The computational creativity community (rightfully) takes a dim view of supposedly creative systems that operate by mere generation. However, what exactly this means has never been adequately defined, and therefore the idea of requiring systems to exceed this standard is problematic. Here, we revisit the question of mere generation and attempt to qualitatively identify what constitutes exceedin...

BACKGROUND The use of human braincases as drinking cups and containers has extensive historic and ethnographic documentation, but archaeological examples are extremely rare. In the Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe, cut-marked and broken human bones are widespread in the Magdalenian (∼15 to 12,000 years BP) and skull-cup preparation is an element of this tradition. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here ...

The fundamental equation of asset pricing states that the expected timeand risk-adjusted cumulative return on any asset equals one at all horizons. This paper shows that for a typical asset, the realized timeand risk-adjusted cumulative return tends to zero with probability one. Just two assumptions are required: limited liability and no arbitrage. This apparent paradox is resolved by a further...

Using the code autostructure, extensive calculations of inner-shell atomic data have been made for the chemical elements He, C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe and Ni. The results are used to obtain up-dated opacities from the Opacity Project, OP. A number of other improvements on earlier work have also been included. Rosseland-mean opacities from OP are compared with those from...

8 Christopher J. Forgaard, Ian M. Franks, Dana Maslovat, Laurence Chin, and Romeo Chua 9 1. School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia 10 2. Department of Kinesiology, Langara College 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Address Correspondence to: 20 Dr. Romeo Chua 21 School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia 22 War Memorial Gymnasium 210-6081 University Boulevard 23 Vancouver, Bri...