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A template based user-teaching system for an Assistive Robot
(Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04)
Demographics issues, characterised by an increasing elderly population, are expected to be a major concern both in Europe and other countries around the world. A proposed cost and care solution to these issues has been ...
The impact of a young radio galaxy : Clues from the cosmic ray electron population
(2014-04-01)
In the framework of hierarchical structure formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback shapes the galaxy luminosity function. Low luminosity, galaxy-scale double radio sources are ideal targets to investigate the ...
Extreme infrared variables from UKIDSS-I : A concentration in star-forming regions
(2014-04-01)
We present initial results of the first panoramic search for high-amplitude near-infrared variability in theGalactic plane.We analyse the widely separated two-epoch K-band photometry in the fifth and seventh data releases ...
Energy Consumption in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-04)
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are composed of moving mobile nodes that are battery operated. This paper proposes a set of performance metrics in evaluating energy efficiency in MANETs, and studies the energy consumption ...
Challenges in nucleosynthesis of trans-iron elements
(2014-04-01)
Nucleosynthesis beyond Fe poses additional challenges not encountered when studying astrophysical processes involving light nuclei. Astrophysical sites and conditions are not well known for some of the processes involved. ...
Tourist attitudes towards water use in the developing world: A comparative analysis
(2014-04-01)
This paper examines tourists' attitudes towards water use based on comparative data from interviews with tourists in Zanzibar, The Gambia and Dominican Republic. Unsustainable water use, accentuated by climate change, ...
Information closure and the sceptical objection
(2014-04)
In this article, I define and then defend the principle of information closure (pic) against a sceptical objection similar to the one discussed by Dretske in relation to the principle of epistemic closure. If I am successful, ...
Dyadic art psychotherapy : Key principles, practices and competences
(2014-04)
A recent survey indicates that a dyadic parent-child approach to art psychotherapy is being used by 60% of British art psychotherapists working with children and young people with some degree of frequency (Taylor Buck, ...
Social Constraints on the Direct Perception of Emotions and Intentions
(2014-04-01)
In this paper, we first review recent arguments about the direct perception of the intentions and emotions of others, emphasizing the role of embodied interaction. We then consider a possible objection to the direct ...