We describe an improvisational companion based on the concept of harmonic bricks, as articulated by Cork and others. Our companion is software that can play background for, and trade melodies with, a human soloist. While exhibiting creativity itself, its greater purpose is to improve creativity of its user. Bricks, originally intended for memorization of chord progressions, are used here as a s...

Objective: To determine whether egocentric distance judgments are accurate in a virtual environment using a perceptual matching task. Methods: Observers were immersed within a virtual environment consisting of an L-shaped room with a test object (a column) located down one corridor and a comparison object (a flagpole) located down the other. Perceived distances were measured by having the obser...

If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected] [email protected] The Archaeological Sites Finds Identifier application is a tool for expert users and nonprofessionals to identify findings made all over Europe. In our prototype implementation, developed in course of the BRICKS project, the integrated findings are restricted to coins found in the Uni...

During narrative comprehension, readers construct representations of the situation described by a text, called situation models. Theories of situation model construction and event comprehension posit two distinct types of situation model updating: incremental updating of individual situational dimensions, and global updates in which an old model is abandoned and a new one created. No research t...

Abstract The influence of inorganic minerals (colemanite and nepheline syenite) as additives for sustainable clay brick manufacture has been examined. Each additive was added at 4 wt% to 96 samples were fired 950 °C 1040 then compared with 100% clay. Multiple analytical techniques (X-ray fluorescence, dilatometry, boiling water absorption, volumetric shrinkage, mercury porosimetry) used analysi...

Abstract This research investigated the reuse potential of pomegranate peels waste (PPW) in production fired clay bricks with improved thermo-physical and mechanical properties. PPW was used as a substitute for natural different replacement ratios ranging from 0 to 12.5% stride 2.5 wt%. The impact adding on compressive strength, total porosity, water absorption, bulk density, thermal conductivi...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the possibility using gold mine waste rocks (GMWRs) as alternative raw material for manufacturing fired bricks. feasibility study assessed through (i) physical, chemical, mineralogical and environmental characteristics GMWRs; (ii) determination natural clay (NC) substitution effect when (iii) firing temperature on mechanical physical properties Five ...

It is demonstrated that palynomorphs can occur in fired ancient potsherds when the firing temperature was under 350°C. Pollen and phytoliths recovered from incompletely fired and fully fired potsherds (ca. 2700 yrs BP) from the Yanghai Tombs, Turpan, Xinjiang, NW China can be used as potential indicators for reconstructing past vegetation and corresponding climate in the area. The results show ...

In type A, Bott-Samelson varieties are posets in which ascending chains are flags of vector spaces. They come equipped with a map into the flag variety G/B. These varieties are mostly studied in the case in which the map into G/B is birational to the image. In this paper we study Bott-Samelsons for general types, more precisely, we study the combinatorics a fiber of the map into G/B when it is ...

Customers often evaluate products at brick-and-mortar stores to identify their “best fit” product, but end up buying this product not at the store but at a competing online retailer to take advantage of lower prices. This free-riding behavior by customers is referred to as “showrooming.” We analyze three strategies to counter the effect of showrooming that may improve profits for the brick-and-...