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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"joint action"”.
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How We Do What We Do: Joint Action and Spontaneity
The dissertation defends a novel account of joint agency, one that accommodates the neglected phenomenon of spontaneous joint action. The goals of the dissertation are to reveal the importance of spontaneous joint action, to show why these actions are problematic for many accounts of joint agency, …
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Distance Judgments for Joint Action: The Perceptual Consequences of Anticipated Coordination
… energetic cost required to perform particular actions, such as walking, across these distances (Proffitt, 2006b). However, this prior research has focused almost exclusively on the perceptual consequences of solo action, despite the fact that individuals regularly become embedded within social …
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Ensemble : fluency and embodiment for robots acting with humans
… with the notion of fluency in human-robot interaction (HRI), exploring cognitive mechanisms for robotic agents that would enable them to overcome the stop-and-go rigidity present in much of HRI to date. We define fluency as the ethereal yet manifest quality existent when two agents perform …
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Social Inhibition of return: Causes and properties
… a visual display. Typical results reveal that reaction times are longer when responses are directed to where the co-actor just responded. Despite being fairly simple, this task is intriguing to examine as it potentially incorporates features of both an inhibition of return (IOR) effect and, a …
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Deep reinforcement learning in RoboCup Keepaway
… However, in complex environ- ments, the agent action space scales exponentially with the number of agents. As a result of this complexity, the coordination graph formalism allows the construction of a joint policy by decomposing the joint action values into an aggregation of local action-value …
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Contextual Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Agent Long-Horizon Planning Settings with Centralized Communication and Coordination
… objects and agents to support more effective joint action planning. Integrated into the LLAMAR framework, this module aims to improve planning accuracy and efficiency. The proposed approach is evaluated using metrics such as success rate, transport efficiency, and coverage performance. Our …
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Does it have to be so complicated? : municipal renewable energy projects in Massachusetts
… fixes), and the complexity surrounding the joint action required to navigate the administrative processes involved. The thesis concludes with a series of policy recommendations.
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Approximate multi-agent planning in dynamic and uncertain environments
… challenges such as the combinatorial nature of joint action selection among interdependent agents. This thesis aims to address the issues of the issues of scalability and adaptability within teams of such inter-dependent agents while planning, coordinating, and learning in a decentralized …
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Triple Helix Model of Innovation for Renewable Energy Development in a Developing Economy: A case of the Nigerian Power Sector
… in many fields has provided a framework for joint action to innovate and offer solutions to modern-day challenges. This study examines applying the Triple-Helix model (TH) to renewable energy development in Nigeria with the possibility of optimising innovation in the renewable energy …
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Metodología para la reducción de la demanda energética basada en medida y verificación, eficiencia energética y energías renovables. Aplicación a procesos de frío en la industria
… energy efficiency and renewable energy. The joint work on the generation and the energetic demand, with the suitable control from the information of the process allow to optimize globally the energetic system, reducing the economic and environmental impacts in the major possible degree. Joint …
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Banking and optimal design
… chapter, two privately-informed agents must take joint action without resorting to side payments. The size and location of the support of each agent's private types (their preferred action) determine the degree of conflict. Under high conflict, it is too costly to elicit agents' information, which …
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Experimental Designs and Analysis of Data for Mixtures
… the ramifications such as process variables, fractionation and restrictions on composition which make it necessary to use pseudocomponents. The equations which Scheffe derived are examined and criticised and their use illustrated by examples from experiments in which the writer has been …
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Outcomes and Prospects for Collaboration in Two Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Forest Management Negotiations in Ontario
… focusing on shared goals and undertaking joint action. This research demonstrates that the development of shared goals and acknowledgement of divergent problem definitions are more important to intercultural collaboration success than the development of improved relationships and …
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Eu policy in combating organised crime
… consolidation of policy. In 1998, Article 1 of a Joint Action of the Justice and Horne Affairs Council of the EU stated that: A criminal organisation shall mean a lasting, structured association of two or more persons, acting in concert with a view to committing crimes or other offences which are …
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The potential role of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in the development of sustainable energy policies, plans and programmes for Ghana
… reforms which in turn have affected development actions. Since these strategic level development decisions have ecological, economic and social ramifications, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been seen as an effective tool for aligning energy sector policies, plans and programmes with …
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A delicate dance: autoethnography, curriculum, and the semblance of intimacy
… a kind of exaggeration of everyday embodied joint action which contains within it the capacity to hint at different experiential frames, ‘elsewheres’ which are here” (p. 150). Thrift (1997) calls these hints to elsewhere “semblances,” which he describes as an embodied meaning that is “not …
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Institutional Reform in Support of Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
… robust structural breaks, slope reversal and joint action changes between the two that mostly distinguish the post-2013 period from earlier tracks. By integrating organizational transformation with observable empirical patterns, this study demonstrates a systematic and statistically …
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The state and collective action : successful adjustment by the Tamil Nadu leather clusters to German environmental standards
… literature on industrial districts, collective action has mostly been conceptualized in terms of cooperation between firms organized as clusters. Few studies have looked at the role of the State in enabling firms to respond collectively to external pressures. In this thesis, I examine the case …
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Genesis, dynamics, and dissipation of turbulent magnetic fields
… fields with filamentary morphology, under the joint action of their own nonlinear evolution and background turbulence, can contribute to the formation of macroscopic magnetic fields. We address this question by studying the dynamics of a large ensemble of interacting magnetic flux tubes, which …
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An Empirical Investigation of Tools and Joint Practices Used in Managing Customer-Supplier Relationships
… design, develop, implement and deploy tools and joint practices for their upstream systems. To achieve this purpose, a total of 1,811 (potential mailed survey questionnaire respondents) and 7 (structured interviewees) managers who are responsible for purchasing, sales/ marketing, quality-related, …
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