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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM: A CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION
Zygon, 1987 . The problem of freedom of the will and determinism is one of the most intriguing and difficult in the whole area of philosophy. It constüutes a paradox.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This work develops dynamically softening polyacrylamide hydrogels for time‐resolved imaging during continuous mechanical transitions. The study revealed that mechanotransduction is biphasic; YAP/TAZ inactivation is driven by early loss of the nucleocytoskeletal continuum connecting subnuclear adhesions, F‐actin, and the nuclear envelope, coupled with ...
Alessandro Gandin +12 more
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History, Crucial Choices and Equilibrium [PDF]
This paper discusses alternative conceptions of time and scrutinises the ideas of crucial choice, determinism and equilibrium. The relevant notion is that of historical time, where time is seen as irreversible, flowing from the irrevocable past to an ...
Rogerio P. Andrade
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Helix Alignment, Chevrons, and Edge Dislocations in Twist‐Bend Ferroelectric Nematics
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The recently discovered twist‐bend ferroelectric nematic (NTBF) is the new member of the multiferroic family, representing a fluid with an oblique helicoidal (heliconical) periodic structure of spontaneous electric polarization. The work presents a thorough exploration of the material properties of this phase, how the periodic modulation of ...
Bijaya Basnet +8 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study reveals that maternal antibiotic exposure prior to conception disrupts intergenerational gut microbial succession. By enhancing maternal‐offspring microbial transmission, altering microbial developmental trajectories and increasing selective pressures during community assembly, these disturbances lead to persistent gut mucosal immaturity and
Yuzhu Chen +8 more
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Free Will and Neural Determinism*
Korean Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013 The development of neuroscience and brain science makes people express the way of thinking based on brain centrism or neural centrism. Brain centrism or neural centrism may wrongly lead us to think that a brain is identified with a self in itself. Neural determinism is a strongest and most extended version of physicalism than a physicalist’s account ...
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Triboelectric charge generation at polymer‐metal interfaces arises from the interplay of intra‐ and inter transformation reactions of mechanochemically generated species, physical properties of polymers, environmental conditions. The direction and the magnitude of electron transfer between metal and polymer are dynamically governed by the relative ...
Sunay Dilara Ekim +4 more
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Johan Dahlbeck, Education and Free Will: Spinoza, Causal Determinism and Moral Formation
Astérion, 2019 Camille Chevalier
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