A probabilistic evaluation of human activity space for proactive approach behavior of a social robot

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Chapa Sirithunge ◽  
H. M. Ravindu T. Bandara ◽  
A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara ◽  
D. P. Chandima
Keyword(s):  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Activity Space ◽  
Approach Behavior ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Probabilistic Evaluation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Temporal Basis

AbstractIntelligent robot companions contribute significantly to improve the living standards of people in the modern society. Therefore, humanlike decision-making skills are sought after during the design of such robots. On the one hand, such features enable the robot to be easily handled by its human user. On the other hand, the robot will have the capability of dealing with humans without disturbing them by its behavior. Perception of Behavioral Ontology prior to an interaction is an important aspect in this regard. Furthermore, humans make an instant evaluation of task-related movements of others before approaching them. In this article, we present a mechanism to monitor how the activity space is utilized by a particular user on a temporal basis as an ontological assessment of the situation and then determine an appropriate approach behavior for a proactive robot to initiate an interaction with its user. This evaluation was then used to determine appropriate proxemic behavior to approach that person. The usage of activity space varies depending on the task of an individual. We used a probabilistic approach to find the areas that are the most and least likely to be occupied within the activity space of a particular individual during various tasks. As the robot approaches its subject after analyzing the spatial behavior of the subject within his/her activity space, spatial constraints occurred as a result of which robot’s movement could be demolished. Hence, a more socially acceptable spatial behavior could be observed from the robot. In other words, an etiquette based on approach behavior is derived considering the user’s activity space. Experiment results used to validate the system are presented, and critical observations during the study and implications are discussed.

PHILOSOPHICAL PROPAEDEUTICS IN THE SYSTEM OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Gan N.Yu. ◽  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Obukhova K.A.
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

Today, worldview, spiritual and moral problems that have always been reflected in education and upbringing come to the fore in society. In this situation, there is a demand for philosophical categories. One of the priority goals of education in modern conditions is the formation of a reasonable, reflexive person who is able to analyze their actions and the actions of other people. Modern science is characterized by an understanding of the absolute value and significance of childhood in the development of the individual, which implies the need for its multilateral study. In the conditions of democratization of all spheres of life, the child ceases to be a passive object of education and training, and becomes an active carrier of their own meanings of being and the subject of world creation. One of the realities of childhood is philosophizing, so it is extremely timely to address the identification of its place and role in the world of childhood. Children's philosophizing is extremely poorly studied, although the need for its analysis is becoming more obvious. Children's philosophizing is one of the forms of philosophical reflection, which has its own qualitative specificity, on the one hand, and commonality with all other forms of philosophizing, on the other. The social relevance of the proposed research lies in the fact that children's philosophizing can be considered as an intellectual indicator of a child's socialization, since the process of reflection involves the adoption and development of culture. Modern society, in contrast to the traditional one, is ready to "accept" a philosophizing child, which means that it is necessary to determine the main characteristics and conditions of children's philosophizing.

scholarly journals Continuing education as the value basis of professional activity of the pedagogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vitalievna Makeeva ◽  
Vitalii Nikolaevich Gur'yanchik
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Professional socialization of future graduates of the pedagogical university is aimed at the formation of competencies essential for the practical activity and solution of vital tasks. One of the components of successful professional activity is the willingness for continuing education. The subject of this research is the phenomenon of continuous pedagogical education as the value. Globalization has encompasses all segments of life of the modern society, including education. The rapidly changing world with its uncertainty imposes new requirements on the system of vocational training. A modern specialist is no longer narrow-focused, but is capable of solving complex and versatile tasks, which is facilitated by constant striving for new knowledge using various forms of learning. However, this is only possible with realization by the individual of the need for continuing education and its utility in different axiological coordinates. For the analysis of axiological basis of continuing education, the author surveyed the students of pedagogical university to determine their perception of continuing education as a personal meaningful value that contributes to the achievement of certain career results. The acquired results on the one hand demonstrate the the vagueness of the concept of “continuing education” for the university students; while on the other hand, prove the hypothesis on the need and importance of continuing education for the pedagogues, but at the same time the unwillingness of the future specialists to consider it as the value of life. The presented materials allow adjusting the educational process of future pedagogues and their motivation for continuing education, since the pedagogical classes to Master’s Degree.

