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    Humans' Perception of a Robot Moving Using a Slow in and Slow Out Velocity Profile

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    © 2019 IEEE - All rights reservedHumans need to understand and trust the robots they are working with. We hypothesize that how a robot moves can impact people’s perception and their trust. We present a methodology for a study to explore people’s perception of a robot using the animation principle of slow in, slow out—to change the robot’s velocity profile versus a robot moving using a linear velocity profile. Study participants will interact with the robot within a home context to complete a task while the robot moves around the house. The participants’ perceptions of the robot will be recorded using the Godspeed Questionnaire. A pilot study shows that it is possible to notice the difference between the linear and the slow in, slow out velocity profiles, so the full experiment planned with participants will allow us to compare their perceptions based on the two observable behaviors.Final Accepted Versio

    The Development of explosives competencies, training and education in the UK

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    Competent explosives workers in the Armed Forces and in the civil sector are critical to the safe production, testing and use of explosives. Moreover we need competent explosives specialists to combat the challenge from terrorism and clean up the planet from the explosive hazards that are the legacy of past conflicts. Unfortunately many countries are witnessing a significant loss of capability in this area and are looking at ways of replenishing vital expertise. This paper describes the work done in recent years by the authors and others in the UK to establish numbers of people working in the sector and to consider the skills and knowledge required to carry out their work. It outlines the concept of national occupational standards and the framework of professional and vocational qualifications that are available or are being developed for explosives specialists. It also describes some of the educational and e-learning programmes designed to support this initiative. Ultimately the aim is to address the professionalism of all personnel who deal with explosives in order to reduce the incidence and consequence of accidents and maintain national capability

    Public Reaction to Mandated Language for U.S. Drinking Water Quality Reports

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    The author discusses results of a survey evaluating the mandated language for United States drinking water quality reports

    On Care for Our Common Home: A Conversation among Creatures

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    Confidence intervals for maximal reliability of probability judgments

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    Subjective probabilities play an important role in marketingresearch, for example where individuals rate the likelihood thatthey will purchase a new to develop product. The tau-equivalentmodel can describe the joint behaviour of multiple test itemsmeasuring the same subjective probability. It improves thereliability of the subjective probability estimate by using aweighted sum as the outcome of the test rather than an unweightedsum. One can choose the weights to obtain maximal reliability.In this paper we stress the use of confidence intervals to assessmaximal reliability, as this allows for a more critical assessmentof the items as measurement instruments. Furthermore, two newconfidence intervals for the maximal reliability are derived andcompared to intervals derived earlier in \\citet{YuanBentler2002,RaykovPenev2006}. The comparison involves coverage curves, amethodology that is new in the field of reliability. The existingYuan-Bentler and Raykov-Penev intervals are shown to overestimatethe maximal reliability, whereas one of our proposed intervals, thestable interval, performs very well. This stable interval hardlyshows any bias, and has a coverage for the true value which isapproximately equal to the confidence level.confidence intervals;subjective probability;coverage curves;maximal reliability;measurement scales;tau-equivalent model

    Love as Legal Methodology: Comments on \u3ci\u3eLove in a Time of Envy\u3c/i\u3e

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    In academic papers about emotion, it is not uncommon to find a kind of disconnect between the detachment of theoretical and scholarly language and the subject of the paper--the emotions. One of the lovely, and challenging, aspects of Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller\u27s article is that it not only conveys the emotions that are its subject, but it brims with its own emotion; it reads like a text written out of shattered love. Goldberg-Hiller takes up Jean-Luc Nancy\u27s contention that love is shattered by its very essence. It fragments the self at the same time as it refracts into many forms. Goldberg-Hiller understands Nancy as suggesting caution about trying to bridge the gap between love and law, and caution about any unifying theory of love. The author suspects that Goldberg-Hiller also finds in Nancy\u27s theory of fragmented love, a methodology and an emotional style. Goldberg-Hiller writes of love, envy, and law in ways that burst, cut, and multiply as Nancy suggests love does. The article throws out shards of theory, literature, politics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, visual imagery, texts, and emotions. In Goldberg-Hiller\u27s analysis of both of the emotional moments around which his article is built, the law remains submerged. Here the author goes back to the evocative analysis of love and especially envy to see if the law can be resurrected just a little by thinking about the conflict these emotional moments reflect and the ways in which law, like language, mediates emotional conflict and social change
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