Like artist and genre, mood or emotion is a useful attribute to categorise music and it would be desirable for listeners to be able to automatically organise their music according to emotion and generate

IN ITS SHORT CAREER, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel1 has enjoyed remarkable success for a book not much concerned with diets, cats, or how to get rich quick. It has appeared on best-seller lists and as a selection for several book clubs, won a Pulitzer Prize, and accompanied President Clinton on his 1999 vacation on Martha's Vineyard. Not bad for an amateur historian. But what clinches ...

A muscle will not function properly if the bone to which it is attached is broken or is in a state of degeneration. The same is true of the Christian life. Orthodoxy serves as the skeletal framework for the saint of God. If that framework is faulty and does not affirm truth, the result will be a defective lifestyle. In the Epistle to the Colossians Paul demonstrated this point. The Colossian co...

In Flanders great amounts of livestock, especially pigs, lead to a surplus of manure that can not be spread on farmland because of the prevailing fertilizing restrictions. Aside that, Flemish government obliges farmers with a surplus of 7500 kg total P2O5 production to treat this excess of manure partially or totally. Trevi N.V. developed a manure treating system that starts with the separation...

In this paper we study the largest parts in integer partitions according to multiplicities and part sizes. Firstly we investigate various properties of the multiplicities of the largest parts. We then consider the sum of the m largest parts first as distinct parts and then including multiplicities. Finally, we find the generating function for the sum of the m largest parts of a partition, i.e.,...

We characterize good clocks, which are naturally subject to fluctuations, in statistical terms. We also obtain the master equation that governs the evolution of quantum systems according to these clocks and find its general solution. This master equation is diffusive and produces loss of coherence. Moreover, real clocks can be described in terms of effective interactions that are nonlocal in ti...

There are diverse theories about the origin of life on Earth. Perhaps it started with an electric spark that generate amino acids and sugars from an atmosphere loaded with water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen, and over million years, larger and more complex molecules could form. Other possibility is that molecules of life met on clay due to DNA are relatively well preserved in those conditions...

the chapter entitled 'The scientific method', in which a remarkable range of thinkers and themes are introduced (his book also has the fuller index of the two). The greatest contrast between the two books is the way in which they engage with the existing literature. As already noted, each has a lengthy bibliography which is worth consulting in its own right. However, Henry makes repeated refere...