Grounded language acquisition is an important issue, particularly to facilitate human-robot interactions in an intelligent and effective way. The evolutionary and developmental language acquisition are two innovative and important methodologies for the grounding of language in cognitive agents or robots, the aim of which is to address current limitations in robot design. This paper concentrates...

Investigations of injuries and fires caused by electrical circuits and equipment can result in incorrect conclusions when grounding systems are neglected. The term ground is loosely used in electrical jargon as any zero reference point for voltage measurement. Power systems are usually grounded to the earth. Other electrical systems are sometimes grounded to the same earth through a low impedan...

As continental ice from Antarctica reaches the grounding line and begins to float, its underside melts into the ocean. Results obtained with satellite radar interferometry reveal that bottom melt rates experienced by large outlet glaciers near their grounding lines are far higher than generally assumed. The melting rate is positively correlated with thermal forcing, increasing by 1 meter per ye...

Symbol Grounding tries to answer the question as to how it is possible for a computer program to use symbols which are not arbitrarily inter-pretable. Whereas the signs in conventional programs are just \parasitic on the meaning in our heads", grounded symbols should possess at least some \intrinsic meaning." This paper gives a brief overview of what Symbol Grounding is and summarizes some of t...

The corrosion of grounding grids can result in a grounding accident of a power system, and much attentions has been concentrated on the method used to detect a corrosion fault in a grounding grid, in which the methods of voltage measurement and magnetic field measurement are usually used. In this paper, a cycle voltage measurement method and L-curve regularization method are proposed to locate ...

Communication among agents requires (among many other things) that each agent be able to identify the semantic values of the generators of the language. This is the ”grounding” problem: how do agents with different cognitive and perceptual experiences successfully converge on common (or at least sufficiently similar) meanings for the language? There are many linguistic studies of how human lear...

OBJECTIVES Emerging research is revealing that direct physical contact of the human body with the surface of the earth (grounding or earthing) has intriguing effects on human physiology and health, including beneficial effects on various cardiovascular risk factors. This study examined effects of 2 hours of grounding on the electrical charge (zeta potential) on red blood cells (RBCs) and the ef...