The document summarizes Tony Smith's presentation on self-organized criticality. Some key points:
- Self-organized criticality describes how dissipative systems with extended degrees of freedom can evolve toward a minimally stable critical state through small, frequent disturbances that follow a power law distribution.
- Bak et al's 1987 paper that introduced this concept has been shown to be relevant to many natural phenomena like sandpiles, earthquakes, wildfires, etc. that maintain a critical balance.
- Smith's presentation applied self-organized criticality to better understand everyday human behaviors and systems, examining universals, animals, civilization, and modernity in terms of approaching critical thresholds.
- Reaching critical states
Shifting Paradigms: The Potential for Quantum Social ChangeDaniel Strain
On 2 October, Karen O’Brien, Alexander Wendt, Ann El Khoury and others led a webinar called “Shifting Paradigms: The Potential for Quantum Social Change.” This 90-minute discussion examined the questions: What role do paradigms play in limiting or accelerating rapid social change? How can alternative paradigms influence research and practice?
Dissipating Gradients & Sinks (Supervenience)Tony Smith
Annotated image-rich presentation of material selected for Exploiting a Dissipating Gradient component of Supervenience Project, with supporting focus on flow aggregation and natural resistance to rapid equilibrating.
References Geoffery West's Scale, Donna Haraway's Chthulucene, David Graeber's structural violence, and 20 years earlier Conversation Piece.
Presentation using a pair of books to expand possibilities inherent in chemical and electromagnetic interaction leading to some wider speculation about the role the rich structure of H₂O has had and continues to have in shaping Life of this planet. Consequent linkage to persistent themes within our Supervenience project and wider orbit.
OverFlow Chart Introduction and Application to Gateway DrugsTony Smith
Presentation Slides from Melbourne Emergence Meetup 11 November 2021 examining three emergence-superveience relationships centred around the Accelerating Abstraction of humans from Industrialised Apex Predator in the biosphere to ever more Documented Consumable in the map of legal fictions.
A look at a few lifelike systems that share the essential characteristics of being Self-organisaing and Adaptive as context for ongoing series of Water and Words presentations.
Includes links to other parts of the deeper understanding building around this plus additional reading .
Shifting Paradigms: The Potential for Quantum Social ChangeDaniel Strain
On 2 October, Karen O’Brien, Alexander Wendt, Ann El Khoury and others led a webinar called “Shifting Paradigms: The Potential for Quantum Social Change.” This 90-minute discussion examined the questions: What role do paradigms play in limiting or accelerating rapid social change? How can alternative paradigms influence research and practice?
Dissipating Gradients & Sinks (Supervenience)Tony Smith
Annotated image-rich presentation of material selected for Exploiting a Dissipating Gradient component of Supervenience Project, with supporting focus on flow aggregation and natural resistance to rapid equilibrating.
References Geoffery West's Scale, Donna Haraway's Chthulucene, David Graeber's structural violence, and 20 years earlier Conversation Piece.
Presentation using a pair of books to expand possibilities inherent in chemical and electromagnetic interaction leading to some wider speculation about the role the rich structure of H₂O has had and continues to have in shaping Life of this planet. Consequent linkage to persistent themes within our Supervenience project and wider orbit.
OverFlow Chart Introduction and Application to Gateway DrugsTony Smith
Presentation Slides from Melbourne Emergence Meetup 11 November 2021 examining three emergence-superveience relationships centred around the Accelerating Abstraction of humans from Industrialised Apex Predator in the biosphere to ever more Documented Consumable in the map of legal fictions.
A look at a few lifelike systems that share the essential characteristics of being Self-organisaing and Adaptive as context for ongoing series of Water and Words presentations.
Includes links to other parts of the deeper understanding building around this plus additional reading .
The Bionic City by Melissa Sterry. Published September 2011.Melissa Sterry
Introduction: 'In the course of her research, Melissa Sterry came to realise that "what humankind considers a force for destruction, nature considers a force for creation". Melissa is now developing The Bionic City: a model that transfers knowledge from complex natural ecosystems to a blueprint for a future city resilient to extreme meteorological and geological events.'
