A SHADOW BOX AS A MEANS OF CREATING INTEREST IN SCIENCE

AbstractWe consider perturbation bounds and condition numbers for a complex indefinite linear algebraic system, which is of interest in science and engineering. Some existing results are improved, and illustrative numerical examples are provided.

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Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, November 30, 1928

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character ◽

10.1098/rspb.1929.0001 ◽

1929 ◽

Vol 104 (729) ◽

pp. 97-119

Keyword(s):

University Education ◽

Ernest Rutherford ◽

Interest In Science ◽

The Past ◽

Main Work ◽

Foreign Member ◽

Deep Interest

During the past year the losses to our Society by death have been unusually heavy, including three Foreign Members, thirteen Fellows, and two Fellows elected under Statute 12, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith and Viscount Haldane. While the main work of Lord Haldane lay in legal and administrative fields, he always had a deep interest in science and its philosophy, and gave much valuable help to the cause of University Education. The death of Prof. P. H. von Groth, Foreign Member of our Society, at the age of 84, removes a notable figure from the Science of Mineralogy. Distinguished as investigator and writer and editor for 39 years of the 'Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie,' he widely influenced the development of his science, and by his own researches and through his students made notable contributions to our knowledge.

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Moral psychology of sex robots: An experimental study − how pathogen disgust is associated with interhuman sex but not interandroid sex

Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics ◽

10.1515/pjbr-2020-0012 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 233-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mika Koverola ◽

Marianna Drosinou ◽

Jussi Palomäki ◽

Juho Halonen ◽

Anton Kunnari ◽

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Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Sex Worker ◽

Interest In Science ◽

Sex Robots ◽

Monogamous Relationship ◽

Attitudes Toward Sex ◽

First Time ◽

And Robotics ◽

Shed Light

AbstractThe idea of sex with robots seems to fascinate the general public, raising both enthusiasm and revulsion. We ran two experimental studies (Ns = 172 and 260) where we compared people’s reactions to variants of stories about a person visiting a bordello. Our results show that paying for the services of a sex robot is condemned less harshly than paying for the services of a human sex worker, especially if the payer is married. We have for the first time experimentally confirmed that people are somewhat unsure about whether using a sex robot while in a committed monogamous relationship should be considered as infidelity. We also shed light on the psychological factors influencing attitudes toward sex robots, including disgust sensitivity and interest in science fiction. Our results indicate that sex with a robot is indeed genuinely considered as sex, and a sex robot is genuinely seen as a robot; thus, we show that standard research methods on sexuality and robotics are also applicable in research on sex robotics.

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