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Comparison Of Emotion Evaluation Perception Using Human Voice Signals Of Robots And Humans, Vesna Kirandziska, Nevena Ackovska

UBT International Conference

Emotion perception is the process of perceiving other people’s emotions. It can be based on their facial expression, movement, voice and other biosignals people emit. The evaluation of human’s emotion is one characteristic of emotions. One of the research areas in Robotics is adapting humanistic behavior in robots. Today many robots are constructed. Some of them can even perceive emotions. In this paper a custom built emotion aware robot that perceives emotion evaluation is used to investigate the similarity and differences of the robot's and human's emotion perception. Voice signals from real human were recorded and the information for the …

Effects Of Buildings And Environment In Our Everyday Life, Arlinda Sheqiri

UBT International Conference

This article investigates effects of buildings and environment in our everyday life process. A building and its environment will determinate how people lives and how happy they will be. When it comes to a special type of buildings like Kindergarten, Schools this issue becomes even more delicate and complex. The complexity that those types of buildings bear to itself is really national responsibility and should take all attention not only by municipality, governance, politics, but even by society itself. This article will explore the effects of the buildings and environment on children’s well being, and education. Schooling has direct effects …

The Analysis Of Interface Of Social-Technical Aspects Within Transport Planning And Urban Design, Ylber Limani, Binak Beqaj, Vlora Aliu

UBT International Conference

This paper discusses the essentials of social-technical aspects of urban development and transport planning. It describes the role and position of human factor in urban development and transport planning and its interface with technical elements. The paper argues the possibilities of optimization of the correlation between human factors and technical elements using the social-technical insights related turban design and transport planning. The research methodology has been based on qualitative empirical and theoretical approaches using the methods of combination the direct observation and the analysis of documents, and the literature. The working methodology has been based on the concept of organizational …

The Effects Of Self-Esteem, Virtuousness And Work Values On The Ethical Behaviors: An Empirical Study In The Hotel Industry, Pelin Kanten, Murat Yesiltas, Selahattin Kanten

UBT International Conference

This study investigates the impact of self-esteem, virtuousness and work values on ethical behaviors. In literature, studies suggest that individual and organizational factors as an important determinant or precursor of ethical behaviors. However, there has been relatively little substantive research focusing on these issues. In this respect, significant findings have been collected as a result of a research conducted on 174 employees of ten hotel enterprises in Turkey. Based on the findings, significant relationships have been observed among self-esteem, virtuousness, work values and ethical behaviors. Accordingly, one of the dimensions of virtuousness and self-esteem affect ethical behaviors positively. Moreover, dimensions …

Family Friendly Policies In Organizations And Their Effects On Work-Life Balance, Work Alienation And Life Satisfaction, Pelin Kanten

UBT International Conference

This study aims to research the effect of family-friendly policies on work-life balance, work alienation, and life satisfaction. In the literature studies suggest that, family-friendly policies are evaluated within the scope of human resource management practices; they are associated with positive individual and organizational outcomes. Accordingly, this study deals with work-life balance, work alienation and life satisfaction variables which are expected to be affected by family-friendly policies. In order to examine the effect of family-friendly policies on these variables, 208 people employed in three different marble companies in Turkey are included in the research. Based on the findings, there are …

Family Affairs Newsletter 2013-11-02, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

Ann In Financial Prediction, Roneda Mucaj, Alketa Hyso

UBT International Conference

This paper focuses on the treatment of intelligent systems and their application in the financial area. Types of intelligent systems are numerous, but we will focus on those systems, which based on their ability to learn, are able to predict. The concept of inductive reasoning, how these systems learn and reason inductively, the role and their integration in financial services are some of the concepts that will be addressed. The second and the main part focuses on the application developed in the design of an artificial neural network for financial forecasts. Recognizing the need for better predictive models, not just …

Symbolism And Poetics Of Autogenic Space And Structures – The New Design Approach On Mosque As Representative Building (Design Proposal For The Central Mosque Of Prishtina As Case Study), Banush Shyqeriu, Kushtrim Hajdari

UBT International Conference

The congregation Mosque, Masjid (from Arabic, sujúd = prostration to God) is one of the most important institutions of Muslim world, also the predominant built form of Muslim architecture. Having a basic spatial configuration to create “shelter” for prayer, it is evoking how the simple space bears meaning that generates symbolism. This paper tries to de-construct and re-construct the Mosque as a representative built form. By using our Design Proposal for the Central Mosque of Prishtina as Case Study, we emphasize an “organic” approach towards Mosque design through a methodology of integral contextualization and conception as the new “typology”, by …

