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Recent advances and future prospects in tactile sensors for normal and shear force detection, decoupling, and applications
Authors: Huang Jinrong , Guo Yuchen , Jiang Yongchang , Wang Feiyu , Pan Lijia , Shi Yi 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Human skin, through its complex mechanoreceptor system, possesses the exceptional ability to finely perceive and differentiate multimodal mechanical stimuli, forming the biological foundation for dexterous manipulation, environmental exploration, and tactile perception. Tactile sensors that emulate this sensory capability, particularly in the detection, decoupling, and application of normal and shear forces, have made significant strides in recent years. This review comprehensively examines the latest research advancements in tactile sensors for normal and shear force sensing, delving into the design and decoupling methods of multi-unit structures, multilayer encapsulation structures, and bionic structures. It analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of various sensing principles, including piezoresistive, capacitive, and self-powered mechanisms, and evaluates their application potential in health monitoring, robotics, wearable devices, smart prosthetics, and human-machine interaction. By systematically summarizing current research progress and technical challenges, this review aims to provide forward-looking insights into future research directions, driving the development of electronic skin technology to ultimately achieve tactile perception capabilities comparable to human skin.
Growth, characterization, and transport calculation of Ge/SiGe heterojunction: strategy for the growth of undoped Ge quantum wells
Authors: Zhang Yiwen , Deng Jun , Li Zonghu , Liu Xinyou , Li Haiou , Wang Baochuan , Luo Jun , Kong Zhenzhen , Cao Gang , Guo Guoping , Zhao Chao , Wang Guilei 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Ge/SiGe heterostructure quantum wells play a pivotal role in the pursuit of scalable silicon-based qubits. The varying compressive strains within these quantum wells profoundly influence the physical characteristics of the qubits, yet this factor remains largely unexplored, driving our research endeavor. In this study, we utilized RP-CVD (Reduced Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition) to grow Ge quantum wells with varied compressive strain, proposing growth schemes for lightly-strained (ε
∥ = −0.43%) QW (quantum well), standard-strained (ε
∥ = −0.61%) QW, and heavily-strained (ε
∥ = −1.19%) QW. Through comprehensive material characterization, particularly employing the low-temperature magneto-transport measurements, we derived the percolation densities ranging from 4.7 × 1010 to 14.2 × 1010 cm−2 and mobilities from 3.382 × 105 to 7.301 × 105 cm2∙V−1∙s−1. Combined with the first-principles calculations, our analysis delves into the trends in effective mass and percolation density at low temperatures, shedding light on the impact of quantum effects on band structures and the interplay between structural components and wave functions. This research offers a comprehensive investigation into the intrinsic mechanisms governing complex multi-strained quantum wells, spanning growth, characterization, and computational perspectives, thereby establishing a strategy for the growth of high-quality strained quantum wells.
Instantons and the large

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algebra
Authors: Witten Edward 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We investigate the differential geometry of the moduli space of instantons on

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3

×

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1

. Extending previous results, we show that a sigma-model with this target space can be expected to possess a large

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superconformal symmetry, supporting speculations that this sigma-model may be dual to Type IIB superstring theory on

AdS

3

×

S

3

×

S

3

×

S

1

. The sigma-model is parametrized by three integers—the rank of the gauge group, the instanton number, and a ‘level’ (the integer coefficient of a topologically nontrivial B-field, analogous to a WZW level). These integers are expected to correspond to two five-brane charges and a one-brane charge. The sigma-model is weakly coupled when the level, conjecturally corresponding to one of the five-brane changes, becomes very large, keeping the other parameters fixed. The central charges of the large