Published in the Sept/Oct 2011 issue of Sustain.
The Deep Stack of Existence: Seeing Life and its Substrates as Richly Connect...Tony Smith
A key point summary of deep history through a complex systems lens with emphasis on connectivity and contingency, within the context of our Supervenience Project's envisaged chapters Towards Healthy General Knowledge and Life on an Active Planet, with late focus on recent neurological research confirming the breadth of common heritage of mobile animals.
Greetings all,
This month’s newsletter is dedicated to high frequency processes. It is mandatory to resolve such high frequency processes in
regional and coastal forecasting systems. Taking them into account constitutes thus one of the main goals of several projects or
networks as MERSEA, MOON, ECOOP, ESEOO, IBI-ROOS and GODAE, among others. Indeed, they aim at developing
operational forecasting systems on global and regional scales and will lead to a co-ordinated network of regional systems which
will provide the platform required for coastal forecasting systems.
After a short introduction by Fanjul reminding us of the challenge modellers are facing while dealing with high frequency
processes in their ocean models, this issue displays four scientific articles, each dealing with state of the art work about high
frequency waves. Lamouroux et al. start with a paper studying the sensitivity of a barotropic model (MOG2D) to high frequency
atmospheric forcing, with the use of data assimilation to correct for the model deficiencies. Carrere et al. are then writing about
how they combine high frequency sea level signals from the same barotropic model (MOG2D) with low frequency sea level
outputs in order to estimate absolute sea level. Bouruet-Aubertot follows with an article about the generation of inertia-gravity
waves by the atmospheric forcing as inferred from in situ measurements and ocean models. She reminds us that the breaking of
inertia-gravity waves is of great importance as it could be responsible for most of the turbulent mixing in the ocean interior. At
last, Ardhuin et al. tell us how a numerical model based on the physical reality of the air-sea interface may provide better results
for the sea state in terms of surface currents and drift, mixed layer depth, and air-sea momentum flux.
Out of the scope of this newsletter, but interesting enough to be mentioned, high frequency processes as waves and tides gather
also a lot of attention as they constitute a huge energy source. New technologies are being developed to produce electricity
using the wave-induced or tide-induced energy as with the Pelamis and HydroHélix systems (see Figure). The Pelamis is an offshore
wave energy converter which uses the wave-induced motion to produce electricity. It is anticipated that future `wave farm'
would occupy a square kilometre of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. HydroHélix is another structure using tides energy to produce electricity. It is expected that 5.000 turbines could be installed offshore Brittany, supplying enough
electricity for the North-West of France.
Let us also remind you that our annual operational oceanography group meeting (Groupe Mission Mercator Coriolis, GMMC)
will take place on December 4 to 6 2006 in Toulouse (MeteoFrance site). We are looking forward to tell you about our ongoing
progress here at Mercator-Ocean, and to hear about yours.
We wish you a pleasant reading, and will
The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of...Sérgio Sacani
Within the uncertainties of involved astronomical and biological parameters, the Drake Equation
typically predicts that there should be many exoplanets in our galaxy hosting active, communicative
civilizations (ACCs). These optimistic calculations are however not supported by evidence, which is
often referred to as the Fermi Paradox. Here, we elaborate on this long-standing enigma by showing
the importance of planetary tectonic style for biological evolution. We summarize growing evidence
that a prolonged transition from Mesoproterozoic active single lid tectonics (1.6 to 1.0 Ga) to modern
plate tectonics occurred in the Neoproterozoic Era (1.0 to 0.541 Ga), which dramatically accelerated
emergence and evolution of complex species. We further suggest that both continents and oceans
are required for ACCs because early evolution of simple life must happen in water but late evolution
of advanced life capable of creating technology must happen on land. We resolve the Fermi Paradox
(1) by adding two additional terms to the Drake Equation: foc
(the fraction of habitable exoplanets
with significant continents and oceans) and fpt
(the fraction of habitable exoplanets with significant
continents and oceans that have had plate tectonics operating for at least 0.5 Ga); and (2) by
demonstrating that the product of foc
and fpt
is very small (< 0.00003–0.002). We propose that the lack
of evidence for ACCs reflects the scarcity of long-lived plate tectonics and/or continents and oceans on
exoplanets with primitive life.
