A new empirical regularity in world income distribution dynamics, 1960-2001

The aim of this paper is to present a new empirical regularity in world income distribution using cross-country panel data, 1960-2001. It shows the fact that the real cross-country GDP per capita is significantly approximated to a geometric sequence, and that its common ratio is decreasing consistently during the period. It seems rather natural to believe that inequality is not necessarily permanent in our economy.

The Mental Representation of Metaphorical Meanings of Sensory Adjectives

Special Volume on the Occasion of the Retirement in 2016 of Professor Yukio Ob

The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete - choice, finite - horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross - country differences in the relative success of players. While we find no evidence that the players in our sample from the ex-Warsaw Pact are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs.occupational choice, sports and games

Symbol Emergence in Robotics: A Survey

Humans can learn the use of language through physical interaction with their environment and semiotic communication with other people. It is very important to obtain a computational understanding of how humans can form a symbol system and obtain semiotic skills through their autonomous mental development. Recently, many studies have been conducted on the construction of robotic systems and machine-learning methods that can learn the use of language through embodied multimodal interaction with their environment and other systems. Understanding human social interactions and developing a robot that can smoothly communicate with human users in the long term, requires an understanding of the dynamics of symbol systems and is crucially important. The embodied cognition and social interaction of participants gradually change a symbol system in a constructive manner. In this paper, we introduce a field of research called symbol emergence in robotics (SER). SER is a constructive approach towards an emergent symbol system. The emergent symbol system is socially self-organized through both semiotic communications and physical interactions with autonomous cognitive developmental agents, i.e., humans and developmental robots. Specifically, we describe some state-of-art research topics concerning SER, e.g., multimodal categorization, word discovery, and a double articulation analysis, that enable a robot to obtain words and their embodied meanings from raw sensory--motor information, including visual information, haptic information, auditory information, and acoustic speech signals, in a totally unsupervised manner. Finally, we suggest future directions of research in SER.Comment: submitted to Advanced Robotic

The History of the Kamitomizaka Church of Christ in Tokyo, Japan

This text provides information on some of the earliest mission efforts by American missionaries J. M. McCaleb, William J. Bishop, and Clara Bishop. It narrates some of the earliest history of the congregations they planted and provides biographical information about some of their first converts. This document is from the Joe L. Cannon Papers/https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/crs_books/1257/thumbnail.jp

The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find no evidence that the players in our sample from the ex-Warsaw Pact are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs.occupational choice, sports and games