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algebra agree, at least semiclassically, with expectations from the duality.
Optimizing fuzzy power system stabilizers for microgrid frequency stability using improved water cycle algorithm
Authors: Ahmed Ilyas , Mahapatra Ashok Kumar , Ojha Srinibash , Perween Nafisa , Das Manas Ranjan 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This research assignment has incorporated electric vehicles and robust Fuzzy Power System Stabilizer (Fuzzy-PSS) controller for improving stability behavior of an AC microgrid. Load dynamics, wind fluctuation , variations in solar intensity, etc, have a major impact on the performance of an islanded AC microgrid. The anticipated Fuzzy-PSS controller acts as the secondary load frequency control loop of the microgrid and mitigates the frequency oscillation problems in the microgrid. The suggested Fuzzy Power System stabilizer (Fuzzy-PSS) technique is the best bet for addressing system frequency stability in different disturbances. Under various circumstances, the Improved Water Cycle Algorithm (I-WCA) is recommended for tuning the controller gains through a suitable objective function. Regarding microgrid’s frequency regulation, the effectiveness of the ideal Fuzzy PSS controller is contrasted with that of the conventional fuzzy controller and PID controller. The suggested Fuzzy-PSS approach strongly outperforms the standard Fuzzy PID controller in regard to stability improvement of the EV injected AC microgrid. The suggested Fuzzy-PSS technique has the ability to settle ∆F
2 (area 2 microgrid frequency) by 150.56% and 216.72%, respectively, as compared to the standard Fuzzy PID and PID approaches. To demonstrate the superiority of the suggested I-WCA over standard PSO approach, its dynamic performance is examined from an optimization point of view.
HP-MobileNetV3: a lightweight neural network for non-intrusive load monitoring
Authors: Li Shukang , Zhao Sheng , Gao Ping , Ge Shiwei , Huang Ruize , Shu Liang 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) constitutes an extremely promising technology within the realm of intelligent energy management. Its application possesses the potential to accelerate the construction of smart cities and power ecology, encourage consumers to adjust their electricity consumption behavior, and reduce carbon emissions. Despite the fact that recent deep learning neural network models have demonstrated excellent performance in NILM tasks, these models often require a large amount of computation and sufficient hardware memory to handle the electricity parameters from user edge devices as well as ensure the security of communication data. This makes it difficult to use them on edge devices with limited hardware resources. To overcome these limitations, this study proposes a network architecture named HP-MobileNetV3, which significantly reduces the model size and computational requirements through hierarchical pointwise convolution and network structure pruning, enabling its deployment on edge devices. Experimental results, conducted on the publicly available PLAID dataset, demonstrate that HP-MobileNetV3 achieves a reduction of 96.74% in the number of parameters, 83.51% in computational load, and 35.18% in inference time, while maintaining performance, thus facilitating the practical application of NILM technology.
Consciousness
Authors: Klein Alexander Mugar 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
William James offered complimentary accounts of consciousness’s physiological and evolutionary functions. Drawing on some vivisection results from his day, James argued that consciousness functions as a behavior regulator in a creature’s physiological economy. It accomplishes this function by affording a capacity to valuate what is in (or might be in) the creature’s environment, giving an ability to attend to what is important, and to ignore much else. To be conscious is normally to valuate one’s actual or potential circumstances, in short; and James hypothesized that this valuating capacity was selected (in the Darwinian sense) precisely because it “regulated” the behavior of creatures with highly-articulated brains. This chapter places James’s view against the backdrop of the automatism controversy raging in Victorian Britain. It then reconstructs the abductive argument he offered for his view, paying special attention to results from experimental physiology on which his argument relies. The chapter concludes by showing how James’s argument sidesteps the measurement problem, which is the problem of finding reasonable criteria for determining whether some other creature is or is not conscious.
Against Epiphenomenalism
Authors: Klein Alexander Mugar 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This chapter offers a new reading and assessment of William James’s argument against all forms of automatism, including epiphenomenalism. James developed an evolutionary objection to such views that is still discussed today. But recent responses do not grasp its full depth. He argued that our life-essential, phenomenal pleasures and pains have three features that suggest that they were likely shaped by selection: they are natively-patterned, those patterns are systematically linked with antecedent brain states, and the patterns are “universal” among humans. If epiphenomenalism were true, phenomenal patterns could not have been selected (because epiphenomenalism precludes phenomenal consciousness affecting reproductive success). So epiphenomenalism is likely to be false. This chapter also draws out some unexpected consequences of James’s argument for today’s philosophy of cognitive science. Accepting James’s objection to epiphenomenalism should push us to reject the distinction between access- and phenomenal-consciousness, and to reject versions of the “hard” problem that are articulated in terms of this distinction.
Women Cartesians, “Feminine Philosophy,” and Historical Exclusion
Authors: O'Neill Eileen 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Numerous women writers were associated with Cartesianism in the seventeenth century. The chapter provides a survey of their responses to Descartes’s philosophy, focusing on Erica Harth’s “beau trio”: Catherine Descartes, Anna de la Vigne, and Marie Dupré. In Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, Harth argues that these three were notable for their critical stance toward Descartes’s philosophy, challenging in particular “his dualism, mechanism, and objectivity.” The chapter challenges this reading. First, Harth overestimates the importance of dualism in feminist works of the period. In addition, the specific texts she cites do not evince a concern with a particularly Cartesian form of dualism. Indeed, they provide little evidence of engagement either with Descartes’s dualism or his mechanism.
Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy
Authors: O'Neill Eileen 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
A Geistesgeschichte is a historical narrative that centers on a set of philosophers and philosophical themes. A feminist Geistesgeschichte is one that assigns women and feminist themes a central role in the narrative. While Michèle Le Dœuff can be said to be responsible for helping to create such a feminist Geistesgeschichte, she herself rejects the title of “philosopher,” denying that women have anything to gain by positioning themselves within the philosophical tradition. Women, she argues, have historically been consigned to the “Heloise position”—disciples to a corresponding “Abelard.” This chapter shows that, despite centuries of misogynistic philosophy, women have made significant contributions, quite often in the absence of a supervisory Abelard. It concludes that philosophy is, in fact, as much the domain of women as of men. By aligning themselves with the discipline of philosophy, contemporary feminist philosophers are placing themselves in a tradition to which they are the rightful heirs.
Mind–Body Interaction and Metaphysical Consistency
Authors: O'Neill Eileen 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
As Simon Foucher first pointed out in 1675, the causal likeness principle—that “there must be essential likeness between a cause and its effect”—is incompatible with two other central tenets of Cartesian metaphysics: that mind and body causally interact, and that mind and body are essentially different substances. Did Descartes in fact hold the likeness principle? The principle is held to follow from the containment principle, which Descartes clearly endorsed: “Whatever reality or perfection exists formally in a thing or objectively in an idea must be contained formally or else eminently in its total, efficient cause.” In fact, as the chapter argues, a careful reading of the relevant texts shows containment to be inconsistent with the causal likeness principle.
Good as Usual
Authors: Williamson Timothy 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
The book argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Once we throw out those preconceived and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features of reality as similar to its other features, and capable of being known and described in similar ways. The result is a new and anti-reductionist form of moral and evaluative realism and cognitivism. The book applies the same approach to practical reasoning about what to do, criticizing the subjectivist assumptions of standard decision theory, showing how the desires as well as the beliefs on which we act can amount to knowledge, and how connections between the justification of belief and the justification of action can benefit epistemology. Light is cast on the nature of rationality by a sharp distinction between rational beliefs and rational believers. Subtle logical fallacies about permissibility, obligation, and reasons are shown to have confused our normative thinking. The book brings together and expands all the author’s work on normativity and value; it can be understood as the application to practical philosophy of the approach to theoretical philosophy developed in his earlier books.
Responsibility and the Demands of Morality
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Stephen J. White was developing a comprehensive view of responsibility and its limits when his life was tragically cut short. This volume contains his collected papers. White’s view of responsibility spans across ethics, action theory, and interpersonal epistemology. Its core idea is that to be responsible for doing or believing something is to be answerable for why one has done it or why one believes it. And to be responsible for a state of affairs is to be answerable for why things are that way, rather than some other way. White deploys this conception of responsibility to illuminate the notions of autonomy, coercion, shared reasoning, self-prediction, doxastic wronging, and peer disagreement. He also discusses the nature of practical reasoning: he argues against a production-oriented conception of practical reasoning, he delineates the scope of transmission principles in means-ends reasoning, and he identifies a limited role for self-prediction that is subject to an anti-opportunism constraint. The papers form the outline of a deep ethical outlook that takes seriously our personal and collective responsibilities and yet leaves room for personal autonomy both in thought and in action.
Responsibility and the Demands of Morality
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Is it a good objection to a moral theory that it demands a great deal of individual agents? White argues that if we interpret the question to be about the potential welfare costs associated with our moral obligations, the answer must be “no.” However, the demands a moral theory makes can also be measured in terms of what it requires us to take responsibility for. He argues that this is distinct from what we may be required to do or give up, and that it provides a conception of demandingness that makes better sense of our intuitive reactions.
The Centrality of One’s Own Life
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
We are all, to some degree or other, self-centered; we tend to concentrate on our own needs and interests to the relative exclusion of most other people’s. This chapter explores the prospects for justifying such partiality on grounds of individual autonomy. Two versions of this approach are considered. The first develops the idea that, to be autonomous, an agent must have available a significant range of morally permissible options. This approach is rejected in favor of a second, according to which a strong duty of impartial beneficence would objectionably render an agent subject to the wills of other agents. That is, insofar as a person is entitled to a special authoritative status in relation to what she does, that person will bear the primary responsibility for how well her life goes. The chapter concludes by considering the implications for our understanding of morally required beneficence.
Self-Prediction in Practical Reasoning
