scholarly journals Towards a Complex Interaction Scenario in Worker-cobot Reconfigurable Collaborative Manufacturing via Reactive Agent Ontology - Case-study: Two Workers in Cooperation with One Cobot

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed R. Sadik ◽  
Bodo Urban
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Manufacturing

Coordination in collaborative manufacturing mega-networks: A case study

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Johansen ◽  
Mica Comstock ◽  
Mats Winroth
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Manufacturing

On the Interplay Between Morphological, Neural, and Environmental Dynamics: A Robotic Case Study

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Lungarella ◽  
Luc Berthouze
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Efficient Exploration ◽  
World Environment ◽  
Different Time Scales

The robust and adaptive behavior exhibited by natural organisms is the result of a complex interaction between various plastic mechanisms acting at different time scales. So far, researchers have concentrated on one or another of these mechanisms, but little has been done toward integrating them into a unified framework and studying the result of their interplay in a real-world environment. In this article, we present experiments with a small humanoid robot that learns to swing. They illustrate that the exploitation of neural plasticity, entrainment to physical dynamics, and body growth (where each mechanism has a specific time scale) leads to a more efficient exploration of the sensorimotor space and eventually to a more adaptive behavior. Such a result is consistent with observations in developmental psychology.

scholarly journals Modelling loanword success – a sociolinguistic quantitative study of Māori loanwords in New Zealand English

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea Simona Calude ◽  
Steven Miller ◽  
Mark Pagel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Word Class ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Similar Model ◽  
Balanced Approach

AbstractLoanword use has dominated the literature on language contact and its salient nature continues to draw interest from linguists and non-linguists. Traditionally, loanwords were investigated by means of raw frequencies, which are at best uninformative and at worst misleading. Following a new wave of studies which look at loans from a quantitatively more informed standpoint, modelling “success” by taking into account frequency of the counterparts available in the language adopting the loanwords, we propose a similar model of loan-use and demonstrate its benefits in a case study of loanwords from Māori into (New Zealand) English. Our model contributes to previous work in this area by combining both the success measure mentioned above with a rich range of linguistic characteristics of the loanwords (such as loan length and word class), as well as a similarly detailed group of sociolinguistic characteristics of the speakers using them (gender, age and ethnicity of both, speakers and addresses). Our model is unique in bringing together of all these factors at the same time. The findings presented here illustrate the benefit of a quantitatively balanced approach to modelling loanword use. Furthermore, they illustrate the complex interaction between linguistic and sociolinguistic factors in such language contact scenarios.

The Affective Economy and Online Fan Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Nur Aliah Mansor ◽  
Rizalniyani Abdul Razak ◽  
Zam Zuriyati Mohamad ◽  
Norrina Din ◽  
Arbaiah Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Audience Awareness

This chapter explores participation and co-production in affective media experiences in Johnny & Associates' online fan communities. Johnny & Associates is a Japanese all-male talent management company established in the 1960s. As a pioneer in the idol industry, Johnny & Associates and artists under its management have been highly influential in the contemporary Japanese entertainment industry. These artists are collectively known as Johnny's idols or Janīzu. Much of the data are collected through participant-experiencer and interviews. The originality of this case study stems mainly from the empirical data for Johnny & Associates, Janīzu, and the global fan base during Johnny & Associates' transition to a social media platform. This chapter analyses marketing strategy, audience awareness, and behaviour in relation to a mass media phenomenon. The complex interaction among Johnny & Associates, Janīzu, and fans generates tensions and contradictions that mirror the modern mediated life.

The Twilight of Presence: Pictorialized Illumination in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

Leonardo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Underhill
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Last Supper ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Santa Maria

This essay explores the relationship between pictures and the lighting conditions in which they were originally viewed. The theoretical interrelationship between brightness, illumination and depiction is explored in a case study of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper mural at the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Advanced rendering software allows for the reconstruction of the refectory as it stood when Leonardo painted The Last Supper and demonstrates the complex interaction between light and space in the mural. This analysis illustrates how digital humanities might bridge traditional art-historical methods and forensic visualization.

