• Virtueller Raum → EncycloSpace means that the (evidently electronic) virtual space has to be provided with an encyclopedic character. • im → @ means that musicology needs a profiled allocation at such an encyclopedic virtual space. • Musik → Music means that the Anglo-Saxon computational musicology environment [2] is already charged with the building of a scenario for such an allocation of mu...

What authoring possibilities arise by blending machine and human control of live embodied character experiences? This paper explores two different “behind-the-scenes” roles for human operators during a three-month gallery installation of an embodied character experience. In the Transcription role, human operators type players’ spoken utterances; then, algorithms interpret the player’s intention...

Previous work has modeled the compositionality of words by creating characterlevel models of meaning, reducing problems of sparsity for rare words. However, in many writing systems compositionality has an effect even on the character-level: the meaning of a character is derived by the sum of its parts. In this paper, we model this effect by creating embeddings for characters based on their visu...

A family of small graphene patches, i.e., rectangular polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), that have both zigzag and armchair edges is investigated to establish their ground state electronic structure. Broken symmetry density functional theory (DFT) and plane wave DFT were used to characterize the onset of diradical character via relative energies of open-shell and closed-shell singlet states. The...

We present current theories about the structure of space and time, where the building blocks are some fundamental entities (yes-no experiment, quantum processes, spin net-work, preparticles) that do not presuppose the existence of space and time. The relations among these objects are the base for a pregeometry of discrete character, the continuous limit of which gives rise to the physical prope...

We establish a twisted analog of our recent work on vertex representations and the McKay correspondence. For each finite group Γ and a virtual character of Γ we construct twisted vertex operators on the Fock space spanned by the super spin characters of the spin wreath products Γ ≀ S̃n of Γ and a double cover of the symmetric group Sn for all n. When Γ is a subgroup of SL2(C) with the McKay virt...

In this paper, we pose a motion cloning problem of retargeting the motion of a source character to a target character with a different structure. Based on scattered data interpolation, an example-based approach to motion cloning is proposed. Provided with a set of example motions, our method automatically extracts a small number of representative postures called source key-postures. The animato...

Character displacement, in which coevolution of similar species alters their phenotypes, can be difficult to identify on the basis of observational data alone. In two-species systems, the most commonly identified (i.e., classic) resulting pattern is greater phenotypic difference between species in sympatry than allopatry. We show that restricting studies to this pattern may exclude many instanc...

This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

for alexandr sergeyevich pushkin, one of the greatestrevolutionary novelists and poets of the 19th century, society and thegoverning power were two lifetime issues. pushkin portrayed different socialclasses including farmers, peasants, and rulers. moreover, he was master offorming character types. one of these character types that has been mainlydealt with in this study is the superfluous man i...