Silence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
Physical Object ◽  
Spiritual Exercise

This brief chapter presents a spiritual exercise, which is to contemplate an ordinary physical object in a way that does not involve assessing it but involves merely being in its presence and allowing it to impinge~on~one.

Meaning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Healey
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Quantum Fields ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Physical Context

Novel quantum concepts acquire content not by representing new beables but through material-inferential relations between claims about them and other claims. Acceptance of quantum theory modifies other concepts in accordance with a pragmatist inferentialist account of how claims acquire content. Quantum theory itself introduces no new beables, but accepting it affects the content of claims about classical magnitudes and other beables unknown to classical physics: the content of a magnitude claim about a physical object is a function of its physical context in a way that eludes standard pragmatics but may be modeled by decoherence. Leggett’s proposed test of macro-realism illustrates this mutation of conceptual content. Quantum fields are not beables but assumables of a quantum theory we use to make claims about particles and non-quantum fields whose denotational content may also be certified by models of decoherence.

Witnessed to

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Exercise

A brief chapter consisting of a spiritual exercise on the nature of parenthood, and a few words about the concept of parenthood applied~to~God.

A review of additive manufacturing applications in ophthalmology

2021 ◽  
pp. 095441192110280
Author(s):  
Arivazhagan Pugalendhi ◽  
Rajesh Ranganathan
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Treatment Planning ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Manufacturing Method ◽  
3D Cad ◽  
Stl File ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Manufacturing Applications

Additive Manufacturing (AM) capabilities in terms of product customization, manufacture of complex shape, minimal time, and low volume production those are very well suited for medical implants and biological models. AM technology permits the fabrication of physical object based on the 3D CAD model through layer by layer manufacturing method. AM use Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and 3D scanning images and these data are converted into surface tessellation language (STL) file for fabrication. The applications of AM in ophthalmology includes diagnosis and treatment planning, customized prosthesis, implants, surgical practice/simulation, pre-operative surgical planning, fabrication of assistive tools, surgical tools, and instruments. In this article, development of AM technology in ophthalmology and its potential applications is reviewed. The aim of this study is nurturing an awareness of the engineers and ophthalmologists to enhance the ophthalmic devices and instruments. Here some of the 3D printed case examples of functional prototype and concept prototypes are carried out to understand the capabilities of this technology. This research paper explores the possibility of AM technology that can be successfully executed in the ophthalmology field for developing innovative products. This novel technique is used toward improving the quality of treatment and surgical skills by customization and pre-operative treatment planning which are more promising factors.

scholarly journals A guideline for 3D printing terminology in biomedical research utilizing ISO/ASTM standards

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy E. Alexander ◽  
Nicole Wake ◽  
Leonid Chepelev ◽  
Philipp Brantner ◽  
Justin Ryan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
Digital File ◽  
Standardized Terminology ◽  
Standard Terms ◽  
The Impact

AbstractFirst patented in 1986, three-dimensional (3D) printing, also known as additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping, now encompasses a variety of distinct technology types where material is deposited, joined, or solidified layer by layer to create a physical object from a digital file. As 3D printing technologies continue to evolve, and as more manuscripts describing these technologies are published in the medical literature, it is imperative that standardized terminology for 3D printing is utilized. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide recommendations for standardized lexicons for 3D printing technologies described in the medical literature. For all 3D printing methods, standard general ISO/ASTM terms for 3D printing should be utilized. Additional, non-standard terms should be included to facilitate communication and reproducibility when the ISO/ASTM terms are insufficient in describing expository details. By aligning to these guidelines, the use of uniform terms for 3D printing and the associated technologies will lead to improved clarity and reproducibility of published work which will ultimately increase the impact of publications, facilitate quality improvement, and promote the dissemination and adoption of 3D printing in the medical community.

scholarly journals Physical Parameter Identification Algorithm Modeling for Complex Microsystem via Triangulation Functions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 962
Author(s):  
Elena N. Meshcheryakova ◽  
. .
Keyword(s):  
Parameter Identification ◽  
Physical Parameter ◽  
Delaunay Triangulation ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Identification Algorithm ◽  
Classification Analysis ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Object Parameters ◽  
D Model

This article describes the possibility of triangulation function use for the classification, analysis and identification of complex microsystem physical object parameters. They analyzed the existing methods and identification algorithms, their advantages and disadvantages are highlighted. The existing methods of triangulation are considered, the possibility of Delaunay triangulation is described for surfactant signal 3-D model development and analysis. They developed the algorithm to identify the state of an object using the triangulation function that takes into account the change of node coordinates and the length of the triangulation grid edges. They presented the visual UML model. The conclusions are drawn about the possibility of triangulation function use for the analysis of complex microsystem state.  

Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Exercise

William Morris' Synthetic Aeneids: Virgil as Physical Object

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Object ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Roman Epic ◽  
Historical Periods

William Morris' Aeneid translation of 1875 (The Aeneids of Virgil) is today criticized for its archaism and anachronism; it ought rather to be read as a deliberate layering of historical periods in the reception of the Roman epic. This strategy of historical layering is paralleled in Morris' other Aeneid project of the early 1870s, an original illuminated vellum codex of the poem in Latin, which also telescopes the historical trajectory of the source text by the layering of historical styles and details. Morris' translation should be understood as a similarly ambitious, if more democratic, attempt to create a ‘cumulative’ Aeneid.

Common Sense Propositions

Philosophy ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 48 (186) ◽  
pp. 363-379
Author(s):  
A. C. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Know How ◽  
Justified Belief ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
Past Experiences

Philosophers have not been sceptical only about metaphysics or religious beliefs. There are a great number of other beliefs generally held which they have had at least as much difficulty in justifying, and in the present article I ask questions as to the right philosophical attitude to these beliefs in cases where to our everyday thought they seem so obvious as to be a matter of the most ordinary common sense. A vast number of propositions go beyond what is merely empirical and cannot be seen to be logically necessary but are still believed by everybody in their daily life. Into this class fall propositions about physical things, other human minds and even propositions about one's own past experiences based on memory, for we are not now ‘observing’ our past. The phenomenalist does not escape the difficulty about physical things, for he reduces physical object propositions, in so far as true, not merely to propositions about his own actual experience but to propositions about the experiences of other human beings in general under certain conditions, and he cannot either observe or logically prove what the experiences of other people are or what even his own would be under conditions which have not yet been fulfilled. What is the philosopher to say about such propositions? Even Moore, who insisted so strongly that we knew them, admitted that we did not know how we knew them. The claim which a religious man makes to a justified belief that is neither a matter of purely empirical perception nor formally provable is indeed by no means peculiar to the religious. It is made de facto by everybody in his senses, whether or not he realizes that he is doing so. There is indeed a difference: while everyone believes in the existence of other human beings and in the possibility of making some probable predictions about the future from the past, not everybody holds religious beliefs, and although this does not necessarily invalidate the claim it obviously weakens it.

Emperor Qianlong's Hidden Treasures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole T. C. Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Object ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Function

This book reconsiders what actually constitutes the collection of the Qing imperial household during the Qianlong reign, which leads to the re-evaluation of the collection’s historiography, implications, significance and function. It questions the common presumption that there was a single and readily definable assemblage, which includes every physical object that had once been kept in the imperial palaces. This study also challenges the pervasive notion that collecting at the Qianlong court was highly individual and that the supposed collection reflected the emperor’s personal preferences and tastes. Lastly, this research confronts the popular interpretation of the function of the assumed collection, which was to display authority and to project various images to different groups of audience.

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