Outlines on environmental philosophy part 5Steven Ghezzo
A study on the environmental issue from historical, anthropological, social, psychological, philosophical, economic, political and juridical perspectives
University of Iowa College of Law; Doctoral student in Public Policy, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Special thanks to Brad Hall, Alex Lamballe, and Dan Myers for their helpful comments. ∗∗ Professor and Victor and Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law, University of Iowa College of Law. I am grateful to Sam Perlmutter for his research assistance and helpful comments on this paper. This article would not have been written at all, however, but for the example of Professor Burns H. Weston, whose career-long commitment to human rights and social justice is celebrated in this issue of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. Elsewhere in this issue I offer some brief comments on Weston’s remarkable career. I wish only to add here that his ceaseless commitment to ensuring that the human rights dimensions of problems are always within the scope of the discussion provided the inspiration for this Article’s attempt to consider how international norms can lead to a system of geoengineering governance in which justice and equity play a central role.
Hi I'm Misson Choudhury , A Post Graduate student, Graduated from Utkal university and Now pursuing my m.sc in applied geology at Bangalore university, Bangalore, i love geological mapping,drawing,hill climbing and tracking..
Infinite Energy, Space Travel... Would this be the greatest Discovery of our ...GLOBAL HEAVYLIFT HOLDINGS
"This might be the greatest discovery of our time. The Holy Grail of almost infinite energy production, and propulsion through the universe using the fabric of nature. I am telling this story as it was told to me.
In 2013, an international incident was created by the intent of a government to violate a treaty to share scientific information with another. The scientists and their work had to be extracted before the scientists were assassinated and their work used as strategic advantage to who knows what purposes.
Just a couple of hours more and the scientists would have been killed and the discovery would be in the hands of only one country, and may not for the most noble of purposes." - Francisco Lopez
Slide deck for the third of ongoing series of presentations looking at water's planet-shaping role and barriers to its recognition within knowledge systems submerged in human language.
Second of four presentations exploring a hydrology-first view of accelerating Earth Systems Crises, this particularly focused on separating understanding of "knowledge" from the words we have long assumed to be essential to it, while remaining dependent on words for communication.
Images (pics, maps and covers) drawn from Kororoit Institute submission to parliamentary inquiry into Ecosystems Decline in Victoria, with minimal commentary aside from section headings and recommendations, providing context for discussion of where we take this from here, both the global task of insisting on the urgent need for humans to work with rather than against until now dangerously suppressed ecosystems, and the local task of working with structures of our colonial political economy to ensure the tide is well and truly turning.
The Bionic City by Melissa Sterry. Published September 2011.Melissa Sterry
Introduction: 'In the course of her research, Melissa Sterry came to realise that "what humankind considers a force for destruction, nature considers a force for creation". Melissa is now developing The Bionic City: a model that transfers knowledge from complex natural ecosystems to a blueprint for a future city resilient to extreme meteorological and geological events.'
Published in the Sept/Oct 2011 issue of Sustain.
The Deep Stack of Existence: Seeing Life and its Substrates as Richly Connect...Tony Smith
A key point summary of deep history through a complex systems lens with emphasis on connectivity and contingency, within the context of our Supervenience Project's envisaged chapters Towards Healthy General Knowledge and Life on an Active Planet, with late focus on recent neurological research confirming the breadth of common heritage of mobile animals.
Greetings all,
This month’s newsletter is dedicated to high frequency processes. It is mandatory to resolve such high frequency processes in
regional and coastal forecasting systems. Taking them into account constitutes thus one of the main goals of several projects or
networks as MERSEA, MOON, ECOOP, ESEOO, IBI-ROOS and GODAE, among others. Indeed, they aim at developing
operational forecasting systems on global and regional scales and will lead to a co-ordinated network of regional systems which
will provide the platform required for coastal forecasting systems.
