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  • noun Plural form of invariant.

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  • Used a lot in (e.g.) bioinformatics to discover patterns ( "invariants" if you like) in gene expression profiles.

    Crunching Out Natural Laws? 2009

  • Much like a human brain you'd have to start with a useful set of toolkits built-in and the ability to detect invariants sure seems like a useful tool.

    Crunching Out Natural Laws? 2009

  • Rather, it automates a search for conserved quantities (invariants).

    Crunching Out Natural Laws? 2009

  • Objects are picked out by the identification of invariants with respect to the transformations relevant to the context.

    Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

  • Cassirer held that the possibility of talking of ˜objects™ in a context is the possibility of individuating invariants (1944).

    Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

  • She was also active in algebraic topology, a field in which she persuaded the experts (Paul Alexandroff and Heinz Hopf) to describe topological invariants not as “numbers,” but instead as algebraic objects (groups).

    Emmy Noether. 2009

  • The universality and simplicity of these relationships, together with emergent “universal” invariants, suggest that fundamental constraints underly much of the coarse-grained generic structure and organisation of living systems.

    Are Cities Just Very Large Organisms? Sean 2009

  • Tarski also showed new perspectives for logicism by defining logical concepts as invariants under one-to-one transformations.

    Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

  • Perhaps I need to extend tag-lock! and tag-unlock! to be a full-fledged semaphore system, so I can maintain archive invariants, such as that there may be N snapshots running or 1 deletion, like a read/write lock.

    Snell-Pym » Ugarit update 2009

  • French (1998, 1999, 2000) and Castellani (1998) have explored the ontological representation of the fundamental objects of physics in terms of sets of group-theoretic invariants by Cassirer, Eddington,

    Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

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