Silence and Human Development

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development

Is Silence Golden in Human-Robot Dialogue?

The physical actions performed by any robot can be used to convey meaning to a user in human-robot interaction. For example, successfully performing an action following a request may be viewed as an acceptance, while performing the wrong action may be construed as a mis-understanding. Even hesitating to perform a requested physical action may be viewed as a signal of non-understanding. Thus, un...

When silence is broken: polycomb group proteins in heart development.

Heart morphogenesis is a complex process that involves orchestration of cardiac cell commitment, differentiation, proliferation, and migration. Much progress has been made toward understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate these events during normal development. However, the role of chromatin modification for heart development has received comparatively little attention, despite the fa...

The relationship between health expenditures and human development index

Growth in gross domestic product does not necessarily mean growth in human development; experience in global level demonstrated that income growth and human development are not always companions and in some countries, an increase in one of them was took place with a decrease in the other. On the other hand, a study has found that as government health expenditures grow the efficiency of such ex...

Ethical Theory of Utilitarianism and Human Rights Development

Background: Utilitarianism is a school whose founders have justified it by emphasizing consequentialism as a public interest. The school of utilitarianism is a moral and naturalistic school that justifies principles such as justice and individual and collective freedoms. For utilitarian, one cannot rely solely on individual interests and neglect the collective interest or group interest. Human ...