scholarly journals Art, Design and Communication Theory in Creating the Communicative Social Robot ‘Haru’

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Sandry ◽  
Randy Gomez ◽  
Keisuke Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Precise Information ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
Robot Communication

Haru is a social, affective robot designed to support a wide range of research into human–robot communication. This article analyses the design process for Haru beta, identifying how both visual and performing arts were an essential part of that process, contributing to ideas of Haru’s communication as a science and as an art. Initially, the article examines how a modified form of Design Thinking shaped the work of the interdisciplinary development team—including animators, performers and sketch artists working alongside roboticists—to frame Haru’s interaction style in line with sociopsychological and cybernetic–semiotic communication theory. From these perspectives on communication, the focus is on creating a robot that is persuasive and able to transmit precise information clearly. The article moves on to highlight two alternative perspectives on communication, based on phenomenological and sociocultural theories, from which such a robot can be further developed as a more flexible and dynamic communicative agent. The various theoretical perspectives introduced are brought together by considering communication across three elements: encounter, story and dance. Finally, the article explores the potential of Haru as a research platform for human–robot communication across various scenarios designed to investigate how to support long-term interactions between humans and robots in different contexts. In particular, it gives an overview of plans for humanities-based, qualitative research with Haru.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.

scholarly journals A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Kumkum Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Phase

English: It gives me immense pleasure to inform that “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 has been listed in the UGC-CARE list. It is a bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of visual and performing arts that publishes research papers in both Hindi and English. Our editorial members have also contributed significantly in this effort. As a result of this, we have been able to make the research fund one of the leading journals in the field of art, and I congratulate the editorial members and the publisher by appreciating them.I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the authors and reviewers whose contribution has made the journal reach this dimension. I would like to thank all the readers, contributors, writers, reviewers, and editorial members for all of you invaluable support and contribution.This change marks the beginning of a new phase of development in the future as we want to establish “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 Journal in the fields of art We are committed to striving for a more consistently high standard of publication, while maintaining our wide range of teachers that includes all of the faculty members. On a national and international level, we want to assist the journal in any way we can. Even as we reimagine ourselves in conventional fields of the arts, we will continue to publish theoretical, artistic, and empirical investigations of modern and contemporary art in all its aspects.Over the years We have made several significant modifications to “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 which will benefit all the researchers as well as we have done. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts (ShodhKosh) " ISSN: 2582-7472" is indexed on CrossRef, CrossMark, Google Scholar, Portico, Dimensions, PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), Index Copernicus, PKP Index, so that all the papers published by us can be read nationally and internationally. We provide a unique DOI to each research article. The ShodhKosh is always progressing to support our commitment with well. Hindi: मुझे यह सूचित करते हुए अत्यंत हर्ष का अनुभव हो रहा है “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 UGC-CARE list में अनुक्रमिनित कर लिया गया है। यह एक अर्द्धवार्षिक पत्रिका है, जिसमें हिंदी व अंग्रेजी भाषा में शोध पत्रों का प्रकाशन किया जाता है। इस प्रयास में हमारे सम्पादकीय सदस्यों का भी महत्वपूर्ण योगदान रहा है। इसी के परिणाम स्वरूप हम शोध-कोष को कला के क्षेत्र में अग्रणी पत्रिकाओं में से एक बनाने में सफल हुए हैं, और मैं सम्पादकीय सदस्यों एवं प्रकाशक की सराहना करते हुए उन्हें बधाई देती हूँ। में इस अवसर पर उन सभी लेखकों और समीक्षकों के प्रति आभार व्यक्त करना चाहती हूँ, जिनके योगदान से पत्रिका इस आयाम तक पहुँच पायी है। आप सभी के अमूल्य समर्थन व योगदान के लिए मैं सभी पाठकों, योगदानकर्ताओं, लेखकों, समीक्षकों, व सम्पादकीय सदस्यों को धन्यवाद प्रेषित करती हूँ।यह परिवर्तन भविष्य में विकास के एक नए चरण की शुरुआत का प्रतीक है क्योंकि हम “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 UGC-CARE list को कला के क्षेत्रों में मजबूती से स्थापित करना चाहते हैं, इस पत्रिका में कला के सभी शिक्षकों को शामिल करते हुए हम हमारे व्यापक दायरे को बनाये रखते हुए, हम प्रकाशन के निरंतर उच्च मानकों के प्रयास हेतु प्रतिबद्ध है। हम पत्रिका के राष्ट्रीय व अंतराष्ट्रीय समर्थन के लिए प्रयास करेंगे। कला के पारंपिक क्षेत्रों में अपने आप को सशक्त करते हुए आधुनिक और समकालीन कला के सभी आयामों के सैद्धांतिक, मौलिक और अनुभवजन्य अध्ययनों को प्रकाशित करना जारी रखेंगे। विगत वर्षों से हमने “ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts” ISSN: 2582-7472 UGC-CARE list में कुछ महत्वपूर्ण परिवर्तन किए है, जिससे सभी शोधकर्ताओं को लाभ मिले जैसे हमने ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts (ShodhKosh) " ISSN: 2582-7472" की Indexing: CrossRef, CrossMark, Google Scholar, Portico, Dimensions, PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), Index Copernicus, PKP Index पर की है, जिससे हमारे द्वारा प्रकाशित सभी शोधपत्र राष्ट्रीय व अंतराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर पढ़े जा सके। हमारे द्वारा सभी शोधपत्रों को स्वयं का DOI प्रदान किया जाता है। हमरी प्रतिबद्धता और सुधीजनों के सहयोगार्थ शोध-कोष निरंतर अग्रसर है।  

