Even though art is the product of an intentional act of fabrication, the serendipitous spill of an ink or paint, the unforeseen slip of a pen or brush, sudden shake of a camera in the analog realm have the potential of generating an unconscious lead in the planned course of action. The consequential shift in direction may completely change the aesthetics and content of an artwork. An artist sho...

Background:Non-accidental poisoning in the paediatric age group is uncommon and international literature on this subject is limited. There are no Sri Lankan paediatric studies on non-accidental poisoning to date. The objective of the current study was to explore the predisposing factors and profile of children less than 12 years in rural Sri Lanka who had non-accidental poisoning. Method:This c...

objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence, type, location, and risk factors of accidental fetal lacerations during caesarean delivery. material and methods: total deliveries, caesarean deliveries, and neonatal records for documented accidental fetal lacerations were reviewed retrospectively in four university hospital. thegestational age, the presenting part of the f...

In two experiments (total N=693) we explored whether people are willing to consider paintings made by AI-driven robots as art, and artists. Across the experiments, manipulated three factors: (i) agent type (AI-driven robot v. human agent), (ii) behavior (intentional creation of a painting accidental creation), (iii) object (abstract representational painting). We found that judge art roughly sa...

University students were asked to solve simple problems about the trajectories of falling objects. A majority of the student? revealed a variety of misconceptions about motion. However, the few basic patterns of responses produced by the subjects suggest considerable commonality in the types of naite physical ‘laws” people develop on the basis of everyday experience with the world. The ability ...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

Since 1995, the Performance and Dependability Symposium (PDS) has been a high-quality international forum for researchers and practitioners to report on the state-of-the-art of the evaluation of the impact of faults on the operation and performance of computer and communication systems. Where in the early years of PDS the considered faults were typically accidental (hardware failures, software ...