This paper presents a novel approach to implementing cyber-physical systems (CPS) using the combined strength of holons, agents and function blocks. Within the context, a CPS is represented by a ...holarchy of multiple holons. Each holon possesses a logical part and a physical part, which mimic the cyber and physical entities of the CPS. During implementation, the two parts of a holon are realised by agents and function blocks for information processing and materials processing, respectively. The objective of this research is to provide a concept map and associate a CPS with holons, agents and function blocks for the ease of system implementation in decentralised or cloud environment.
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The concept of resilience is often discussed in relation to “bouncing,” whether bouncing back or bouncing forward. This interdisciplinary article looks beyond “bouncing” in either direction. ...In so doing, it offers a novel conceptualization of resilience as a dialectical process of expansion and contraction across multiple domains and levels. Drawing on fieldwork with victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, and Uganda, it uses the qualitative data both to empirically critique the notions of “bouncing back” and “bouncing forward” and to explore what expansion and contraction look like in practice. It situates the arguments within a broader holonic perspective, in order to accentuate the systemic dimensions of resilience, and ultimately it discusses what they mean for the field of transitional justice.
Understanding mammalian responses to anthropogenic disturbance is challenging, as ecological processes and the patterns arising therefrom notoriously change across spatial and temporal scales, and ...among different landscape contexts. Responses to local scale disturbances are likely influenced by landscape context (e.g., overall landscape-level disturbance, landscape-level productivity). Hierarchical approaches considering small-scale sampling sites as nested holons within larger-scale landscapes, which constrain processes in lower-level holons, can potentially explain differences in ecological processes between multiple locations. We tested hypotheses about mammal responses to disturbance and interactions among holons using collected images from 957 camera sites across 9 landscapes in Alberta from 2007 to 2020 and examined occurrence for 11 mammal species using generalized linear mixed models. White-tailed deer occurred more in higher disturbed sites within lower disturbed landscapes (β = −0.30 −0.4 to −0.15), whereas occurrence was greater in highly disturbed sites within highly disturbed landscapes for moose (β = 0.20 0.09–0.31), coyote (β = 0.20 0.08–0.26), and lynx (β = 0.20 0.07–0.26). High disturbance sites in high productivity landscapes had higher occurrence of black bears (β = −0.20 −0.46 to −0.01), lynx (β = −0.70 −0.97 to −0.34), and wolves (β = −0.50 −0.73 to −0.21). Conversely, we found higher probability of occurrence in low productivity landscapes with increasing site disturbance for mule deer (β = 0.80 0.39–1.14), and white-tailed deer (β = 0.20 0.01–0.47). We found the ecological context created by aggregate sums (high overall landscape disturbance), and by subcontinental hydrogeological processes in which that landscape is embedded (high landscape productivity), alter mammalian responses to anthropogenic disturbance at local scales. These responses also vary by species, which has implications for large-scale conservation planning. Management interventions must consider large-scale geoclimatic processes and geographic location of a landscape when assessing wildlife responses to disturbance.
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•Ecological processes change across spatial scales and landscape contexts.•Camera traps deployed across multiple landscapes help investigate mammal responses.•Mammal response to local disturbance depends on landscape level disturbance context.•Generalized trends across study areas help support broad conservation actions.
In this paper, the problem of human pose estimation in a 2D still image is addressed. A framework called adaptive holons representation (ADORE) that takes advantage of local and global cues is ...proposed to improve the pose estimation accuracy. In particular, ADORE is made up of two components: 1) the holons part, independent losses pose nets (ILPNs) is designed to first infer joints location on the global level; and 2) the adaptive part, convolutional local detectors (CLDs) is proposed to subsequently detect the joints in the potential regions generated by ILPN. Pose estimation is formulated as a classification problem toward body joints in ILPN, which consists of two independent loss layers that, respectively, instruct the learning of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">x </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">y </tex-math></inline-formula> coordinates of a joint. Experimental results on two challenging benchmark tasks demonstrate that our proposed framework is more efficient than other deep models and has desirable performance.
This paper presents a novel approach to implementing a smart manufacturing cell with distributed intelligence in the context of Industry 4.0. The system uses holons to model digital twins for a ...manufacturing cell and a Graph Node Network for production routing. The Graph Node Network allows dynamic generation of production routes for different parts. For prototyping, Robotic Operating System (ROS 2) is used, which provides a convenient way of representing individual digital twins (in the form of "nodes") for different equipment in the system. It also enabled us to create a decentralised and distributed architecture. The nodes are connected via Data Distribution Service, which utilises a publish/subscribe method for communications. The paper demonstrated a flexible, extensible, and fault-tolerant manufacturing cell that is geared toward a high-mix and low-volume production scenario.