Religion and ethnicity in the arts of a Limba Chiefdom

Africa ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Ottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
African Art ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThis article examines the major visual and performing arts of one society and explores what changes have occurred to them over roughly one hundred years as a consequence of external religious and ethnic forces. This is a holistic, processual view of a people's arts in a particular region, providing a model to balance the excellently detailed studies of specific art forms which now exist for Africa. Using a holistic view we will raise certain issues concerning changes in African art. One of the most significant is the interrelationship of ethnicity and religion. Scholars (Bravmann, 1974, 1983; Prussin, 1986) have written extensively on the influence of Islam on African art, but have not seriously raised the question of the ethnic factor associated with Islam, which is equally important. In the case of Islam and its carriers there is a delicate intermixing of religion and ethnicity which is at issue and needs exploration. Further, the holistic approach employed here brings to the fore the reasons behind the wide range of responses to change of the various art forms of a people. Why do some syncretise, some disappear and others remain unchanged? Again, the holistic view allows us to ask to what extent the arts of a people merely reflect forces of change, or do they play roles in leading and directing it? The approach requires considerable background history, which is presented below.

Modern prevention and active longevity programs on the basis of disruptive domestic technologies: positive experience and prospects for application

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
A. Simonova ◽  
S. Chudakov ◽  
R. Gorenkov ◽  
V. Egorov ◽  
A. Gostry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Laboratory Diagnostics ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Integrated Program ◽  
Long Term Experience ◽  
Early Detection And Prevention

The article summarizes the long-term experience of practical application of domestic breakthrough technologies of preventive personalized medicine for laboratory diagnostics of a wide range of socially significant non-infectious diseases. Conceptual approaches to the formation of an integrated program for early detection and prevention of civilization diseases based on these technologies are given. A vision of the prospects for the development of this area in domestic and foreign medicine has been formed.

To the 70th anniversary of World Meteorological Organization. Scientific and technical cooperation of Hydrometeorological Center of the USSR/Russia in the Programs of World Meteorological Organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
S.V. Borshch ◽  
◽  
R.M. Vil’fand ◽  
D.B. Kiktev ◽  
V.M. Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
World Meteorological Organization ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Technical Cooperation ◽  
Wide Range

The paper presents the summary and results of long-term and multi-faceted experience of international scientific and technical cooperation of Hydrometeorological Center of Russia in the field of hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring within the framework of WMO programs, which indicates its high efficiency in performing a wide range of works at a high scientific and technical level. Keywords: World Meteorological Organization, major WMO programs, representatives of Hydrometeorological Center of Russia in WMO

Research on the Economic Organization Environmental Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-601
Author(s):  
Dan Paul Stefanescu ◽  
Oana Roxana Chivu ◽  
Claudiu Babis ◽  
Augustin Semenescu ◽  
Alina Gligor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Harmful Effects

Any economic activity carried out by an organization, can generate a wide range of environmental implications. Particularly important, must be considered the activities that have a significant negative effect on the environment, meaning those which pollute. Being known the harmful effects of pollution on the human health, the paper presents two models of utmost importance, one of the material environment-economy interactions balance and the other of the material flows between environmental factors and socio-economic activities. The study of these models enable specific conditions that must be satisfied for the economic processes friendly coexist to the environment for long term, meaning to have a minimal impact in that the residues resulting from the economic activity of the organization to be as less harmful to the environment.

