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Differenza, autonomia, complessità organizzazionale. Dialettica del pensiero complesso in Edgar Morin

2012

"I know that humanity needs politics. That this politics needs anthroposociology. That anthroposociology needs to be linked to the science of nature...". Edgar Morin (1921), the "traveler of complexity", as he himself likes to call himself, proposes to "reorganize our mental system", the "structure of knowledge", precisely starting from the "revelation of the true structure of reality". The philosophical significance of Morin's thought, compared to the scientific approach, can be seen in the fact that it proposes to make the reality of our universe rise to the dignity of ontological principles, concepts elaborated within the gnoseological and epistemological. This research aims to present t…

DialecticComplex thoughtComplexityEdgar Morin
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Nuclear DNA fractions with grossly different base ratios in the genome of the marine sponge Geodia cydonium

2008

The DNA of the marine sponge Geodia cydonium (G.c.), a member of the phylogenetically old phylum Porifera, was characterized by density gradient centrifugation and by determining its genetic complexity by reassociation kinetics. At least five subcomponents were identified by curve-fit analyses of analytical density gradient centrifugation profiles of total G.c.-DNA. Four of these subcomponents were isolated from total G.c.-DNA by preparative density gradient centrifugation. The GC-contents of the subcomponents were determined to be 36.4%, 44.0%, 58.7%, and 66.1%, respectively. To our knowledge, such an extreme heterogeneity of DNA composition has never before been observed for any organism.…

Differential centrifugationchemistry.chemical_classificationGenetic complexityBase (chemistry)Geodia cydoniumBiologybiology.organism_classificationGenomeNuclear DNASpongechemistry.chemical_compoundBiochemistrychemistryBotanyDNA
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Time multiplexing super-resolved imaging without a priori knowledge of the spatial distribution of the encoding structured illumination

2021

Time multiplexing is a super-resolution technique that sacrifices time to overcome the resolution reduction obtained because of diffraction. There are many super resolution methods based on time multiplexing, but all of them require a priori knowledge of the time changing encoding mask, which is projected on the object and used to encode and decode the high-resolution information. In this paper, we present a time multiplexing technique that does not require the a priori knowledge on the projected encoding mask. First, the theoretical concept of the technique is demonstrated; then, numerical simulations and experimental results are presented.

DiffractionComputer sciencebusiness.industryResolution (electron density)02 engineering and technology021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology01 natural sciencesMultiplexingAtomic and Molecular Physics and Optics010309 opticsReduction (complexity)OpticsEncoding (memory)0103 physical sciencesA priori and a posteriori0210 nano-technologybusinessImage resolutionAlgorithmComputer Science::Information TheoryOptics Express
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Mixed valence mono- and hetero-metallic grid catenanes

2015

Multicomponent self-assembly was employed to obtain, in the solid state, a series of mixed valence mono- and hetero-metallic grid catenanes, which were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

DiffractionValence (chemistry)ChemistryCatenanestructural complexityPhysics::OpticsGeneral ChemistryGrid3. Good healthMetalCondensed Matter::Materials ScienceChemistryCatenationCrystallographycatenanesvisual_artvisual_art.visual_art_mediumCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electronsta116Single crystal
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Longest Motifs with a Functionally Equivalent Central Block

2004

International audience; This paper presents a generalization of the notion of longest repeats with a block of k don't care symbols introduced by [Crochemore et al., LATIN 2004] (for k fixed) to longest motifs composed of three parts: a first and last that parameterize match (that is, match via some symbol renaming, initially unknown), and a functionally equivalent central block. Such three-part motifs are called longest block motifs. Different types of functional equivalence, and thus of matching criteria for the central block are considered, which include as a subcase the one treated in [Crochemore et al., LATIN 2004] and extend to the case of regular expressions with no Kleene closure or …

Discrete mathematics0303 health sciences[INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS]Block (permutation group theory)0102 computer and information sciences01 natural sciencesCombinatoricsKleene algebra03 medical and health sciencesClosure (mathematics)010201 computation theory & mathematicsAlgorithmicsKleene starRegular expressionTime complexity030304 developmental biologyMathematicsComplement (set theory)
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An Efficient Algorithm for the Generation of Z-Convex Polyominoes

2014

We present a characterization of Z-convex polyominoes in terms of pairs of suitable integer vectors. This lets us design an algorithm which generates all Z-convex polyominoes of size n in constant amortized time.

Discrete mathematicsAmortized analysisMathematics::CombinatoricsSettore INF/01 - InformaticaPolyominoEfficient algorithmRegular polygonComputer Science::Computational GeometryCharacterization (mathematics)CombinatoricsIntegerComputer Science::Discrete MathematicsTheoryofComputation_ANALYSISOFALGORITHMSANDPROBLEMCOMPLEXITYConstant (mathematics)TetrominoZ-convex polyominoes generation.Mathematics
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Algorithmic Information Theory and Computational Complexity

2013

We present examples where theorems on complexity of computation are proved using methods in algorithmic information theory. The first example is a non-effective construction of a language for which the size of any deterministic finite automaton exceeds the size of a probabilistic finite automaton with a bounded error exponentially. The second example refers to frequency computation. Frequency computation was introduced by Rose and McNaughton in early sixties and developed by Trakhtenbrot, Kinber, Degtev, Wechsung, Hinrichs and others. A transducer is a finite-state automaton with an input and an output. We consider the possibilities of probabilistic and frequency transducers and prove sever…

Discrete mathematicsAverage-case complexityAlgorithmic information theoryTheoryofComputation_COMPUTATIONBYABSTRACTDEVICESKolmogorov complexityDescriptive complexity theoryComputational physicsStructural complexity theoryTheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGESDeterministic finite automatonAsymptotic computational complexityComputer Science::Formal Languages and Automata TheoryComputational number theoryMathematics
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Transition Function Complexity of Finite Automata

2011

State complexity of finite automata in some cases gives the same complexity value for automata which intuitively seem to have completely different complexities. In this paper we consider a new measure of descriptional complexity of finite automata -- BC-complexity. Comparison of it with the state complexity is carried out here as well as some interesting minimization properties are discussed. It is shown that minimization of the number of states can lead to a superpolynomial increase of BC-complexity.

Discrete mathematicsAverage-case complexityTheoryofComputation_COMPUTATIONBYABSTRACTDEVICESFinite-state machineDFA minimizationContinuous spatial automatonAutomata theoryQuantum finite automataDescriptive complexity theoryω-automatonComputer Science::Formal Languages and Automata TheoryMathematics
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On positive P

2002

Continuing a line of research opened up by Grigni and Sipser (1992) and further pursued by Stewart (1994), we show that a wide variety of equivalent characterizations of P still remain equivalent when restricted to be positive. All these restrictions thus define the same class posP, a proper subclass of monP, the class of monotone problems in P. We also exhibit complete problems for posP under very weak reductions.

Discrete mathematicsCombinatoricsClass (set theory)Monotone polygonBoolean circuitComplexity classVariety (universal algebra)Boolean functionTime complexitySubclassMathematicsProceedings of Computational Complexity (Formerly Structure in Complexity Theory)
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Incremental termination proofs and the length of derivations

1991

Incremental termination proofs, a concept similar to termination proofs by quasi-commuting orderings, are investigated. In particular, we show how an incremental termination proof for a term rewriting system T can be used to derive upper bounds on the length of derivations in T. A number of examples show that our results can be applied to yield (sharp) low-degree polynomial complexity bounds.

Discrete mathematicsCombinatoricsTermination proofPolynomial complexityRewriting systemWord problem (mathematics)Mathematical proofComputer Science::DatabasesMathematics
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