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The Future of Scientific Simulations: from Artificial Life to Artificial Cosmogenesis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This philosophical paper explores the relation between modern scientific simulations and the future of the universe. We argue that a simulation of an entire universe will result from future scientific activity. This requires us to tackle the challenge of simulating open-ended evolution at all levels in a single simulation. The simulation should encompass not only biological evolution, but also physical evolution (a level below) and cultural ...
Modeling and control of a pneumatic artificial muscle manipulator joint - Part I: Modeling of a pneumatic artificial muscle manipulator joint with accounting for creep effect KU Leuven
An antagonistically actuated pair of pneumatic muscle actuators has recently become an interesting basic joint unit for developing humanoid robots or robotic manipulators in general. This basic unit exhibits some advantageous characteristics, such as high compliance, high power-weight ratio, and high volume-to-weight ratio. However, hysteresis and muscle creep are significant drawbacks that limit the performance of this manipulator unit. This ...
The smart contact lens: from an artificial iris to a contact lens display Ghent University
Contactlenzen zijn ruim gekend als passieve hulpmiddelen voor visuele correctie, maar in het laatste decennium is er een nieuw onderzoeksdomein ontstaan naar zogenaamde 'slimme' contactlenzen. Door het toevoegen van elektronische componenten en andere actieve elementen kunnen nieuwe functionaliteiten aan contactlenzen worden gegeven zoals het meten van biomedische parameters, actieve visuscorrectie en Augmented Reality. Met het oog op potentiele ...
Artificial Intelligence Sensors to Assess Environment Corrosivity (Artificiële intelligentie sensoren voor bepaling van milieu-corrosiviteit) KU Leuven
To predict the corrosivity of an environment is not an easy task but nonetheless it is essential either to avoid failure and degradation or to plan for future action. On top of that, industry usually requests real-time problem solving. The methods currently available are mainly of two types: long time in-situ exposure and accelerated tests in the laboratory. What is proposed is a method that tries to fulfil the combined need of urgency and ...
Artificial insemination history: hurdles and milestones Hasselt University
Artificial insemination with homologous (AIH) or donor semen (AID) is nowadays a very popular treatment procedure used for many subfertile women worldwide. The rationale behind artificial insemination is to increase gamete density at the site of fertilisation. The sequence of events leading to today's common use of artificial insemination traces back to scientific studies and experimentation many centuries ago. Modern techniques used in human ...
The development of shared syntactic representations in late L2-learners : evidence from structural priming in an artificial language Ghent University University of Antwerp
Two longitudinal studies investigated the development of syntactic representations in late second language (L2) learners by means of structural priming in an artificial language (AL) paradigm. Several studies found crosslinguistic structural priming in L2 learners, suggesting that they have shared syntactic representations across languages. But how are these shared representations established? Hartsuiker and Bernolet's (2017) account claims that ...