A brief history of the introduction of Shape's fibroma virus into the Australian rabbit scene, outlining some of the emotions generated and some of their causes is given. Immunisation of rabbits against myxomatosis using Shape's fibroma is still banned in Australia except in approved scientific'institutions. The arguments leading to this ban are examined and rejected. Options for future protect...

Human life will not be separated and is always related to economic activities: production, consumption, distribution. Activities needs wants A need that manifested by various desires. In the conventional conception, are inseparable. Because his stomach hungry, a person who eat consider several desires when fulfilling need. For example, people feel hungry during day, East Javanese interested in ...

Abstract Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide economics-based approach to relationship between Big Five personality traits and various dimensions sexuality. From a theoretical viewpoint, influences sexual not only by how person feels about sex, but also behaves relationship. Personality shapes information sharing preferences, way ...

What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to evergreater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known as the ‘singularity’. The basic argument here was set out by the statistician I.J. Good in his 1965 article ‘Spe...

Humans draw on their stereotypic beliefs to make assumptions about others. Even though prior research has shown that individuals respond socially to media, there is little evidence with regards to learners stereotyping and categorizing pedagogical agents. This study investigated whether learners stereotype a pedagogical agent as being knowledgeable or not knowledgeable and how this acuity influ...

Our research focuses on animating autonomous virtual humans which are able to take decisions by themselves. We especially address in this paper the technical problem of integrating altogether the physical simulation of agents (represented as virtual humans in a 3D environment) and their behaviours and motivations, driven by a Beliefs, Desires and Intentions architecture. We also explain how goa...

As we consider the future of Pacific scholarship in Aotearoa–New Zealand it becomes vital to what wish that look like and how get there. Part talanoa involves considering possible levers change are whether they capable fulfilling our desires for change. This article outlines different national interventions being made increase engagement Zealand’s universities, then considers these vision commu...