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Kangaroo mother care’ helps preterm babies survive … but offers benefits for all

Petty, Julia (2017-01-31)

Kant and Hegel on Purposive Action

Sandis, Constantine; Mayr, Erasmus; Laitinen, Arto (2018-01-16)

This essay discusses Kant and Hegel’s philosophies of action and the place of action within the general structure of their practical philosophy. We begin by briefly noting a few things that both unite and distinguish the ...

Kant and Kierkegaard on Religion.[Book review]

Lippitt, John (2002)

Kant s Account of Respect: A Bridge Between Rationality and Anthropology

Singleton, J. (2007)

Karl Polanyi on Economy and Society: : A Critical Analysis of Core Concepts

Hodgson, Geoffrey (2017-01-02)

This journal highlights the social aspects of economic activity. Yet the nature of the ‘social’ and the ‘economic’ are more problematic than often assumed. This article probes Karl Polanyi’s depiction of the relationship ...

The Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars Project - Status and Prospects

Dillmann, I.; Szücs, T.; Plag, R.; Fülöp, Z.; Käppeler, F.; Mengoni, A.; Rauscher, T. (2014-06)

The KADoNiS (Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars) project is an astrophysical online database for cross sections relevant for nucleosynthesis in the s process and the γ process. The s-process ...

KASPAR - a minimally expressive humanoid robot for human-robot interaction research

Dautenhahn, K.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Walters, M.L.; Robins, B.; Kose-Bagci, H.; Mirza, N.A.; Blow, M. (2009)

This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to the design of the minimally expressive robot KASPAR, which is particularly suitable for human-robot interaction studies. A low-cost design with off-the-shelf components ...

KASPAR in the wild - Initial findings from a pilot study

Syrdal, D.S.; Lehmann, Hagen; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, K. (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04)

This extended abstract describes the initial pilot work when evaluating the use of the UH Humanoid Robot KASPAR in a specialist nursery for children with social and communication disorders. Staff and volunteers at the ...

Kaspar in the wild: Experiences from deploying a small humanoid robot in a nursery school for children with autism

Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Robins, Ben; Karakosta, Efstathia; Cannon Jones, Nan (2020-07-01)

This article describes a long-term study evaluating the use of the humanoid robot Kaspar in a specialist nursery for children with autism. The robot was used as a tool in the hands of teachers or volunteers, in the absence ...

Keep Your Options Open : An Information-Based Driving Principle for Sensorimotor Systems

Klyubin, A.S.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (2008)

The central resource processed by the sensorimotor system of an organism is information. We propose an information-based quantity that allows one to characterize the efficiency of the perception-action loop of an abstract ...

Keeping kids healthy : a school nursing strategy.

Thurtle, V. (2000-12-01)

Keeping means and ends in view-linking practical judgement, ethics and emergence.

Mowles, Christopher (2012-07)

In this article I argue that the means and ends of development are constitutive of each other. If means appear to have become separated from the espoused ends of international nongovernment organisations (INGOs), then it ...

Keeping Things OK at Home : Do Something Different

Fletcher, Ben; Pine, Karen (b-Flex Publishing Group, 2009)

Kennedy A, Marshall D, Parkinson D, Delap N & Abbott L (2016) Birth Charter for Women in Prisons in England and Wales. Birth Companions.

Abbott, Laura (2016-05-26)

Kepler-15b : A hot Jupiter enriched in heavy elements and the first Kepler mission planet confirmed with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Endl, M.; MacQueen, P.J.; Cochran, W.D.; Brugamyer, E.J.; Buchhave, L.A.; Rowe, J.; Lucas, P.W.; Isaacson, H.; Bryson, S.; Howell, S.B.; Borucki, W.J.; Caldwell, D.; Christiansen, J.L.; Haas, M.R.; Koch, D.J.; Lissauer, J.J.; Still, M.; Fortney, J.J.; Hansen, T.; Ciardi, D.R.; Demory, B.-O.; Everett, M.; Ford, E.B.; Holman, M.J.; Horch, E.; Jenkins, J.M.; Sanderfer, D.T.; Seader, S.E.; Smith, J.C.; Thompson, S.E.; Twicken, J.D.; MacHalek, P.; Welsh, W.F. (2011-11-01)

We report the discovery of Kepler-15b (KOI-128), a new transiting exoplanet detected by NASA's Kepler mission. The transit signal with a period of 4.94days was detected in the quarter 1 (Q1) Kepler photometry. For the first ...

Kepler-1649b: : An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighborhood

Angelo, Isabel; Rowe, Jason F.; Howell, Steve B.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Still, Martin; Mann, Andrew W.; Burningham, Ben; Barclay, Thomas; Ciardi, David R.; Huber, Daniel (2017-03-17)

The Kepler mission has revealed that Earth-sized planets are common, and dozens have been discovered to orbit in or near their host star's habitable zone. A major focus in astronomy is to determine which of these exoplanets ...

Kepler-18b, c, and d : A system of three planets confirmed by transit timing variations, light curve validation, Warm-Spitzer photometry, and radial velocity measurements

Cochran, W.D.; MacQueen, P.J.; Endl, M.; Fabrycky, D.C.; Fortney, J.J.; Miller, N.; Torres, G.; Fressin, F.; Désert, J.-M.; Ragozzine, D.; Sasselov, D.; Carter, J.A.; Quinn, S.N.; Latham, D.W.; Holman, M.J.; Charbonneau, D.; Rowe, J.F.; Bryson, S.T.; Howell, S.B.; Borucki, W.J.; Koch, D.G.; Uddin, K.; Tenenbaum, P.; Still, M.; Mullally, F.; Lissauer, J.J.; Kinemuchi, K.; Jenkins, J.M.; Henze, C.E.; Haas, M.R.; Caldwell, D.; Brugamyer, E.J.; Ciardi, D.R.; Steffen, J.H.; Winn, J.N.; Seager, S.; Demory, B.-O.; Welsh, W.F.; Uddin, K.; Tenenbaum, P.; Mullally, F.; Jenkins, J.M.; Caldwell, D.; Still, M.; Kinemuchi, K.; Marcy, G.W.; Knutson, H.; Isaacson, H.; Howard, A.; Lucas, P.W.; Johnson, J.A.; Horch, E.; Gilliland, R.L.; Gautier, T.N.; Ford, E.B.; Fischer, D.A.; Everett, M.; Deming, D.; Buchhave, L.; Brown, T.M.; Batalha, N. (2011-11-01)

We report the detection of three transiting planets around a Sun-like star, which we designate Kepler-18. The transit signals were detected in photometric data from the Kepler satellite, and were confirmed to arise from ...

Kepler-424 b: A "lonely" hot Jupiter that found a companion

Endl, Michael; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Barclay, Thomas; Huber, Daniel; Isaacson, Howard; Buchhave, Lars A.; Brugamyer, Erik; Robertson, Paul; Cochran, William D.; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Havel, Mathieu; Lucas, P.W.; Howell, Steve B.; Fischer, Debra; Quintana, Elisa; Ciardi, David R. (2014-11-10)

Kernelizing LSPE λ

Jung, T.; Polani, D. (IEEE, 2007)

We propose the use of kernel-based methods as underlying function approximator in the least-squares based policy evaluation framework of LSPE(λ) and LSTD(λ). In particular we present the ‘kernelization’ of model-free ...

Kerry William Purcell talks about writing design history : Alphabet & Image

Purcell, Kerry William (Rockport, 2013)