A generative real-time composition system is described that uses a genetic algorithm to create a population of melodic and rhythm phrases that are combined by intelligent musical agents. The initial population is derived from an offline analysis of a corpus; the population undergoes continual breeding using rules derived from the population itself. The system’s role in the generation of musical...

BACKGROUND Changes in body composition are commonly reported in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). However, the effect of ALL and of its treatment on body composition in children in remission from ALL has not been fully examined with the use of a reference method. OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the body composition and composition of fat-free mass (FFM) in children i...

This study deals with mitochondrial phylogenetic information of Japanese flounder in the Pacific coast of Tohoku Japan to estimate the genetic population subdivision that was undetectable by conventional population statistics. We determined complete sequences of mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit-2 (ND2) and subunit-5 (ND5) genes for 151 individuals from northern (Aomori and Iwate prefec...

We present a new set of isochrones in which the effect of the α-element enhancement is fully incorporated. These isochrones are an extension of the already published set of Y Isochrones (Yi et al. 2001: Paper 1), constructed for the scaled-solar mixture. As in Paper 1, helium diffusion and convective core overshoot have been taken into account. The range of chemical compositions covered is 0.00...

OBJECTIVES This research examined the impacts of past international and interregional migration flows on regional elderly population growth and distribution patterns. METHODS The authors used 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990 Census data and multiregional demographic models to analyze changes in the sources of regional elderly population growth rates, age compositions, and spatial distributions over...

Food is one of the key elements for people to survive all over the time. Unlike today’s highly industrialized society, food and its production activities had much higher and significant impacts on the medieval English society. Food vastly changed medieval English’s life, and it is more evident when famines or population changes came. Thus, observing the food condition, their agricultural produc...

Theory of Kingman’s partition structures has two culminating points • the general paintbox representation, relating finite partitions to hypothetical infinite populations via a natural sampling procedure, • a central example of the theory: the Ewens-Pitman two-parameter partitions. In these notes we further develop the theory by • passing to structures enriched by the order on the collection of...

Strip transect surveys of the large temperate rocky reef fish Cheilodactylus fuscus revealed sizeand sex-structured populations across seasons and 3 conditions of wave exposure, from an estuary to the open coast. Large, mostly male, fish (>30 cm fork length) predominated on the open coast and in deeper water (>10 m), while smaller fish predominated in the more protected estuarine areas and in t...