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Humanoid Motion Description Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In this paper we propose a description language for specifying motions for humanoid robots and for allowing humanoid robots to acquire motor skills. Locomotion greatly increases our ability to interact with our environments, which in turn increases our ...
Chen, Yanbing, Choi, Ben
core  

Responsible Leadership Types: Understanding the Variety and Implications of Different Forms of Leading Responsibly

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Responsible leadership can be manifested in a variety of ways but we lack understanding of what drives this variation and what the implications are of different approaches. In this conceptual article, we develop a novel typology of responsible leadership approaches based on leaders' different perceived obligations as experts, facilitators, and
Christian Voegtlin, Andrew Crane
wiley   +1 more source

Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
wiley   +1 more source

Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Concerning some cultural peculiarities of representatives of Arab east countries, China and Vietnam in the context of teacher`s intercultural competence forming

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014
The article is devoted to the research of problems connected with intercultural communication between foreign students learning at preparatory faculties of Russian higher educational establishments and teachers of Russian as a foreign language.
T G Kolosova
doaj  

Learning to Localize and Align Fine-Grained Actions to Sparse Instructions

open access: yes, 2018
Automatic generation of textual video descriptions that are time-aligned with video content is a long-standing goal in computer vision. The task is challenging due to the difficulty of bridging the semantic gap between the visual and natural language ...
Alayrac, Jean-Baptiste   +4 more
core  

Efficient Egocentric Visual Perception Combining Eye-tracking, a Software Retina and Deep Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We present ongoing work to harness biological approaches to achieving highly efficient egocentric perception by combining the space-variant imaging architecture of the mammalian retina with Deep Learning methods.
Hristozova, Nina   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Individual differences in empathy‐related responses in early childhood: A person‐centred approach

open access: yesBritish Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Empathy is vital for social development in early childhood. This study investigates the empathy‐related behaviours of 362 German and Canadian children (49.72% girls) aged 3 to 6 years (M = 60.65 months; SD = 11.43 months), focusing on responses to emotional distress.
Johannes Bullinger   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Antecedents of Creativity and Product Innovation in the Digital Cultural Industries

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the external sources of creativity that firms in the digital cultural sectors can utilize to develop innovative products to compete internationally. Drawing on organizational creativity and institutional theories, we aim to explore whether creativity can be nurtured outside firms' boundaries within the network of ...
Irina Mihailova   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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