Determinants Of Active Ageing In Zambia, Christopher C. Mapoma, Andrew Banda

Zambia Social Science Journal

This article investigated determinants of active ageing proposed by the WHO 2002 Active Ageing Framework using data from a developing country -­‐ Zambia. Up to date, there is little or no evidence of studies conducted to answer whether or not determinants proposed by the Active Ageing Framework of 2002 apply to developing countries like Zambia. This article set out to (1) explore which of the determinants of active ageing apply to Africa and Zambia in particular and (2) the influence of HIV/AIDS on active ageing in general. A non-­‐experimental cross-­‐sectional research design was used to collect data for this article. …

Law School As Liberal Education, Sherman J. Clark

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Teach Law Students, Judges, And The Community: Rational Sentencing Policies, Robert J. Levy

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Clarence Darrow: Attorney For The Damned, By John A. Ferrell, Karla Mari Mckanders

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Broadening What We Perceive: A Method For Analyzing Gesture And Language, Caro C. Williams-Pierce

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship

Gesture and language are deeply intertwined, and attending to both simultaneously when examining mathematical processes is a complex yet rewarding task. We share our budding research methodology for analyzing gesture and language and discuss the methodology from a generic perspective that can be easily adapted to different contexts, participants, and mathematical domains. We further share our problem-specific gesture coding scheme as an example of the grain size and foci of such schemes. Finally, we close by discussing the importance of gesture and language to understanding mathematical justifications and proofs.

Strategically Chosen Examples Leading To Proof Insight: A Case Study Of A Mathematician’S Proving Process., Caro C. Williams-Pierce

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship

Examples play a critical role in the exploration and proving of conjectures. Although proof has been studied extensively, the precise ways in which examples might facilitate successful proofs are not well documented or understood. Working within a larger set of studies that argue for the value of examples in proof-related activity, in this paper we present a case study of one mathematician’s work on a conjecture in which his strategic, intentional use of examples led to a proof of that conjecture. By examining his work in detail, we highlight specific mechanisms by which the mathematician’s examples led to successful proof …

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: November 2013, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - November 2013

Men's Tennis Media Guide 2013-14, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Basketball Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Women's Tennis Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Women's Basketball Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements November 2013, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Central Harlem Reentry Resource Guide: Steps To Community Reintegration, The Fortune Society, Community Board #10, Public Safety Committee

Reentry Resources

No abstract provided.

Caring For An Infant With Trisomy 18: A Case Study And Guidelines, Deborah Bruns

Publications

Much of the literature describes the prognosis for infants with full trisomy 18 as bleak. The case study offered here provides an overview of an infant with this diagnosis who lived for 88.5 days in a Level III neonatal intensive care unit. Care decisions (medical and basic care) and their outcomes are described along with implications for care for infants with a diagnosis often characterized as incompatible with life. The need for information about treatment options and collaboration among an infant’s medical team is emphasized.

The Power Of Politics For Zambia’S Public Sector Unions: A Case Study Of The 2013 Nursing Strikes, Andrew Stawasz, Thaddeus Talbot

Zambia Social Science Journal

Recent pay reform efforts in Zambia have sought to generate more competitive wages and benefits for workers in the public sector. However, these efforts have been characterised by inconsistent policy decisions during wage negotiations. Such decisions produce distortions in the pay structure that result in industrial unrest from unions in the public sector. Previous literature has not examined how public sector unions influence these outcomes in Zambia. This article examines factors that affect public sector unions’ influence in Zambia. Seven factors were identified after analysing the 2013 wage negotiations and subsequent nurses’ strikes at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) as …

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 15 No. 6 (November-December 2013), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Fall 2013, Graduate School Of Humanities & Social Sciences

CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues

No abstract provided.

Leadership And International Climate Cooperation, Gregor Schwerhoff

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect may be behavioral, a reaction motivated by fairness, reciprocity or norms. Second, other nations may interpret the leader's action as a signal on his preference or the value of the objective and adjust their own policy based on the new information. Third, the leader may provide a service to other nations, which decreases their costs …

Acuta Enews November 2013 Vol. 42, No. 11

ACUTA Newsletters

In this Issue...

1 The Concept of Context-Aware Computing

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3 Collaboration Is Not Automatic

4 Nominations for Board of Directors: Deadline November 18

5 Free Webinar: The Evolution of Control Systems Security Brief

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8 Board Report

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9 Check It Out

Designing Countercyclical Capital Buffers, Brett H. Mcdonnell

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Discovery, November 2013, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

Inside this issue:

• VP Discovery update
• $ 1 .4m DOT award; DOE, NSF awards
• Discover Discovery workshops
• Research and Dessert, Nov 22
• Upjohn Center recognized for map products
• IP: Tech development fund deadline 11/22
• Graduate student research; F&A rate