After a short introduction by Fanjul reminding us of the challenge modellers are facing while dealing with high frequency
processes in their ocean models, this issue displays four scientific articles, each dealing with state of the art work about high
frequency waves. Lamouroux et al. start with a paper studying the sensitivity of a barotropic model (MOG2D) to high frequency
atmospheric forcing, with the use of data assimilation to correct for the model deficiencies. Carrere et al. are then writing about
how they combine high frequency sea level signals from the same barotropic model (MOG2D) with low frequency sea level
outputs in order to estimate absolute sea level. Bouruet-Aubertot follows with an article about the generation of inertia-gravity
waves by the atmospheric forcing as inferred from in situ measurements and ocean models. She reminds us that the breaking of
inertia-gravity waves is of great importance as it could be responsible for most of the turbulent mixing in the ocean interior. At
last, Ardhuin et al. tell us how a numerical model based on the physical reality of the air-sea interface may provide better results
for the sea state in terms of surface currents and drift, mixed layer depth, and air-sea momentum flux.
Out of the scope of this newsletter, but interesting enough to be mentioned, high frequency processes as waves and tides gather
also a lot of attention as they constitute a huge energy source. New technologies are being developed to produce electricity
using the wave-induced or tide-induced energy as with the Pelamis and HydroHélix systems (see Figure). The Pelamis is an offshore
wave energy converter which uses the wave-induced motion to produce electricity. It is anticipated that future `wave farm'
would occupy a square kilometre of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. HydroHélix is another structure using tides energy to produce electricity. It is expected that 5.000 turbines could be installed offshore Brittany, supplying enough
electricity for the North-West of France.
Let us also remind you that our annual operational oceanography group meeting (Groupe Mission Mercator Coriolis, GMMC)
will take place on December 4 to 6 2006 in Toulouse (MeteoFrance site). We are looking forward to tell you about our ongoing
progress here at Mercator-Ocean, and to hear about yours.
We wish you a pleasant reading, and will
The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of...Sérgio Sacani
Within the uncertainties of involved astronomical and biological parameters, the Drake Equation
typically predicts that there should be many exoplanets in our galaxy hosting active, communicative
civilizations (ACCs). These optimistic calculations are however not supported by evidence, which is
often referred to as the Fermi Paradox. Here, we elaborate on this long-standing enigma by showing
the importance of planetary tectonic style for biological evolution. We summarize growing evidence
that a prolonged transition from Mesoproterozoic active single lid tectonics (1.6 to 1.0 Ga) to modern
plate tectonics occurred in the Neoproterozoic Era (1.0 to 0.541 Ga), which dramatically accelerated
emergence and evolution of complex species. We further suggest that both continents and oceans
are required for ACCs because early evolution of simple life must happen in water but late evolution
of advanced life capable of creating technology must happen on land. We resolve the Fermi Paradox
(1) by adding two additional terms to the Drake Equation: foc
(the fraction of habitable exoplanets
with significant continents and oceans) and fpt
(the fraction of habitable exoplanets with significant
continents and oceans that have had plate tectonics operating for at least 0.5 Ga); and (2) by
demonstrating that the product of foc
and fpt
is very small (< 0.00003–0.002). We propose that the lack
of evidence for ACCs reflects the scarcity of long-lived plate tectonics and/or continents and oceans on
exoplanets with primitive life.
Outlines on environmental philosophy part 5Steven Ghezzo
A study on the environmental issue from historical, anthropological, social, psychological, philosophical, economic, political and juridical perspectives
University of Iowa College of Law; Doctoral student in Public Policy, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Special thanks to Brad Hall, Alex Lamballe, and Dan Myers for their helpful comments. ∗∗ Professor and Victor and Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law, University of Iowa College of Law. I am grateful to Sam Perlmutter for his research assistance and helpful comments on this paper. This article would not have been written at all, however, but for the example of Professor Burns H. Weston, whose career-long commitment to human rights and social justice is celebrated in this issue of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. Elsewhere in this issue I offer some brief comments on Weston’s remarkable career. I wish only to add here that his ceaseless commitment to ensuring that the human rights dimensions of problems are always within the scope of the discussion provided the inspiration for this Article’s attempt to consider how international norms can lead to a system of geoengineering governance in which justice and equity play a central role.
