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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"companions"”.
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
<p><strong>This essay explores the potential for narrative art (film, literature, comics) to be a transformative experience in the life of the consumer (viewer, reader) through a sensuous, embodied interaction with that work of narrative art. Drawing from film, narrative and comics theory as well …
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Interaktive Verhaltenssteuerung für Robot Companions
… Arbeit, eine Software-Architektur für Robot Companions zu entwickeln. Das Konzept der Architektur sollte möglichst flexibel und erweiterbar sein, um diverse Interaktionsfähigkeiten integrieren zu können. Als weiteres Ziel sollte die Basis zur Interaktion mit Menschen geschaffen werden. Dazu …
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Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions
… tends to consider imaginary friends (or imaginal companions, as I refer to them) as a folk belief belonging in the realm of childhood. If an adult believes in imaginal companions, they are potentially subject to the social stigma of psychological labeling. The mass media reflects this perception …
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Be binary stars with hot, compact companions
… as indicators for Be binaries with hot, compact companions. HR2142 was confirmed to be a Be+sdO binary. The spectral variability of further candidates was examined. It was suggested that FY CMa is a Be+sdO binary and that kappa Draconis is a Be+WD binary. The assumption that a fraction of the Be …
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The Astrometric Contribution of Unresolved Stellar Companions
… mass concentrated in one or more collapsed companions will perturb the path. In the simplest and most ubiquitous case, a binary system, this perturbation is regular and easily described - a metronome beat added to the celestial motion. However, the combination of a star’s proper and …
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Husserl and Foucault on the Subject: The Companions
In this text, I argue for the revision of Husserlian phenomenology through a dialogue with the work of Michel Foucault. Specifically, I argue that Foucault's critical project, in which we isolate the contingent limits of thought so as to pass beyond them, and thus think new ways of being, can be …
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Exploring the Environment of Young Stars: Disks, Companions and Clusters
This thesis aims to further our understanding in four important, strongly related topics of star formation: Disk evolution, stellar multiplicity, FU Ori phenomenon and the formation of massive stars. The main results are the following: 1. By applying the novel method of polarimetric differential …
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The influence of planetary and stellar companions on debris discs
… structure, potentially allowing the inference of companions which are not directly detectable. Additionally, one might expect the properties of discs to be related to the properties of massive companions at the population level, either because companions are linked to planetesimals through common …
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Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing
… build rapport with people over time as helpful companions to improve psychological wellbeing. Two long-term deployment studies explored and evaluated how these robotic agents could improve people’s psychological wellbeing in real-world contexts. In Study 1, a robotic coach provided seven …
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New design companions opening up the process through self-made computation
… to be precisely tailored, viable and enriching companions in certain moments of the project development. Previous work on the impact of standardized software for design has focused on the figure of the designer as a tool-user, this thesis addresses the question from the vision of the designer as …
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'No-body' is my friend: Cultural considerations of young children's 'imaginary companions'
… alike. Relationships, and understandings of companionship, can take multiple forms. Our understandings of what these relationships may look like are frequently informed by complex social and cultural constructs; therefore, seeking to apply a one-size-fits-all interpretation is theoretically …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
In this thesis, I reflect on ethical, moral, and agenthood debates around social and humanoid robots in two ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from moral concerns in Robot Ethics to data-related ethical concerns in Media and …
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A spectroscopic and photometric study of MSP companions in Galactic Globular Clusters
… Thesis is devoted to the study of the optical companions of Millisecond Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) as a part of a large project started at the Department of Astronomy of the Bologna University, in collaboration with other institutions (Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari and …
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Illuminating the Properties of Radio Pulsars and Their Binary Companions through Pulsar Timing
Contains fulltext : 307141.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Dogs and Technology: Our Most Beloved Companions in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century America
<p>Since the suburban rush and steep rise in household technological devices in the mid-twentieth century, Americans have drawn apart from each other, a shift that has coincided with a rise in both dog ownership and the adoption of handheld mobile devices. This paper argues that these phenomena, …
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The fates of binary companions in Type Ia supernovae within the single-degenerate scenario
… main sequence-like and helium-rich star binary companions using the stellar evolution code MESA. Our results show that the energy deposited in a main sequence companion's outer layers by the SN causes the outermost $\sim 5$\% of the star to expand on the local thermal timescale ($\sim …
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Lifelong Personalization for Social Robot Learning Companions: Interactive Student Modeling Across Tasks and Over Time
… advances work to develop “social robot learning companions" that engage with and adapt to students across different language/literacy tasks to provide long- term, scalable, and personalized learning assistance. Personalized student modeling helps promote learning and engagement, but sophisticated …
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Companions in Combat: The Impact of Service Animals in Veterans with PTSD A Systematic Review [paper]
This systematic review examines the impact of service animals on veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The review synthesizes current literature to evaluate the value of service dogs in symptom reduction and facilitating reintegration into society utilizing databases, quality …
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Examining Readiness for Patients and Their Companions to Transfer From Hospitals to Skilled Nursing Facilities in Saudi Arabia
… sample of 123 chronic patients and their companions (families) in hospitals was recruited and enrolled in Saudi Arabia hospitals. After providing informed consent, participants completed surveys that included standardized measures to assess chronic patients' readiness to transition from …
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