TRANSLATERS’ FOREWORD OF INTERPRETING PLATO BY EUGENE NAPOLEON TIGERSTEDT

Foreword by the Editors

Our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Emerging Markets in December 2000 generated 64 submissions. Of these papers, we selected seven papers, making the acceptance rate for this Special Issue in the same class as the very top finance journals. The selection procedure was as objective as possible. First, each submission was double-blind reviewed by two referees. The referees scored each pape...

Motion Transformation by Example by Eugene

Animated characters bring the illusion of life to feature films, television shows, video games, and educational simulations. However, it is difficult for artists to define natural and expressive movement. This challenge is compounded by the fact that people are intrinsically sensitive to subtle inaccuracies in human motion. To address this problem, this thesis presents techniques that adjust ex...

Napoleon Polygons

An n-gon is called Napoleon if the centers of the regular ngons erected outwardly on its sides are vertices of a regular n-gon. In this note we obtain a new geometric characterization of Napoleon ngons and give a new proof of the well-known theorem of Barlotti Greber ([1], [3]) that an n-gon is Napoleon if and only if it is affine regular. Moreover, we generalize this theorem by obtaining an an...

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Profile of Napoleon A. Chagnon.

Nearly 20 years after leaving the Amazon for the last time, Napoleon Chagnon is retracing his first steps into the jungle. The University of Missouri anthropologist and sociobiologist is archiving and documenting three decades of fieldwork in the Amazonian rainforest for deposition in a University of Michigan data center. Preparing his notes and transcribing more than 250 hours of tape recordin...