Beautification of Chinese Architectural Images in the New Media Age

From the perspective of communication science, the communication of architectural images in the new media age has an obvious beautifying trend. Due to the differences in politics, economics, and cultural environment between China and western countries, the beautification of architectural images in China is a unique phenomenon. This study classifies the beautification of Chinese architectural images into different types in terms of image communication: audience orientation, time orientation, space orientation, and cultural orientation. By investigating and analyzing relevant cases, this study explores the beautification of Chinese architectural images in the new media age and puts forward thoughts and evaluation, aiming to better comprehend the relationship between beautification and architectural communication.

Automated analysis of platelet microstructures using a feature length orientation space

The ability to measure elongated structures such as platelets and colonies, is an important step in the microstructural analysis of many materials. Widely used techniques and standards require extensive manual interaction making them slow, laborious, difficult to repeat and prone to human error. Automated approaches have been proposed but often fail when analysing complex microstructures. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing a new, automated image analysis technique, to reliably assess platelet microstructure. Tools from Mathematical Morphology are designed to probe the image and map the response onto a new feature-length orientation space (FLOS). This enables automated measurement of key microstructural features such as platelet width, orientation, globular volume fraction, and colony size. The method has a wide field of view, low dependency on input parameters, and does not require prior thresholding, common in other automated analysis techniques. Multiple datasets of complex Titanium alloys were used to evaluate the new techniques which are shown to match measurements from expert materials scientists using recognized standards, while drastically reducing measurement time and ensuring repeatability. The per-pixel measurement style of the technique also allows for the generation of useful colourmaps, that aid further analysis and provide evidence to increase user confidence in the quantitative measurements.

Sustainability concept as climate change adaptation in the vernacular house in Aceh

The vernacular residential adapted to climate change in various ways. Some studies showed that vernacular residential which is associated with traditional houses own its genius loci to climate change adaptation. This study aims to investigate the sustainability concept obtained in the Aceh vernacular residential in its attempt to adapt to climate change. This study was based on the data that been collected from observation and literature analysis. The result showed that the climate change adaptation of the vernacular residential in Aceh demonstrated in material, construction, form, orientation, space configuration, opening, ventilation, and infiltration. All those aspects covered the aspect of vernacular, which are technical, cultural, and environmental. The concept of sustainable architecture was raised based on these aspects. Further research should be conducted to extend the location of research in various data sources.

Spin-1/2 one- and two- particle systems in physical space without eigen-algebra or tensor product

A novel representation of spin 1/2 combines in a single geometric object the roles of the standard Pauli spin vector operator and spin state. Under the spin-position decoupling approximation it consists of three orthonormal vectors comprising a gauge phase. In the one-particle case the representation: (1) is Hermitian; (2) shows handedness; (3) reproduces all standard expectation values, including the total one-particle spin modulus 𝑆tot = (ℏ/2)√3; (4) constrains basis opposite spins to have same handedness; (5) allows to formalize irreversibility in spin measurement. In the two-particle case: (1) entangled pairs have precisely related gauge phases; (2) the dimensionality of the spin space doubles due to variation of handedness; (3) the four maximally entangled states are naturally defined by the four improper rotations in 3D: reflections onto the three orthogonal frame planes (triplets) and inversion (singlet). Cross-product terms in the expression for the squared total spin of two particles relate to experiment and they yield all standard expectation values after measurement. Here spin is directly defined and transformed in 3D orientation space, without use of eigen algebra and tensor product as done in the standard formulation. The formalism allows working with whole geometric objects instead of only components, thereby helping keep a clear geometric picture of ‘on paper’ (controlled gauge phase) and ‘on lab’ (uncontrolled gauge phase) spin transformations.

