Closing a chapter

Chapter 7 Closing Dewey ’ s Circuit

One hundred and twenty years ago, the American philosopher and psychologist John Dewey (Fig. 1) published his seminal paper The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology in the Psychological Review (Dewey, 1896). In this paper, Dewey challenged the reflex arc, a by-then (and since then, as we will soon demonstrate) consensual unifying framework for action and perception. The framework, advanced by Europ...

Activating a modified closing loop.

JCO/APRIL 2010 © 2010 JCO, Inc. C techniques for activating a closing loop are problematic. Cinching the distal end of the archwire can be time-consuming and inaccurate. Tying back an omega loop between the premolars or between the second premolar and first molar is difficult when the interbracket space is narrow. Lacing back the archwire to a hook is possible, but a crimpable hook can come loo...

Effects of Valve Closing Law and Unsteady Friction Model on Damping Pressure Waves in a Network

Water-hammer is a transient condition which may occur in a network as a result of rapid or slow valve closures, pump failures, changes in turbine loading, etc. It creates high and low pressure waves which travel along the system and decay as a result of wall shear stress. Comparison o experimental and theoretical results revealed the failure of steady or quasi-steady models in correctly predict...

A 3D-hole closing algorithm

Contrary to the 2D case, a 3D hole is not a subset of the 3D space. It is therefore not possible to use connected component search algorithms for detecting and suppressing 3D holes. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for closing 3D holes. It is based on properties of the previously introduced notion of topological numbers. Our algorithm is linear in time and it allows to control the size of...

Closing Remarks.