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⚘ John Deely's Contributions to Biosemiotics ☀ Donald Favareau, Paul Cobley, and Kalevi Kull
No full textBe amongst the best... and you will be sure to notice that meaning lies in the environment beyond human words.
This event, commented by Anton Markoš (International Society for Biosemiotic Studies) and chaired by Tim Troutman (Lyceum Institute), is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.
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Donald Favareau is an Associate Professor in the University Scholars Programme (USP) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his degrees in Philosophy and Applied Linguistics, with a particular interests in Philosophy of Mind and the Neurobiology of Language, from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
He became involved with the interdisciplinary research project of Biosemiotics in 2001 and has been an active researcher and organiser of the field ever since. Favareau holds joint appointments as a tenured research professor in both USP and the Department of Communications and New Media at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in NUS. He also has served as Vice-President of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies since its founding in 2005.
Besides collating and authoring the Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary (2010) and co-editing with Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer (2012), Favareau has been publishing in leading scholarly journals like SEED, Semiotica, Journal of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, and Biosemiotics.
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Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media and Deputy Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University. His research interests include semiotics (including biosemiotics, zoosemiotics and cybersemiotics), the works of Thomas A. Sebeok and John Deely, communication theory, narrative, subjectivity, popular genres (especially the thriller). He is the author of a number of books, most recently Cultural Implications of Semiotics (2016) and Narrative 2nd edn (2014). He is co-series editor (with Kalevi Kull) of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (de Gruyter Mouton), co-editor (with Peter J. Schulz) of the multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Sciences (de Gruyter), co-edits the journal Social Semiotics, and is associate editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Among his edited volumes are The Routledge Companion to Semiotics (2009), Theories and Models of Communication (2013, with Peter Schulz), Semiotics and Its Masters Vol. 1 (2017, with Kristian Bankov), Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader (2009) and The Communication Theory Reader (1996). He is the 9th Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (elected in 2014) and is secretary (since 2012) of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies.
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Kalevi Kull is Professor of Biosemiotics in the University of Tartu, Estonia. His research focuses on intersections of biology and semiotics. He studied biology and worked in theoretical biology and field ecology, while in last decades in semiotics. His mission is to foster an ecological culture. His work includes: Jakob von Uexküll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics (2001), Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the action of Signs (2011), as well as On Theoretical Biology: Life Science between Mathematics and Semiotics (2019, in Estonian).
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Anton Markoš is a theoretical biologist and associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. In his writings, he focuses on cell and evolutionary biology and biosemiotics from the hermeneutical, historical and philosophical point of view. Among his many scientific and popular books and articles are Epigenetic Processes and the Evolution of Life (w/ Jana Švorcová; CRC Press 2019), Readers of the Book of Life (Oxford University Press 2002), or Life as its own Designer: Darwin´s Origin and Western Thought (w/ Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, Zdenek Neubauer; Springer 2009).
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Eto/biologia w dyskursie (zoo)semiotycznym
No full textThe following article is devoted to a symbiosis of biology and semiotics, which contributed
to the establishment of various inter-disciplinary areas of knowledge and trends within
broadly understood semiotics: ecosemiotics (cultural and biological), biosemiotics (endosemiotics
/ exosemiotics), biological semiotics / semiotic biology and zoosemiotics. The
author focuses on the latter. She concentrates mainly on Yuri Lotman’s works wherein
numerous connections between biology and ethology can be found. An eminent Estonian
biosemiotics professor Kalevi Kull has analyzed these connections in an article. The
author comes to the conclusion that Lotman largely contributed to the development of
zoosemiotics in Russia and Estonia
Helium as a welding shielding gas : effects on CO₂ emissions by helium recovery and recycling system
No full textHelium as a welding shielding gas offers unique advantages for many applications. Helium provides positive effects to most of the shielding gas mixtures used with different materials and in a variety of welding processes. Helium is an inert gas which affords more heat input to the joint, thus increasing the welding efficiency. Mixed with argon, it increases welding speed and is advantageous in penetration of thick wall aluminum, copper, and titanium materials where it compensates the high heat conduction. Drawbacks of using helium are its availability, relatively high cost and the low density. Helium can be applied in shielding as a pure gas or as a component in the shielding gas mixtures.
The objective of the thesis is to present a novel helium shielding gas recovery and recycling system devised for use in welding applications including its design and implementation. The novel system is designed by the author and it is unique in the welding shielding gas field. When using helium recovery and recycling, CO₂ emissions are reduced, and the climate change effects are decreased.
