Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious “tropes” (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of dea...

The thermodynamic and euclidean functional integral approaches to black hole entropy are discussed. The existence of some freedom in the definition of the entropy is pointed out and the possibility of a departure from the semiclassical expression discussed in the light of quantum corrections. The semiclassical area dependence of the entropy of matter in the background of a black hole is also re...

This note shows that introducing into the economy a few number of agents who do not support sunspots theories magnifies endogenous business cycles fluctuations when the current state of the economic system is sensitive enough to traders' forecasts, or equivalently, in presence of indeterminacy. Citation: Gauthier, Stéphane, (2004) "Small departures from rationality magnify fluctuations." Econom...

Laboratory subjects repeatedly played one of two variations of a simple two-person zero-sum game of ‘‘hide and seek’’. Three puzzling departures from the prescriptions of equilibrium theory are found in the data: an asymmetry related to the player’s role in the game; an asymmetry across the game variations; and positive serial correlation in subjects’ play. Possible explanations for these depar...

Classical approaches for modelling aircraft taxi-speed assume constant speed or use a turning rate function to approximate taxi-timings taxiing aircraft. However, those cannot predict spatio-temporal component of aircraft-taxi trajectory due lack consideration the complexity and stochasticity airport-airside movements interactions. This research adopts Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning ...

We study a fully online matching problem with stochastic arrivals and departures. In this model, each arrival follows known identical independent distribution over fixed set of agent types. Its sojourn time is unknown in advance type-specific distributions expectations. The goal to maximize the weighted reward from successful matches. To solve problem, we first propose linear program (LP)-based...