In her article "Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq," Angela C. Holzer begins with an introduction to recent discourse about contemporary culture by Francis Fukuyama, notably in his book Our Posthuman Future (2001). Next, Holzer introduces twentiethcentury literary representations of genetic engineering. Focusing on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and on Houellebecq's L...

Collaboration between people who are not co-located still poses many problems. In this demo, we show how to create an immersive virtual office, where people can meet each other. Different novel technologies are combined in order to reach this goal. People can collaborate by using a multitouch interface to exchange ideas. Moreover, free-viewpoint video allows people to have eye-gaze corrected fa...

prior experimental and theoretical background of the banki water turbine has been briefly presented. theoretical values of unit quantities have been compared with published experimental data as well as data obtained in the hydraulic lab at the university of tehran; from which, shortcomings of the existing theory in predicting the turbine performance has been highlighted. factors responsible for...

Let X1, X2, ..., Xr be the first r order statistics from a sample of size n from the generalized exponential distribution with shape parameter θ. In this paper, we consider a Bayesian approach to predicting future order statistics based on the observed ordered data. The predictive densities are obtained and used to determine prediction intervals for unobserved order statistics for one-sample ...

One of the main tasks to analyze and design a mining system is predicting the behavior exhibited by prices in the future. In this paper, the applications of different prediction methods are evaluated in econometrics and financial management fields, such as ARIMA, TGARCH, and stochastic differential equations, for the time-series of monthly copper prices. Moreover, the performance of these metho...