objectives: liver cirrhosis can change many aspects of life of the patients and their family and effects society. we aimed to study the utility of cirrhosis from the point of view of the patients, their family, and their care takers to find appropriate interventions, and training and counselling programmes to support patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study with a goal-based sampling me...

Title of Dissertation: AGE RELATED CHANGES IN SOCIAL REASONING REGARDING PARENTAL DOMESTIC ROLES Stefanie Marie Sinno, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor Melanie Killen Department of Human Development The present study investigated age related changes in individuals’ understanding of the parental role of caretaker from a social reasoning perspective. The methodology involved admi...

This essay rejoins Merinda Simmons’s protection of Russell McCutcheon’s critic vs. caretaker dichotomy in her response to my “Can a Critic be a Caretaker Too? Religion, Conflict and Conflict Transformation” (JAAR 2011). While Simmons aims to preserve McCutcheon’s binary as a purportedly benignly unavoidable opposition, I expose the perils of epistemic anti-realism at the heart of that dichotomy...

This paper presents ongoing work towards building an autonomous robot that learns in a social context. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infant pair where a human acts as the caretaker for the robot. By placing our robot, Kismet, in an environment with a human caretaker who actively assists and guides Kismet's learning, this work explores robot learning in a similar environm...

This article argues that Russell McCutcheon’s notion of the religion scholar as a critic is crucial for envisioning a distinct relevance to the academic study of religion in multidisciplinary conversations concerning questions of religion and conflict. However, McCutcheon’s critical approach is insufficient for thinking about transforming conflicts and underlying structures of injustice. To act...

The Problem: This work explores socially situated learning by exploiting the types of interaction that arise between a nurturing caretaker and an immature learner. Here, the learner is an anthropomorphic robotic platform. Its primary sensory inputs include vision, audition, and joint rotation of its degrees of freedom. Its outputs include vocalizations, head and eye orientation, and facial expr...

In this paper, we review the recently finished CARETAKER project outcomes from a system point of view. The IST FP6-027231 CARETAKER project aimed at studying, developing and assessing multimedia knowledge-based content analysis, knowledge extraction components, and metadata management sub-systems in the context of automated situation awareness and decision support. More precisely, CARETAKER foc...