The fear of death and the myth immortality are themes long present in various narratives, whether literary or visual. Science fiction as a genre offers us many venues for new explorations this idea. Mind uploading is one them. This fictional technique, related to cloning, performed when mind consciousness person transferred another biological body machine with help technology. In way, continues...

I study experimentally a single-shot trust game where players have the opportunity to choose an avatar—a computer-generated face—to represent them. These avatars vary on several dimensions—trustworthiness, dominance, and threat—identified by previous work as influencing perceptions of those who view the faces (Todorov, Said, Engell, & Oosterhof, 2008). I take this previous work and ask whether ...

We show that the category of orbits of the bounded derived category of a hereditary category under a well-behaved autoequivalence is canonically triangulated. This answers a question by Aslak Buan, Robert Marsh and Idun Reiten which appeared in their study [8] with M. Reineke and G. Todorov of the link between tilting theory and cluster algebras (cf. also [16]) and a question by Hideto Asashiba...

Configuration (x-)space renormalization of euclidean Feynman amplitudes in a massless quantum field theory is reduced to the study of local extensions of associate homogeneous distributions. Primitively divergent graphs are renormalized, in particular, by subtracting the residue of an analytically regularized expression. Examples are given of computing residues that involve zeta values. The ren...

This paper investigates the arguments used in public documents to mobilize Bulgarians against the deportation of Jews in World War II. We focus on the key documents relating to the first wave of mobilisation in 1940-1 as provided by Todorov (2001). We demonstrate that these documents are based on three types of argument. The first, category inclusion, treats the Jews as part of a common ingroup...

This paper uses the method developed by Bollerslev and Todorov (2011b) to estimate risk premia for extreme events for the US and the German stock markets. The method extracts jump tail measures from high-frequency futures price data and from options data. In a second step, jump tail distributions are approximated using the extreme value theory. Applying the method to German data yields very sim...

Ladders were introduced by Igusa and Todorov for the investigation of representation-finite artinian algebras and algebras over an algebraically closed field [7]. They prove a radical layers theorem [7] which exhibits the graded structure of Auslander-Reiten sequences. In a second article [8] they obtain a characterization of the Auslander-Reiten quivers of representation-finite artinian algebr...

A new method for computing exact conformal partial wave expansions is developed and applied to approach the problem of Hilbert space (Wightman) positivity in a non-perturbative four-dimensional quantum field theory model. The model is based on the assumption of global conformal invariance on compactified Minkowski space (GCI). Bilocal fields arising in the harmonic decomposition of the operator...

We live in a time of uncertainty and transition. Some would claim that Enlightenment has already died (Kissinger, Bendyk 2018, Agata Bielik-Robson 2019), its values are no longer relevant to our values. However, quite recently, some outstanding scientists, like Steven Pinker (2018), have published good defence the Enlightenment, claiming instead we need What follows is quick overview defences f...

Este artigo é uma leitura do conto Tentação, de Clarice Lispector, a partir qual se procura depreender um entendimento analítico-interpretativo dos elementos que conduzem o enredo ao rápido, porém significativo encontro entre garota e cão basset. Seguindo esse fio prumo, trabalho baseia em teorias voltadas papel narrador seu posicionamento relação àquilo conta; ademais, serão utilizados estudos...