Robot creativity: humanlike behaviour in the robot-robot interaction

Artificial Intelligence development is mainly directed toward imitat­ing human reasoning and performing different tasks. For that purpose, related software and program solution where artificial intelligence is used have mostly thinking abilities. However, there are many questions to answer in ongoing AI research, especially when we come to the point which is addressing humanlike behaviour and reasoning triggered by emotions. In this paper, we are presenting an interactive installation Botorikko: Machine Create State, which is part of the Syntropic Counterpoints art/research project. We are exposing AI cyber clones to some of the fundamental questions for humankind and challenge their creativity. The robots are trained by using the publications Machiavelli and Sun Tzu and confronted to the crucial questions related to moral, ethic, strategy, politics, diplo­macy, war etc. We are using a recurrent neural network (RNN) and robot-robot interaction to trigger unsupervised robot creativity and humanlike behaviour on generated machine-made content

Autonomous Learning Writing Promoted by the Use of Facebook Group

In aglobalized world, internet facilities and social media are becoming increasingly important and take a strategic role in most of human activities. One of them is in the education and learning sector. This qualitative research explored the role of a Facebook group to increase students' autonomy in learning writing. The experiment was conducted with qualitative methodology to 6 students as a sample. The process of data collection is done through the media Facebook group which was developed during the data collection through observation and interviews. The research lasted for 30(thirty) days in which researchers became the administrator and facilitator. From the process of collecting and analyzing the data assumed that Facebook group influenced the autonomy and promote independent of students learning in writing

Kinerja Guru Pendidikan Jasmani dan Kesehatan pada Sma/smk/ma di Kota Sabang

Beranjak dari permalasahan dimana peneliti pernah merasakan kinerja guru Pendidikan Jasmani dan Kesehatan, bahwa kinerja tersebut dianggap kurang baik maka dengan ini peneliti melakukan penelitian yang berjudul ”Kinerja Guru Pndidikan Jasmani dan Kesehatan pada SMA/SMK/MA di Kota Sabang”.Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui tingkat kinerja guru Pendidikan Jasmani dan Kesehatan pada SMA/SMK/MA di Kota Sabang. Jenis penelitian bersifat deskriptif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah 1247 siswa dari 4 Sekolah Menengah Atas, dan sampel yang diambil sebanyak 10% dari seluruh populasi pada Sekolah Menengah Atas yang ada di Kota Sabang berjumlah 125 responden. Pengumpulan data menggunakan angket dan teknik pengolahan data menggunakan teknik pengolahan data kategorisasi jenjang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan tingkat Kinerja Guru pendidikan Jasmani dan Kesehatan dari 125 responden yang menjadi sampel menerangkan bahwa (55,2%) berada pada tingkat kinerja tinggi, (42,4%) berada pada tingkat kinerja sedang dan (2,4%) berada pada tingkat kinerja rendah

Karakteristik Lahan Sawah Yang Dialih Fungsi Menjadi Lahan Perkebunan Di Desa Tangga Batu Kecamatan HatonduhanKabupaten Simalungun

At Latest ten years, the paddy land at Tangga Batu area is use changed into plantation. This research was conducted to study characteristics of soil at some land uses ( paddy, rubber- cacao, and palm of 1,5 and 10 years old ).Soil sampling is conducted by using survey method. Soil samples are taken as soil sample disturbed and non distrubed at three (3) points in eachs land use randomly. The result showed that there is decreasing of total nitrogen at plantation and increasing of P- available at mixed farm (rubber – cacao). There are no changes of soil characteristics such us like potassiumexchange, pH, soil permeability, soil texture, and soil respirationat some land uses ( paddy, rubber- cacao, and palm of 1,5 and 10 years old )

Performance of Multiple Error Correction (MEC) scheme based Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) algorithm for maximizing lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for natural disaster monitoring