The thesis is based on i) literature analysis and ii) developing and designing the novel recovery system which is new and unique. The literature review and analysis describe welding shielding gases and their properties. The section handling helium addresses the production methods and applications, general properties, and effects of helium as welding shielding gas to the productivity and welding economy. The practical experience of the author accumulated during an extensive over 30 years career in the gas production business and the literature review has laid a foundation for the innovation and design of a novel helium recovery system. The designed system allows the recovery of helium from the welding processes. This innovation can potentially offer significant cost savings for various applications, and improve the understanding of inert gases recovery, extraction, and reuse. This approach leads to more sustainable manufacturing practices, at the same time decreasing the negative environmental impact of the production process. The review of scientific publications on the shielding gas field demonstrates that the recovery and recycling system designed by the author is new and unique. It is new in the welding sector and the thesis has undisputed research and scientific novel value
En modell för ordbokskritik
No full textFor this article, the author has studied reviews ofbilingual and monolingual Finnish dictionaries startingfrom 1826 up to the 1990s. The aim has been to find out ifit is possible to distinguish patterns of common and repeated elements in dictioruuy reviews (κ), and whether these elements could be worked into a specific formula. An analysis of the content of the reviews studied shows that the following elements can be considered as regular features of a dictioruuy review: 1) generalities (κ1; historical reasons forpublishing the dictionary, goals ofthe dictionary, layout,guide for users), 2) analys is of the entries ( λ; equivalents, idioms, structure ), 3) lexikographical problems ( λ1), 4) importance ofthe dictionary (α). It is shown that the foregoing elements can be worked into the following formula: κ = κ1 + λ + λ1 + α. When λ1 anda are reduced to λ, we get the following formula: K = K 1 + λ. Results of empirical testing are also provided in this article
Hyperglycemia and Incidence of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke-Comparison Between Fasting and 2-Hour Glucose Criteria
No full textDesign of an information capturing and visualization system of the visitors of Aalto University Design Factory
No full textAalto University Design Factory, one of the spearhead projects of the recently formed Aalto University, is a meeting point for students, educators and practitioners from the fields of engineering, design and business. The Design Factory is a constantly evolving experimental platform for interdisciplinary education and collaboration related to product development.
As Design Factory continues to grow from its birth four years ago, it is gaining worldwide interest, hosting various courses, along with projects, events and visits from different universities, institutions and companies, both national and international. This continuing development has presented a need for a system to efficiently collect information needed to help document visitors
and activities.
This thesis depicts a design project with the main goal of designing a system that helps capturing information from the visitors of the Design Factory in an easy, organized and programmable way.
This system enables the Design Factory to start a database of visual and contact information of the people for internal documentation, research and external promotion and communication.
As an outcome of the design project, a basic working prototype of the system was developed and provided to Design Factory for testing and further development. The system development process follows general product and systems design and project engineering methodologies and procedures with the documentation and reflections of the author serving as a future reference for development
of similar types of projects.Outgoin
On a laser anglemeter for mobile robot navigation
No full textA laser anglemeter for use in a navigation system for mobile robots has been developed. The anglemeter measures heading angles to beacons made of vertical stripes of retroreflective tape. The anglemeter uses an- optical system with a rotating mirror. It scans a laser beam which illuminates the beacons and receives pulses of reflected light from them. The pulses are amplified by a low-noise amplifier and then fed to a comparator. When the comparator trips it is assumed that the laser beam has hit a beacon. Then the angle is measured with a counter which is fed with pulses from an incremental encoder fixed on the axis of the mirror. A navigation system using the anglemeter has been developed. The system includes an algorithm that associates measured angles with beacon identities. The algorithm has been patented by the author. The navigation system has been implemented on a test vehicle. The optical and electronic parts of the anglemeter have been thoroughly analysed and simulated. The performance limits of the anglemeter are stated and design criteria for the optical and electronic parts are proposed. Measurements support the simulations and the theoretical analysis. Some results of the analysis of the optical part of the anglemeter are: A Gaussian expression describing the bidirectional reflection distribution function (BRDF) of the beacons is proposed. The shape and power of the received light pulses from the beacons are found to be determined by the (Gaussian) intensity distribution and the divergence of the laser beam, the scan velocity, the width of the beacons and their BRDFs. No signal is received from beacons at close range. At