Developing an autonomous intelligent vacuuming robot for household floors is not an easy task. The function of an autonomous vacuuming robot can be simply stated as to autonomously vacuum household floors while interacting appropriately with things one normally expects to find on floor such as furnitures, pets, trash, etc. However, underlying this simple job description are its numerous tough j...

The quest for appropriate teaching and learning practices for children and young people is ongoing and ever present. A major challenge is to make maths teaching more inclusive and maths itself more accessible to a wider cross section of children and young people. This is essential if we are to successfully meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality educ...

After a historical review of the discussion of the concept of strangeness and alienation since the beginning of the 19th century, the question of the background of the current discussion of "the alien" arises. The assumption is that the experience of strangeness and self-alienation took a qualitative and quantitative leap at the point in technological development when the dialectic between huma...

Alienation is among the most influential terms in Marxist theory, but also one of ambiguous and controversial. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus on Marx’ early philosophical writings, this offers a novel reinterpretation theory alienation found Marx’s later works. Rather than conceiving as subjective experience or an inherent feature social organization, I contend that sense...

Historically, job analysis has played a fundamental role for developing and validating licensure and certification examinations. Still, research on what constitutes reliable and valid job analysis data is lacking. This paper illustrates several ways to examine the reliability and validity of job analysis survey results. Generalizability theory and the many-facets Rasch model are applied to inve...

Occupational stress is ubiquitous at work places and has recently gained numerous researches because of the impact it has on employees’ job performance. Unlike developing and newly industrialized countries, most advanced countries are becoming more familiar with the phenomenon and how to manage it. The current study finds out the level of occupational stress of SMEs on demographic variables and...