Privacy concerns can potentially make camera-based object classification unsuitable for robot navigation. To address this problem, we propose a novel object classification system using only a 2D-LiDAR sensor on mobile robots. The proposed system enables semantic understanding of the environment by applying …

Aim: Mothers of children with intellectual disabilities are particularly vulnerable to mental distress due to demanding and exhausting caregiving. However, in the Arab world, they are seldom screened for depression because of limited diagnostic resources. Addressing the urgent need for brief and reliable …

African citizens are increasingly being surveilled, profiled, and targeted online in ways that violate their rights. African governments frequently use pandemic or terrorism-related security risks to grant themselves additional surveillance rights and significantly increase their collection of monitoring apparatus …

Background:   Intellectual disability (ID) is a developmental disorder that causes considerably below-average intellectual performance and adaptive behaviour. In the context of the present study, families raising a child with ID are reported to experience multiple challenges that appear not to be well …

The research is about physical factors influencing students engagement and satisfaction with classroom environment. 14 factors retrieved from previous researches and the method is quantitative. the Pearson correlation shows a significant relationship between all factors and students engagement and satisfaction …

We designed a wine recommendation robot and deployed it in a small supermarket. In a study aimed to evaluate our design we found that people with no intent to buy wine were interacting with the robot rather than the intended audience of wine-buying customers. Behavioural data, moreover, suggests a very …

The intense impact of drought in Baidabo, Somalia, resulting in the displacement of millions of people, the loss of millions of livestock, and the unfortunate loss of thousands of lives, underscores the need to focus on understanding the drought preparedness of pastoralist communities in the region. …

The Silestra Museum Forum is part of an intended strategy to reboot cultural and social life in the city by enhancing neglected historical sites and public spaces with new cultural and social functions. This new connective network makes clever use of the old city fabric, including the park bordering …

We zijn allemaal - meer of minder - bezig met verduurzaming. Elk op onze eigen manier. Maar: samen weten we veel meer dan alleen. De slimste aanpak is om als ondernemers, private en publieke partijen samen op te trekken. Dat was de centrale boodschap van het seminar Verduurzaming bedrijventerreinen dat …

Nederland telt, op dit moment, ongeveer 27,3 miljoen gezelschapsdieren. Het meest gehouden huisdier is de kat, met 2,9 miljoen geschatte dieren. Het aantal zwerfkatten wordt hier niet in meegenomen. Zwerfkatten zijn gedomesticeerde huiskatten die o.a. door verwaarlozing of het weglopen op straat eindigen. …