Hi I'm Misson Choudhury , A Post Graduate student, Graduated from Utkal university and Now pursuing my m.sc in applied geology at Bangalore university, Bangalore, i love geological mapping,drawing,hill climbing and tracking..
Infinite Energy, Space Travel... Would this be the greatest Discovery of our ...GLOBAL HEAVYLIFT HOLDINGS
"This might be the greatest discovery of our time. The Holy Grail of almost infinite energy production, and propulsion through the universe using the fabric of nature. I am telling this story as it was told to me.
In 2013, an international incident was created by the intent of a government to violate a treaty to share scientific information with another. The scientists and their work had to be extracted before the scientists were assassinated and their work used as strategic advantage to who knows what purposes.
Just a couple of hours more and the scientists would have been killed and the discovery would be in the hands of only one country, and may not for the most noble of purposes." - Francisco Lopez
Slide deck for the third of ongoing series of presentations looking at water's planet-shaping role and barriers to its recognition within knowledge systems submerged in human language.
Second of four presentations exploring a hydrology-first view of accelerating Earth Systems Crises, this particularly focused on separating understanding of "knowledge" from the words we have long assumed to be essential to it, while remaining dependent on words for communication.
Images (pics, maps and covers) drawn from Kororoit Institute submission to parliamentary inquiry into Ecosystems Decline in Victoria, with minimal commentary aside from section headings and recommendations, providing context for discussion of where we take this from here, both the global task of insisting on the urgent need for humans to work with rather than against until now dangerously suppressed ecosystems, and the local task of working with structures of our colonial political economy to ensure the tide is well and truly turning.
Experimental presentation using photos of a contested local remnant site as song lines style background to initial contextualisation of the essential ubiquity of habituation and addictions.
Debate authorising Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in VictoriaTony Smith
Referral to Environment and Planning Committee.
Extracted as background reading for Ecosystem Decline (KI) Group.
Moved by Samantha Ratnam and widely supported but ultimately opposed by the opposition after their proposed amendment wasn't accepted.
Not my usual kind of slide show but essential to production of the next couple.
Presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup with placeholder for short video: https://vimeo.com/388799004 and vertically scrolling portrait orientation view from hand back to Cumbo replaced by start, mid and end stages.
December 2019 presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup in the scope of ongoing Supervenience project series and as corollary to November's presentation re human infrastructure projects the group has taken an interest in. Includes pictures from recent visits to Stony Creek toxic fire site and Mud Island.
Reflections on Kororoit Institute’s and friends’ planning interventions in light of Supervenience project and where to from here, presented at Melbourne Emergence Meetup 14 November 2019.
Contains main text and images of a submission to the Australian Infrastructure Audit 2019, save for the Supervenience Project principles which are developed in other presentations and with the introductory background of that submission expanded into a longer account of the history of Kororoit Institute's interest in infrastructure. That history also draws on text of submission to VEAC re Coastal Reserves to provide a shortish explanation of the Nepean Bay Bar proposal.
Many people are aware of something of particular interest to them which conventional wisdom gets badly wrong but assume that one thing is all that really needs to be fixed while the status quo is otherwise fine. Once you escape your silo and start seriously looking around, it becomes obvious that most things you take for granted are pretty much stuffed too. This presentation to CVAF highlights a few of them and argues that adversary systems are no longer fit for purpose.
Presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup 12 September 2019 providing further context for Supervenience Project, interleaving four decades of awareness development with one of local activism and digital photography. Doesn't quite achieve declared aims of bridging Too Funny for Words with Accepting Cosmological Responsibility, but useful starting point nonetheless.