No AbstractKeywords: HARQ, wireless sensor network, lifetime, CDM

Haze Reduction from Remotely Sensed Data

Haze consists of atmospheric aerosols and molecules that scatter and absorb solar radiation, thus affecting the downward and upward solar radiance to be recorded by remote sensing sensors. Haze modifies the spectral signature of land classes and reduces classification accuracy, so causing problems to users of remote sensing data. Hence, there is a need to reduce the haze effects to improve the usefulness of the data. A way to do this is by integrating spectral and statistical approaches. The result shows that the haze reduction method is able to increase the accuracy of the data statistically and visually

Speciation of heavy metals in paddy soils from selected areas in Kedah and Penang, Malaysia

This study was carried out with the intention of evaluating heavy metal contamination in cultivated paddy areas. The speciation of heavy metals in paddy soils was determined in order to gain insight regarding their origin and distribution in soils. Five sampling sites were randomly selected from Kedah (Yan, Kota Setar, Kubang Pasu district) and Penang (Bumbung Lima district), where the soils constituted marine alluvial deposits. A site in Langkawi, where organic paddy farming is practised was used as the control. The sequential extraction method was adopted in order to obtain the four heavy metal fractions namely the easily leachable and ion exchange (ELFE), acid reducible (AR), oxidizable organic (OO) and resistant (RR) fractions. This study shows that the soil samples were clayey (82 to 96% of grain size <63 μm), fairly high in organic carbon (6.54 to 8.71%) and slightly acidic (pH 4.92 to 5.12). Heavy metal content in the soils varied widely and occurred in the following decreasing order of Fe>Mn>Cr>Cd>Pb>Zn>Cu. Heavy metals such as Pb, Cu, Cr and Zn predominantly occurred in the insoluble form (RR fraction), with the oxides of Fe and Mn incorporated into the clay minerals. Although, the fertilizers and pesticides studied contained low amounts of heavy metals, the elevated amount of amount of Mn and Cd in the soils (ELFE fraction) could possibly be attributed to the longterm and repeated application of these materials to the cultivated paddy areas.Key words: Heavy metals, paddy soil, pesticide, fertilizer

Factors influencing whistleblowing intentions among government officials: A Malaysian study

The aim of this study is to determine the factors that influence the intention of officials in the ministries of the Malaysian Federal Government to engage in whistleblowing. Specifically, this study investigates whether individual belief, societal pressure, level of misconduct, and the status of the perpetrator can influence government officials in whistleblowing. Data from 147 officials is collected by questionnaire and analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) version 28. Empirically, this study shows that two factors, namely, societal pressure and the level of misconduct, significantly influence the intention of government officials to engage in whistleblowing, but not the individual belief and status of the perpetrator. The results of this study suggest that the government can support government officials to increase their awareness of whistleblowing so that they fully understand the importance of whistleblowing to the government and society. This can be done through training programmes for government officials. This study can help the government identify the officials' perspectives on whistleblowing intentions and understand the potential issues that may influence the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of whistleblowing in their organisation

The dependence of saturation velocity on temperature, inversion charge and electric field in a nanoscale MOSFET

The intrinsic velocity is shown to be the ultimate limit to the saturation velocity in a very high electric field. The unidirectional intrinsic velocity arises from the fact that randomly oriented velocity vectors in zero electric field are streamlined and become unidirectional giving the ultimate drift velocity that is limited by the collision-free (ballistic) intrinsic velocity. In the nondegenerate regime, the intrinsic velocity is the thermal velocity that is a function of temperature and does not sensitively depend on the carrier concentration. In the degenerate regime, the intrinsic velocity is the Fermi velocity that is a function of carrier concentration and independent of temperature. The presence of a quantum emission lowers the saturation velocity. The drain carrier velocity is revealed to be smaller than the saturation velocity due to the presence of the finite electric field at the drain of a MOSFET. The popular channel pinchoff assumption is revealed not to be valid for either a long or short channel. Channel conduction beyond pinchoff enhances due to increase in the drain velocity as a result of enhanced drain electric field as drain voltage is increased, giving a realistic description of the channel length modulation without using any artificial parameters. The velocity so obtained is considered in modeling the currentvoltage characteristics of a MOSFET channel in the inversion regime and excellent agreement is obtained with experimental results on an 80-nm channel