• Pattern theory, formulated by Ulf Grenander, is a mathematical formalism to describe knowledge of the world as patterns. It differs from other approaches...
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    regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the sciences, theories explain and predict regularities in the world. In many...
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  • Crime pattern theory is a way of explaining why people commit crimes in certain areas. Crime is not random, it is either planned or opportunistic. [citation...
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    specificity theory and the peripheral pattern theory, the gate control theory is considered to be one of the most influential theories of pain. This theory provided...
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  • are examples of the application of pattern recognition for humans and animals. There are six main theories of pattern recognition: template matching, prototype-matching...
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  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by Christopher...
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  • receptor fiber specificity, DC Sinclair and G Weddell's 1955 "peripheral pattern theory" proposed that all skin fiber endings (except those innervating hair...
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  • design pattern or design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in many contexts in software design. A design pattern is...
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  • Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1983. Leitner, Helmut: Pattern Theory: Introduction and Perspectives on the Tracks of Christopher Alexander...
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  • OCLC 156832597. Leitner, Helmut (2015). Pattern Theory: Introduction and Perspectives on the Tracks of Christopher Alexander. Pattern research series. Vol. 1. Graz:...
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  • reconnection, coronal mass ejections, condensed matter physics, and pattern theory and computational vision. In crystals, atomic diffusion typically consists...
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  • polynomial time. Pattern theory, formulated by Ulf Grenander, is a mathematical formalism to describe knowledge of the world as patterns. It differs from...
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    and Turing patterns remained dormant for many years, they are now inspirational for much research in mathematical biology. It is a major theory in developmental...
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  • A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns, each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many...
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  • and a former composer and record producer. He is the developer of C-Pattern Theory and the writer of the homonymous book, in which a possible explanation...
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    his work in algebraic geometry and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was...
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    statistical nature of the buildup of the interference pattern, as predicted by quantum theory. In 2002, the single-electron version of the experiment...
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    image processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. He coined the term pattern theory to distinguish from pattern recognition. In 1966...
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  • used to determine hotspots. A widely used theory to explain crime is crime pattern theory. Crime pattern theory explains that crime is not random. Crime...
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    Any natural process that is not completely random and any observable pattern in any medium can be said to convey some amount of information. Whereas...
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    them. According to the Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory, the electric-field diffraction pattern at a point (x, y, z) is given by the following solution...
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  • will often divide the labor in the act to maximize efficiency. Crime pattern theory consists of four key points: (1) that criminal events are complex, (2)...
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    identified attachment patterns in infants: secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized attachment. In the 1980s, attachment theory was extended to adult...
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    theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was...
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  • Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is...
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    Henry Landau seminar series. During the mid 1990s, Miller joined the Pattern Theory group at Brown University and worked with Ulf Grenander on problems...
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  • outcomes of self-organisation Pattern language, a structured method of describing good design practices Pattern theory, a mathematical formalism to describe...
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  • the brain contains a hierarchy of pattern recognizers. Based on this he introduces his Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind (PRTM). He says the neocortex...
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  • prices unfold in specific patterns, which practitioners today call Elliott waves, or simply waves. Elliott published his theory of market behavior in the...
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    The Lin–Shu theory introduces the idea of long-lived quasistatic spiral structure (QSSS hypothesis). In this hypothesis, the spiral pattern rotates with...
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