Slide 9 is a montage of frames from two minute video of the first of Josie Taylor's two reports cited on Slide 8, as a placeholder for the actual video.
Presentation to Friends of Stony Creek 1 July 2019 re the historic tributaries above the site of the August 2018 West Footscray toxic chemical storage fire. Updates earlier presentations and separates downstream section.
Stony Creek in context of Waterways of the WestTony Smith
Update on presentation given twice in recent months with ever increasing photo coverage of the length of Stony Creek and historic diversions, wrapped in contextual commentary re pollution event from industrial fire and establishment of Waterways of the West Ministerial Advisory Committee.
Supervenience Update on Commonalities, Coding, AdministrationTony Smith
Presentation to Melbourne Emergence Meetup 12 February 2019 with run of mostly shortish video clips and interspersed stills consolidated into a single external 18:44 video.
Supervenience: how emergent minds and money seize power over matterTony Smith
This is a first step towards a needed “book” on Supervenience that briefly introduces nineteen candidate “chapters” in quest of early input into the eventual structure.
Private submission as interested community member calling attention to Arden precinct's vulnerability to sea level rise and premature lock in of a turnback at West Footscray.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Salas, V. (2024) "John of St. Thomas (Poinsot) on the Science of Sacred Theol...Studia Poinsotiana
I Introduction
II Subalternation and Theology
III Theology and Dogmatic Declarations
IV The Mixed Principles of Theology
V Virtual Revelation: The Unity of Theology
VI Theology as a Natural Science
VII Theology’s Certitude
VIII Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
All the contents are fully attributable to the author, Doctor Victor Salas. Should you wish to get this text republished, get in touch with the author or the editorial committee of the Studia Poinsotiana. Insofar as possible, we will be happy to broker your contact.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
2. Placeholder for video slide at
https://vimeo.com/353180022
Self-organised Criticality
3. Supervenience presentation 2 weeks earlier
to Science, Technology and the Future on
Life and Death as Systems Collapse included:
Long histories and quick deaths
Optimisation to threshold of criticality
So a reason to review underlying complex
systems theory that followed the 1987 paper
by Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld
“Self-organized criticality: an explanation of
1/f noise”.
Long-wavelength perturbations cause a cascade
of energy dissipation on all length scales, which
is the main characteristic of turbulence.
The (currently) “Self-organising, Adaptive”
component of the Supervenience project has
a uniquely chequered history. It follows some
more general principles of Emergence and
Complex Systems, getting into detail of many
and varied processes which underly emergent
complexity, as reflected in its original title:
“Here Now Succession Process Traces Time
Causation?” that didn’t fit well alongside more
succinct component titles so we tried a couple
of others which similarly disappointed:
“Dynamic encodings in condensed matter”
“Maintaining interesting isolates through
cosmological timescales”
Self-organised Criticality
SUPERVENIENCEhow emergent minds and money seize power over matter
4. Too Funny for Words
Abstractions, Category Errors,
Epistemic Cuts
Life on an Active Planet The Two-edged Sword
Multiple Paths to Emergence
Constraints and
Degrees of Freedom
Birds and Others Interweb to Facebook
Better than Out of Control
Information,
Maps and Territories
Urban Hydrology out of Sight
Going Down with
the Egg Basket
Self-organising, Adaptive
Codification and
Communication
Exploiting a
Dissipating Gradient:
creaming, trickle down
Dystopian Utopias and
Science Fiction
Towards Healthy
General Knowledge
The Inside View:
knowing when you're dreaming
Verbal Blindness
Accepting Cosmological
Responsibility
5. We believe that the new concept of self-organized
criticality can be taken much further and might be
the underlying concept for temporal and spatial
scaling in a wide class of dissipative systems with
extended degrees of freedom.
–Bac et al [1987]
This presentation needs to be complemented
by additional information on how natural and
constructed systems evolve towards criticality,
an exploration of benefits and costs of doing
more of whatever seems to be operating well
enough to keep each system holding together.
