Crump et al. (2022) offer a well-argued example of an essential development: rigorous framework for assessing sentience from the perspective moral concern over agent’s welfare. Current and forthcoming developments in bioengineering, synthetic morphology, artificial intelligence, biorobotics, exobiology necessitate expansion generalization this effort. Verbal reports (the Turing Test) homology t...

Abstract In the Eudemian Ethics II 1, 1219a34–b8, Aristotle defines happiness as ‘the activity of a complete life in accordance with virtue’. Most scholars interpret whole lifetime, which means that involves virtuous over an entire life. This article argues against this common reading by using Aristotle’s notion ‘activity’ ( energeia ) touchstone. It happiness, according to , must be reaches it...

In these notes, based on my lectures at the FRG workshop on “Characters, Liftings, and Types” at American University in June 2012, I give an introduction to the conjectural Local Langlands Correspondence (LLC), for split semisimple groups over a nonarchimedean local field. This conjecture has been evolving over the past 45 years (with roots going back much further) to the point that today’s sta...

Reina S. Mayor, Katelyn E. Finch, Jordan Zehr, Eugenia Morselli, Michael D. Neinast, Aaron P. Frank, Lisa D. Hahner, Jason Wang, Dinesh Rakheja, Biff F. Palmer, Charles R. Rosenfeld, Rashmin C. Savani, and Deborah J. Clegg Center for Pulmonary and Vascular Biology and Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texa...

Ultra-lightweight Thread (uThread) is a library package designed and optimized for user-level management of parallelism in a single application program running on distributed memory computers. Existing process management systems incur an unnecessarily high cost when used for the type of parallelism exploited within an application. By reducing the overhead of ownership protection and frequent co...

Box splines are a multivariate extension of uniform univariate B-splines. Direct evaluation of a box spline basis function can be difficult , but they have a relatively simple Fourier transform and can therefore be evaluated with an inverse FFT. Symmetry, recursive evaluation of the coefficients, and parallelization can be used to optimize performance. A windowing function can also be used to r...

Within the history of modernity, tragic shape and ethical concerns Antigone myth have made it a touchstone for understanding contemporary cultural political realities. This essay traces modernist processes adaptation, citation, displacement, revision that often characterised relations between filmmakers this phenomenon. Focussing in particular on those films subvert authority narrative realism ...

Abstract The women who served in Japan’s military brothels across Asia during the Second World War are a focus of politics memory East as well touchstone for international human rights and sexual violence against women. By 1990s, “comfort women” had become “traveling trope,” which like Holocaust, both recognized transcended its original time place. Gluck traces their “coming into memory” throug...