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The aim of this chapter is to explore the safety value of implementing Asimov's Laws of Robotics as a future general framework that humans should obey. Asimov formulated laws to make explicit the safeguards of the robots in his stories: (1) A robot may not injure or harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; (2) A robot must obey the orders given to it by human b

This study investigates perceived accent in the two early-acquired languages of 21 adult-aged bilinguals with Italian as the heritage language (HL) and German as the majority language (ML). We test the relative ability of ‘age of onset (AoO) in German’ (range = 0–6 years) and ‘Italian use’ to predict perceived nativeness in Italian and German.

What is love? Is it an uncontrollable emotion? Is it, instead, socially shaped, both an emotion and a social practice? Can the bonds of care and affection between humans and non-human animals be said to be on a par with parent-child relationships between humans? Do parents owe love to their children – and do mothers and fathers, respectively, owe it to different degrees? Do subversive weddings cha

HYPOTHESIS: A modified Weber number can capture the effect of emulsifier concentration and the effect of external stress in turbulent drop breakup. Moreover, the effect of emulsifiers on turbulent drop breakup cannot be adequately understood from classic slow/laminar techniques and quasi steady state interfacial tension.EXPERIMENTS: Single drop breakup visualizations are used to study the effect o

Low birthweight is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. We hypothesised that differential associations between birthweight and clinical characteristics in persons with and without type 2 diabetes may provide novel insights into the role of birthweight in type 2 diabetes and its progression. We analysed UK Biobank data from 9,442 persons with and 254,446 without type 2 diabetes. Associations between

The formation of a lipid vesicle from a lamellar phase involves a cost in bending energy of 100–1000 times the thermal energy for values of the membrane bending rigidity κ typical for phospholipid bilayers. The bending rigidity of a bilayer is however a strongly decreasing function of its thickness h, and the bilayer can thus reduce its bending energy by stretching (and thus thinning) the bilayer.

Strong correlation remains a significant challenge for DFT with no satisfying solutions found yet within the standard Kohn-Sham framework. Instead, for decades, a number of different approaches have been suggested to combine the accuracy of multiconfigurational methods with the efficiency of DFT. In this article, we demonstrate that many of these methods are or would be significantly improved by b

Digital platforms are spreading very fast and new opportunities are emerging in the realm of digital services. But, can any firm easily succeed with a new platform business model? Well, reality seems to be quite complex. Focusing on digital health platforms as examples of new business models in highly regulated sectors, we outline the challenges that platforms should prepare for.

The most important moment in product development is when demands and specifications are decided for the product that is being planned. The specification defines the goal for the product development process. It is a very important steering opportunity for the continuing work and for environmentally driven demands that are to be addressed in the product development phase. The designers are said to h

Extreme-ultraviolet pulses can propagate through ionised solid-density targets, unlike optical pulses and, thus, have the potential to probe the interior of such plasmas on sub-femtosecond timescales. We present a synthetic diagnostic method for solid-density laser-generated plasmas based on the dispersion of an extreme-ultraviolet attosecond probe pulse, in a pump–probe scheme. We demonstrate the

Den moderna avhandlingens föregångare var dissertationen, som var genrebunden och sällan innehöll något originellt. Men som Bo Lindberg visar var dissertationen heller aldrig en speciellt viktig habiliteringsskrift. Det var under den muntliga disputationen, som kunde pågå i många timmar, som studenten skulle uppvisa sin förmåga att tala och argumentera på latin.

The aim was to investigate associations between health locus of control (HLC) and all-cause, cardiovascular (CVD), cancer and other cause mortality. A public health postal questionnaire was distributed in the autumn of 2008 to a stratified random sample of the 18–80 year old adult population in Scania in southernmost Sweden. The participation rate was 54.1%, and 25,517 participants were included i