6. Bak et al’s 1987 paper was perfectly timed to catch the explosion of interest in complex systems that took off
in the mid 1980s, its central concept soon being shown to be relevant to a long list of phenomena, starting
with the classic sandpile which is slowly added to and maintains a critical slope through landslides that
follow a power law distribution with many small and few larger.
The short paper starts by discussing a conceptual “one-dimensional array of damped pendula (...) connected
by torsion springs that are weak compared with the gravitational force” which settles to a “minimally stable”
state rather than to the lowest possible state. It is disturbances to the minimally stable state which follow a
power law as the range of impact is dependent on complexities that only show a pattern statistically.
They then test this with a Von Neumann neighbourhood cellular automata rule (and a 3D analogue) which is
designed to settle from an initially high “energy” random configuration into an equivalent minimally stable
configuration, a rule that also appears analogous to the evolution of cosmological structure dominated by
gravitational interaction of cold dark matter. It is in these CA models that the range in both time and space
of the propagation of disturbances is demonstrated to have a power law distribution.
Bak et al identify various other phenomena as candidates for similar analysis, including: river flow,
luminosity of stars, fractal landscapes such as coast lines and mountains, and turbulence. Subsequently, self-
organised criticality has been applied to understanding electromagnetic domain performance, earthquake
magnitude and aftershock timing, financial indicators, wild fires, epidemics, landslides, and nerve signals
(paraphrasing Wikipedia entry).
“Criticality” here is defined by the proximity of an attractor state rather than a not directly related reference
to phase transitions. This presentation sees an even broader range of phenomena edging ever closer to their
threshold of criticality, both naturally and intentionally. It is particularly concerned with how approaching
such critical thresholds empowers and constrains ecosystems and their inhabitants.
7. Tonight’s presentation looks at
everyday behaviour through the
lens of self-organised criticality,
recognising that nothing occurs
in isolation. Understanding the
parts relies on recognising their
environmental dependencies.
We take this Big History tour in
four major stages of increasing
proximity to our present crises:
• Universals
• Animals
• Civilisation
• Modernity
Within each, half a dozen topics
are introduced, typically by a
couple of images as examples of
a much larger set of criticality
to be briefly explored.
Limpets at low tide
Crayfish Bay 2016
16. Development of animal zygotes is highly conserved but
development of plants is more accessible to observation
17. Minimum set of requirements to function as mobile animal
evidenced by sea snail art produced filtering food from sand
18. Us us us us and Them them them them
And after all we’re only ordinary men (…)
With with with with, without
And who’ll deny that’s what the fighting’s all about
—Wright and Waters, Pink Floyd
from the album Dark Side of the Moon 1973
Life demands identifying one’s own kind and other kinds
making the challenge to broaden inclusion to at least aves
19. All manner of nests and dens are created by animals to give
the next generation a good start in life, including knowledge
20. Animals thrive on excess (re)production of other life forms
which a few assist with the reproduction of in the process
23. Wurundjeri cultural revival on the Merri highlights methods
of preserving oral knowledge, complementing song lines
24. Awareness of Aboriginal agriculture too recent for pictures
Imported domestication of other species, food processing
25. Human settlements were close to life sustaining resources
until cities grew powerful enough to extract more widely
26. Language and opposable thumbs enabled division of labour
and specialisation to reach new levels before settlements
started to grow and provide support for more of the same
27. Long distance travel exploited seasonal variations, allowed
trade, water flow provided energy, quarries useful minerals
28. Transition from autocracy to representative democracy and
legal process gentrified everyday life, enabling many dreams
31. Capital accumulation went from privilege to expectation
Businesses avoid scrutiny via limited liability, externalities
32. After ownership changes glass bottles are still manufactured
at old site of Australian Glass Manufacturers and its heritage
celebrated. Coal seam exposed at beach shows fracking risk
33. Electricity generation and transmission underpins modernity
enabling refrigeration to add dimensions to food processing
34. Academic scholarship built on the shoulders of giants
Science found patterns in things measured in isolation
35. Expectation of a full life followed sanitation, medication and
indiscriminate industrial killing of other life for convenience