35 research outputs found
A Motivation Based Planning and Execution Framework
No full textAI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its environment. This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agent- and domain-independent architecture that extends the classical AI planning framework to take into account context, or the interaction between an autonomous situated planning agent and its environment. The paper describes how context constrains the goals an agent might generate, enables those goals to be prioritised, and constrains plan selection
Towards Motivation-based Plan Evaluation
No full textAI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are gener-ated, thus losing information concerning the interaction be-tween the system and its environment. This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agent- and domain-independent architecture that extends the classical AI plan-ning framework to take into account context, or the interac-tion between an autonomous situated planning agent and its environment. The paper describes how context constrains the goals an agent might generate, enables those goals to be pri-oritised, and constrains plan selection
Towards Motivation-based Plan Evaluation
No full textAI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its environment. This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agent- and domainindependent architecture that extends the classical AI planning framework to take into account context, or the interaction between an autonomous situated planning agent and its environment. The paper describes how context constrains the goals an agent might generate, enables those goals to be prioritised, and constrains plan selection
The politics of being an educational researcher: minimising the harm done by research.
No full textResearchers have an obligation to reflect on the politics of their research and of whose interests it serves in order to take steps to minimise it being used in damaging ways. This article uses the problem of the "politics of blame"-- the way governments attempt to construct student or institutional "underperformance" or "failure" as the clear responsibility of schools and teachers--to illustrate the importance of researchers stepping back from specific research agendas to consider the overall positioning of their research. The case of the politics of blame illustrates the importance of researchers taking an independent stance rather than being steered too much by what is fashionable to research or what has political support from government. The article makes some suggestions about how researchers can take steps to pre-empt their research being used in damaging ways
Where’s Morningside? Locating bro’Town in the ethnic genealogy of New Zealand/Aotearoa
No full textThis article uses discourse analysis to locate animated primetime cartoon comedy bro'Town in terms of ethnicity and identification in both a local New Zealand/Aotearoa (NZ) and a global, postmodern, postcolonial media environment. It analyses and problematises the polarisation of local ethnic discourse between conservative assimilationist and bicultural "politically correct" viewpoints by situating the text in global postmodern media environment and demonstrating the discursive interdependence of such binary oppositions. Finally it looks at the degree to which bro'Town's self-proclaimed status as "hilariously anti-PC" comedy works to both exploit and undermine polarities of ethnic representation through employing "reverse discourse". The overall aim of the paper is not to present a close reading or textual analysis, but to situate the text in larger discursive frameworks and thus offer a number of possible theoretical approaches
COURSE: Cross-scale cOUpling pRocesses in the Solar–tErrestrial system—SCOSTEP’s new program for 2026–2030
No full textLaurenza, M. et al.--Full list of authors: Laurenza, M.; Shiokawa, K.; Molina, M. G.; Liu, H.-L.; Krivova, N. A.; Funke, B.; Kusano, K.; Habarulema, J. B.; Buresova, D.; West, M. J.; Chau, J.; Zhang, J.; Nesse, H.; Usoskin, I.; Alberti, T.; Alfonsi, L.; Coddington, O.; Dasso, S.; Fung, Shing F.; Hayakawa, Hisashi; Miyoshi, Y.; Nakamura, R.; Temmer, M.; Stolle, C.; Zong, Q.-G.; Briand, C.; Goplaswamy, N.; Safranova, JanaThe committee nominated to define the Scientific Committee on Solar–Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) Next Scientific Program (NSP) has identified cross-scale coupling as the overarching theme for conducting and promoting coordinated research and outreach activities in the upcoming period 2026–2030. The program is called COURSE (Cross-scale cOUpling pRocesses in the Solar–tErrestrial system) and is organized in three main scientific focus areas: 1) sources of space weather and space climate; 2) solar wind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere coupling; and 3) external impacts and internal dynamics of the Earth atmosphere. For each Focus Area the NSP committee has identified: 1) long-standing goals, i.e., key questions persistent through SCOSTEP scientific programs and 2) objectives, i.e., precise outcomes that can be addressed over the 5-year program duration, which contribute to achieving the goals over the long term. Moreover, the committee envisions the implementation of the program through identified novel methods, including machine learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques; integrated models; new missions; the combination of multipoint in-situ data with ground observations; improved metadata; and adoption of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) principles. © The Author(s) 2025.We acknowledge the following speakers invited to the NSP Committee meetings for their valuable inputs: Abadi Prayitno, Jian Lan, Groves Keith, Kwak Young-Sil, Kozai Masayoshi, Marcucci Maria Federica, Miyake Fusa, Munakata Kazuoki, Otsuka Yuichi, Karou Sato. We aknowledge the SCOSTEP Secretariat managed by the team at Boston College. ML acknowledges Scarabotti Matteo and the INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali administration for aiding in the organization of the INGV meeting. The COURSE program definition process has been supported by SCOSTEP, Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research—Nagoya University, and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.Peer reviewe
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification
No full text© The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. Page 1 of 11 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The article attached is the publisher's pdf.NHM Repositor
Nesticus baeticus sp. n., a new troglobitic spider species from south-west Europe (Araneae, Nesticidae)
No full textA new troglobitic species, Nesticus baeticus sp. n. (♂♀), inhabiting the karst landscapes of the high part of the Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas Natural Park (NE Jaén, Spain) where it has been found in 8 caves is diagnosed and described, its distribution and habitat are also analyzed.The new species belongs to the Iberian species group that includes Nesticus luquei, Nesticus lusitanicus and Nesticus murgis. Evolutionary relationships of the Iberian Nesticus species are discussed on the basis of morphological and molecular data (cox1 and rrnL). Arachnida, Araneae, taxonomy, description, new species, caves, Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean basi
Morphology of mitochondria and cell respiration,pt.1.
No full textTo reveal the mechanism of liver damage by taking CCl4 the author observed the liver tissues from rats at 1.5, 5, 6, 10, 17, 20, and 22 hours after the CCl4 administration, both by light microscope and electron-microscope. 1. Light microscope observation revealed the swelling of liver cells in the carly stage, the appearance of centrolobular fatty degeneration, focal degeneration area and the appearance of balloon cells, with the circulatory disturbances in accompanying stages and hemorrhage in the later stage. 2. Electron-microscope observation revealed the swelling of mitochondria, appearance of the files of thin ER's in the early stage and the regeneration and degeneration of mitochondria with an increase of microbodies in number. Fat droplets are developed from small ones probably from some microbodies without correlation with mitochondria. 3. From these observations the author is of the opinion that CCl4 arrests the cells at first inducing the swelling of cells and their mitochondria, but later the degenerative changes will become severe being complicated by the anoxia which is induced by the circulatory disturbances caused by the compression of vessels with the swollen cells.</p
