept of Place Attachment In The Context of Spatıal Factors: Kuzguncuk, Istanbul
In contemporary globalised cities it has become increasingly important, for those of us who live in monotonous so-called cloned-environments, to find a sense of place we can identify with.
Dilek Özdemir Darby, Tuğçe Özata
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Fluorescence image of the coronal slice of mouse brain where multiple neurochemicals have been measured in vivo with a nanodialysis platform coupled to CE‐MS to reveal strong millimeter‐scale spatial chemical gradients. Formation and maintenance of such local chemical compartments in the otherwise diffusion‐homogeneous cortex indicates strong ...
Weihua Shi +5 more
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Assessing Alexander’s Later Contributions to a Science of Cities
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 ...
Michael W. Mehaffy
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