Preliminary Remarks

Preliminary remarks

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Preliminary Remarks

An Interactive Robot in a Nursing Home: Preliminary Remarks

There are a growing number of robots being designed and built to interact with people in a specific setting. Our interdisciplinary team is taking a look at one of these robots, Paro, in its intended setting in order to study the effects of the interaction. By using a combination of self-report, analysis of interactions, and postinteraction interviews, we examine social and psychological aspects...

On Stochastic Set Functions. Iii. I. Preliminary Remarks on Totals

In the present paper we are concerned with two topics: the probability distributions of the random variables consisting of a completely additive s t o c hastic set function and the discontinuities of the realizations by supposing the latters to be completely additive number-valued set functions. Some theorems of Chapter III are analogous to those well-known in the theory of stochastic processes...

Some preliminary remarks on a ‘ weak ’ theory of linearization

One traditional research topic in syntax is the question of linearization of hierarchical structures. Extensive research stemming from the seminal work by Noam Chomsky in the fifties has shown that natural languages have a hierarchical organization, but, since utterances take place in time and not instantaneously, hierarchical structures must be mapped in a linear sequence of words. Linearizati...