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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,606 Views
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18 April 2024

Non-Representational Theory (NRT) emphasizes the significance of routine experience in shaping human geography. In doing so, the theory largely eschews traditional approaches that have offered area-based, longitudinal, and synoptic formalisms for geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,910 Views
24 Pages

21 June 2024

Affect theory, non-representational theory, and assemblage theory have been among the most impactful developments in the theoretical humanities in the wake of, and in reaction to, poststructuralism. These interlocking bodies of theory and critical pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Testament Studies—Current Trends and Criticisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,669 Views
22 Pages

29 July 2021

Based on archival research, non-participatory observation, and semi-structured interviews, this paper examined waterway landscape changes mainly caused by tourism development in Hongcun, a traditional village in the Huizhou region, China, and how the...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,299 Views
15 Pages

Cognitive Theories of emotions have enjoyed great popularity in recent times. Allegedly, the so-called Perceptual Theory constitutes the most attractive version of this approach. However, the Perceptual Theory has come under increasing pressure. Ther...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Moral Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,600 Views
13 Pages

The use of new paradigms of false belief tasks (FBT) allowed to reduce the age of children who pass the test from the previous 4 years in the standard version to only 15 months or even a striking 6 months in the nonverbal modification. These results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Selected Papers from WPCS 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Views
29 Pages

From Representation to Enactment: The ABC Framework of the Translating Mind

  • Michael Carl,
  • Takanori Mizowaki,
  • Aishvarya Raj,
  • Masaru Yamada,
  • Devi Sri Bandaru,
  • Yuxiang Wei and
  • Xinyue Ren

13 October 2026

Building on the third-wave extended-mind (EM) theory and radical enactivism, this article suggests a novel view on the translating mind. We build on the ABC framework, in which translation is not understood as the manipulation of static interlingual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,499 Views
22 Pages

Model-Based Approaches to Active Perception and Control

  • Giovanni Pezzulo,
  • Francesco Donnarumma,
  • Pierpaolo Iodice,
  • Domenico Maisto and
  • Ivilin Stoianov

9 June 2017

There is an on-going debate in cognitive (neuro) science and philosophy between classical cognitive theory and embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive (“4-Es”) views of cognition—a family of theories that emphasize the role of the body in cognitio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Processing and Embodied, Embedded, Enactive Cognition Part 1)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,056 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2023

To the existing list of alternative formulations of quantum mechanics, a new version of the non-Hermitian interaction picture is added. What is new is that, in contrast to the more conventional non-Hermitian model-building recipes, the primary inform...

(This article belongs to the Section Hilbert’s Sixth Problem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
34 Pages

The mathematical universe of the quantum topos, which is formulated on the basis of classical Boolean snapshots, delivers a neo-realist description of quantum mechanics that preserves realism. The main contribution of this article is developing forma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,683 Views
13 Pages

17 August 2023

In the conventional (so-called Schrödinger-picture) formulation of quantum theory the operators of observables are chosen self-adjoint and time-independent. In the recent innovation of the theory, the operators can be not only non-Hermitian but...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physics and Symmetries of Commutative and Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,361 Views
17 Pages

Everyday Practices, Everyday Water: From Foucault to Rivera-Cusicanqui (with a Few Stops in between)

  • Kathryn Furlong,
  • Denisse Roca-Servat,
  • Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero and
  • María Botero-Mesa

30 September 2019

In this article, we explore elements of the literature on practices and the everyday to provide reference points for water researchers. We cast a wide net in recognition of the complex and multifaceted nature of human relationships to water that cann...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Doing Water Provision, Distribution and Conservation: A Practice-Based Approach to Water Governance)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,606 Views
7 Pages

Unitary Issues in Some Higher Derivative Field Theories

  • Manuel Asorey,
  • Leslaw Rachwal and
  • Ilya Shapiro

14 February 2018

We analyze the unitarity properties of higher derivative quantum field theories which are free of ghosts and ultraviolet singularities. We point out that in spite of the absence of ghosts most of these theories are not unitary. This result confirms t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmology and the Quantum Vacuum)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
33 Pages

14 August 2026

We develop a tensor-based dynamical framework for monetary flows in multi-sector, multi-agent economies and quantify the information destroyed when the monetary state is reduced to a scalar aggregate. The state is a third-order tensor encoding capita...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,580 Views
25 Pages

15 April 2021

Over the last two decades, the awareness about landscape as a common good and the definition of tourism as a relevant driver of territorial development have both increased contributions to contemporary reflections on places and mobilities. From a sci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape and Tourism, Landscapes of Tourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,941 Views
22 Pages

20 June 2019

Neutrosophic triangular norms (t-norms) and their residuated lattices are not only the main research object of neutrosophic set theory, but also the core content of neutrosophic logic. Neutrosophic implications are important operators of neutrosophic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New types of Neutrosophic Set/Logic/Probability, Neutrosophic Over-/Under-/Off-Set, Neutrosophic Refined Set, and their Extension to Plithogenic Set/Logic/Probability, with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
987 Views
61 Pages

