Emotions are the subject of study in many research areas, including psychology, physiology and artificial intelligence. However, there is not yet a general computational definition for emotions and many of the related works in artificial intelligence are based on uncertain assumptions about the origin, features , and applications of emotions. Therefore, we direct our studies toward achieving a ...

The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searchers focusing their attention to the relevant content within a document. However, other, e.g. sibling or parent, elements of retrieved elements may also be important as they provide context to the retrieved elements. The ...

We propose a new hierarchical scheme for yard crane (YC) workload management in container terminals. We also propose time partitioning algorithm and space partition algorithm for deploying YCs to handle the changing job arrival patterns in a row of yard blocks. The main differences between our approach and most of the methods in literature are: (1) Average vehicle job waiting time instead of th...

Girija Kaimal is a doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She began her career as a designer with impoverished crafts communities in India helping to diversify their skills for a global market. After receiving her master's degree is art therapy, she worked with youth in alternative schools and community mental health centers in the United States. She also consu...

The Rhipidistia (Osteichthyes, Crossopterygii) comprise three superfamilies of Paleozoic fossil fishes, the Holoptychoidea, Osteolepoidea and Rhizodontoidea. Of these the members of the Holoptychoidea (families Holoptychidae and Porolepidae) are by far the least well known, and consequently there exists a considerable gap in our knowledge of the evolution of the Rhipidistia as a whole. The aim ...

Synopsis Newly-acquired regional geochemical data for the Down-Armagh (Northern Ireland) sector of the Southern Uplands – Down-Longford terrane are assessed by comparison with the equivalent dataset for southern Scotland. Despite the much thicker glacigenic cover to the Down-Armagh bedrock, the principal geochemical lineaments identified in the Southern Uplands are still apparent. Patterns of e...

The objective of this thesis was to endow agents with the ability to model the mind of other agents and to use this information on their reasoning process. We developed an architecture which enables N levels of Theory of Mind. Additionally we wanted to assess if a reasoning ability capable of more then one level would be perceived as more socially intelligent than one with only one level. For t...

OBJECTIVE We report the findings from and comment on the surveys of the oral health of 5-year-old children undertaken in Scotland (2013-14), Wales (2014-15) and England (2014-15). This was the fourteenth survey in Scotland since 1988. In England and Wales it is the third survey since 2007 when changes were required in consent arrangements. METHOD Representative samples were drawn within Healt...

BACKGROUND To evaluate how Scotland's smokefree law impacted self-reported secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in hospitality venues, workplaces and in people's homes. In addition, we examine changes in support for the law, pub and restaurant patronage, smoking cessation indicators and whether any observed changes varied by socioeconomic status. METHODS A quasi-experimental longitudinal telephone...

BACKGROUND Although incidence data for work-related ill-health in the UK are available, more detailed information for smaller geographical areas has hitherto been unpublished. AIMS To estimate the incidence of work-related ill-health reported by clinical specialists in Scotland, 2002-2003. METHODS THOR (The Health and Occupation Reporting network) is a UK wide reporting scheme for work-rela...