With the recent development of the field of social robotics and in particular the need to negotiate explicit social interaction and behaviour between both socially capable robots and between robots and humans, this work presents the development of a framework which supports coherent social interaction between real and artificial systems. The Social Robot Architecture is implemented in conjuncti...

Durkheim’s model of suicide famously includes four types: anomic, egoistic, altruistic, and fatalistic suicides; however, sociology has primarily focused on anomic and egoistic suicides and neglected suicides predicated on too much integration or regulation. This article addresses this gap. We begin by elaborating Durkheim’s concepts of integration and regulation using insights from contemporar...

Social media platforms have become a major gateway to receive and analyze public opinions. Understanding users can provide invaluable context information of their social media posts and significantly improve traditional opinion analysis models. Demographic attributes, such as ethnicity, gender, age, among others, have been extensively applied to characterize social media users. While studies ha...

A B S T R AC T This article describes the new qualitative methodology developed for use in CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System), the confidential database set up for the UK railways by the University of Strathclyde. CIRAS is a project in which qualitative safety data are disidentified and then stored and analysed in a central database. Due to the confidential nature of th...

purpose: comparing the optical coherence tomography (oct) pachymetry patterns in keratoconus suspect and normal people methods: thirty-two keratoconus suspects and 36 healthy eyes were selected within the age range of 20-30 yrs. their pachymetry pattern was obtained through oct visante in the minimum thickness spot, upper and lower corneal difference (i-s), lower temporal, and upper nasal thick...

the non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. it seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the qur’an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and quranic discourse. we will argue that to unvei...

The long-standing doctrine of deferential review by appellate courts of findings of fact by administrative agencies is seriously flawed for two main reasons. First, the most prominent justification for deference relies on the empirical assumption that first-instance adjudicators are best able to determine the truth because they can directly view witness demeanor. Decades of social science resea...

Sobel claims to disagree with many of the points made in my paper. He also claims that much if not all of what I say is already in the statistical treatment effect literature. He treats my Section 4 as a literature review rather than an illustration of the basic principles made in Sections 1–3 of the paper, as I intended it to be. In joint work with Edward Vytlacil, I present a comprehensive li...

A large body of empirical studies shows that religion often serves as a factor promoting positive, healthy outcomes in the lives of American adolescents. Yet existing theoretical explanations for these religious effects remain largely disjointed and fragmented. This article attempts to formulate a more systematic, integrated, and coherent account of religion's constructive influence in the live...

A. Moriwaki proved the following arithmetic analogue of the Bogomolov unstability theorem. If a torsion-free hermitian coherent sheaf on an arithmetic surface has negative discriminant then it admits an arithmetically destabilising subsheaf. In the geometric situation it is known that such a subsheaf can be found subject to an additional numerical constraint and here we prove the arithmetic ana...