Despite their potential benefits in the context of sustainable manufacturing operations, holonic and multi-agent architectures are still not designed methodologically to support this major societal ...and environmental challenge. To address this shortcoming, the generic concept of go-green manufacturing holon is proposed. The idea is to incite researchers to develop sustainability-oriented manufacturing operations control architectures, holonic or multi-agent, and to provide a usable generic concept that is easy to appropriate, particularize and implement. An illustration of the concept is proposed, as well as its extension to the context of circular economy.
In order to search for possible residual minor phases in the Y-Ba-Cu-O family, powdered mixtures of Y2O3 + BaCO3 + CuO and, independently, superconducting compound YBa2Cu3O7−x have been treated in ...evacuated cells and elevated temperatures. YBa2Cu3O7−x was reduced to YBa2Cu3O5 by use of the special home-designed Taconis–Knudsen vacuum device. Subsequent doping by oxygen converts produced insulator YBa2Cu3O5 to semiconductor or metal YBa2Cu3O5+x (0 < x < 0.3). In addition to YBa2Cu3O5, 0.05 volume percent of the minor delafossite phase Y2Cu2O4 was spotted in the powder mixture 1/2 Y2O3 + 2BaCO3 + 6Cu2O, heated up to 818 °C in an inert gas atmosphere. An attempt to prepare the insulating bulk delafossite samples was successful, and subsequent doping by oxygen produced novel metallic phases.
En este escrito me propongo hacer una presentación general de los tres grandes proyectos arquitectónicos producidos en la fi losofía y, en particular, en la fi losofía de la ciencia (al menos dos de ...ellos). Me detengo de modo especial en el proyecto arquitectónico estructuralista de Balzer, Moulines y Sneed que, a diferencia del proyecto arquitectónico del positivismo lógico, tiene como objetivo (gracias a la noción de “holón teórico”) dar cuenta de la estructura global de la ciencia, al pasar del entorno más inmediato de las teorías propio de una arquitectónica local, hacia una representación más general y comprehensiva de la ciencia, propia de una arquitectónica global.
Consciousness Endomitosis: A Cyclic Cosmological Theory Pulido-Moyano, Rafael
Philosophy and cosmology : the journal of the International Society of Philosophy and Cosmology (ISPC),
01/2021, Letnik:
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A cyclic cosmological theory called “Consciousness Endomitosis Theory” (CET) is proposed. Whatever is taken as being real, any particle, any structure in the universe, any object, or any type of ...interaction, all of them are derivative from consciousness, and are described as modulations of consciousness. In CET, consciousness is assumed to be the field from which all other fields described by general relativity and quantum mechanics emerge and into which all of them coalesce. Other cosmological cyclic models can be partly embedded within CET or can be shown to be compatible with it, including some apparently distant models like Steinhardt and Turok’s two-brane cyclic model, as well as other models much closer to CET principles, like Amoroso’s Noetic Field Theory (2000, 2003, 2006) and Di Biase’s Quantum Holographic Informational Model (2019). In CET, consciousness is metaphorically compared to a spherical cell in which an iterative endomitotic process takes place, a process that flows into the “Big Bang.” Once the evolution of visible universe is completed, “Big Crunch” triggers endomitosis reversal. Time, space, energy, mass and the four fundamental interactions are reinterpreted in the light of this cosmic dynamics of consciousness.
This paper proposes a conceptual definition of an information fusion (IF) processing framework. Several concepts borrowed from complex systems theory, informational philosophy and computer sciences ...have been integrated to conceptualize that framework. The concepts of holon and informon developed by Koestler, Sulis, Alonso, Paggi et al. are exploited here to develop an information fusion processing framework. The proposed functional holonic structure is suitable for processing any level of information abstraction of the Joint Directors of Laboratory (JDL) data fusion model. The framework comprises the characterization of a basic element of information and the definition of an IF cell as a basic IF system unit to achieve fusion of information. The framework advocates a goal-driven approach with notions coming from business sciences to take into account quality of information for managing the fusion process. The framework is illustrated through several examples namely with an elaborated case in remote sensing.
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