Abstract With smart speakers diffusing into society, artificial intelligence is moving from the imaginative reservoirs of dystopian storytelling vernacular living. How do users perceive communication with it? Are Alexa and Siri considered simple devices, sentient assistants, or even friends? Based on nine qualitative interviews former speaker in Germany, this study analyzes use related personal...

Abstract Ignatius of Antioch makes very little reference to specific texts from the Scriptures Israel. This has been interpreted as evidence interest in Scripture, which, turn used plot on a parting ways trajectory. The for this interpretation is weak. refers Scripture way that comparable some Pauline letters. Furthermore, his statements about and use suggest he differs hermeneutical assumption...

The main objective of this paper is to provide new low power solutions for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designers. Especially, this work focuses on the reduction of the power dissipation, which is showing an ever-increasing growth with the scaling down of the technologies. Various techniques at the different levels of the design process have been implemented to reduce the power dissipati...

1 Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China 2 Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Marienstraße 15, D-99423 Weimar, Germany 3Division of Computational Mechanics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam 4 School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 40...