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From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz, Yaroslav Mudryk, Jun Cui, Lucas Griffith, Duane D. Johnson, Julie Slaughter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Whence philosophy of biology? [PDF]

, 2006
A consensus exists among contemporary philosophers of biology about the history of their field. According to the received view, mainstream philosophy of science in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s focused on physics and general epistemology, neglecting analyses ...
Byron (formerly Baker), Jason M.
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Advanced Techniques for Scalable Woven E‐Textiles Manufacturing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in scalable weaving techniques for e‐textiles, emphasizing innovations in multilayer structures, conductive yarn integration, and loom modifications. It summarizes emerging materials, fabrication strategies, and performance considerations that enable reliable, durable, and industrially scalable woven electronic ...
Faisal Abedin, Seonyoung Youn, Amanda C. Mills   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor in Analytic Philosophy and Cognitive Science [PDF]

, 2019
This article surveys theories of metaphor in analytic philosophy and cognitive science. In particular, it focuses on contemporary semantic, pragmatic and non-cognitivist theories of linguistic metaphor and on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory advanced by ...
Mácha, Jakub
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Wireless Power Transfer Modalities for Implantable Bioelectronics: Electromagnetic, Acoustic, and Magneto‐Dynamic Perspectives

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review traces the evolution of wireless power transfer (WPT) for implantable medical devices, spanning electromagnetic, magnetoelectric, acoustic, and magneto‐dynamic systems. Quantitative comparisons of power, distance, and device scale highlight trade‐offs across modalities, while emerging hybrid mechanisms reveal strategies to overcome ...
Junyeop Kim, Yoonseok Park
wiley   +1 more source

FROM ARISTOTELIANISM TO EXISTENTIALISM: THE PROBLEM OF BEING [PDF]

, 2016
Being has been the central and dominating concept of twenty-five hundred years of Western philosophy. Ontology is the branch of metaphysics that concerns itself with the nature of being.
Sfekas, Stanley
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End‐to‐End Sensing Systems for Breast Cancer: From Wearables for Early Detection to Lab‐Based Diagnosis Chips

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane, Lyn I. Jones, Richard M. Martin, Helen Winter, Faezeh Arab Hassani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmicity of Evolutionary Algorithms

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
In the first part of our article we will refer the penetration of scientific terms into colloquial language, focusing on the sense in which the concept of an algorithm currently functions outside its original scope.
Leciejewski Sławomir, Szynkiewicz Mariusz   +1 more
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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [PDF]

, 2010
A substantial school in the philosophy of science identifies Bayesian inference with inductive inference and even rationality as such, and seems to be strengthened by the rise and practical success of Bayesian statistics.
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Development of Heat Engines Powered by Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fiber Actuators

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Continuously rotating engines driven by thermally responsive actuating materials can turn waste heat into useful energy. For the first time heat engines operated by twisted and coiled polymer fiber actuators are demonstrated with engine design guided by two simple analytical models.
Geoffrey M. Spinks, Burhan Bin Asghar Abbasi, Zhen Jiang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source