Crossing the Gap

Crossing the Newton-Maxwell Gap: Convergences and Contingencies

Back to Reality: Crossing the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics

In this work a new method to evolutionary robotics is proposed, it combines into a single framework, learning from reality and simulations. An illusory sub-system is incorporated as an integral part of an autonomous system. The adaptation of the illusory system results from minimizing differences of robot behavior evaluations in reality and in simulations. Behavior guides the illusory adaptatio...

Cubic Mn2Ga thin films: crossing the spin gap with ruthenium.

Cubic Mn2Ga films with the half-Heusler C1b structure are grown on V (001) epitaxial films. The phase is a soft ferrimagnet, with Curie temperature TC = 225 K and magnetization Ms=280  kA m(-1), equivalent to 1.65μB per formula. Adding ruthenium leads to an increase of TC up to 550 K in cubic Mn2Ru(x)Ga films with x = 0.33 and a collapse of the net magnetization. The anomalous Hall effect chang...

Innovation or stagnation? Crossing the creativity gap in healthcare.

L ike excellence, the word innovation is often overused in healthcare, frequently espoused in well-intended promotional materials lacking in any real substance. Referred to indiscriminately, innovation is a nice feel-good notion. But implemented strategically, it can mean the difference between performing on par with the industry and achieving exceptional success that includes defining strong h...

Additivity of perceptual channel-crossing effects in auditory gap detection.

Five normal listeners were tested in detail for their auditory gap-detection thresholds, using stimuli in which the narrow-band noise markers of the gap differed in one or both of two auditory dimensions ~frequency composition and ear stimulated!. Gap thresholds for stimuli in which the markers differed along either single dimension averaged about 18 ms, while thresholds for markers differing a...