This paper introduces GalaxyScope, a novel system to distinguish different interpretations of “truth” for different virtual tribes. It extracts the tribes from Wikipedia through analyzing its categories “Ideologies”, “Lifestyles”, and “Culture”, leading to tribes such as “capitalism”, “socialism”, and “liberalism”. It then calculates the most influential “tribe leaders” through their associatio...

The discrepancy between an individual’s loneliness and the number of connections in a social network is well documented, yet little is known about the placement of loneliness within, or the spread of loneliness through, social networks. The authors use network linkage data from the population-based Framingham Heart Study to trace the topography of loneliness in people’s social networks and the ...

Discoveries of the scale-free and small-world features are reported on a network constructed from the seismic data. It is shown that the connectivity distribution decays as a power law, and the value of the degrees of separation, i.e., the characteristic path length or the diameter, between two earthquakes (as the vertices) chosen at random takes a small value between 2 and 3. The clustering co...

In this paper an abstraction of simple priority arguments is presented in terms of what are called priorcomeager sets. To illustrate the versatility of the method, a number of different applications are described in §§ 4 and 5. Among them, for example, are the existence of minimal J§ degrees and the nonexistence of minimal 2"? degrees. Priorcomeager sets first appeared in our unpublished lectur...

In political economy, as in everyday usage, the terms "public" and "private" are used to distinguish both between states and other organizations in the formal economy, and between households or communities and formal economies, including their state sectors. Although the terms have been useful as analytical tools, it has long been recognized by many political economists that they are not dichot...

| We describe an implementation of a real time path planner for a robot arm with six degrees of freedom moving among dynamical obstacles. The planner is based on a novel technique called the Ariadne's Clew Algorithm. A brief description of this algorithm and parallel implementation of it are presented. Finally we analyze experiments made with this planner.

The purpose of the project is to build a multipurpose robotic arm which can perform operations with higher accuracy with 6 degrees of freedom. The arm will exhibit higher speed of operation and lower delay in processing due to the use of FPGA for processing and control. This will improve speed of operation and reduce the latency of response when used for applications such as bionic arm when com...