146 research outputs found
How does response inhibition influence decision-making when gambling? (dataset)
Behavioural data, skin-conductance data, eye movement data, and R scripts (analyses) for eight behavioural experiments.Dataset relating to 'How does response inhibition influence decision-making when gambling?âresearch paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. The paper is available in ORE: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15841Behavioural data, skin-conductance data, eye movement data, and R scripts (analyses) for eight behavioural experiments. Experiment documentation is included as well.â This data is related to the article 'How does response inhibition influence decision-making when gambling?' published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)European Research Council (ERC)Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)British Academy/Leverhulme Gran
Cultural robotics : The culture of robotics and robotics in culture
Copyright 2013 Samani et al.; licensee InTech. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedIn this paper, we have investigated the concept of "Cultural Robotics" with regard to the evolution o social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robotics developers, and the learning ability of current robots, cultural attributes in this regard are in the process of being formed, which would define the new concept of cultural robotics. According to the importance of the embodiment of robots in the sense of presence, the influence of robots in communication culture is anticipated. The sustainability of robotics culture based on diversity for cultural communities for various acceptance modalities is explored in order to anticipate the creation of different attributes of culture between robot and humans in the futurePeer reviewe
Le palĂ©olithique infĂ©rieur et moyen en Midi toulousain : nouvelles donnĂ©es et perspectives de lâarchĂ©ologie prĂ©ventive
Depuis quelques annĂ©es, les opĂ©rations dâarchĂ©ologie prĂ©ventive menĂ©es en Midi toulousain ont permis de rĂ©actualiser certaines donnĂ©es relatives Ă la gĂ©omorphologie des sites palĂ©olithiques infĂ©rieur et moyen. Ainsi, plusieurs contextes peuvent ĂȘtre considĂ©rĂ©s comme plus favorables que dâautres pour la conservation du matĂ©riel. Par ailleurs, les rĂ©sultats prĂ©liminaires dâĂ©tudes typo-technologiques des industries mises au jour rĂ©cemment, offrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche pour la constitution dâun cadre chrono-culturel plus prĂ©cis.In the last years, preventive archeology projects conducted in the Midi toulousain Region (southern France) allowed to update data concerning the geomorphology of Early and Middle Palaeolithic sites. It became apparent that certain contexts can be considered as more favorable to vestige conservation than others. Besides, preliminary results of typo-technological studies of recently discovered artifacts offer new research perspectives for the definition of a more precise chrono-cultural frame
Le palĂ©olithique infĂ©rieur et moyen en Midi toulousain : nouvelles donnĂ©es et perspectives de lâarchĂ©ologie prĂ©ventive
Depuis quelques annĂ©es, les opĂ©rations dâarchĂ©ologie prĂ©ventive menĂ©es en Midi toulousain ont permis de rĂ©actualiser certaines donnĂ©es relatives Ă la gĂ©omorphologie des sites palĂ©olithiques infĂ©rieur et moyen. Ainsi, plusieurs contextes peuvent ĂȘtre considĂ©rĂ©s comme plus favorables que dâautres pour la conservation du matĂ©riel. Par ailleurs, les rĂ©sultats prĂ©liminaires dâĂ©tudes typo-technologiques des industries mises au jour rĂ©cemment, offrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche pour la constitution dâun cadre chrono-culturel plus prĂ©cis.In the last years, preventive archeology projects conducted in the Midi toulousain Region (southern France) allowed to update data concerning the geomorphology of Early and Middle Palaeolithic sites. It became apparent that certain contexts can be considered as more favorable to vestige conservation than others. Besides, preliminary results of typo-technological studies of recently discovered artifacts offer new research perspectives for the definition of a more precise chrono-cultural frame
The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism
Functional morphology of the atlas reflects multiple aspects of an organismâs biology. More specifically,
its shape indicates patterns of head mobility, while the size of its vascular foramina reflects blood flow
to the brain. Anatomy and function of the early hominin atlas, and thus, its evolutionary history, are
poorly documented because of a paucity of fossilized material. Meticulous excavation, cleaning and
high-resolution micro-CT scanning of the StW 573 (âLittle Footâ) skull has revealed the most complete
early hominin atlas yet found, having been cemented by breccia in its displaced and flipped over
position on the cranial base anterolateral to the foramen magnum. Description and landmark-free