Probabilistic evaluation of the one-dimensional Brinson model’s sensitivity to uncertainty in input parameters

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1070-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernur Karadoğan
Keyword(s):  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Phase Changes ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Probabilistic Evaluation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Random Variability ◽  
Operating Temperatures ◽  
The One

Brinson model is one of the most widely used shape memory alloy models due to its prediction power over a wide range of operating temperatures and inclusion of measurable engineering variables. The model involves parameters that are determined based on experimental data specific to a particular alloy. Therefore, it is subject to both experimental uncertainty and natural random variability in its parameters that propagate throughout the loading/unloading of the material. In this article, we analyse the sensitivity of the Brinson model to its parameters using a probabilistic approach, and present how the uncertainties in these parameters at different operating temperatures propagate as evidenced by the resulting stress–strain curves. The analyses were performed for isothermal loading/unloading and at various operating temperatures representing possible phase changes between martensite–austenite and martensite–martensite variants. The results show that the sensitivity of the model varies considerably based on the operating temperature and loading conditions. In addition, the variability in the model’s output is amplified after phase transitions during loading, and loading the material above the critical stress for martensite transition reduces variability during unloading. Based on the results of the sensitivity analysis, recommendations as to which parameters affect the variability of the model-predicted stress–strain curves are presented.

scholarly journals Non-Accidental Meetings: How Technologies are Known Through Dating and Relationships in the Postmodern Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Urusova ◽  
Timur Khusyainov
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Meeting ◽  
The One

In this paper, an attempt to understand modern romantic relationships influenced by technology is made. According to Z. Bauman and E. Giddens, relations in modern society can be characterized as "liquid love" or "confluent love", which are very dynamic. It is noted that the primary stages of building relationships are mediated by technical means, and the partners communicate remotely, according to the "subject - means - subject" scheme. At the same time, the technologies themselves, imperceptibly for users, can control the choice of a partner and limit the range of persons with whom he or she can get acquainted, and as a result, establish a relationship. This is the manifestation of the technical side of rational love, based on the choice of a "suitable life partner".In this case, the theory of rational choice is absolutized, and as a result a partner that meets certain parameters is selected: on the one hand, attractive for the subject, and on the other, equal in social status and level of attractiveness for others. In addition, online dating supports a person's desire for safety and comfort, as technology mitigates failures, and rational risk is only partially present. A person gets the opportunity to explore the Other before a personal meeting, and in some cases even before they meet and begin virtual communication, which is associated with greater openness of users on the global Internet, active placement of various content and personal information. Thus, the search and attraction of a partner in dating services and virtual social networks reflects such tendencies of present as digitalization, macdonalization and virtualization.

“Channeling” the powers of God’s Word

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea E. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
New Materials ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Starting with the controversial esoteric employment of audio recordings by followers of the charismatic Muslim preacher Sharif Haidara in Mali, the article explores the dynamics emerging at the interface of different technologies and techniques employed by those engaging the realm of the Divine. I focus attention on the “border zone” between, on the one hand, techniques for appropriating scriptures based on long-standing religious conventions, and, on the other, audio recording technologies, whose adoption not yet established authoritative and standardized forms of practice, thereby generating insecurities and becoming the subject of heated debate. I argue that “recyclage” aptly describes the dynamics of this “border zone” because it captures the ways conventional techniques of accessing the Divine are reassessed and reemployed, by integrating new materials and rituals. Historically, appropriations of the Qur’an for esoteric purposes have been widespread in Muslim West Africa. These esoteric appropriations are at the basis of the considerable continuities, overlaps and crossovers, between scripture-related esoteric practices on one side, and the treatment by Sharif Haidara’s followers of audio taped sermons as vessels of his spiritual power, on the other.

The problem of woman’s emansipation in the feuilleton “Amazonia: a very inept story” by Mykola Chirsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Iryna Rusnak
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Artistic Heritage

The author of the article analyses the problem of the female emancipation in the little-known feuilleton “Amazonia: A Very Inept Story” (1924) by Mykola Chirsky. The author determines the genre affiliation of the work and examines its compositional structure. Three parts are distinguished in the architectonics of associative feuilleton: associative conception; deployment of a “small” topic; conclusion. The author of the article clarifies the role of intertextual elements and the method of constantly switching the tone from serious to comic to reveal the thematic direction of the work. Mykola Chirsky’s interest in the problem of female emancipation is corresponded to the general mood of the era. The subject of ridicule in provocative feuilleton is the woman’s radical metamorphoses, since repulsive manifestations of emancipation becomes commonplace. At the same time, the writer shows respect for the woman, appreciates her femininity, internal and external beauty, personality. He associates the positive in women with the functions of a faithful wife, a caring mother, and a skilled housewife. In feuilleton, the writer does not bypass the problem of the modern man role in a family, but analyses the value and moral and ethical guidelines of his character. The husband’s bad habits receive a caricatured interpretation in the strange behaviour of relatives. On the one hand, the writer does not perceive the extremes brought by female emancipation, and on the other, he mercilessly criticises the male “virtues” of contemporaries far from the standard. The artistic heritage of Mykola Chirsky remains little studied. The urgent task of modern literary studies is the introduction of Mykola Chirsky’s unknown works into the scientific circulation and their thorough scientific understanding.

