Common Owning,Transmission, and Development of Knowledge

This paper studies the relationship between social institutions and individual behaviour through the development of the cognitive framework of individuals. Social sciences have had interests in social institutions or norms. Much of the studies treat the problem from the viewpoint of social costs and lack focus on individual action and cognition. To consider the problem as a whole naturally means that the discussion has to be made according to subjectivism. Setting subjectivism forth as a premise, the problem of relativity of the cognition is studied through reconsideration of the conception of information and its transfer. By adopting a multi-agent model having the cognitive framework and the interaction among agents, the formation process and the feature of institutions are computationally investigated. Simulation results confirm that the cognitive frameworks of agents are affected action mimicking others' superficial behaviour. Moreover, it is eventually shown that the assumption of isolated individuals is unwarranted even in studying in less communicative communities.     

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF SELF-ORGANIZED STRUCTURE IN MICRO-PHASE SEPARATION OF NANO-SCALE FILM

Self-organization in thin micro-films has shown potential for the production of microelements with specific structures and functions; however, little is known about its mechanism of formation. A 2-D molecular dynamics (MD) simulation on this process is carried out in this paper for films between two parallel walls (substrates) under different initial conditions. The films consist of two immiscible components (A and B). The simulation results in altemative columns perpendicular to the walls, which are rich either in A or in B molecules, respectively, apparently owing to their different interactions with the walls. The characteristic breadths of the columns depend on the distance between the two walls. By providing microscopic details of the self-organization processes and the resulted structures, MD simulation proves itself as a unique way for analyzing the dynamics of thin films.     

Affect-Logic,Embodiment, Synergetics,and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia

This theoretical paper explores the affect-logic approach to schizophrenia in light of the general complexity theories of cognition: embodied cognition, Haken’s synergetics, and Friston’s free energy principle. According to affect-logic, the mental apparatus is an embodied system open to its environment, driven by bioenergetic inputs of emotions. Emotions are rooted in goal-directed embodied states selected by evolutionary pressure for coping with specific situations such as fight, flight, attachment, and others. According to synergetics, nonlinear bifurcations and the emergence of new global patterns occur in open systems when control parameters reach a critical level. Applied to the emergence of psychotic states, synergetics and the proposed energetic understanding of emotions lead to the hypothesis that critical levels of emotional tension may be responsible for the transition from normal to psychotic modes of functioning in vulnerable individuals. In addition, the free energy principle through learning suggests that psychotic symptoms correspond to alternative modes of minimizing free energy, which then entails distorted perceptions of the body, self, and reality. This synthetic formulation has implications for novel therapeutic and preventive strategies in the treatment of psychoses, among these are milieu-therapeutic approaches of the Soteria type that focus on a sustained reduction of emotional tension and phenomenologically oriented methods for improving the perception of body, self, and reality.     

金属胶束催化体系中经Turing分支形成的空间有序结构与催化活性

摘要基于金属胶束催化反应的三元复合物动力学模型, 分析了金属胶束作为一类特殊的超分子体系, 其参与催化反应的特殊动力学行为与体系中可能出现的自组织结构的关系. 研究结果表明, 在一定的边界条件下, 即使基元反应是线性化学反应步骤, 由于扩散步骤与化学反应的耦合, 以及非理想性的组分热力学行为, 也将不可避免地出现经Turing分支形成的浓度场空间自组织. 计算结果表明, 这种宏观有序结构的形成将使金属胶束催化体系中呈现出以存在反应活性极高的位点为特征的反应活性的空间有序分布; 从自组织理论的角度对这类胶束体系催化活性的时空有序特征给予一定程度的阐释.     

Theory of Liquid-crystalline Ordering in Polymer Brushes

Summary: We present a review of the works devoted to investigation of LC ordering in polymer brushes. This series has been carried out by the group of T. M. Birshtein and covers the following aspects of the problem: thermotropic LC phase transition in LCP brushes, microphase segregation, homeotropic and planar LC phases, LC polymer in LC solvent, lyotropic LCP brushes, LC transitions under normal or lateral force (shear flow). Analytical theory is developed for simplified model of polymer brush with accounting for thermotropic attraction in Mayer-Saupe approximation and lyotropic repulsion in DiMarzio formalism; numerical calculations are fulfilled in self-consistent field approximation (method of Scheutjens and Fleer). Brownian dynamics simulations are applied for modeling polymer brush in a shear flow.     

A self-organizing shortest path finding strategy on complex networks

The shortcomings of traditional methods to find the shortest path are revealed, and a strategy of finding the self-organizing shortest path based on thermal flux diffusion on complex networks is presented. In our method, the shortest paths between the source node and the other nodes are found to be self-organized by comparing node temperatures. The computation complexity of the method scales linearly with the number of edges on underlying networks. The effects of the method on several networks, including a regular network proposed by Ravasz and Barabási which is called the RB network, a real network, a random network proposed by Ravasz and Barabási which is called the ER network and a scale-free network, are also demonstrated. Analytic and simulation results show that the method has a higher accuracy and lower computational complexity than the conventional methods.     

SELF-ORGANIZED FORMATION OF HEXAGONAL NANOPORE ARRAYS IN ANODIC ALUMINA

Conditions for a self-organized formation of ordered hexagonal structure in anodic alumina were investigated, using oxalic or sulphuric acid as an electrolyte. Highly-ordered nanopore arrays with pore densities of 9×10⁹-6.5×10¹⁰cm^-2 and high aspect ratios over 3000 were fabricated by a two-step anodization process. The array exhibits characteristics analogous to a two-dimensional polycrystalline structure of a few micrometres in size. The interpore distance can be controlled by changing the electrolyte and/or the applied voltage. The formation mechanism of ordered arrays is consistent with a previously proposed mechanical stress model, i.e., the repulsive forces between neighbouring pores at the metal/oxide interface promote the formation of hexagonally ordered pores during the oxidation process.     

Search of Optimum Conditions for Sublimation Growth of Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer Crystals

Optimum crystal growth conditions of thiophene/phenylene co-oligomers (TPCOs) have been studied by means of sublimation recrystallization method with changing both gas flow rate and gas pressure. The largest flaky crystal, more than 10 mm², was produced at the gas flow rate ∼50 ml/min and reduced pressure ∼0.05 Mpa, while no crystals were obtained at pressure less than 0.01 MPa. Excess supply of N₂ gas or reduced pressure for accelerating sublimation might obstruct the crystal growth of TPCOs.