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Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human.
Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realization. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encourages people to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine. The book includes a CD-ROM that shows Kismet in action.

Designing Sociable Robots

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1469-0691.12023

Microbial culturomics: paradigm shift in the human gut microbiome study

This article critiques the assumptions about the nature and meaning of disability advanced in social-psychological writing, suggests the origins of these assumptions, and proposes a return to a Lewinian/minority-group analysis of the situation of people with disabilities. It concludes by placing the articles in this issue of the Journal of Social Issues in context and by presenting questions in need of further exploration.

Disability Beyond Stigma: Social Interaction, Discrimination, and Activism

Available from Radcliffe publishing - http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=1846191718 Published in association with the Office of Health Economics Applied Econometrics for Help Economists introduces readers to the appropriate econometric techniques for use with different forms of survey data, known collectively as microeconomics. The book provides a complete illustration of the steps involved in doing micro econometric research. The only study to deal with practical analysis of qualitative and categorical variables, it also emphasizes applied work, illustrating the use of relevant computer software applied to large-scale survey data sets. This is a comprehensive reference guide â it contains a glossary of terms, a technical appendix, software appendix, references, and suggestions for further reading. It is concise and easy to read â technical details are avoided in the main text and key terms are highlighted. Given the extensive use of individual-level survey data in health economics, it is important to understand the econometric techniques available to applied researchers. Moreover, it is just as important to be aware of their limitations and pitfalls. The purpose of this book is to introduce readers to the appropriate econometric techniques for use with different forms of survey data â known collectively as microeconomics. -- Andrew Jones in the Preface Contents -- Introduction - the evaluation problem and linear regression; The health and lifestyle survey; Binary dependent variable; The ordered probit model; The selection problem; Endogenous regressors - the evaluation problem revisited; Count data regression; Duration analysis; Panel data 2007 128 pages paperback ISBN-10 1 84619 171 8 ISBN-13 9781846191718

Applied Econometrics for Health Economists

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account -- part of it gleaned from secret government files -- tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. 

Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. IT WAS NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD. THE ANIMAL, CALLED TU'IMALILA, DIED AT THE ROYAL PALACE GROUND IN THE TONGAN CAPITAL OF NUKU, ALOFA. THE PEOPLE OF TONGA REGARDED THE ANIMAL AS A CHIEF AND SPECIAL KEEPERS WERE APPOINTED TO LOOK AFTER IT. IT WAS BLINDED IN A BUSH FIRE A FEW YEARS AGO. TONGA RADIO SAID TU'IMALILA'S CARCASS WOULD BE SENT TO THE AUCKLAND MUSEUM IN NEW ZEALAND.

アンドロイドは電気羊の夢を見るか? : Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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The Minority Report

"Okay," Douglas Quail said, and made his way barefoot from the bedroom of their conapt to the kitchen. There; having dutifully pressed the hot coffee button, he seated himself at the kitchen table, brought out a yellow, small tin of fine Dean Swift snuff. He inhaled briskly, and the Beau Nash mixture stung his nose, burned the roof of his mouth. But still he inhaled; it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality.

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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

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アンドロイドは電気羊の夢を見るか? : Do androids dream of electric sheep?

The Minority Report

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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch