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R2poweR: The Proof-of-Concept of a Backdrivable, High-Ratio Gearbox for Human-Robot Collaboration
No full textResearch supported by the INNOVIRIS Foundation of the city of Brussels, Grant Nr. 2020-POC-03
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Basic income: an idea whose time has come… in Europe and Japan alike?
No full textベーシック・インカム：欧州だけではなく日本でも、時が熟したアイデアか？ The book Basic Income by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght was published in 2017 by Harvard University Press and is now considered to be a major reference in the literature about welfare reform and income security. It has already been translated into ten languages. The Japanese translation (ベーシック・インカム) is now out, and its publication offers an opportunity to discuss the prospects of this “radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy” in the Japanese context
Basic income and the challenge of social investment: compatible or contradictory?
No full textYannick Vanderborght and Bruno Palier (SciencePo Paris) debate the pros and cons of a basic income from the perspective of social investmen
Basic income: a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy
No full textCe livre présente les multiples facettes de l'idée de revenu universel (basic income): son historique, ses justifications éthiques, sa faisabilité économique et politique.Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world's most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea. Contents: The instrument of freedom -- Basic income and its cousins -- Prehistory: public assistance and social insurance -- History: from utopian dream to worldwide movement -- Ethically justifiable? free riding versus fair shares -- Economically sustainable? funding, experiments and transitions -- Politically achievable? civil society, parties and the back door -- Viable in the global era? multi-level basic income
Le revenu universel peut-il répondre aux nouvelles mutations de l’emploi ?
No full textLa Fabrique de l’industrie, la chaire FIT de Mines ParisTech et le CNAM viennent de publier un ouvrage collectif, Le Travail en mouvement, issu d’un colloque au cours duquel chercheurs de diverses disciplines et praticiens ont débattu des mutations en cours du travail. Nous vous proposons ici le compte-rendu d’un des échanges, consacré au revenu universel. Cette proposition suscite une attention renouvelée depuis que certains s’interrogent sur une possible « fin du travail ». Ce revenu « de base » offrirait-il une réponse aux risques de déclassement et d’inactivité ? Cette Synthèse met en regard deux argumentations : pour Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld, ce débat « va désormais polluer la vie politique pendant des décennies », au détriment d’une véritable réflexion sur la lutte contre le chômage et le droit au travail. Pour Yannick Vanderborght, il demeure au contraire « une utopie mobilisatrice » qui permet de réfléchir à la déconnexion entre le revenu et le travail
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Could NAO Robot Function as Model Demonstrating Joint Attention Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder?:An Exploratory Study
No full textPrevious studies reported that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show a certain interest in social robots. This makes social robots potential to be a model to teach social skills. This exploratory study aims to investigate whether three types of joint attention skills (i.e., eye-contact, pointing, gaze-following) could be improved for five preschoolers with ASD using an evidence-based robot-modeling intervention with a humanoid social robot NAO. Our observation shows that these children were motivated when interacting with NAO by following and responding correctly to NAO's joint attention behaviors. Although some improvements were found, no pattern or systematic effect could be revealed. In the future, more evidence-based studies are needed to investigate the benefits of robot-assisted therapy more deeply
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