Mathematical models for the electrical activity in cardiac cells are normally formulated as systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The equations are nonlinear and describe processes occurring on a wide range of time scales. Under normal accuracy requirements, this makes the systems stiff and therefore challenging to solve numerically. As standard implicit solvers are difficult to im...

besides being a literary work, the novel curse of the land (nefrin-e zamin) is a social document. in this great work, al-e ahmad intends to give a social analysis of this own era, and warn his readers against the devastating consequences of modernity. viewed from this perspective, it is regarded as his most sophisticated work representing his social thoughts and theories. in this paper an effor...

In the present chapter, we first overview the precursors that allowed the development of cognitive theories of consciousness, and in particular we consider the notions of attention, working-memory, modularity and the distinction between automatic and controlled processes. Then we present a selection of influential contemporary accounts of consciousness, based on three themes: consciousness resu...

Literary texts are the product of individual unconscious psyche and collective consciousness. In Iranian mythology, Fereydoun and Zahhak are symbols of good and evil. This research is an attempt to demonstrate aspects of growth and decay according to Erich Fromm’s theories. It aims at finding aspects of growth (love of life, love of humanity, freedom from the archetypal Mother) and contra...

The capacity of the human mind to discover and invent both imagistic analogies and mathematical structures to represent reality is strikingly juxtaposed in the ancient Chinese text of the I Ching. Its emphasis on containing all sorts of opposites and its plastic appeal to multi-valenced experience has kept it alive through millennia and across cultures. Jung was introduced to its Taoist wisdom ...

The post-doctoral position will be supported by an ANR-CIS project (French National Research Agency, division of Intensive Scientific Computing and Numerical Simulations), PITAC (Parallélisation Incluant le Temps pour Accélérer les Calculs Parallelization including time in order to accelerate scientific computing, Project leader Y. Maday, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, UMR CNRS 7598, Universi...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of researchers (including ourselves) involved in the study of cardiovascular pathophysiology and particularly in the development of techniques to quantify blood flow, came across the observation that, along with vessel diameter, also blood viscosity plays an important role not only in theory but also in practice. Until then, viscosity was thought to play only a ...