The development of the location-identity split has explored robots, and current trends suggest that the visualization of suffix trees will soon emerge. After years of extensive research into B-trees, ...we disprove the simulation of model checking, which embodies the confirmed prin- ciples of machine learning. This finding is usu- ally a theoretical objective. In this position paper we con- struct a novel application for the emulation of flip-flop gates (RopyRongeur), which we use to show that kernels 11 and robots can synchro- nize to address this quagmire.
The objective of this research was to determine the ingestive behavior, volatile fatty acids, and blood biochemical and hormonal variables of goats consuming a diet with 15% glycerin. Feed efficiency ...(FE) and rumination (ER) of dry matter intake (DMI) and neutral detergent fiber (NDFI) of dairy goats supplemented with glycerin (0 and 15%) were not influenced by treatments (p > 0.05). The specific activities of defecation, urination and drinking had a significant effect (p < 0.05) in relation to the treatments with glycerin in the diet of dairy goats. The occasional activities (defecation, urinating and drinking water) decreased with the addition of 15% of glycerin in the goats' diet. Lactic acid had a significant effect (p < 0.001) with the addition of 15% glycerin. Diets for dairy goats with 15% glycerin did not change the consumption of dry material, neutral detergent fiber, nor did they change the ingestive behavior of these animals. The levels of globulin, protein, albumin/globulin, glucose, cholesterol, urea, triglycerides, cortisol, and T4 variables were significantly influenced (p < 0.05) by the addition of glycerin in the diet. Keywords: Agv's glycerin; rumination; idleness; defecation; water.
The existing literature has yet to examine the system-wide effects of idleness and participation in prison-based work and programing on multiple post-release outcomes. Using a sample of more than ...77,000 releases from Minnesota prisons between 2010 and 2021, we examined the relationship between participation in prison labor and programing on post-release employment, recidivism, and mortality. The findings suggest that how people spend their time in prison significantly affects their chances of finding a job, their likelihood of recidivism, and how long they live following release from prison. As involvement in work and/or programing increased, the people released from prison were more likely to find employment while also having a reduced risk for recidivism and mortality.
Jakob Fabian, the protagonist of Erich Kästner’s 2013 novel Der Gang vor die Hunde Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten, 1931, is examined in this article as a pessimistic idler, a flâneur ...experiencing a crisis. Fabian’s position in the society of the late Weimar Republic is understood as a reaction to the completely rationalized, economized character of the depicted world—especially Berlin—and to the experiences of an entire generation. It becomes clear that a fulfilling existence as a ‘good-for-nothing’ is no longer possible in the contemporary context. Moreover, the examination of the impressions Fabian gained on his forays through Berlin and his hometown not only allows us to grasp his perception of the crisis-ridden nature of the times, but also contributes to outlining the literary type of the unemployed white-collar worker.
•Single-machine scheduling problem with affine idleness cost is formulated and solved.•The proposed dynamic programming algorithm for the timing sub-problem is highly efficient.•Polynomial complexity ...analysis extends previous theoretical results to a nonconvex cost setting.•Early discarding policy utilizes the problem cost structure and improves the genetic algorithm.•The proposed hybrid solution approach scales well to large problem instances.
We study a single-machine scheduling problem which minimizes total earliness, tardiness and idleness costs. In this problem, n jobs with job-specific due dates and processing times need to be processed in a non-preemptive fashion. We assume that when the idle time between two jobs is strictly positive, an idleness cost will be generated which is affine in the idle time. A hybrid solution approach is designed by integrating a tailored dynamic programming (TDP) algorithm for the exact timing solution and a customized Genetic Algorithm with restarts and early discarding (GARED) as the sequencing heuristic. By bounding the number of segments of the optimal cost function, we show that the proposed TDP algorithm has a low time complexity of O(n2) despite the non-convexity of the idleness cost function. In GARED, we utilize the monotonicity in the optimal cost in TDP to design a fast-screening scheme called Early Discarding which identifies and abandons an unpromising sequencing solution by evaluating only a short starting sub-sequence. Restarts are allowed to make the algorithm more robust in the case of premature local convergence of one evolutionary trial. Experimental results show that GARED significantly outperforms the basic elitist GA with or without restarts under most problems tested. Our hybrid method also scales well to large problem instances with n=300 and achieves similar or better performance compared to an exact algorithm in the literature, but the latter only applies to problems with integer-valued time parameters and no idleness cost in between the jobs.
There are many apparent reasons why people engage in activity, such as to earn money, to become famous, or to advance science. In this report, however, we suggest a potentially deeper reason: People ...dread idleness, yet they need a reason to be busy. Accordingly, we show in two experiments that without a justification, people choose to be idle; that even a specious justification can motivate people to be busy; and that people who are busy are happier than people who are idle. Curiously, this last effect is true even if people are forced to be busy. Our research suggests that many purported goals that people pursue may be merely justifications to keep themselves busy.
To evaluate the ingestive behavior of sheep confined and fed with substitution levels of soybean meal (SM) by detoxified castor cake (DCC). We adopted a completely randomized design, with four levels ...of substitution (0; 33; 67 and 100%) with five replicates (sheep). We estimated the percentages of total times of intake of feed, time of rumination, in ‘other activities’, in idle agreed and in idle sleeping, dividing the day into eight periods (5h00 to 8h00; 8h01 to 11h00; 11h01 to 14h00; 14h01 to 17h00; 17h01 to 20h00; 20h01 to 23h00; 23h01 to 2h00 and 2h01 to 5h00). No interaction was observed between levels of substitution of the SM by DCC and period of the day to go. However, the isolated effect period of the day, there is more time to go from 8h00 to 11h00. The time rumination was not influenced by the levels of substitution of the SM by DCC. As for the variable other activities, the level of 67% DCC was superior to that of 100%. Regarding the variables idle agreed and idle sleeping, were not observed effects of substitution levels of SM by DCC. The DCC provides no changes in the behavior of the sheep, but the period of the day exerts influence on the behavioral pattern of such animals.
Customers have since long received service from various machines, and this development is expected to accelerate when AI‐powered synthetic agents—such as chatbots and embodied service robots—become ...more common. Existing research on customers' interactions with service machines is typically focused on perceptions of machine attributes when the machine is busy. However, many machines are idle for a considerable time (i.e., they are not used), and little is known about consumer perceptions of machine idleness—despite the fact that idle machine behavior can contribute to the user experience, too. In the present study, it is assumed that (a) idleness and busyness represent differently valenced states in a human‐to‐human context (i.e., idleness is more negatively charged than busyness for most humans). It is also assumed that (b) anthropomorphism can occur in relation to a service machine, and that (c) beliefs about idleness and busyness from a human‐to‐human context can carry over and inform views of machines' minds. Three experiments were conducted to explore these assumptions, and they show that an idle service machine is attributed less positively charged mind states than a busy service machine. The results also show that such attribution activities affect the overall evaluation of the service machine.
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