Self-Organized Map Based Learning System for Estimating the Specific Task by Simple Instructions

This paper discusses a learning system for service robots to estimate specific tasks by using simple instructions from human beings. Intelligent robots are expected to operate in human living areas, so service robots should understand specific tasks from simple instructions given by human beings. It is important to perceive environmental situations and to adapt to human preferences. We propose a learningmethod using the Self-Organized Map (SOM) to estimate specific tasks from both human behavior measurement but also environmental measurement. Through simulation experiments, we verified that the proposed SOMbased method considers environmental situations associated time variations and show that service robots decide table-clearing tasks according to human intent.

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Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18001188 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Lucio Tonello ◽

Luca Giacobbi ◽

Alberto Pettenon ◽

Alessandro Scuotto ◽

Massimo Cocchi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽

Problem Behaviors ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

The Self ◽

Network Structures ◽

Self Organized ◽

Critical Equilibrium ◽

Self Organized Criticality ◽

Acute Agitation ◽

Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

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Wer täuscht wen?

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie ◽

10.28937/1000107448 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 (1) ◽

pp. 83-100

Author(s):

Daniel Strassberg

Keyword(s):

Human Nature ◽

The Self ◽

Narrative Approach ◽

Human Beings ◽

Narrative Context ◽

Everyday Knowledge

The insight that human beings are prone to deceive themselves is part of our everyday knowledge of human nature. Even so, if deceiving someone means to deliberately misrepresent something to him, it is difficult to understand how it is possible to deceive yourself. This paper tries to address this difficulty by means of a narrative approach. Self-deception is conceived as a change of the narrative context by means of which the same fact appears in a different light. On these grounds, depending on whether the self-deceiver adopts an ironic attitude to his self-deception or not, it is also possible to distinguish between a morally inexcusable self-deception and a morally indifferent one.

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The Goodness of Home

10.1093/oso/9780190674502.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Natalia Marandiuc

Keyword(s):

Attachment Theory ◽

Holy Spirit ◽

The Self ◽

Human Beings ◽

Divine Love ◽

Modern Life ◽

Middle Term ◽

Human Love ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

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Intergroup Dialogues in the Landscape of Digital Societies: How Does the Dialogical Self Affect Intercultural Relations in Online Contexts?

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc11030084 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

Chiara Imperato ◽

Tiziana Mancini

Keyword(s):

Racial Identity ◽

Hate Speech ◽

The Self ◽

Intergroup Bias ◽

The Other ◽

Intercultural Relations ◽

Human Beings ◽

Dialogical Self ◽

Prejudice And Discrimination ◽

Theory Research

The effects of intergroup dialogues on intercultural relations in digital societies and the growing conflict, inflammatory and hate speech phenomena characterizing these environments are receiving increasing attention in socio-psychological studies. Based on Allport’s contact theory, scholars have shown that online intercultural contact reduces ethnic prejudice and discrimination, although it is not yet clear when and how this occurs. By analyzing the role of the Dialogical Self in online intercultural dialogues, we aim to understand how individuals position themselves and others at three levels of inclusiveness—personal, social, and human—and how this process is associated with attitudes towards the interlocutor, intergroup bias and prejudice, whilst also considering the inclusion of the Other in the Self and ethnic/racial identity. An experimental procedure was administered via the Qualtrics platform, and data were collected among 118 undergraduate Italian students through an anonymous questionnaire. From ANOVA and moderation analysis, it emerged that the social level of inclusiveness was positively associated with ethnic/racial identity and intergroup bias. Furthermore, the human level of inclusiveness was associated with the inclusion of the Other in the Self and ethnic/racial identity, and unexpectedly, also with intergroup bias. We conclude that when people interact online as “human beings”, the positive effect of online dialogue fails, hindering the differentiation processes necessary to define one’s own and the interlocutor’s identities. We discuss the effects of intercultural dialogue in the landscape of digital societies and the relevance of our findings for theory, research and practice.

