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Perceived moral agency of non-moral entities: implications and future research directions for social robots
No full textHumans tend to perceive human qualities in interactive systems. This particularly applies to social robots that utilise human attributes such as human body characteristics and natural language capabilities. Social robots with such characteristics are increasingly deployed in critical settings, such as health and well-being, where it is key to align robot behaviour with end-user expectations. Relatively little is known about how people perceive these social robots’ moral agency. In this position paper, we stress the difference between moral agency and perceived moral agency, and argue that the latter is a timely concern. We discuss the implications of perceived moral agency and outline research directions to explore how humans make sense of social robots in critical settings through perceived moral agency
The Development of New Jersey Society
No full textThe Development of New Jersey Society by Joel Schwartz. Number 10 in the New Jersey History Series. Published by the New Jersey Historical Commission
Grace Joel an impressionist portrait
No full textDunedin-born artist Grace Joel (1864-1924) exhibited to acclaim in London and Paris, yet she and her art are relatively unknown today. Joel excelled at portraiture and mother and child studies, and was skilled in portraying the nude. She received her artistic training in Melbourne, and lived for the mature years of her career in London, where her work appeared at the prestigious Royal Academy, as well as the Paris Salon and the Royal Scottish Academy. She also held a number of solo exhibitions at prominent venues in Australasian, English and European cities. Today she is claimed by New Zealand, Australia and Britain. One possible reason why Joel's work has not remained visible is that few details of her personal life survive. Only three letters have been found, and they reveal little of the person who wrote them. Undaunted, author Joel (no relation) Schiff has pulled together from the words of her contemporaries, various newspaper accounts, scraps in other historical archives and close study of her extant paintings a portrayal of this talented woman that is as intimate and engaging as her work. He also sets Grace Joel and her work in the times in which she lived, and the artistic communities of which she was a par
Rule of Law under Threat: The Trump Presidency: A Conversation with Joel Richard Paul
No full textJoel Richard Paul is currently Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor at University of California Hastings Law where he teaches constitutional and international economic law. He is the author of Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, and the forthcoming Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism, among other books
43-Why You Should Read Flannery O’Connor - Dr. David Schmitt and Dr. Joel Biermann
Full text linkFlannery O’Connor’s perspective as a devout Catholic writing in mid-century Georgia is observant and powerful. The theology intertwined into the narratives of her stories set her apart as an author. Dr. David Schmitt, professor of practical theology, and Dr. Joel Biermann, professor of systematic theology, discuss her influence and make a case for reading her work..
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The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness
Full text linkThis paper offers an economics perspective on corporate tax noncompliance. It first reviews what is known about the extent and nature of corporate tax noncompliance and the resources devoted to enforcement. It then addresses the supply of corporate noncompliance -- the industrial organization of the tax shelter industry -- as well as the demand for corporate tax noncompliance, focusing on how the standard Allingham-Sandmo approach needs to be modified when applied to public corporations. It then discusses the implications of a supply-and-demand approach for the analysis of the incidence and efficiency cost of corporate income taxation, and the very justification for a separate tax on corporation income. Along the way it addresses policy proposals aimed at increased disclosure of corporate tax activities to both the IRS and to the public.
Foreign Exchange Operations Fund for Laos
No full textReport on attempts by the Lao Royal Government to stabilize the financial situation in Laos following the onset of war in Vietnam and rising inflation during the 1960s.The Foreign Exchange Operations Fund for Laos: An Interesting Experiment in Monetary Stabilization. Clark Joel; Asian Survey
Vol. 6, No. 3 (Mar., 1966), pp. 134-14
Joel Chandler Harris
No full textJoel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, author, and folklorist, best known for his Uncle Remus stories. He lived in Atlanta for much of his life, where he served as an associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
The Joel Chandler Harris collection includes manuscripts and letters. Of particular significance are manuscripts for six short stories that were compiled in Nights with Uncle Remus, published in 1883. They include: "The Moon in the Mill Pond," "Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise," "Why Brother Bear Has No Tail," "How Brother Rabbit Frightened His Neighbors," "Mr. Man Has Some Meat," and "How Brother Rabbit Got the Meat."
This collection was digitized as part of Project REVEAL (Read and View English & American Literature)
Joel Chandler Harris
Full text linkThis stamp honors American journalist and author Joel Chandler Harris, famous for his Uncle Remus stories. First day covers are envelopes or postcards with a stamp canceled on the first day the stamp is available for purchase and use. Often the postmark is a special pictorial cancellation indicating the city and date of issue. First day covers often include a cachet or illustration on the envelope that explains or compliments the stamp.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/firstdaycover/1106/thumbnail.jp
Universal Probability Distribution for the Wave Function of a Quantum System Entangled with Its Environment
No full textA quantum system (with Hilbert space H1) entangled with its environment (with Hilbert space H2) is usually not attributed a wave function but only a reduced density matrix ρ1. Nevertheless, there is a precise way of attributing to it a random wave function ψ1, called its conditional wave function, whose probability distribution μ1 depends on the entangled wave function ψ∈H1⊗H2 in the Hilbert space of system and environment together. It also depends on a choice of orthonormal basis of H2 but in relevant cases, as we show, not very much. We prove several universality (or typicality) results about μ1, e.g., that if the environment is sufficiently large then for every orthonormal basis of H2, most entangled states ψ with given reduced density matrix ρ1 are such that μ1 is close to one of the so-called GAP (Gaussian adjusted projected) measures, GAP(ρ1). We also show that, for most entangled states ψ from a microcanonical subspace (spanned by the eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian with energies in a narrow interval [E,E+δE]) and most orthonormal bases of H2, μ1 is close to GAP(tr2ρmc) with ρmc the normalized projection to the microcanonical subspace. In particular, if the coupling between the system and the environment is weak, then μ1 is close to GAP(ρβ) with ρβ the canonical density matrix on H1 at inverse temperature β=β(E). This provides the mathematical justification of our claim in [J. Statist. Phys. 125:1193 (2006), http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309021] that GAP measures describe the thermal equilibrium distribution of the wave function.Peer reviewe
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