12 February 2026

The position operator r^ appears as i∂p in wave mechanics, while its matrix form (e.g., under a Bloch basis) is well known diverging in diagonals, causing difficulties in basis transformation, observable yielding, etc. We aim to find a convergen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Feature Papers of Quantum Reports in 2024–2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,804 Views
17 Pages

5 November 2020

As part of this Special Issue, this paper attempts to add to a reflexive discussion and confront the simplistic understanding of why humans construct symmetries. This paper examines Hmong textiles called paj ntaub. The Hmong became a transnational pe...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,285 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2020

An exploration of industrial ruin sites has received sufficient attention in the past. Framed under the hybrid perspective of non-representational theory and paralleled with Ingold’s taskscape conceptualized terms, this study examines the TSA (...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,061 Views
12 Pages

In this article we propose an approach to digital health tracking technologies that draws on design anthropology. This entails re-thinking the pedagogical importance of personal data as lying in how they participate in the constitution of new possibi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pedagogies of Health: The Role of Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,855 Views
36 Pages

19 March 2018

A trajectory-based representation for the quantum theory of the gravitational field is formulated. This is achieved in terms of a covariant Generalized Lagrangian-Path (GLP) approach which relies on a suitable statistical representation of Bohmian La...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,996 Views
14 Pages

A New Approach to Non-Singular Plane Cracks Theory in Gradient Elasticity

  • Sergey A. Lurie,
  • Dmitriy B. Volkov-Bogorodsky and
  • Valery V. Vasiliev

A non-local solution is obtained here in the theory of cracks, which depends on the scale parameter in the non-local theory of elasticity. The gradient solution is constructed as a regular solution of the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation, where the f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Related Problems of Continuum Mechanics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,751 Views
11 Pages

Momentum Gauge Fields and Non-Commutative Space–Time

  • Eduardo Guendelman and
  • Douglas Singleton

2 January 2023

In this work, we present a gauge principle that starts with the momentum space representation of the position operator (x^i=iℏ∂∂pi), rather than starting with the position space representation of the momentum operator (p^i=−i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamental Aspects of Theoretical Physics - Memorial Issue for Prof. Dr. Weinberg)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,388 Views
32 Pages

27 December 2019

We derive time evolution equations, namely the Klein–Gordon equations for coherent fields and the Kadanoff–Baym equations in quantum electrodynamics (QED) for open systems (with a central region and two reservoirs) as a practical model of...

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,748 Views
31 Pages

Monstrous M-Theory

  • Alessio Marrani,
  • Mike Rios and
  • David Chester

13 February 2023

In 26+1 space–time dimensions, we introduce a gravity theory whose massless spectrum can be acted upon by the Monster group when reduced to 25+1 dimensions. This theory generalizes M-theory in many respects, and we name it Monstrous M-theory, o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Noether and Space-Time Symmetries in Physics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
13,576 Views
6 Pages

The development of virtual reality brings an old and historic question on the difference between the real world and unreal world. In this paper, starting from the concept of representation, I argued that what we call “virtual reality” is a representa...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of IS4SI 2019 Summit)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,162 Views
22 Pages

22 June 2020

The stochastic character of the cosmological constant arising from the non-linear quantum-vacuum Bohm interaction in the framework of the manifestly-covariant theory of quantum gravity (CQG theory) is pointed out. This feature is shown to be consiste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Mechanics and Its Foundations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,249 Views
18 Pages

12 March 2023

In a consistent quantum theory known as “non-Hermitian interaction picture” (NIP), the standard quantum Coriolis operator Σ(t) emerges whenever the observables of a unitary system are given in their quasi-Hermitian and non-stationar...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,505 Views
12 Pages

Average Turbulence Dynamics from a One-Parameter Kinetic Theory

  • Hudong Chen,
  • Ilya Staroselsky,
  • Katepalli R. Sreenivasan and
  • Victor Yakhot

4 July 2023

We show theoretically that the mean turbulent dynamics can be described by a kinetic theory representation with a single free relaxation time that depends on space and time. A proper kinetic equation is constructed from the Klimontovich-type kinetic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Turbulence from Earth to Planets, Stars and Galaxies—Commemorative Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jackson Rea Herring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,764 Views
15 Pages

24 January 2024

Our study focuses on the governing equation of a finitely deformed flexible rod with strain waves. By utilizing the well-known Ablowita–Ramani–Segur (ARS) algorithm, we prove that the equation is non-integrable in the Painlevé sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,279 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2020

This paper considers non-classical continuum theory for thermoviscous fluids without memory incorporating internal rotation rates resulting from the antisymmetric part of the velocity gradient tensor to derive ordered rate constitutive theories for t...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,489 Views
18 Pages

2 December 2023

The representation theory of a finite group, G, is an important area of research currently. This paper studied the modular representation of finite groups, which are direct products. There are three approaches to studying this representation: the rin...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,985 Views
22 Pages

28 April 2023

Gaussian unitaries play a fundamental role in the field of continuous variables. In the general n mode, they may formulated by a second-order polynomial in the bosonic operators. Another important role related to Gaussian unitaries is played by the s...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,395 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2017

