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Showing 1 to 20 of 395 for “"Cartesian"”.
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Cartesian intuitions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1994.
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The inconsistent cartesian dreaming argument
A premise of the Cartesian Dreaming Argument is the claim that dreams are phenomenologically indistinguishable from waking experiences. My thesis focuses on how the skeptic arrives at this claim, and I argue that the claim is inconsistent with the premises used to derive it. This inconsistency runs …
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… in An Anarchy of Man. Chapter Two examines post-Cartesian views of the self, especially those in the work of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and then considers the way the self is portrayed in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and in my own An Anarchy of Man. Chapter Three examines …
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Cartesian closed bicategories: type theory and coherence
… between the simply-typed lambda calculus and cartesian closed categories to the bicategorical setting, then use the resulting type theory to prove a coherence result for cartesian closed bicategories. Cartesian closed bicategories---2-categories `up to isomorphism' equipped with similarly weak …
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Re-examining the Cartesian mind: Dispelling a myth
… contemporary philosophers of mind regard the Cartesian theory of the mental as the major stumbling block to any viable theory of either mental representation or consciousness. Accordingly, they take part of their task to be the undoing of the Cartesianism that infects our thinking about the …
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Repairing Cartesian Codes with Linear Exact Repair Schemes
… scheme to recover a single erasure when using a Cartesian code,in the context of a distributed storage system. Particularly, we develop a scheme withconsiderations to minimize the associated bandwidth and maximize the associateddimension. The problem of recovering a missing node's data exactly in …
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Second-order sub-array Cartesian product split-plot design
… design referred to as second-order sub-array Cartesian product split-plot design. This new form of design is an alternative to ineffective split-plot designs that are currently in use by the manufacturing and quality control community. The design is economical, the prediction variance of the …
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A scalable multiprocessor architecture using Cartesian Network-Relative Addressing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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Mechanical impedance control of robotic manipulators in Cartesian coordinates
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1983.
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Design of a digitally actuated, micro-scale Cartesian nanopositioner
… could be eliminated from devices such as Cartesian nanopositioners. This thesis presents a novel MEMS Cartesian nanopositioner referred to as DNAT) that is digitally actuated and requires no sensors or feedback (control, yet still provides the accuracy and resolution offered by today's …
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A Cartesian finite-volume method for the Euler equations
… a finite-volume method with a non-body-fitted Cartesian grid. A new numerical formulation for complicated body geometries is developed in conjunction with implicit flux-splitting schemes. A variety of numerical computations have been performed to validate the numerical methodologies developed. …
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Bayesian optimization and Cartesian-grid simulations for artificial reef design
… using Bayesian optimization in combination with Cartesian-grid simulations and towing tank experiments. To ensure the structure’s strength, ease of implementation, and biocompatibility, the reef structures were designed to be porous. Finally, the complete artificial reef was constructed and …
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Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process
… understood, which I argue are marked by a deep Cartesianism. This Cartesianism manifests itself in the way that creativity is predominantly studied and conceived of as a cognitive process that occurs within the minds of individuals. Because creativity is seen to occur within the minds of …
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A dimensionally split Cartesian cut cell method for Computational Fluid Dynamics
We present a novel dimensionally split Cartesian cut cell method to compute inviscid, viscous and turbulent flows around rigid geometries. On a cut cell mesh, the existence of arbitrarily small boundary cells severely restricts the stable time step for an explicit numerical scheme. We solve this …
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Structural analysis and optimization with a locally-Cartesian Hybrid Shell Model
The Hybrid Shell Model (HSM) is presented as an intermediate-fidelity structural model well suited for conceptual design of aerospace vehicles. Although significantly simpler and more economical than full 3D elasticity models, it can still capture full 3D geometries, large deformations, and …
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Solving the Cartesian cut-cell interpolation problem with a tetrahedral mesh
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001.
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A z-ordering cartesian grid method and its application in flow simulation
A new method of automatic and robust Cartesian mesh generation method for two-dimensional and three-dimensional flow simulation problems is developed and introduced in this thesis. The new algorithm adopts an idea of zigzag mapping from computer graphics for terrain generation. Three achievements …
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What matter? Human nature beyond the Cartesian Framework. An essay in metapsychology
… a historical diagnosis of what it calls the 'Cartesian framework', the thesis shows that despite functioning as a taken-for-granted background, this framework is in fact not a universal 'given' evacuated from historical circumstances. The thesis then examines two examples of pre-Cartesian and …
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Action module planning and Cartesian based control of an experimental climbing robot
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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"Traitorous Bodies": Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E.L. James
… theoretical approaches to romance novels, a Cartesian analysis is seemingly absent among the current scholarship. Applying René Descartes’s theory of mind/body dualism to the heroines in Susan Johnson’s Seized by Love and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey reveals not only a separation between …
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