Time-dependent creep analysis is crucial for the performance and reliability of piezoactuators used for high-precision positioning and load-bearing applications. In this study history of stresses, deformations and electric potential of hollow rotating cylinders made of functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM), e.g., PZT_7A have been investigated using Mendelson’s method of successive e...

5 Indices for discrete models 6 5.1 Enumeration of joint actions and observations . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2 Enumeration of (joint) histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2.1 Observation histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2.2 Action histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2.3 Action-observation histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ...

This paper answers Bell’s question: What does quantum information refer to? It is about quantum properties represented by subspaces of the quantum Hilbert space, or their projectors, to which standard (Kolmogorov) probabilities can be assigned by using a projective decomposition of the identity (PDI or framework) as a quantum sample space. The single framework rule of consistent histories preve...

As stated in the main text, subjects entering the experiment were randomly assigned into either the independent condition or the social influence condition. Subjects in the independent condition had no information about the previous behavior of others and so were forced to make their decisions about the songs independently. However, subjects in the social influence condition were given informat...

This paper is an answer to the preceding paper by Kastner, in which she continued the criticism of the counterfactual usage of the Aharonov ± Bergman ± Lebowitz rule in the framework of the time-symmetrized quantum theory, in particular, by analyzing the three-box `̀ paradox .’ ’ It is argued that the criticism is not sound . Paradoxical features of the three-box example are discussed. It is exp...

BACKGROUND The use of jargon has become very common in the healthcare field, especially in medical/dental records. Although the use of standard medical jargon can be seen as professional, efficient shorthand, a lack of awareness regarding the standard medical abbreviations and incessant and overzealous use of slang among the healthcare professionals can act as a barrier to effective communicati...

knowledge is to be maintained and owned by all, then the relations between academic, Western or conventional mathematics and the different mathematical knowledges and practices of different groups and individuals have to be brought into dialogue with each other, to be connected and contextualised. By valuing different kinds of mathematics and ways of knowing (and doing) mathematics, different p...

The argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR), advanced by these authors in support of the thesis that quantummechanics cannot provide a complete description of a physical system, has been receiving close attention in foundational studies and debates on quantum mechanics ever since the famous paper of EPR appeared in 1935 [1]. Not lacking in subtlety, the EPR argument was bound to be misre...

In this paper I assess the prospects for combining contemporary Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) with branching-time semantics in the tradition of Kripke, Prior, Thomason and Belnap. I begin by outlining the salient features of ‘decoherence-based’ EQM, and of the ’consistent histories’ formalism that is particularly apt for conceptual discussions in EQM. This formalism permits of both ‘branch...

Classical mechanics and standard Copenhagen quantum mechanics respect subspace implications. For example, if a particle is confined in a particular region R of space, then in these theories we can deduce that it is confined in regions containing R. However, subspace implications are generally violated by versions of quantum theory that assign probabilities to histories, such as the consistent h...