Against Nature, a book of L. Daston, is devoted to the historical transformations term “nature” and its significance in formation moral categories from Aristotle our days. Daston pays special attention period between seventeenth eighteenth centuries when “modern science” emerged. clarifies essential contents such terms as “nature”, “normativity”, “universal natural laws”, reconstructs contexts ...

mahmoud sami al-barodi is one of pioneers of modern arabic poetry and one of leaders of literary movement that his purpose was to revive the old poetical inheritance and to return the literature to its e honorable past. it was the school converting to prominent and unique one ,later. he attempted to compose wishes and to show the realities of society in his poetry. he must really be considered ...

In this paper, we present and evaluate an approach to incremental dialogue act (DA) segmentation and classification. Our approach utilizes prosodic, lexico-syntactic and contextual features, and achieves an encouraging level of performance in offline corpus-based evaluation as well as in simulated human-agent dialogues. Our approach uses a pipeline of sequential processing steps, and we investi...

How can the classical psychological laws be explained and unified? It is proposed here that scale-invariance is a unifying principle. Distributions of many environmental magnitudes are observed to be scale invariant; that is, the statistical structure of the world remains the same at different measurement scales [Mandelbrot, B., 1982. The Fractal Geometry of Nature (2nd Edn.). W.H. Freeman, San...

We present a novel synthesis method for procedural generation of complex curves. Our approach takes a simple example input curve specified by a user and automatically generates complex curves that resembles the input. The algorithm preserves many of the input shape features such as tangent directions, curvature and branch nodes. The overall system is simple and can be used to generate different...

The art world changed forever when Jackson Pollock picked up a can and poured paint onto a vast canvas rolled across the floor of his windswept barn. Fifty years on, art theorists recognize his patterns as being a revolutionary approach to aesthetics. A significant step forward in understanding Pollock’s aesthetics occurred in 1999 when my scientific analysis showed that his paintings are fract...

This paper presents a new framework for asynchrony. This has its origins in our attempts to better harness the internal decision-making process of cellular automata (CA). Thus, we show that a max-plus algebraic model of asynchrony arises naturally from the CA requirement that a cell receive the state of each neighbor before updating. The significant result is the existence of a bijective mappin...