Computational creativity seeks to understand computational mechanisms that can be characterized as creative. The creation of new concepts is a central challenge for any creative system. In this article, we outline different approaches to computational concept creation and then review conceptual representations relevant to concept creation, and therefore to computational creativity. The conceptual representations are organized in accordance with two important perspectives on the distinctions between them. One distinction is between
Geotechnical hazards such as debris flows, rock falls in slopes, rock collapse, and rockburst in underground mining or caverns are tightly correlated to the mechanical behavior of natural rock mass stability. Strength and failure mode of the natural rock mass are governed by the presented fissures. In this paper, samples containing T-shaped fissures with different geometry were prepared by rock-like materials and tested under varying uniaxial cyclic loading compression. The effect of T-shaped fissures with different geometry and the strain rate and loading frequency on the strength of tested samples were studied, and the failure mode of the samples containing T-shaped cross fissures under different working conditions was observed. The results show that the function of the minor fissures was not completely negative, and the strength of T-shaped fissure samples containing a major fissure with different inclination angles presented a varying trend with the increasing included angle between the major and minor fissures. Moreover, the strength of the cracked samples increased with the increase of the strain rate and loading frequency, and the larger the included angles between the major and minor fissures, the more sensitive the T-shaped fissure sample was to the change of frequency, but without a noticeable linear correlation relationship between the strength of the sample and the included angles between the major and minor fissures. In addition, the existence of the minor fissures had a significant impact on the failure mode of the sample, and the failure mode of the samples containing T-shaped cross fissures of the same geometry under the uniaxial compression and the uniaxial cyclic load was equivalent.
This survey-based cross-cultural study was conducted to explore college-age females' concerns and appreciation of their physical bodies in two countries dominated by different beauty standards. It also investigated the relationship between body satisfaction of collegeage women and their clothing choices in two different cultural settings. Three hundred and thirteen valid responses were collected in the United States and one hundred and ninetyfour valid ones were collected in China. Findings suggest that United States participants are in a complicated love-hate relationship with their middle to lower body parts, while Chinese participants are clearer about their favorite and least favorite body parts. The clothing choices of both groups were greatly affected by their perception and satisfaction level of their own physical body. However, neither group believed that body perceptions and clothing choices were influenced by media.
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