DNA-binding proteins play vital roles in cellular processes, such as DNA packaging, replication, transcription, regulation, and other DNA-associated activities. The current main prediction method is based on machine learning, and its accuracy mainly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Analysis for Protein Structure and Interaction)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,197 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2022

Understanding the dynamics of strongly coupled non-Abelian gauge theories constitutes one of the ongoing grand challenges in theoretical physics. This has been motivated by the need to understand long-distance behavior of quantum chromodynamics, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Studies of Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories (SCGTs) in the Search of New Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,400 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2020

In recent years, with the development of compressed sensing theory, sparse representation methods have been concerned by many researchers. Sparse representation can approximate the original image information with less space storage. Sparse representa...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
430 Views
22 Pages

Board Diversity and Sustainability Disclosure: Empirical Evidence from Palestine

  • Ali H. I. Aljadba,
  • Abdallah A. S. Fayad,
  • Khaled O. Alotaibi and
  • Ahmad F. Almutairi

Given the limited environmental, social, and governance disclosure (ESGD) among Palestinian firms, this study’s purpose is to explore potential connections between diversity of board gender and nationality, as well as representation of non-exec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ESG Reporting, Sustainability Assurance, and Financial Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,143 Views
21 Pages

6 August 2019

In Old Norse mythology, gods like Freyja, Odin, and Thor are usually characterized as human-like creatures: they walk and ride animals, eat, grow old, and even die. Was there more to conceptions of Old Norse gods than those anthropomorphic representa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,182 Views
22 Pages

5 June 2025

This work introduces a novel family of analytic and univalent functions formulated through the integration of Gregory coefficients and Sakaguchi-type functions. Employing subordination techniques, we obtain sharp bounds for the initial coefficients i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Special Functions in Complex Analysis and Their Symmetries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,257 Views
24 Pages

The ontology behind quantum mechanics has been the subject of endless debate since the theory was formulated some 100 years ago. It has been suggested, at one time or another, that the objects described by the theory may be individual particles, wave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
353 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, the new fractal modified Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation (fmZKe) defined on Cantor sets is investigated. The fmZKe is a non-differentiable model that arises naturally in mathematical physics, nonlinear wave theory, and plasma physics...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,998 Views
12 Pages

Non-Local Game of Life in 2D Quasicrystals

  • Fang Fang,
  • Sinziana Paduroiu,
  • Dugan Hammock and
  • Klee Irwin

6 November 2018

On a two-dimensional quasicrystal, a Penrose tiling, we simulate for the first time a game of life dynamics governed by non-local rules. Quasicrystals have inherently non-local order since any local patch, the emperor, forces the existence of a large...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure and Properties of Quasicrystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,000 Views
89 Pages

New Frontiers of Fractal Uncertainty

  • Saeed Hashemi Sababe and
  • Ismail Nikoufar

We extend the classical fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) framework in time-frequency analysis by exploring several novel directions. First, we generalize the FUP beyond the classical Gaussian window by investigating non-Gaussian windows and the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,060 Views
48 Pages

Modelling Value-Oriented Legal Reasoning in LogiKEy

  • Christoph Benzmüller,
  • David Fuenmayor and
  • Bertram Lomfeld

14 March 2024

The logico-pluralist LogiKEy knowledge engineering methodology and framework is applied to the modelling of a theory of legal balancing, in which legal knowledge (cases and laws) is encoded by utilising context-dependent value preferences. The theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,052 Views
18 Pages

A Modal Interpretation of Quantum Spins and Its Application to Freudian Theory

  • Giulia Battilotti,
  • Miloš Borozan and
  • Rosapia Lauro Grotto

4 October 2022

In the present paper, we aim to develop a formal quantum logic theory of the interplay between conscious and unconscious processes of the human mind, a goal that has already been envisaged in quantum cognition; in doing so, we will show how the inter...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
4,051 Views
17 Pages

It was argued recently that the holographic higher spin theory features non-local interactions. We further elaborate on these results using the Mellin representation. The main difficulty previously encountered in this method is that the Mellin amplit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Spin Gauge Theories)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,345 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2016

This paper provides a critical examination of the taken for granted nature of the codes/guidelines used towards the creation of designed spaces, their social relations with designers, and their agency in designing for people with disabilities. We con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interrogating Representations of dis/Ability within and through Material Culture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,851 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2020

Many non-probabilistic approaches have been widely regarded as mathematical tools for the representation of epistemic uncertainties. However, their heavy computational burden and low computational efficiency hinder their applications in practical eng...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,583 Views
46 Pages

16 July 2018

Space-time quantum contributions to the classical Einstein equations of General Relativity are determined. The theoretical background is provided by the non-perturbative theory of manifestly-covariant quantum gravity and the trajectory-based represen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmology and Quantum Vacuum)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,315 Views
20 Pages

15 May 2020

This work presents an innovative control architecture, which takes its ideas from the theory of adaptive control techniques and the theory of statistical learning at the same time. Taking inspiration from the architecture of a classical neural networ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converters, Electric Drives and Energy Storage Systems for Electrified Transportation and Smart Grid)

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