Only Dust Remains is an aftermath. True to its title, the record’s 10 songs abandon gentleness, as Backxwash, the stage name of Zambia-born, Montreal-based rapper-producer Ashanti Mutinta, asks loud ...

There’s a particular art to plunderphonics, the practice of taking samples of other music and stitching them together into something new, cohesive and, ideally, compelling. Not only must practitioners ...

The propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) was the first to be shown NP-complete by Cook and Levin. SAT remained the embodiment of theoretical worst-case hardness. However, in stark contrast to ...

Sentence-based mathematics problem-solving skills are essential as the skills can improve the ability to deal with various mathematical problems in daily life, increase the imagination, develop ...

Intuitionistic logic, i.e. logic without the principle of excluded middle (P ∨ ¬ P P \vee \neg P), is important for many reasons. One is that it arises naturally as the internal logic of toposes and ...

Generating associations is important for cognitive tasks including language acquisition and creative problem solving. It remains an open question how the brain represents and processes associations.

Presented February 8-9, 1999, at the Woodrow Wilson Center for the Comparative Urban Studies Project's Research Working Group on Urbanization, Population, the Environment, and Security funded by the U ...