Spin-1/2 one- and two- particle systems in physical space without eigen-algebra or tensor product

A novel representation of spin 1/2 combines in a single geometric object the roles of the standardPauli spin vector operator and spin state. Under the spin-position decoupling approximation it consists ofthree orthonormal vectors comprising a gauge phase. In the one-particle case the representation: (1) isHermitian; (2) shows handedness; (3) reproduces all standard expectation values, including the total one particlespin modulus 𝑆tot = √3ℏ/2; (4) constrains basis opposite spins to have same handedness; (5)allows to formalize irreversibility in spin measurement. In the two-particle case: (1) entangled pairs haveprecisely related gauge phases and can be of same or opposite handedness; (2) the dimensionality of the spinspace doubles due to variation of handedness; (3) the four maximally entangled states are naturally definedby the four improper rotations in 3D: reflections onto the three orthogonal frame planes (triplets) andinversion (singlet). The cross-product terms in the expression for the squared total spin of two particlesrelates to experiment and they yield all standard expectation values after measurement. Here spin is directlydefined and transformed in 3D orientation space, without use of eigen algebra and tensor product as in thestandard formulation. The formalism allows working with whole geometric objects instead of onlycomponents, thereby helping keep a clear geometric picture of ‘on paper’ (controlled gauge phase) and ‘onlab’ (uncontrolled gauge phase) spin transformations.

Spin-1/2 one- and two- particle systems in physical space without eigen-algebra or tensor product

A novel representation of spin 1/2 combines in a single geometric object the roles of the standard Pauli spin vector and spin state. Under the spin-position decoupling approximation it consists of the ordered sum of three orthonormal vectors comprising a gauge phase. In the one-particle case the representation: (1) is Hermitian; (2) is oriented due to ordering; (3) reproduces all standard expectation values, including the total one-particle spin modulus A; (4) constrains basis opposite spins to have same orientation; (5) allows to formalize irreversibility in spin measurement. In the two-particle case: (1) entangled spin pairs have opposite orientation and precisely related gauge phases; (2) the dimensionality of the spin space doubles due to variation of orientation; (3) the four maximally entangled states are naturally defined by the four improper rotations in 3D: reflections onto the three orthogonal frame planes (triplets) and inversion (singlet). The cross-product terms in the expression for the squared total spin of two particles relates to experiment and they yield all standard expectation values after measurement. Here spin is directly defined and transformed in 3D orientation space, without use of eigen algebra and tensor product as in the standard formulation. The formalism allows working with whole geometric objects instead of only components, thereby helping keep a clear geometric picture of ‘on paper’ (controlled gauge phase) and ‘on lab’ (uncontrolled gauge phase) spin transformations.

Dynamic distortion of the orientation representational space after learning in the mouse primary visual cortex

Learning is an essential cognitive mechanism that supports behavioral adaptation through neural processing adjustments. Learning was shown to modify sensory integration, yet the nature of those modifications and the computational advantages they confer remain unclear. By comparing the responses of primary visual cortex (V1) neurons evoked by oriented stimuli in naive mice and mice performing an orientation discrimination task, we found that the representations of rewarded and non-rewarded cues were sparser, more accurate and more stable in trained mice. This improved representation was associated with a distortion of the V1 orientation space such that stimuli close to the task cues were represented as the task stimuli themselves. This distortion was context-dependent, as it was absent in trained mice passively viewing the cues. Hence, visual processing in V1 was dynamically adapted to enhance the reliability of the representation of the learned cues and favor stimulus generalization in the task-relevant computational space.

Spin-1/2 one- and two- particle systems in physical space without eigen-algebra or tensor product

A new representation for spin 1/2 in the even 3D subalgebra of the spacetime algebra (STA) combines in a single geometric object the roles of the standard Pauli spin vector and spin state. It is a vector quantity comprising a gauge phase. In the one-particle case the representation (1) is Hermitian; (2) chiral; (3) reproduces all standard expectation values, including the total one-particle spin modulus ; (4) constrains a spinor basis representing opposite spins to preserve handiness (chirality); (5) the gauge phase allows to explicitly formalize irreversibility in spin measurement. In the two-particle case it (1) identifies entangled spin pairs as having opposite handiness and precise gauge phase relations; (2) doubles the dimensionality of the spin space due to variation of handiness; (3) the four maximally entangled states are naturally derived by pairing spins that are reflections (triplets) and inversions (singlet) of each-other. The cross-product terms in the expression for the squared total spin of two particles can be affected by experiment and they yield the standard expectation values after measurement. Here I directly define and transform spin in 3D orientation space, without invoking concepts like abstract Hilbert space and tensor product as in the standard formulation. The STA formalism allows working with whole geometric objects instead of only components, thereby helping keep a clear geometric picture of ‘on paper’ (controlled gauge phase) and ‘on lab’ (uncontrolled gauge phase) spin transformations.