Scaling the Commanding Heights: The colonial conglomerates and the changing political economy of French Indochina

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1485-1525 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERARD SASGES
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
State Power ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Capitalist Enterprise

AbstractBy the late 1800s the colonial state's increasing capacity to regulate, finance, and tax had begun to open up new opportunities for locally based French enterprises in Indochina. Chinese syndicates that had previously dominated the economy found themselves deprived of existing revenue streams and denied access to new ones. The result was an ‘Indochinese moment’ when a handful of colonial conglomerates used profits from state contracts, monopolies, and subsidies as a base for growth and diversification after 1900. Yet scaling the commanding heights of the economy was not easy, and was only achieved thanks to sustained and powerful state intervention. Moreover, one of the effects of the economic crisis after 1928 was the end of this Indochinese moment and a shift in initiative to a new partnership that linked an increasingly technocratic state with the financiers and experts of the Bank of Indochina. This article investigates this complex interaction of state power, technology, and capital flows with local Chinese, French, and indigenous Indochinese actors, using one particular conglomerate, the Fontaine group, as a case study to shed light on the mechanisms that linked an interventionist state to capitalist enterprise and ultimately to the remaking of the Indochinese economy.

Counseling for Diversity: Application of the House Model of Social Stress

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene M. Kampfe ◽  
David J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Native American ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Severe Hearing Loss

The House model of social stress is used to describe the potential for variation among people in the same ethnic or cultural group because of the complex interaction among variables in people's lives. A case study of a Native American with a severe hearing loss is presented to illustrate concepts associated with the model.

scholarly journals Ascites Syndrome Associated with Hypothyroidism in a Brahma Chicken: a Case Study and Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Alexandru Flaviu TĂBĂRAN ◽  
Iancu MORAR ◽  
Adrian Florin GAL ◽  
Roxana CORA ◽  
Cornel CĂTOI
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
Ascites Syndrome

Ascites syndrome (AS) in chickens represents a major cause of mortality and the most frequent metabolic-related cause of abattoir carcass condemnation in broilers. Susceptibility of broiler chickens to ascites is determined by a complex interaction between genetically-controlled factors (as high-rate metabolism and peculiarity of the cardiovascular system) and exogenous factors such as nutrition, and temperature. Endocrine imbalances, especially thyroid-gland dysfunctions, are currently regarded as key-elements in the development of AS. The current case represents the first spontaneous case of hypothyroidism (goiter) associated with AS in broilers, bringing additional arguments to the theory which claims the role of thyroid dysfunction in this syndrome. Further studies of spontaneous cases which must include assessment of the thyroid hormones need be performed in order to better understand the link between thyroid gland dysfunction and the cardiopulmonary changes in the context of AS in birds.

Etymologization as a Case of Pedagogical Lying in Plato

Méthexis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
Celso Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Conceptual Coherence ◽  
Similar Description

In the Cratylus, Plato criticizes the traditional rendering of Hades’ name as the ‘in-visible’ while in the Phaedo he endorses it. Despite this conflict, in both cases, the etymologies are used to oppose the negative characterization of this god by the tradition, just as prescribed in the Republic. Furthermore, both dialogues convey a similar description of Hades as an intellectual realm. Thus, there is an underlying conceptual coherence and a use of conflicting etymologies serving the same practical prescription. This article will verify if this scenario constitutes an instance of the serviceable lies presented in the Republic. Taking Hades’ different etymologizations as a case study, we will be able to better understand the justification for the pedagogical use of lies based on the complex interaction between souls with true and false beliefs. Two types of pedagogical lies emerge. Syrup lies characterize situations in which some true information is conveyed through an illegitimate but attractive cover such as etymologization or tales. In this way, they can capture the attention of souls who are hostage to false beliefs. Moreover, there is also the case for vaccine lies in which the illegitimate method used to convey some information has in itself a self-eroding element. Thus, those who receive the information are also encouraged to question the method in due course. After these determinations, it will be possible to evaluate how such a conception of lying scores morally.

La Corona

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-195
Author(s):  
Marcello A. Canuto ◽  
Tomás Barrientos Q.
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Secondary Center ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 9 explores the political landscape of the Late Classic Kaanul kingdom. Marcello A. Canuto and Tomás Barrientos Q. consider the role of secondary centers in the geopolitical landscape of the lowlands during the Late Classic period, using La Corona, Guatemala as a case study. In Chapter 9, Canuto and Barrientos Q. demonstrate that the relationship between the Kaanul hegemony and La Corona was much more complicated than simple political alliance. Kaanul’s complex interaction with its secondary center reveals some of the tools it used to create a monumental political landscape, including, in the case of La Corona, manipulating the local power structure, the community’s social organization, and even its sacred history.

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