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This thesis proposes a novel method for solving inverse thermal systems problems based on stigmergy. Inverse problems are those problems that have a desired output but the inputs required to achieve that output are unknown. The example problem examined is an established inverse …

Recent scholarly attention has been paid to the use of an epigenetic metaphor in Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy, e.g. Mensch (2013), Helbig and Nassar (2016), and Nassar (2017), a metaphor closely bound up with not only Kant’s theory of mind, but also his theory of a …

Coherent structures form spontaneously in far-from-equilibrium spatiotemporal systems and are found at all spatial scales in natural phenomena from laboratory hydrodynamic flows and chemical reactions to ocean and atmosphere dynamics. Phenomenologically, they appear as key compo…