TARP DVIEJŲ KOLONŲ: XVIII A. PABAIGOS – XIX A. PRADŽIOS VILNIAUS MASONŲ KASDIENYBĖ SIMBOLIKOJE

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Daiva Milinkevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secular World ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Craft Guilds

The Age of Enlightenment is defined as the period when the universal ideas of progress, deism, humanism, naturalism and others were materialized and became a golden age for freemasons. It is wrong to assume that old and conservative Christian ideas were rejected. Conversely, freemasons put them into new general shapes and expressed them with the help of symbols in their daily routine. Symbols of freemasons had close ties with the past and gave them, on the one hand, a visible instrument, such as rituals and ideas to sense the transcendental, and on the other, intense gnostic aspirations. Freemasons put in a great amount of effort to improve themselves and to create their identity with the help of myths and symbols. It traces its origins to the biblical builders of King Solomon’s Temple, the posterity of the Templar Knights, and associations of the medieval craft guilds, which were also symbolical and became their link not only to each other but also to the secular world. In this work we analysed codified masonic symbols used in their rituals. The subject of our research is the universal Masonic idea and its aspects through the symbols in the daily life of the freemasons in Vilnius. Thanks to freemasons’ signets, we could find continuity, reception, and transformation of universal masonic ideas in the Lithuanian freemasonry and national characteristics of lodges. Taking everything into account, our article shows how the universal idea of freemasonry spread among Lithuanian freemasonry, and which forms and meanings it incorporated in its symbols. The objective of this research is to find a universal Masonic idea throughout their visual and oral symbols and see its impact on the daily life of the masons in Vilnius. Keywords: Freemasonry, Bible, lodge, symbols, rituals, freemasons’ signets.

Detection and Health Risk Associated with Low Virus Concentration in Drinking Water

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Payment ◽  
M. Trudel
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Virus Concentration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Treated Drinking Water ◽  
Dangerous Level

During the last decade, with the amelioration of the detection methods and the increasing number of studies on the subject, the isolation of viruses in treated drinking water has been reported more frequently than ever. These reports have in common the very low number of viruses isolated and these viruses are usually found only after concentration procedures involving several hundred liters of water. Our own studies have shown that during the conventional treatment of drinking water 99.998% of the indigenous viruses are removed. The residual viral fraction does not exceed 10 viruses per 1 000 liters of water. Using a probabilistic approach this viral concentration in drinking water is well below any dangerous level of enteric viruses in water and the presence of these viruses should not be considered as a health problem but more as the limit of the water treatment methodology.

Changes in environment as cause for environmentally induced migration of people

2017 ◽  
pp. 527-537
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ljustina
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Environmental Migration ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Adequate Definition ◽  
The Subject

Migration is one of the oldest and most used strategies for overcoming negative social issues. Despite the fact that it is historically deeply rooted, environmental migration as a social phenomenon has only recently become the subject research of numerous scientific fields. However, the study of current environmental migration is characterized by a number of issues, such as absence of an adequate definition and multi-causality of environmental migration. In this paper, through conceptual framework, author analyzed two main questions: who are environmental migrants and what reasons cause environmental migration. Due to the destruction of the global environmental balance, as well as accumulated environmental disturbances, it is likely that environmental migration will increase in future and there is nowhere you cannot make more use of scientific and professional projection of the future than in demographic and environmental spheres of human life. There is no doubt that our future is unpredictable. However, the environmental factors influencing the pattern of human interaction with the environment must be taken into account when projecting future development of the modern society. Such is the context in which the complex relation among migration, change and the environment has to be studied. In order to establish the basis for controlling environmental migration caused by negative changes in the environment, it is necessary to adopt a consistent strategy instead of ad hoc activities that are being used. In this paper, author analyzed societal response for the challenges caused by environmental migration, specifically regarding actions related to governing environmental migrations.

Quantum Tunneling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Tunneling ◽  
Alpha Particles ◽  
Attractive Potential ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Finite Width ◽  
Potential Well ◽  
Surface Molecules ◽  
Repulsive Coulomb ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Quantum tunneling, wherein a quanject has a non-zero probability of tunneling into and then exiting a barrier of finite width and height, is the subject of Chapter 13. The description for the one-dimensional case is extended to the barrier being inverted, which forms an attractive potential well. The first application of this analysis is to the emission of alpha particles from the decay of radioactive nuclei, where the alpha-nucleus attraction is modeled by a potential well and the barrier is the repulsive Coulomb potential. Excellent results are obtained. Ditto for the similar analysis of proton burning in stars and yet a different analysis that explains tunneling through a Josephson junction, the connector between two superconductors. The final application is to the scanning tunneling microscope, a device that allows the microscopic surfaces of solids to be mapped via electrons from the surface molecules tunneling into the tip of the STM probe.

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