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Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2024.Herein, a study with 63 participants finds that the biologically inspired Mini robot enhances human–robot interaction by mimicking involuntary processes like heartbeat and pupil size, making it seem warmer, more competent, and natural in its responses. Multimodal communication is a human feature that enables diverse interactions.
Marcos Maroto‐Gómez +4 more
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Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture
Sutcliffe, Paul J.C. +1 more
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A Migrant Archive: Chronicling Religious and Spiritual Experiences during the Pandemic 2020–23*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 333-342, September 2024.This article focuses on a digital platform which invited forced migrants to document their experiences during the Covid pandemic, resulting in an archive of digital materials, much of it relating to religion and spirituality: around 1000 contributions by around 800 asylum‐seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants. Using smartphones, they shared audio
Marie Gillespie
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Spiritual health care : an enquiry into the spiritual care of patients with cancer within the acute hospital and the specialist inpatient palliative care unit in England and Wales [PDF]
, 2001 Question: What are the features of the spiritual care of patients with cancer within hospice and the acute hospital? Objectives: To identify: guidelines relating to spiritual care, the means whereby spiritual needs are assessed key features
Wright, Michael Christopher
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European Law Journal, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 284-328, September 2024.Abstract The article argues that the ever‐closer Union among peoples of Europe finds itself at a critical juncture: the unstated and implicit assumption of a community made up of liberal democracies is being challenged and pitted against the rival rebirth of the nationalistic narrative of uniqueness and self‐sufficiency.
Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz
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Screening boredom: the history and aesthetics of slow cinema [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis examines Slow Cinema, a stylistic trend within contemporary art cinema, although one with a longer pre-history. Its distinguishing characteristics pertain ultimately to narration: the films, minimalistic by design, retard narrative pace and
Ça?layan, Orhan Emre
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Ritual and university education: Systemic coexistence after COVID‐19
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 514-523, May/June 2024.Abstract This paper explores the realm of university education after COVID‐19, in which there is a perceived need to manage the ‘old’ and the ‘new’. The paper brings two different systems approaches to that end: the systems theory of autopoiesis and the systems identity technology of profilicity.
José‐Rodrigo Córdoba‐Pachón
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Cheese Machines and Cellos: Technical Craftsmen and Craft Technicians [PDF]
, 2013 The study is based on a period of ethnographic research among approximately thirty tradesmen, apprentices, supervisors and related personnel at a medium-sized precision engineering company in Hamilton, New Zealand. The company specialises in high quality
Wanigasekera, Gwenda Dorothy
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Twice Weekly (February 11, 1971) [PDF]
, 1971 A bi-weekly newsletter with University of Lethbridge campus news.PUBLISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION *************** ilVERSriV OF LETHBRIUUL . WW WWW ww w w w w w w w ************* THE TIKI WHIT.
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From flesh to fiction : the visible and the invisible in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen. [PDF]
, 2006 PhDOur ways of thinking modernism and its legacy are imprinted with the pattern of an opposition, a struggle between two sets of extremes: objective and subjective; form and feeling; mechanistic and organic; mind and body; knowing and being; self and ...
Menczer, Katy Alexandra
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