In multiparty multimodal dialogue setup, where the robot is set to interact with multiple people, a main requirement for the robot is to recognize the user speaking to it. This would allow the robot to pay attention (visually) to the person the robot is listening to (for example looking by the gaze and head pose to the speaker), and to organize the dialogue structure with multiple people. Knowi...

With the exception of the undesirable characteristic of summer dormancy and the accompanying low aesthetic value, crested wheatgrass has many desirable characteristics in semiarid environments, making it a promising candidate for lower water use turf. Using a population of 27 half-sib families, this study characterized the underlying genetics of turf quality (based on a 1–9 rating scale) of cre...

Mixed diets can allow generalist insect herbivores to obtain nutritionally balanced resources or dilute toxins from specific foods, but also present the generalist with greater challenges in decision-making and require a greater ability to detoxify a wide range of plant defensive compounds. Young and small generalist larvae can have different nutritional requirements, ability to detoxify compou...

Nietzsche's analysis of the self-poisoning of ‘the will to power’ and his insistence upon overcoming its ideological outcome (the dogmatist's fake ‘Truth’) by recognizing the ‘un-truth’ of a ‘logic of contamination,’ demonstrates that he understands ‘truth’ as a paradox. What may one accordingly expect in response to the question ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then?’, posed in the preface t...

The content of Boscovich’s Theoria philosophiae naturalis was well-known to his contemporaries, but both scientists and philosophers chiefly discussed it during the 19 century. The observations that Boscovich presented in this text, and that he himself defined as “philosophicas metitationes”, soon showed their being a good programme for the forthcoming atomic physics, and contributed to get rid...