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Engineering Cooperative Smart Things based on Embodied Cognition

, 2017
The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to transform any thing around us, such as a trash can or a street light, into a smart thing. A smart thing has the ability of sensing, processing, communicating and/or actuating. In order to achieve the goal of
de Lucena, Carlos Jose Pereira, Nascimento, Nathalia Moraes do   +1 more
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Sensor Data Collection by a Swarm of UAVs

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article presents four decentralized reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous data harvesting and investigates how collaboration improves collection efficiency. It also presents strategies to minimize training times by improving model flexibility, enabling algorithms to operate with varying number of agents and sensors.
Thiago de Souza Lamenza, Bruno José Olivieri de Souza, Markus Endler   +2 more
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The influence of the e-tutor on the development of collaborative critical thinking in a students' e-forum: association levels with Cramer’s V [PDF]

, 2011
Most courses via Internet use the electronic forum, which allows for cognitive dialogue, namely through critical thinking. The tutor’s support to collaboration, reflection and learning can explore the characteristics of e-forums and contribute to a more ...
Jorge, Idalina
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TUIMP: The Universe In My Pocket. Free astronomy booklets in all languages

, 2018
TUIMP (www.tuimp.org) is an international project to produce little astronomy booklets. These booklets, folded from just one sheet of paper, can be used in classrooms, at open public conferences, or during visits of observatories and planetariums.
Stasinska, Grazyna
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On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film [PDF]

, 2013
Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous on the Internet.
Barker, Anthony
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Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard, Jill D. Sharkey, Erin Cross, Karyn Milligan, Michelle Kerwood, Ruby Celio, Andrea Fernandez‐Contreras, Esteban Medina‐Galvan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

IFed: A novel federated learning framework for local differential privacy in Power Internet of Things

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020
Nowadays, wireless sensor network technology is being increasingly popular which is applied to a wide range of Internet of Things. Especially, Power Internet of Things is an important and rapidly growing section in Internet of Thing systems, which ...
Hui Cao, Shubo Liu, Renfang Zhao, Xingxing Xiong   +3 more
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‘What’s it like to have ME?’ The discursive construction of ME in computer-mediated communication and face-to-face interaction [PDF]

, 2007
ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) is a debilitating illness for which no cause or medical tests have been identified. Debates over its nature have generated interest from qualitative researchers.
Andy McKinlay, Campion, P., Edwards, D., Edwards, D., Horton, Hutchby, I., Hutchby, I., Jennifer Guise, Royal College of Physicians, Rutter, D.R., Sharpe, M.C., Short, J., Sue Widdicombe, ten Have, P., Wessely, S., Wessely, S., Wooffitt, R., Yates, S.J.   +17 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Secure Bootstrapping and Rebootstrapping for Resource-Constrained Thing in Internet of Things

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015
In Internet of Things, secure key establishment and building trust relationship between the thing and the home gateway (or the controller) in home network or Body Area Network are extremely important.
Seung Wook Jung, Souhwan Jung
doaj   +1 more source