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A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of S. IOHN
ALthough the nature of the trueth be of such force and efficacie, that after it is hearde by the spirituall man, it is immediatlie beleeued, credited...
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Hyperbolic chaos in self-oscillating systems based on mechanical triple linkage: Testing absence of tangencies of stable and unstable manifolds for phase trajectories
Dynamical equations are formulated and a numerical study is provided for selfoscillatory model systems based on the triple linkage hinge mechanism of...
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Introduction
The purpose of this chapter is to quickly introduce enough theory so that we can present some examples that will then be used throughout the course...
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On the Contrary: Disjunctive Syllogism and Pragmatic Strengthening
Bosanquet’s dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the contradictory” (Bosanquet in Logic, vol....
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A Soothing Invisible Hand: Moderation Potentials in Optimal Control
A moderation incentive is a continuously differentiable control-dependent cost term that is identically zero on the boundary of the admissible...
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Balance Equations in Continuum Physics
In this chapter, we present the basic equations of continuum physics both in global and local formulations. The local balance laws together with the...
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Basic Concepts in Geometric Mechanics
In this chapter we develop and summarize some basic concepts in the geometric mechanics of holonomic systems (see Chapter 1...
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Distances in Biology
Distances are mainly used in Biology to pursue basic classification tasks, for instance, for reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms in...
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Wrocław Again
JANUARY 16, 1948. On January 3 I met with Mr. Żarnecki, Tadeusz, director of a Polish government agency Żarnecki,...
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Curves and Tangents
The central concepts underlying the Mean Value Theorem are those of curves and tangents. The evolution of these concepts from the Greeks through the...
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What’s Location Got to Do with It? Place, Space, and the Infinite in Classical Greek Mathematics
Here is a basic question: how much philosophy of mathematics can one pull out of Greek mathematical texts? Obviously, this depends on what we are...
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Reinsurance Market Practices
This chapter describes the institutional context of reinsurance. It first strives to clarify the legal nature of reinsurance transactions. It next...
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Home Again
DECEMBER 9, 1962. The Cuban crisis has been relegated to the past, the Soviet fleet having removed from Cuba not only the missiles but also the...
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On the Dam**-Induced Self-Recovery Phenomenon in Mechanical Systems with Several Unactuated Cyclic Variables
The dam**-induced self-recovery phenomenon refers to the fundamental property of underactuated mechanical systems: if an unactuated cyclic variable...
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In the University Town Lwów
When I arrived in Lwów, I found that the things I had left in storage —under the less than watchful eye of a Mr. Zawadzki, an...
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Heart rate variability during high-intensity exercise
The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the behaviour of heart rate variability (HRV) during constant-load, high-intensity exercise using a...
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Distances in Physics and Chemistry
Physics studies the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the submicroscopic particles from...
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Support Vector Machines
Fisher’s linear discriminant function (LDF) and related classifiers for binary and multiclass learning problems have performed well for many years...
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An Invitation to Lorentzian Geometry
The intention of this article is to give a flavour of some global problems in General Relativity. We cover a variety of topics, some of them related...
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How Close to Optimal Are Small World Properties of Human Brain Networks?
A number of studies have reported small-world properties in human brain networks. Recently Barmpoutis et al. [2] have shown that there exist networks...