The rediscovery of Mendel's laws a century ago launched the science that William Bateson called "genetics," and led to a new view of evolution combining selection, particulate inheritance, and the newly characterized phenomenon of "mutation." This "mutationist" view clashed with the earlier view of Darwin, and the later "Modern Synthesis," by allowing discontinuity, and by recognizing mutation ...

In this paper, a numerical study is performed to provide the combustion and emission characteristics resulting from fuel-reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) combustion mode in a heavy-duty, single-cylinder diesel engine with gasoline and diesel fuels. In RCCI strategy in-cylinder fuel blending is used to develop fuel reactivity gradients in the combustion chamber that result in a ...

The dynamic behaviour of a circular plate in contact with fluid and resting on two-parameter elastic foundations is of interest in the field of geotechnics, structure, highway, railway, oil and gas and mechanical engineering. In this work, the dynamic behaviour of circular plate in contact with fluid and resting on Winkler and Pasternak foundations is investigated. The coupled differential equa...

What’s your next historical work on? I’m thinking about the power of metaphor in science and the way it frames and limits how we think about the natural world. I’ve already written about 17th and 18th century approaches to heredity, and the history of the genetics of behaviour in the 1950s. In both cases, scientific progress was limited by the metaphors people used. The early modern view that a...

For a long period the theory of modules over rings on the one hand and comodules and Hopf modules for coalgebras and bialgebras on the other side developed quite independently. In this talk we want to outline how ideas from module theory can be applied to enrich the theory of comodules and vice versa. For this we consider A-corings C with grouplike elements over a ring A, in particular Galois c...

We characterize a class of spatio-temporal illusions with two complementary properties. Firstly, if a vernier stimulus is flashed for a short time on a monitor and is followed immediately by a grating, the latter can express features of the vernier, such as its offset, its orientation, or its motion (feature inheritance). Yet the vernier stimulus itself remains perceptually invisible. Secondly,...

A treatment in a neighborhood and at a point of the equivalence principle on the basis of derivations of the tensor algebra over a manifold is given. Necessary and su cient conditions are given for the existence of local bases, called normal frames, in which the components of derivations vanish in a neighborhood or at a point. These frames (bases), if any, are explicitly described and the probl...

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These two approaches both require the availability of large amounts of observed data of the monitored system in the healthy mode and in al l the possible faulty modes, which is rarely feasible in practice. In this paper, we propose a different approach. Informally speaking, it considers neural networks as parametric models and apply to them the asymptotic local approach to change detection [3, ...