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Are Robots to be Created in Our Own Image? Testing the Ethical Equivalence of Robots and Humans
Service robots need to adhere to the ethical expectations of the people with which they interact. Several research groups have developed methods for implementing artificial morality for robots. The hidden assu...
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Students’ Use of Computational Thinking Practices in an Undergraduate Biology-Engineering Course
The construct of Computational Thinking (CT) first emerged to describe problem solving in the context of computing environments, but it has expanded to serve as a set of practices that can be applied across di...
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Open AccessCan We Agree on What Robots Should be Allowed to Do? An Exercise in Rule Selection for Ethical Care Robots
Future Care Robots (CRs) should be able to balance a patient’s, often conflicting, rights without ongoing supervision. Many of the trade-offs faced by such a robot will require a degree of moral judgment. Some...
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Open AccessTrue malaria prevalence in children under five: Bayesian estimation using data of malaria household surveys from three sub-Saharan countries
Malaria is one of the major causes of childhood death in sub-Saharan countries. A reliable estimation of malaria prevalence is important to guide and monitor progress toward control and elimination. The aim of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Rational Imitation for Robots
Infants imitate behaviour flexibly. Depending on the circumstances, they copy both actions and their effects or only reproduce the demonstrator’s intended goals. In view of this selective imitation, infants ha...
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Echo-acoustic flow dynamically modifies the cortical map of target range in bats
Echolocating bats use the delay between their sonar emissions and the reflected echoes to measure target range, a crucial parameter for avoiding collisions or capturing prey. In many bat species, target range ...
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Loading, merging and analysing demographic and health surveys using R
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Open AccessAn adjusted bed net coverage indicator with estimations for 23 African countries
Many studies have assessed the level of bed net coverage in populations at risk of malaria infection. These revealed large variations in bed net use across countries, regions and social strata. Such studies ar...
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The perceived impact of publications on Neglected Tropical Zoonoses as measured by their impact factor
We investigated whether papers on Neglected Tropical Zoonoses are published in journals with lower impact factors than research on diseases with a similar global health burden. We found that, despite being cit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simulating the Morphological Feasibility of Adaptive Beamforming in Bats
It has been suggested that it is advantageous for bats to adapt their emission beam pattern depending on the situation. Hartley [9] has proposed that bats could steer the direction in which they emit most ener...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reconstructing the Acoustic Signal of a Sound Source: What Did the Bat Say?
When attempting to model and understand bat biosonar behaviour, it would be very useful to know exactly what calls the bat emits, that is, what it really says, in the course of its exploration of the world. Ca...
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The frequency effect in second-language visual word recognition
A lexical decision experiment with Dutch-English bilinguals compared the effect of word frequency on visual word recognition in the first language with that in the second language. Bilinguals showed a consider...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autonomous Parsing of Behavior in a Multi-agent Setting
Imitation learning is a promising route to instruct robotic multi-agent systems. However, imitating agents should be able to decide autonomously what behavior, observed in others, is interesting to copy. Here ...
