The article considers the development of concept Caucasian peoples in works Leo Tolstoy: from depiction Highlanders as natural, somewhat idealized types ("Cossacks") to affirmation their universal human nature ("Caucasian prisoner") and return novel type a person whose fate most important features Russian life late XIX century were reflected. (“Hadji Murad”).

Storytelling is an ubiquitous phenomenon in human culture. We tell stories to entertain, explain, and illustrate. The production of novel stories is undeniably an act of creativity in humans. How can an autonomous computer system create novel story content? What can we learn about human creativity in the investigation of computational models of story generation? Relevant past work in story gene...

The widely used Logan plot in radioligand receptor dynamic PET studies produces marked noise-induced negative biases in the estimates of total distribution volume (DV(T)) and binding potential (BP). To avoid the inconsistencies in the estimates from the Logan plot, a new graphical analysis method was proposed and characterized in this study. The new plot with plasma input and with reference tis...

This paper considers an experimentation strategy when resource constraints permit only a single design replicate per time interval, and one or more design variables are hard-to-change. The experimental designs considered are two-level full or fractional factorial designs run as balanced split-plots. These designs are common in practice and appropriate for fitting a main effects plus interaction...