everyday physics of extended bodies or why functionals need analyzing

Why Do We Need Instantons in Strangeness Hadron Physics?

Strangeness nuclear physics has reached a new era, which requires elevation of phenomenological analyses of hypernuclear phenomena to a deeper understanding of the fundamental interactions from QCD viewpoint. Recent coordinated efforts in experimental and theoretical researches revealed several interesting features of hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions. For instance, it is establi...

Making Virtual Pancakes — Acquiring and Analyzing Data of Everyday Manipulation Tasks through Interactive Physics-based Simulations

Teaching robots everyday tasks like making pancakes by instructions requires interfaces that can be intuitively operated by nonexperts. By performing manipulation tasks in a virtual environment using a data glove task-related information of the demonstrated actions can directly be accessed and extracted from the simulator. We translate low-level data structures of these simulations into meaning...

Robotics Research toward Explication of Everyday Physics

It is commonly recognized now at the end of the 20th century that a general 6-or 7-degree-of-freedom robot equipped with an end-effector with simple structure is clumsy in performing a variety of ordinary tasks that a human encounters in his or her everyday life. In this paper, it is claimed that the clumsiness manifests the lack of our knowledge of everyday physics. It is then shown that even ...

Parametric or Direct Modeling: why you may need both

Why you do or do not need thoracoscopy.

Thoracoscopy is an old but still very valuable technique for the evaluation of pleural pathology and, especially for the further investigation of the aetiology of pleural fluid. It remains of great importance, since it is able to not only provide an exact diagnosis, but also can have therapeutic potential. In this review, the differential diagnostic aspects of transudate versus exudate are furt...

Brownian Functionals in Physics and Computer Science

This is a brief review on Brownian functionals in one dimension and their various applications, a contribution to the special issue “The Legacy of Albert Einstein” of Current Science. After a brief description of Einstein’s original derivation of the diffusion equation, this article provides a pedagogical introduction to the path integral methods leading to the derivation of the celebrated Feyn...