In recent years, the notion that computers and robots will attain superhuman levels of intelligence in the next few decades, ushering in a new “posthuman” era in evolutionary history, has gained widespread attention among technology enthusiasts, thanks in part to books such as Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. This paper describes an introductory-level AI course designed to examine this i...

A preliminary analysis of fields around 20 mainly radio– quiet QSOs (RQQs) at intermediate redshift is summarized. We find overdensities of faint sources around 50% of our observed QSOs suggesting that they are located in groups or even clusters of galaxies.

Цель исследования. Определить роль различных методов поддержки, таких как энтеральное зондовое и полное паренте: ральное питание в разных фазах течения острого панкреатита (ОП). Материал и методы. У 774 больных с ОП (средний возраст — 45,3±4,7 лет) проведен сравнительный анализ влияния различных способов нутритивной поддержки на секре: торную активность поджелудочной железы (ПЖ) и течение ОП. К...

tory embarrassment or collapse, which in clinical terms is represented most obviously by a reduction in the blood-pressure. There are a number of causes of that state, that is, it is not a definite clinical entity, it is only a train of symptoms, and it is essential for a reception officer to sort out the cases rather than merely to regard transfusion as efficacious for the treatment of every o...

We consider the future dynamics of a transient phantom dominated phase of the universe in LQC and in the RS braneworld, which both have a non-standard Friedmann equation. We find that for a certain class of potentials, the Hubble parameter oscillates with simple harmonic motion in the LQC case and therefore avoids any future singularity. For more general potentials we find that damping effects ...

The Definition of a Convex Set In Rd, a set S of points is convex if the line segment joining any two points of S lies completely within S (Figure 1). The purpose of this article is to describe a recent extension of this concept of convexity to the Grassmannian and to discuss its connection with some other ideas in geometry. More specifically, the extension is to the so-called “affine Grassmann...

there were pivotal elements in 1978's islamic revolution of iran playing such roles which led to the derogation of pahlavi government on one hand, and set the scene for evolution and revolutionary movement in different classes of iranians, on the other. recognizing and studying these factors and discovering their interactional and organic relationship as well as gaining their framework, ru...