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Integrating Perception, Language And Problem Solving In A Cognitive Agent For A Mobile Robot., Deryle W. Lonsdale, D. Paul Benjamin, Damian M. Lyons

Faculty Publications

We are implementing a unified cognitive architecture for a mobile robot. Our goal is to endow a robot agent with the full range of cognitive abilities, including perception, use of natural language, learning and the ability to solve complex problems. The perspective of this work is that an architecture based on a unified theory of robot cognition has the best chance of attaining human-level performance.

This agent architecture is an integration of three theories: a theory of cognition embodied in the Soar system, the RS formal model of sensorimotor activity and an algebraic theory of decomposition and reformulation.

These three …

Narrative Of The Domestic Environmental Justice Movement: The Problem Of Class, Matthew Ferris

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Rural Church At The Crossroads, Gregory J. Lemon

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism: In Concept And Critique, James Carlin Watson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Description Of A Program For Social Language Intervention: “If You Can Have A Conversation, You Can Have A Relationship, Lee Robinson, Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki

Faculty Publications

Adolescents with impaired language comprehension and formulation skills often experience difficulty keeping up with the linguistic and social demands of peer interaction. This clinical exchange describes an individualized treatment program designed to increase the conversational skill of an adolescent male with language impairment. Treatment focused on increasing awareness of the listener’s needs and on balancing the exchange of conversational turns. Clinical performance, parent report, and client report were used to assess outcomes.

Internet Searching: Moving From Clueless To Competent, Robert I. Berkman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Dollars And Death, Cass R. Sunstein, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Administrative regulations and tort law both impose controls on activities that cause mortality risks, but they do so in puzzlingly different ways. Under a relatively new and still-controversial procedure, administrative regulations rely on a fixed value of a statistical life representing the hedonic loss from death. Under much older law, tort law in most states excludes hedonic loss from the calculation of damages, and instead focuses on loss of income, which regulatory policy ignores. Regulatory policy also disregards losses to dependents; tort law usually allows dependents to recover for loss of support. Regulatory policy generally treats the loss of the …

Grounding| A Collection Of Poems, Amy Ratto Parks

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Grand Lady, Janice Milek Hegman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Watching The Sun Bake| Short Stories, Alexander Shapiro

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Wanderjahr| Apprenticeship Of A Modern Nomad, Adam K. French

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Vitellaria Paradoxa And The Feasibility Of A Shea Butter Project In The North Of Cameroon, Karin L. Vermilye

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Demography Of The Columbia Spotted Frog (Rana Luteiventris ) In The Presence Or Absence Of Fish In The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Montana, Aimee C. Wyrick

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Risk-Sensitivity In Male Siamese Fighting Fish Betta Splendens, Baine B. Craft

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Cognitive And Affective Antecedents Of General Trust Within Cooperative Organizations, J.L. Morrow Jr., Mark H. Hansen, Allison W. Pearson

Faculty Publications

Recently, much attention has been devoted to the important role that trust may play in the management of organizations. From a theoretical perspective, scholars have considered a wide range of topics such as the distinction between trust and distrust (Lewicki et al, 1998), the initial development and evolution of trust within organizations (Jones and George, 1998; Mayer et aL, 1995) and the betrayal of trust (Elangovan and Shapiro, 1998). EmpiricaJJy, researchers have examined how trust impacts organizations at the individual (McAllister, 1995), group (Korsgaard et al, 1995) and organizational levels (Davis fl al., 2000). Despite increasing interest in the effects …

Influences On Backcountry Recreationists' Risk Of Exposure To Snow Avalanche Hazards, Jessica E. Tase

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

“So That The Nations May Become Genuine Indian”: Nativism And Leslie Marmon Silko’S Ceremony, Dennis Cutchins

Faculty Publications

Leslie Marmon Silko’s (mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo) Ceremony is a powerful novel that tells the story of Tayo, a mixed-blood Pueblo war veteran who returns to Laguna mentally crippled by his wartime experiences. As Tayo struggles to overcome the alienation his military service has created, he must also face the shame of his own mixed heritage. His suffering eventually leads him off the pueblo to a Navajo healer, Betonie, who helps Tayo create a new historical paradigm based on Navajo and Laguna mythology. Betonie’s fictional re-vision of history is, perhaps, the novel’s most important accomplishment. Through Betonie, Silko creates an alternative …

Land-Atmosphere Coupling And Feedbacks: A Focus On The Freeze/Thaw Transition In North American Boreal And Sub-Alpine Ecosystems, Ann Coffee Radil

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Biomechanical Assessment Of Gloves: A Study Of The Sensitivity And Reliability Of Electromyographic Parameters Used To Measure The Activation And Fatigue Of Different Forearm Muscles, Christian Larivière, André Plamondon, Jaime Lara, Chantal Tellier, Jérôme Boutin, Antoine Dagenais

Études primaires

No abstract provided.

