In this chapter, the authors explore social constructivist theories of emotion, which suggest that emotional behaviors are developed through experience, rather than innate. The authors’ approach to artificial emotions follows this paradigm, stemming from a relatively young field called developmental or ‘epigenetic’ robotics. The chapter describes the design and implementation of a robot called ...

Two canonical negatives in Mandarin, mei and bu, display an asymmetry with respect to the presence of negraising inferences. In particular, mei prefers non-neg-raising readings, while bu, unless attaching to a functional category, is forced to be interpreted as neg-raising. This paper aims to explore an approach to address this asymmetry based on interactions between negation and aspect in both...

 This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61179045. Abstract Motion history image (MHI) and motion energy image(MEI) can recognize simple actions effectively, but they can’t represent the velocity information of the actions. Sometimes in the behavior recognition, we must take the speed into account. For example, touching a person, fierce and frien...

Title XVIII of the Social Security Act established the Medicare program to provide health insurance benefits for the aged and disabled. Title XVIII is divided into two sections: Part A, Hospital Insurance (HI) and Part B, Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI). Part A pays for part of the cost of inpatient hospital care and related health care services provided by skilled nursing facilities and ...

Thirteen X-linked mutants have been isolated in Drosophila melanogaster which render male and homozygous female larvae sensitive to the mutagen methyl methanesulfonate. Their characterization and preliminary assignment to functional groups is described. Four of these mutants are alleles of mei-41 (Baker and Carpenter 1972). Like previously isolated alleles of this locus, these mutants reduce fe...

[1] Seasonal variations on lightning activity of precipitation systems over south China and Taiwan before and after the onset of Mei‐Yu have been observed by the lightning imager sensor (LIS) on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Lightning storms before Mei‐Yu onset show higher probability of lightning, higher flash rate, and larger radar reflectivity in the mixed‐p...

Let G be a planar graph and F a set of additional edges not yet in G. The multiple edge insertion problem (MEI) asks for a drawing of G+F with the minimum number of pairwise edge crossings, such that the subdrawing of G is plane. As an exact solution to MEI is NP-hard for general F , we present the first approximation algorithm for MEI which achieves an additive approximation factor (depending ...