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A Basic Architecture of an Autonomous Adaptive System With Conscious-Like Function for a Humanoid Robot.
2018
In developing a humanoid robot, there are two major objectives. One is developing a physical robot having body, hands, and feet resembling those of human beings and being able to similarly control them. The other is to develop a control system that works similarly to our brain, to feel, think, act, and learn like ours. In this article, an architecture of a control system with a brain-oriented logical structure for the second objective is proposed. The proposed system autonomously adapts to the environment and implements a clearly defined “consciousness” function, through which both habitual behavior and goal-directed behavior are realized. Consciousness is regarded as a function for effecti…
Maristem stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications
2018
The “stem cells” discipline represents one of the most dynamic areas in biomedicine. While adult marine/aquatic invertebrate stem cell (MISC) biology is of prime research and medical interest, studies on stem cells from organisms outside the classical vertebrate (e.g., human, mouse, and zebrafish) and invertebrate (e.g., Drosophila, Caenorhabditis) models have not been pursued vigorously. Marine/aquatic invertebrates constitute the largest biodiversity and the widest phylogenetic radiation on Earth, from morphologically simple organisms (e.g., sponges, cnidarians), to the more complex mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, and protochordates. These organisms contain a kaleidoscope of MISC-type…
Inner Archipelagos in Sicily. From Culture-Based Development to Creativity-Oriented Evolution
2020
When Covid-19 arrived in Europe from the far East, the media and experts in economics and social sciences noticed that it was the expected discontinuity in the socio-economic development process. Really, the current phase has spread since the 1960s, when the application of econometric worldwide-spread development model was going to produce social inequalities, and consumption of physical, social, and cultural resources. Some places in Italy, far from the erosive and urban context and erosive metropolitan areas, are currently isolated seeds of a new cycle of life, because of the local community identity and the strong link between human, cultural, and natural components are currently working…
Internet and People with Intellectual Disability: A Bibliometric Analysis
2020
The use of the Internet by people with intellectual disabilities is an area of study that has captured the interest of scientists in recent years. The studies have focused on analyzing specific aspects such as usability, the activities carried out online, and Internet benefits and risks, among others. The reviews published on this matter have been of a narrative or systematic approach. The present study aimed to examine the academic output in the field of Internet and people with intellectual disability from a bibliometric perspective. A sample of 95 documents related to the topic was retrieved from the core collection of Web of Science (WoS) and analyzed using the bibliometrix R-Tool. Find…
A Tool to Assess Architectural Education from the Sustainable Development Perspective and the Students' Viewpoint
2021
[EN] Architectural education plays a fundamental role in achieving sustainable development by training future professionals who can contribute to sustainability through their practice. Nevertheless, to ensure the introduction of sustainable development in the education of future architects, it is fundamental to understand what is being done and what could be improved. Despite this, a big gap has been detected in the assessment of architectural education in Spain and worldwide. Thus, a close-ended questionnaire for students has been designed based on the outcomes from a literature review, exploratory interviews with specialists, and the qualitative analysis of two schools of architecture. Ad…
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sports Entrepreneurship
2020
Sports entrepreneurship has been considered an important part of sports organisations when overcoming crisis situations. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of the crisis derived from COVID-19 on sports entrepreneurship and whether there are differences in the prediction of entrepreneurship on service quality in non-profit sports clubs. To this end, 145 sports clubs were analysed before and after the outbreak of the virus in society. Paired sample-t tests were carried out to determine the differences in variables studied before (Time I) and after (Time II) the COVID-19 outbreak, and correlations and hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyse the relationship between t…
2D size, position and shape definition of defects by B-scan image analysis
2015
The non-destructive evaluation of defects by automatic procedures is of great importance for structural components. Thanks to the developments of the non-contact ultrasonic techniques, the automation of the inspections is gaining a progressively important role. In this work, an automatic inspection technique for the evaluation of defects by the analysis of B-scan images obtained by a laser ultrasonic system is presented. The data are extracted directly from a B-scan map obtained for a panel with internal defects, and are used to build an image of the cross section of the panel. The proposed automatic procedure allows the definition of size, position and shape of defects in panels of known t…
Seminari: els reptes dels mitjans de comunicació davant la violència de gènere 2
2008
CONGRÈS ENTORN A LA RELACIÓ ENTRE ELS MITJANS DE COMUNICACIÓ I LA VIOLÈNCIA DE GÈNERE, QUE VA TINDRE LLOC DEL 15 AL 18 DE SETEMBRE AL COL·LEGI MAJOR DOCTOR PESSET. INCLOU: DVD 1 (15/09/08): PONÈNCIA INAGURAL (01:26:00) I TAULA D ANÀLISI (01:33:01), DVD 2 (16/09/08) 2ª SESSIÓ (02:20:52); DVD 3 ((17/09/08): 3ª SESSIÓ (02:00.36); DVD 4 (18/09/08) 4ª SESSIÓ (02:03:10
Seminari: els reptes dels mitjans de comunicació davant la violència de gènere 1
2008
CONGRÈS ENTORN A LA RELACIÓ ENTRE ELS MITJANS DE COMUNICACIÓ I LA VIOLÈNCIA DE GÈNERE, QUE VA TINDRE LLOC DEL 15 AL 18 DE SETEMBRE AL COL·LEGI MAJOR DOCTOR PESSET. INCLOU: DVD 1 (15/09/08): PONÈNCIA INAGURAL (01:26:00) I TAULA D ANÀLISI (01:33:01), DVD 2 (16/09/08) 2ª SESSIÓ (02:20:52); DVD 3 ((17/09/08): 3ª SESSIÓ (02:00.36); DVD 4 (18/09/08) 4ª SESSIÓ (02:03:10
Seminari: els reptes dels mitjans de comunicació davant la violència de gènere 3
2008
CONGRÈS ENTORN A LA RELACIÓ ENTRE ELS MITJANS DE COMUNICACIÓ I LA VIOLÈNCIA DE GÈNERE, QUE VA TINDRE LLOC DEL 15 AL 18 DE SETEMBRE AL COL·LEGI MAJOR DOCTOR PESSET. INCLOU: DVD 1 (15/09/08): PONÈNCIA INAGURAL (01:26:00) I TAULA D ANÀLISI (01:33:01), DVD 2 (16/09/08) 2ª SESSIÓ (02:20:52); DVD 3 ((17/09/08): 3ª SESSIÓ (02:00.36); DVD 4 (18/09/08) 4ª SESSIÓ (02:03:10