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Tripeptide Self-Assembly into Bioactive Hydrogels: Effects of Terminus Modification on Biocatalysis

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26010173 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 173

Author(s):

Marina Kurbasic ◽

Ana M. Garcia ◽

Simone Viada ◽

Silvia Marchesan

Keyword(s):

Self Assembly ◽

The Self ◽

Chemical Modifications ◽

Ability To Work ◽

Active Compounds ◽

Future Design ◽

Self Organized ◽

The Future ◽

Bio Material ◽

Supramolecular Catalysts

Bioactive hydrogels based on the self-assembly of tripeptides have attracted great interest in recent years. In particular, the search is active for sequences that are able to mimic enzymes when they are self-organized in a nanostructured hydrogel, so as to provide a smart catalytic (bio)material whose activity can be switched on/off with assembly/disassembly. Within the diverse enzymes that have been targeted for mimicry, hydrolases find wide application in biomaterials, ranging from their use to convert prodrugs into active compounds to their ability to work in reverse and catalyze a plethora of reactions. We recently reported the minimalistic l-His–d-Phe–d-Phe for its ability to self-organize into thermoreversible and biocatalytic hydrogels for esterase mimicry. In this work, we analyze the effects of terminus modifications that mimic the inclusion of the tripeptide in a longer sequence. Therefore, three analogues, i.e., N-acetylated, C-amidated, or both, were synthesized, purified, characterized by several techniques, and probed for self-assembly, hydrogelation, and esterase-like biocatalysis. This work provides useful insights into how chemical modifications at the termini affect self-assembly into biocatalytic hydrogels, and these data may become useful for the future design of supramolecular catalysts for enhanced performance.

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Investigation of single-domain Au silicide nanowires on Si(110) formed for Au coverages in the monolayer regime

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-94106-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Stephan Appelfeller

Keyword(s):

Fermi Level ◽

Surface Structure ◽

Density Of States ◽

The Self ◽

Single Domain ◽

Photoemission Spectroscopy ◽

Annealing Temperatures ◽

Self Organized ◽

Scanning Tunnelling ◽

Tunnelling Microscopy

AbstractThe self-organized formation of single domain Au silicide nanowires is observed on Si(110). These nanowires are analysed using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) as well as photoemission spectroscopy (PES). Core-level PES is utilised to confirm the formation of Au silicide and establish its presence as the top most surface structure, i.e., the nanowires. The growth of the Au silicide nanowires and their dimensions are studied by STM. They form for Au coverages of about 1 monolayer and are characterized by widths of about 2 to 3 nm and heights below 1 nm while reaching lengths exceeding 500 nm when choosing appropriate annealing temperatures. Valence band PES and STS indicate a small but finite density of states at the Fermi level typical for compound metals.

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Ion Beam Nanopatterning of Biomaterial Surfaces

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11146575 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (14) ◽

pp. 6575

Author(s):

Yu Yang ◽

Adrian Keller

Keyword(s):

Material Properties ◽

Ion Beam ◽

The Self ◽

Solid Surfaces ◽

Beam Irradiation ◽

Ion Beam Irradiation ◽

Future Directions ◽

Self Organized ◽

Functional Surfaces ◽

Biomaterial Surfaces

Ion beam irradiation of solid surfaces may result in the self-organized formation of well-defined topographic nanopatterns. Depending on the irradiation conditions and the material properties, isotropic or anisotropic patterns of differently shaped features may be obtained. Most intriguingly, the periodicities of these patterns can be adjusted in the range between less than twenty and several hundred nanometers, which covers the dimensions of many cellular and extracellular features. However, even though ion beam nanopatterning has been studied for several decades and is nowadays widely employed in the fabrication of functional surfaces, it has found its way into the biomaterials field only recently. This review provides a brief overview of the basics of ion beam nanopatterning, emphasizes aspects of particular relevance for biomaterials applications, and summarizes a number of recent studies that investigated the effects of such nanopatterned surfaces on the adsorption of biomolecules and the response of adhering cells. Finally, promising future directions and potential translational challenges are identified.

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