Long-term Effects of Triazol Growth Regulators on Stem Elongation of Rhododendron and Kalmia

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 436E-436
Author(s):  
Martin P.N. Gent
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
Growth Regulator ◽  
Stem Elongation ◽  
Spray Application ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Potted Plants ◽  
Response Coefficient ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Second Year

The persistence of effects of paclobutrazol or uniconazol on stem elongation was determined for several years after large-leaf Rhododendron and Kalmia latifolia were treated with a single-spray application of these triazol growth-regulator chemicals. Potted plants were treated in the second year from propagation, and transplanted into the field in the following spring. The elongation of stems was measured in the year of application and in the following 2 to 4 years. Treatments with a wide range of doses were applied in 1991, 1992, or 1995. For all except the most-dilute applications, stem elongation was retarded in the year following application. At the highest doses, stem growth was inhibited 2 years following application. The results could be explained by a model of growth regulator action that assumed stem elongation was inversely related to amount of growth regulator applied. The dose response coefficient for paclobutrazol was less than that for uniconazol. The dose that inhibited stem elongation one-half as much as a saturating dose was about 0.5 and 0.05 mg/plant, for paclobutrazol and uniconazol, respectively. The dose response coefficient decreased exponentially with time after application, with an exponential time constant of about 2/year. The model predicted a dose of growth regulator that inhibited 0.9 of stem elongation immediately after application would continue to inhibit 0.5 of stem elongation in the following year.

Chinese Medicine Protein and Peptide in Gene and Cell Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinlu Feng ◽  
Zifei Yin ◽  
Daniel Zhang ◽  
Arun Srivastava ◽  
Chen Ling
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Cell Therapy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Promising Strategy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Gene And Cell Therapy ◽  
Proteins And Peptides

The success of gene and cell therapy in clinic during the past two decades as well as our expanding ability to manipulate these biomaterials are leading to new therapeutic options for a wide range of inherited and acquired diseases. Combining conventional therapies with this emerging field is a promising strategy to treat those previously-thought untreatable diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has evolved for thousands of years in China and still plays an important role in human health. As part of the active ingredients of TCM, proteins and peptides have attracted long-term enthusiasm of researchers. More recently, they have been utilized in gene and cell therapy, resulting in promising novel strategies to treat both cancer and non-cancer diseases. This manuscript presents a critical review on this field, accompanied with perspectives on the challenges and new directions for future research in this emerging frontier.

Positive Emotion in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-311
Author(s):  
Ilana Seager ◽  
Douglas S. Mennin ◽  
Amelia Aldao
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Emotional Dysfunction ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Future Work

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a debilitating condition characterized by excessive, pervasive, uncontrollable, and paralyzing worries about a wide range of future situations. Individuals with this condition frequently find themselves stuck in worry and tension cycles in futile attempts at reducing uncertainty and increasing control. GAD has been associated with substantial impairments in functioning and reduced quality of life. GAD remains poorly understood, and the long-term efficacy and end-state functioning resulting from treatment are weaker compared to other anxiety disorders. Some treatments (e.g., emotion regulation therapy, acceptance-based behavioral therapy) have improved efficacy, partly by targeting emotional dysfunction. Basic psychopathology research has focused on identifying the role of negative affect in GAD, so little is known about how positive affect is experienced and regulated in this disorder. This is particularly important in light of the overlap of this condition with major depressive disorder, which is characterized by low or suppressed positive emotion. Developing such an understanding is essential to further improve the efficacy of emotion-based treatments. This chapter reviews current and future directions in the study of positive affect in GAD. The chapter reviews the nascent research on positive affect and GAD, then illustrates dimensions of future work.

scholarly journals Toxic or Not Toxic, That Is the Carbon Quantum Dot’s Question: A Comprehensive Evaluation with Zebrafish Embryo, Eleutheroembryo, and Adult Models

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1598
Author(s):  
Chih-Yu Chung ◽  
Yu-Ju Chen ◽  
Chia-Hui Kang ◽  
Hung-Yun Lin ◽  
Chih-Ching Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zebrafish Embryo ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Carbon Quantum Dots ◽  
Adult Zebrafish ◽  
Fish Embryo ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Toxicity

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are emerging novel nanomaterials with a wide range of applications and high biocompatibility. However, there is a lack of in-depth research on whether CQDs can cause acute or long-term adverse reactions in aquatic organisms. In this study, two different types of CQDs prepared by ammonia citrate and spermidine, namely CQDAC and CQDSpd, were used to evaluate their biocompatibilities. In the fish embryo acute toxicity test (FET), the LD50 of CQDAC and CQDSpd was about 500 and 100 ppm. During the stage of eleutheroembryo, the LD50 decreased to 340 and 55 ppm, respectively. However, both CQDs were quickly eliminated from embryo and eleutheroembryo, indicating a lack of bioaccumulation. Long-term accumulation of CQDs was also performed in this study, and adult zebrafish showed no adverse effects in 12 weeks. In addition, there was no difference in the hatchability and deformity rates of offspring produced by adult zebrafish, regardless of whether they were fed CQDs or not. The results showed that both CQDAC and CQDSpd have low toxicity and bioaccumulation to zebrafish. Moreover, the toxicity assay developed in this study provides a comprehensive platform to assess the impacts of CQDs on aquatic organisms in the future.

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