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Are predictions about how one will freely and intentionally behave in the future ever relevant to how one ought to behave? There is good reason to think they are. As imperfect agents, we have responsibilities of self-management, which seem to require that we take account of the predictable ways we’re liable to go wrong. White defends this conclusion against certain objections to the effect that incorporating into one’s practical reasoning predictions concerning one’s voluntary conduct amounts to evading one’s responsibility for that conduct. There is, however, some truth to this sort of objection. To understand the legitimate role of self-prediction in practical reasoning, we need to distinguish instances of coping responsibly with an anticipated failure to behave as one ought, on the one hand, from mere acquiescence in one’s flaws, on the other. He argues that, to draw this distinction, we must recognize certain limits on the use of self-prediction as a ground of choice.
Unproductive Reasons
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
White’s focus in this paper is on the production view (which he first discusses in “Action and Production”) understood as a formal conception of practical reason. He considers whether, understood in this way, the conception can be viewed as ethically neutral—that is, whether all important ethical questions can be framed as questions about which, of the possible states of affairs one could bring about in a given situation, one has most reason to want, and about what risks one should be willing to take in the hopes of bringing about those states of affairs. White argues that the production view is not ethically neutral in this sense, and indeed that the conception has deeply problematic substantive implications.
Against Voluntarism about Doxastic Responsibility
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
According to the view Rik Peels defends in Responsible Belief (2017), one is responsible for believing something only if that belief was the result of choices one made voluntarily, and for which one may be held responsible. Here, White argues against this voluntarist account of doxastic responsibility and in favor of the rationalist position that a person is responsible for her beliefs insofar as they are under the influence of her reason. In particular, White argues that the latter yields a more plausible account of the conditions under which ignorance may serve as an excuse for wrongdoing.
Disagreement and Alienation
Authors: White Stephen J 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
This paper proposes to reorient the philosophical debate about peer disagreement. The problem of peer disagreement is normally seen as a problem about the extent to which disagreement provides one with evidence against one’s own conclusions. It is thus regarded as a problem for individual inquiry. But things look different in more collaborative contexts. Ethical norms relevant to those contexts make a difference to the epistemology. In particular, we argue that a norm of mutual answerability applies to us when we engage in shared inquiry with others, and precludes us from treating one another’s conflicting judgments as evidence relevant to the dispute. From this it follows that standard philosophical accounts of peer disagreement—e.g. the Equal Weight View and the Total Evidence View—presuppose that the disagreeing parties are in a sense alienated from one another. It’s doubtful that such forms of alienated disagreement should be treated as the central case.
Saving Europe
Authors: Proctor Tammy M 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Saving Europe: First World War Relief and American Identity offers a transnational and intersectional history of American intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924, a period when the United States simultaneously tightened its borders and expanded its reach. Through food relief, reconstruction programs, and postwar development schemes, a cross-section of U.S. society funded and delivered aid to its allies and enemies abroad. Two dozen European countries received U.S. help in this period, including Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, and Poland; these programs in turn fostered a new sense of global importance for their nation in the minds of many Americans. I argue that in the crucial decade following the outbreak of World War I, Americans saw themselves in a novel role abroad as protectors of European cultural heritage and as rescuers of vulnerable populations. At the same time, the U.S. government began to impose restrictions on immigration and citizenship at home. This experience had important long-term implications for later U.S. policies and for United Nations humanitarian aid programs such as UNICEF and UNRRA.
Introduction
Authors: Proctor Tammy M 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Saving Europe offers a transnational and intersectional history of American intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924, a period when the United States simultaneously tightened its borders and expanded its reach. While highlighting how interaction with Europeans shaped American identity, both at home and abroad, the volume also explains how the United States came to define an ideal of “Europe” itself in the years that followed. The author argues that in the crucial decade following the outbreak of World War I, Americans saw themselves in a novel role abroad as protectors of European cultural heritage and as rescuers of vulnerable populations.
France
Authors: Proctor Tammy M 
Published: January 2025

Abstract
World War I solidified a belief that the United States’ political and social experiment was unique, thereby providing universal ideals for the rest of the world to emulate. In France during and after the war, educated women brought their experience in Progressive-era programs in U.S. cities to the field of war relief. These women developed a testing ground for American experts in education, social welfare, nutrition, public health, and home economics among devastated communities. Their ability to marshal dollars and resources reinforced their sense of the supremacy of American leadership in global humanitarianism. Also, rebuilding afforded Americans an opportunity to broadcast what they perceived to be democratic values through reconstruction and improvement, amplifying the message of food and material aid while reinforcing for Americans their abiding role as saviors of Europe.