A Randomised Controlled Trial And Cost Effectiveness Study Of Systematic Screening (Targeted And Total Population Screening) Versus Routine Practice For The Detection Of Atrial Fibrillation In The Over 65s: (Safe) [Isrctn19633732], Dawn Swancutt, Richard Hobbs, David Fitzmaurice, Jonathan Mant, Ellen Murray, Sue Jowett, James Raftery, Stirling Bryan, Michael Davies, Gregory Lip

Peninsula Medical School

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been recognised as an important independent risk factor for thromboembolic disease, particularly stroke for which it provides a five-fold increase in risk. This study aimed to determine the baseline prevalence and the incidence of AF based on a variety of screening strategies and in doing so to evaluate the incremental cost-effectiveness of different screening strategies, including targeted or whole population screening, compared with routine clinical practice, for detection of AF in people aged 65 and over. The value of clinical assessment and echocardiography as additional methods of risk stratification for thromboembolic disease in patients with …

Raised Intracranial Pressure Presenting With Spontaneous Periorbital Bruising: Two Case Reports, S Hadjikoutis, Cb Carroll, Gtp Plant

Peninsula Medical School

The venous drainage of the orbit is known to be via the ophthalmic and vortex veins which communicate with the cavernous sinus. We describe two patients with raised intracranial pressure presenting with periorbital bruising. In one patient dural venous sinus thrombosis was demonstrated and it is suspected that the cause of the raised intracranial pressure may have been the same in the second. We suggest that the abrupt rise of pressure in the cerebral venous system was transmitted via the cavernous sinus to the orbital venous system.

Bridging Erie: Customary International Law In The U.S. Legal System After Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain, William S. Dodge

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

International Decisions: Loewen Group, Inc. V. United States And Mondev International Ltd. V. United States, William S. Dodge

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

An Unsupervised Kernel Based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm With Kernel Normalisation, S-M Zhou, Jq Gan

School of Nursing and Midwifery

In this paper, a novel procedure for normalising Mercer kernel is suggested firstly. Then, the normalised Mercer kernel techniques are applied to the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm, which leads to a normalised kernel based FCM (NKFCM) clustering algorithm. In the NKFCM algorithm, implicit assumptions about the shapes of clusters in the FCM algorithm is removed so that the new algorithm possesses strong adaptability to cluster structures within data samples. Moreover, a new method for calculating the prototypes of clusters in input space is also proposed, which is essential for data clustering applications. Experimental results on several benchmark datasets have demonstrated …

Healthwise Spring 2004, Gary D. Overturf, Sally Davis, Bernadette Albanese, Cynthia A. Johnson, Linda J. Penaloza

Newsletters

The Spring, 2004 issue of HealthWise. This issue includes articles on immunizations in New Mexico, antibiotics overuse, hand sanitizer use in schools, and controlling head lice.

Exercise Pa-1, Jonathan Eldredge

Foundations of Research Methodologies

No abstract provided.

Outline And Learning Objectives, Jonathan Eldredge

Foundations of Research Methodologies

No abstract provided.

Responsibility, Accountability And Factors Influencing Provision Of Pharmacist Transcription Of Discharge Prescriptions, Gj Sewell, Rj Hobson

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Prevalence Of Hepatitis C Virus In Lymphoproliferative Disorders, F. Bilwani, Y. Zaidi, G. N. Kakepoto, Salman Adil, Mohammad Khurshid

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Objective: To study the prevalence of hepatitis C virus in lymphoproliferative disorders.
Methods: A case control prospective study was performed on 143 patients with lymphoproliferative disorders and 29 patients with non-hematological malignancies were taken as controls. All the patients in both groups were analyzed for various risk factors for infection with hepatitis C virus and were tested for the presence of hepatitis C virus antibody (anti HCV), cryoglobulins and rheumatoid factor antibody. Hepatitis C viremia was documented by detection of HCV RNA by polymerase chain reaction.
Results: There was no significant difference for risk factors for hepatitis …