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This book provides an integrated framework for natural and
artificial cognition by highlighting the fundamental role played by
the cognitive architecture in the dialectics with the surrounding
environment and consequently in the definition of a particular
meaningful world. This book is also about embodied and non-embodied
artificial systems, cognitive architectures that are human
constructs, meant to be able to populate the human world, capable
of identifying different life contexts and replicating human
patterns of behavior capable of acting according to human values
and conventions, systems that perform tasks in a human-like way. By
identifying the essential phenomena at the core of all forms of
cognition, the book addresses the topic of design of artificial
cognitive architectures in the domains of robotics and artificial
life. Moving from mere bio-inspired design methodology it aims to
open a pathway to semiotically determined design.
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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Tomar, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Joao Silva, Ricardo Ribeiro, Paulo Quaresma, Andre Adami, Antonio Branco
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th
International Conference on Computational Processing of the
Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016, held in Tomar, Portugal, in July
2016. The 23 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this
volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.
The papers are organized in topical sections named: language
applications, language processing, and language resources.
During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material
improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of
a significant political transformation - the establishment of the
Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and
innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities
for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms
of musical theater, including operetta and the revue theater. These
theatrical forms became an important site for the display of
modernity, and the representation of a new national identity.
Author Joao Silva argues that the rise of these genres is
inextricably bound to the complex process through which the idea of
Portugal was presented, naturalized, and commodified as a modern
nation-state. Entertaining Lisbon studies popular entertainment in
Portugal and its connections with modern life and nation-building,
showing that the promotion of the nation through entertainment
permeated the market for cultural goods. Exploring the Portuguese
entertainment market as a reflection of ongoing negotiations
between local, national, and transnational influences on identity,
Silva intertwines representations of gender, class, ethnicity, and
technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic
music making. An essential work on Portuguese music in the English
language, Entertaining Lisbon is a critical study for scholars and
students of musicology interested in Portugal, and popular and
theatrical musics, as well as historical ethnomusicologists,
cultural historians, and urban planning researchers interested in
the development of material culture.
This book highlights some of the most pressing safety, ethical,
legal and societal issues related to the diverse contexts in which
robotic technologies apply. Focusing on the essential concept of
well-being, it addresses topics that are fundamental not only for
research, but also for industry and end-users, discussing the
challenges in a wide variety of applications, including domestic
robots, autonomous manufacturing, personal care robots and drones.
The work is a collection of contributions resulting from R&D
efforts originated from scientific projects involving academia,
technological partners, and end-user institutions. The aim is to
provide a comprehensive overview of robotics technology applied to
Healthcare, and discuss the anticipation of upcoming challenges.
The intersection of Robotics and Medicine includes socially and
economically relevant areas, such as rehabilitation, therapy, and
healthcare. Innovative usages of current robotics technologies are
being somewhat stranded by concerns related to social dynamics. The
examples covered in this volume show some of the potential societal
benefits robotics can bring and how the robots are being integrated
in social environments. Despite the aforementioned concerns, a
fantastic range of possibilities is being opened. The current trend
in social robotics adds to technology challenges and requires
R&D to think about Robotics as an horizontal discipline,
intersecting social and exact sciences. For example, robots that
can act as if they have credible personalities (not necessarily
similar to humans) living in social scenarios, eventually helping
people. Also, robots can move inside the human body to retrieve
information that otherwise is difficult to obtain. The decision
autonomy of these robots raises a broad range of subjects though
the immediate advantages of its use are evident. The book presents
examples of robotics technologies tested in healthcare environments
or realistically close to being deployed in the field and discusses
the challenges involved. Chapter 1 provides a comprehensive
overview of Healthcare robotics and points to realistically
expectable developments in the near future. Chapter 2 describes the
challenges deploying a social robot in the Pediatrics ward of an
Oncological hospital for simple edutainment activities. Chapter 3
focuses on Human-Robot Interaction techniques and their role in
social robotics. Chapter 4 focus on R&D efforts behind an
endoscopic capsule robot. Chapter 5 addresses experiments in
rehabilitation with orthotics and walker robots. These examples
have deep social and economic relations with the Healthcare field,
and, at the same time, are representative of the R&D efforts
the robotics community is developing.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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CP Violation (Hardcover)
Gustavo Branco, Luis Lavoura, Joao Silva
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R6,170
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The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a
leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with
important implications for understanding the generation of matter
in the universe. CP violation occurs during the decay of the
elementary particles known as kaons and the process remains little
understood. This book provides a self-contained introduction to CP
violation. It outlines the underlying theory and related
experiments, and its systematic approach is designed to bring
beginning researchers to the forefront of the field.
This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference
on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015. The
conference provided a multidisciplinary forum for discussing
central and evolving issues concerning safety and ethics that have
arisen in various contexts where robotic technologies are being
applied. The papers are intended to promote the formulation of more
precise safety standards and ethical frameworks for the rapidly
changing field of robotic applications. The conference was held at
Pavilhao do Conhecimento/Ciencia Viva in Lisbon and brought
together leading researchers and industry representatives,
promoting a dialogue that combines different perspectives and
experiences to arrive at viable solutions for ethical problems in
the context of robotics. The conference topics included but were
not limited to emerging ethical, safety, legal and societal
problems in the following domains: * Service/Social Robots: Robots
performing tasks in human environments and involving close
human-robot interactions in everyday households; robots for
education and entertainment; and robots employed in elderly and
other care applications * Mobile Robots: Self-driving vehicles,
autonomous aircraft, trains, cars and drones * Robots used in
medicine and for therapeutic purposes * Robots used in surveillance
and military functions
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