Building for speech: designing the next-generation of social robots for audio interaction by Angus Addlesee, Ioannis Papaioannou

“…In this paper, we argue that early-stage collaboration between robot designers and SDS researchers is crucial for creating social robots that can legitimately be used in real-world environments. We draw from our experiences running experiments with social robots, and the surrounding literature, to highlight recurring issues. …”
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The History of a Genuine Fake Philosophical Treatise (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob and Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat). Episode 2: The Time of Debunking, The Time in the Wilderness (from 1916 to the... by Anaïs Wion

“…Above all, it provides a new interpretation of the texts based on genetic criticism, and as such, tries to envisage the author, Giusto d’Urbino, at work on the Hatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob. It also once again draws on Giusto d’Urbino’s unpublished correspondence with Antoine d’Abbadie with a view to better understanding the freethinker’s thought and motivations.…”
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Observaţii asupra cărţilor de mărturie sub maledicţie arhierească în Ţara Românească by Laura Bădescu

“…The ritual of testifying under a bishop’s malediction emphasises not only certain practices specific to common law, but also elements having contributed to a pattern of thinking and expression of religious sentiment at both official and extra-ecclesiastical levels. This study draws on a corpus of texts comprising curse books and books of testimony held by the Bucharest Metropolitan Church and the Romanian National Archives, as well as documents cited in other volumes on this topic. …”
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Pour une approche génétique de L’Éducation sentimentale (1869) : état présent, perspectives, démarches by Déborah Boltz

“…In view of these two works in progress on the text and the “avant-texte” of L’Éducation sentimentale, the time has come to draw up a critical and descriptive evaluation of the work produced on this corpus. …”
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Overview on the characteristics of houseboats in the Royal Belum State Park, Perak, Malaysia by Rohaslinda Ramele Ramli, Norashikin Ahmad Kamal

“…Detailed field investigations focus on houseboat types, tourism activities, and design characteristics. Measurements and drawings clarify the spatial usage and structural details of the houseboats. …”
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DYNAMIC MODELING AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF A ROLLING BEARING-ROTOR SYSTEM by LV Yun, TONG DaPeng, TIAN Ye, LAI YaHui

“…Through the experiment we can safely draw the conclusion that with the increase of the speed,vibrancy is higher up,the area of periodic locomotion will become narrow,so keep clear of the chaos sedulously when it happen to add up speed. …”
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Configuring parents as citizens and consumers: local variations in informational material about school allocation and choice in Sweden by Hanna Sjögren, Baki Cakici

“…The aim of the paper is to 1) identify different ways in which Swedish municipalities configure parents in local school choice settings and 2) relate these configurations of parents to different ideas about the purpose of education. We draw on theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) on how technical systems shape their own (future) users as well as the theoretical conceptualisation of education as a private and public good. …”
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Polarization of homogeneous groups of territorial entities by S. Sh. Aslaeva

“…The article shows optimal leveling limits. The author draws a conclusion, that among municipal districts of the same typological group, gaps are formed and further polarization occurs. …”
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Former les enseignants à l’analyse didactique. Un cas en histoire by Sylvain Doussot

“…This case is worth mentioning because of its exceptionality, which allows us to draw the conditions for this learning through a "training didactics" approach (to the didactics of history) which puts in problematic relation the didactic system: the knowledge aimed at (didactic concepts), the knowledge brought into play by the student and the knowledge brought into play by the training system. …”
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Ewolucja tureckiej polityki bezpieczeństwa by Magdalena Kumelska-Koniecko

“…Balancing moves can cause geopolitical alienation and limit Turkey's freedom of action, reducing the effectiveness of diplomatic efforts, which are an essential tool for resolving international conflicts. The article draws on interviews the author conducted with Turkish researchers. …”
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Animal Health Management up against the Corsican Mountains: Meeting the Health and Territorial Challenges of the Free-Range Pig Farming Sector by Marie Gisclard, Bastien Trabucco, François Charrier

“…The article proposes the notion of health territory to describe the emergence of transversal collective action that draws on the knowledge of local actors to produce public policy that is adapted to the challenges of Corsican pastoral livestock farming.…”
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Formation and creative manifestation of functional ensembles of intellectual agents based on live information in various spheres of life activity by Evgeny Bryndin

“…Neural networks with deep learning and reinforcement are able to compose poetry and music, draw paintings, and write short stories, as well as come up with scripts for films. …”
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Martha Graham, ‘An American, A kosmos’: Border-crossing in Martha Graham’s early works by Adeline CHEVRIER-BOSSEAU

“…This paper examines the connection between crossing borders (state limits, borders between America and Mexico or America and Europe, and temporal borders) and pushing choreographical boundaries in dance pioneer Martha Graham’s ballets created in the 1930’s and the early 1940’s.Danced only by women, Primitive Mysteries (1931) was inspired by Graham’s travels in New Mexico, and explores the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southern States of the United States; nine years later, Graham would explore this theme further with El Penitente, which also draws from the Medieval tradition of mystery plays. …”
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Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations by Sian Sullivan

“…Examples now abound of the complex, ambiguous and sometimes contested outcomes of CBNRM initiatives and processes. In this paper I draw on archival, oral history and ethnographic material for north-west Namibia, particularly in relation to indigenous Khoekhoegowab-speaking Damara / ǂNūkhoen and ǁUbun peoples, to explore two issues. …”
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Efforts to create an erroneous perception in historiography: The case of Stefan Ihrig by Murat Köylü

“…In particular, the book, which attempted to draw similarities between the Armenian deportation and the Holocaust, was also adopted and supported by some publications supporting the Armenian claims in order to strengthen the "so-called Armenian Genocide" allegations. …”
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Enhancing the Efficiency of a Decision Support System through the Clustering of Complex Rule-Based Knowledge Bases and Modification of the Inference Algorithm by Agnieszka Nowak-Brzezińska

“…Hence, a new, hierarchically organized knowledge base structure is proposed as it draws on the cluster analysis method and a new forward-chaining inference algorithm which searches only the so-called representatives of rule clusters. …”
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Prague, the Victorious May of 1945 by S. V. Kudryashov

“…Using new documents from the Central archive of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, the author draws a conclusion about the limited influence of the Vlasov units. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…On the contrary, as can be perceived in Woolf’s essay on the revolution in biography, she and her fellow modernist biographers intend to draw a bridge between the art of biography of their time and that of the eighteenth century. …”
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Armenia: an Uneasy Choice Between Russia's New Initiatives and the EU Eastern Partnership by M. Y. Vardazaryan

“…Deepened strategic cooperation with Moscow, first of all, provides military and energy security of Armenia, although the economic factor shouldn't be underestimated. The author draws attention to the fact that Armenia's involvement in the Customs Union avails it the opportunity to keep collaborating with the European Union, however, from a more powerful position, which we have already witnessed through the alterations in the tone of some European officials.…”
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“In some ways it feels like a specialism”: Exploring the lived experience of multilingual maternity professionals – A qualitative interview study by Emma Brooks

“…Results: Where practitioners were able to draw on their linguistic skills, they felt that multilingualism was a specialism and appreciated by colleagues. …”
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