long range the laser beam diameter is much larger than the width of the beacons which causes the range-dependence of the width of the received pulses to disappear. The shape of the pulses is approximately Gaussian in this region due to the intensity distribution of the laser beam. The width of the pulses is determined by the laser beam divergence and the scan velocity. Optical misalignments in the anglemeter cause the dominating systematic error in measured angles. Another important error source is the range dependence of the received signal. Furthermore a non-circular cross-section of the laser beam is a potential source of large systematic errors while random errors due to electronic noise are surprisingly small. Some results of the analysis of the electronic part of the anglemeter axe: A low-noise photodiode-amplifier circuit with the photodiode in the feedback path has been developed. No noise generating resistor is needed to provide a DC-path to ground for signal and bias currents at the amplifier input. It is possible to design the amplifier as a matched filter for square shaped pulses. An implementation of the amplifier was found to have a NEP~ 3 fW/√Hz at frequencies below 10 kHz.Godkänd; 1993; 20061125 (ysko
On a laser anglemeter for mobile robot navigation [Elektronisk resurs]
No full textA laser anglemeter for use in a navigation system for mobile robots has been developed. The anglemeter measures heading angles to beacons made of vertical stripes of retroreflective tape. The anglemeter uses an- optical system with a rotating mirror. It scans a laser beam which illuminates the beacons and receives pulses of reflected light from them. The pulses are amplified by a low-noise amplifier and then fed to a comparator. When the comparator trips it is assumed that the laser beam has hit a beacon. Then the angle is measured with a counter which is fed with pulses from an incremental encoder fixed on the axis of the mirror. A navigation system using the anglemeter has been developed. The system includes an algorithm that associates measured angles with beacon identities. The algorithm has been patented by the author. The navigation system has been implemented on a test vehicle. The optical and electronic parts of the anglemeter have been thoroughly analysed and simulated. The performance limits of the anglemeter are stated and design criteria for the optical and electronic parts are proposed. Measurements support the simulations and the theoretical analysis. Some results of the analysis of the optical part of the anglemeter are: A Gaussian expression describing the bidirectional reflection distribution function (BRDF) of the beacons is proposed. The shape and power of the received light pulses from the beacons are found to be determined by the (Gaussian) intensity distribution and the divergence of the laser beam, the scan velocity, the width of the beacons and their BRDFs. No signal is received from beacons at close range. At long range the laser beam diameter is much larger than the width of the beacons which causes the range-dependence of the width of the received pulses to disappear. The shape of the pulses is approximately Gaussian in this region due to the intensity distribution of the laser beam. The width of the pulses is determined by the laser beam divergence and the scan velocity. Optical misalignments in the anglemeter cause the dominating systematic error in measured angles. Another important error source is the range dependence of the received signal. Furthermore a non-circular cross-section of the laser beam is a potential source of large systematic errors while random errors due to electronic noise are surprisingly small. Some results of the analysis of the electronic part of the anglemeter axe: A low-noise photodiode-amplifier circuit with the photodiode in the feedback path has been developed. No noise generating resistor is needed to provide a DC-path to ground for signal and bias currents at the amplifier input. It is possible to design the amplifier as a matched filter for square shaped pulses. An implementation of the amplifier was found to have a NEP~ 3 fW/√Hz at frequencies below 10 kHz.</p
Design of an information capturing and visualization system of the visitors of Aalto University Design Factory
No full textAalto University Design Factory, one of the spearhead projects of the recently formed Aalto University, is a meeting point for students, educators and practitioners from the fields of engineering, design and business. The Design Factory is a constantly evolving experimental platform for interdisciplinary education and collaboration related to product development.
As Design Factory continues to grow from its birth four years ago, it is gaining worldwide interest, hosting various courses, along with projects, events and visits from different universities, institutions and companies, both national and international. This continuing development has presented a need for a system to efficiently collect information needed to help document visitors
and activities.
This thesis depicts a design project with the main goal of designing a system that helps capturing information from the visitors of the Design Factory in an easy, organized and programmable way.
This system enables the Design Factory to start a database of visual and contact information of the people for internal documentation, research and external promotion and communication.
As an outcome of the design project, a basic working prototype of the system was developed and provided to Design Factory for testing and further development. The system development process follows general product and systems design and project engineering methodologies and procedures with the documentation and reflections of the author serving as a future reference for development
of similar types of projects.Outgoin
