scholarly journals Complex pathways and memory in compressed corrugated sheets

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (50) ◽  
pp. e2111436118
Author(s):  
Hadrien Bense ◽  
Martin van Hecke
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Complex Materials ◽  
Elementary Computation ◽  
Binary State ◽  
Transition Pathways ◽  
Disordered Magnets ◽  
Amorphous Media ◽  
And Control ◽  
Elastic Sheets

The nonlinear response of driven complex materials—disordered magnets, amorphous media, and crumpled sheets—features intricate transition pathways where the system repeatedly hops between metastable states. Such pathways encode memory effects and may allow information processing, yet tools are lacking to experimentally observe and control these pathways, and their full breadth has not been explored. Here we introduce compression of corrugated elastic sheets to precisely observe and manipulate their full, multistep pathways, which are reproducible, robust, and controlled by geometry. We show how manipulation of the boundaries allows us to elicit multiple targeted pathways from a single sample. In all cases, each state in the pathway can be encoded by the binary state of material bits called hysterons, and the strength of their interactions plays a crucial role. In particular, as function of increasing interaction strength, we observe Preisach pathways, expected in systems of independently switching hysterons; scrambled pathways that evidence hitherto unexplored interactions between these material bits; and accumulator pathways which leverage these interactions to perform an elementary computation. Our work opens a route to probe, manipulate, and understand complex pathways, impacting future applications in soft robotics and information processing in materials.

Ankle Bones, Rogues, and Sexual Freedom for Women

2011 ◽  
pp. 461-468
Author(s):  
Nigel K.L. Pope ◽  
Kevin E. Voges
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Volume Form ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control

In this chapter we review the history of mathematics-based approaches to problem solving. The authors suggest that while the ability of analysts to deal with the extremes of data now available is leading to a new leap in the handling of data analysis, information processing, and control systems, that ability remains grounded in the work of early pioneers of statistical thought. Beginning with pre-history, the paper briefly traces developments in analytical thought to the present day, identifying milestones in this development. The techniques developed in studies of computational intelligence, the applications of which are presented in this volume, form the basis for the next great development in analytical thought.

scholarly journals Advanced IT-Based Future Sustainable Computing (2017–2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2264
Author(s):  
Jong Hyuk Park
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Cluster Computing ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Algorithmic Information ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
And Control

Future Sustainability Computing (FSC) is an emerging concept that holds various types of paradigms, rules, procedures, and policies to support breadth and length of the deployment of Information Technology (IT) for abundant life. However, advanced IT-based FCS is facing several sustainability problems in different information processing and computing environments. Solutions to these problems can call upon various computational and algorithmic frameworks that employ optimization, integration, generation, and utilization technique within cloud, mobile, and cluster computing, such as meta-heuristics, decision support systems, prediction and control, dynamical systems, machine learning, and so on. Therefore, this special issue deals with various software and hardware design, novel architectures and frameworks, specific mathematical models, and efficient modeling-simulation for advance IT-based FCS. We accepted eighteen articles in the six different IT dimensions: machine learning, blockchain, optimized resource provision, communication network, IT governance, and information security. All accepted articles contribute to the applications and research in the FCS, such as software and information processing, cloud storage organization, smart devices, efficient algorithmic information processing and distribution.

Effect of Mood and Food Cues on Information Processing in Women with Bulimia Nervosa and Controls

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Carter ◽  
Cynthia M. Bulik ◽  
Rachel H. Lawson ◽  
Patrick F. Sullivan ◽  
Jenny S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Cue Reactivity ◽  
Information Processing Speed ◽  
Food Cues ◽  
Speed Of Information Processing ◽  
Food Body ◽  
Body Concerns ◽  
And Control

Information-processing speed and cue reactivity were evaluated in women with bulimia nervosa and controls in response to neutral, mood, and food cues in isolation, and mood and food cues in combination. Significant differences were consistently observed between women with bulimia nervosa and control women on information-processing speed for food/body-related words, but not for words unrelated to food/body concerns. As expected, women with bulimia nervosa demonstrated slower processing of information related to food/body concerns. In addition, the presentation of mood and food cues affected speed of information processing. Especially for women with bulimia nervosa, information processing was slowest when either mood or food cues were presented in isolation. Significant cue reactivity was also observed, again especially for women with bulimia nervosa. In conclusion, both transient and more enduring subject characteristics affected information-processing speed. Moreover, the way transient factors were presented significantly affected speed of information processing. This suggests a more complex relationship between cue presentation and information processing than was anticipated.

scholarly journals Use of Indicator Kriging to Investigate Schistosomiasis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo J. P. S. Guimarães ◽  
Corina C. Freitas ◽  
Luciano V. Dutra ◽  
Carlos A. Felgueiras ◽  
Sandra C. Drummond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Indicator Kriging ◽  
Intermediate Hosts ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
And Control

Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are composed of useful tools to map and to model the spatial distribution of events that have geographic importance as schistosomiasis. This paper is a review of the use the indicator kriging, implemented on the Georeferenced Information Processing System (SPRING) to make inferences about the prevalence of schistosomiasis and the presence of the species ofBiomphalaria, intermediate hosts ofSchistosoma mansoni, in areas without this information, in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The results were two maps. The first one was a map ofBiomphalariaspecies, and the second was a new map of estimated prevalence of schistosomiasis. The obtained results showed that the indicator kriging can be used to better allocate resources for study and control of schistosomiasis in areas with transmission or the possibility of disease transmission.

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