The goal of our research is to enhance the traditional museum viewer experience by constructing an interactive exhibition piece where viewers can emotionally interact with the act of creating a fine art painting. Through our interactive Creative Artificial Intelligence System (CAIS) which generates art portraiture, we try to recognize what our users are experiencing (emotionally) when they view...

A recent studyof the Al-Mgchronometer (t1/2 ∼ 730,000 yr) in six bulk CAIs from the Allende carbonaceous chondrite indicated that these objects may have formed over a short time interval, possibly within 50,000 yr [1]. However, in situ Al-Mg data for CAIs from a number of carbonaceous chondrites suggest that these may have experienced a series of later transient heating events over ∼ 300,000 yr...

Market participants’ risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition influence their positions in a pegged foreign currency and, therefore, may have important effects on the sustainability of currency pegs. We analyze such effects in a global game model of currency crises with continuous action choices, generating a rich set of theoretical comparative static predictions related to often discus...

We appreciate Balsamo and colleagues’ interest [1] in our recent paper [2] about a case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS). We are grateful for their insightful comments and the opportunity to clarify a number of elements from our work. Since many of the opinions expressed in their letter are based on biased interpretation of data, we would like to point-to-point answer their qu...

Ultraviolet laser microprobe analyses of a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) from the Allende meteorite suggest that a line with a slope of exactly 1.00 on a plot of delta (17)O against delta (18)O represents the primitive oxygen isotope reservoir of the early solar nebula. Most meteorites are enriched in (17)O and (18)O relative to this line, and their oxygen isotope ratios can be explaine...

Calcium-rich-Aluminum-rich refractory inclusions are considered to be the first objects yet identified that formed in the solar system. It is now established that most (but not all) of them contain nucleosynthetic anomalies from e-, p-, r-, and/or s-processes. Exactly how and when these heterogeneities in the dust that formed the solar system were established is not yet clear. For a better unde...

Gonadal hormones have been shown to modulate memory retention in female rats. The current experiments examine the role of testicular hormones in modulating the performance of male rats on two spatial water maze tasks. In the first study, castrated and intact rats were trained on the visible platform and hidden platform versions of the Morris water maze task. Castration did not affect performanc...

A(11) diencephalospinal dopamine (DA) neurons provide the major source of DA innervation to the spinal cord. DA in the dorsal and ventral horns modulates sensory, motor, nociceptive, and sexual functions. Previous studies from our laboratory revealed a sex difference in the density of DA innervation in the lumbar spinal cord. The purpose of this study was to determine whether sex differences in...

During sex determination, genetic and/or environmental factors determine the cascade of processes of gonad development. Many organisms, therefore, have a developmental window in which their sex determination can be sensitive to, for example, unusual temperatures or chemical pollutants. Disturbed environments can distort population sex ratios and may even cause sex reversal in species with genet...