morphometric analyses of the StW 573 atlas, along with other less complete hominin atlases from
Sterkfontein (StW 679) and Hadar (AL 333-83), confirm the presence of an arboreal component in
the positional repertoire of Australopithecus. Finally, assessment of the cross-sectional areas of the
transverse foramina of the atlas and the left carotid canal in StW 573 further suggests there may have
been lower metabolic costs for cerebral tissues in this hominin than have been attributed to extant
humans and may support the idea that blood perfusion of these tissues increased over the course of
hominin evolution.The DST-NRF for sponsoring the Micro-XCT facility at Necsa, and the DST-NRF and Wits University for funding the microfocus X-ray CT facility in the ESI. The Ghent University Special Research Fund (BOF-UGent) for the financial support of the Centre of Expertise UGCT (BOF.EXP.2017.0007), the Sterkfontein excavations and MicroCT scanning work have been provided by National Research Foundation and by PAST.http://www.nature.com/srepam2021Anatom
«La relation de limitation et dâexception dans le français dâaujourdâhui : exceptĂ©, sauf et hormis comme pivots dâune relation algĂ©brique »
Lâanalyse des emplois prĂ©positionnels et des emplois conjonctifs dâ âexceptĂ©â, de âsaufâ et dâ âhormisâ permet dâenvisager les trois prĂ©positions/conjonctions comme le pivot dâun binĂŽme, comme la plaque tournante dâune structure bipolaire. PlacĂ©es au milieu du binĂŽme, ces prĂ©positions sont forcĂ©es par leur sĂ©mantisme originaire dĂ»ment mĂ©taphorisĂ© de jouer le rĂŽle de marqueurs dâinconsĂ©quence systĂ©matique entre lâĂ©lĂ©ment se trouvant Ă leur gauche et celui qui se trouve Ă leur droite. Lâopposition qui surgit entre les deux Ă©lĂ©ments nâest donc pas une incompatibilitĂ© naturelle, intrinsĂšque, mais extrinsĂšque, induite. Dans la plupart des cas (emplois limitatifs), cette opposition prend la forme dâun rapport entre une « classe » et le « membre (soustrait) de la classe », ou bien entre un « tout » et une « partie » ; dans dâautres (emplois exceptifs), cette opposition se manifeste au contraire comme une attaque de front portĂ©e par un « tout » Ă un autre « tout ». De plus, lâinconsĂ©quence induite mise en place par la prĂ©position/conjonction paraĂźt, en principe, tout Ă fait insurmontable. Dans lâassertion « les Ă©cureuils vivent partout, sauf en Australie » (que lâon peut expliciter par « Les Ă©cureuils vivent partout, sauf [quâils ne vivent pas] en Australie »), la prĂ©position semble en effet capable dâimpliquer le prĂ©dicat principal avec signe inverti, et de bĂątir sur une telle implication une sorte de sous Ă©noncĂ© qui, Ă la rigueur, est totalement inconsĂ©quent avec celui qui le prĂ©cĂšde (si « les Ă©cureuils ne vivent pas en Australie », le fait quâils « vivent partout » est faux). NĂ©anmoins, lâanalyse montre quâalors que certaines de ces oppositions peuvent enfin ĂȘtre dĂ©passĂ©es, dâautres ne le peuvent pas. Câest, respectivement, le cas des relations limitatives et des relations exceptives. La relation limitative, impliquant le rapport « tout » - « partie », permet de rĂ©soudre le conflit dans les termes dâune somme algĂ©brique entre deux sous Ă©noncĂ©s pourvus de diffĂ©rent poids informatif et de signe contraire. Les valeurs numĂ©riques des termes de la somme Ă©tant dĂ©sĂ©quilibrĂ©es, le rĂ©sultat est toujours autre que zĂ©ro. La relation exceptive, au contraire, qui nâimplique pas le rapport « tout » - « partie », nâest pas capable de rĂ©soudre le conflit entre deux sous Ă©noncĂ©s pourvus du mĂȘme poids informatif et en mĂȘme temps de signe contraire : les valeurs numĂ©riques des termes de la somme Ă©tant symĂ©triques et Ă©gales, le rĂ©sultat sera toujours Ă©quivalent Ă zĂ©ro
Response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 to metals
Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 displays resistance to a plethora of metals. Its response and underlying genetic determinants are dissected and detailed metal by metal (from arsenic to zinc). An important role for its megaplasmids pMOL28 and pMOL30 is shown, with high level resistance to cadmium, chromate, cobalt, copper, mercury, nickel, lead and zinc mediated by well-known genes for detoxification often accompanied by other functions linked to acute or chronic stress. Nevertheless, metal resistance determinants are also found on the chromid (e.g. to chromate, copper and zinc) as well as on a large genomic island integrated in the chromosome (e.g. to cadmium, lead and mercury), even the core genome participates in certain responses such as to gold or selenium. Next, we summarized the environmental applications, which were developed based on the knowledge gained by studying these different determinants, and in particular biosensors and soil and water bioremediation. Finally, the general transcriptional response of C. metallidurans to sixteen different metals supplied at different concentrations (including acute stress) is discussed within the framework of its intricate regulatory network
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