Evaluation of Socially-Aware Robot Navigation

As mobile robots are increasingly introduced into our daily lives, it grows ever more imperative that these robots navigate with and among people in a safe and socially acceptable manner, particularly in shared spaces. While research on enabling socially-aware robot navigation has expanded over the years, there are no agreed-upon evaluation protocols or benchmarks to allow for the systematic development and evaluation of socially-aware navigation. As an effort to aid more productive development and progress comparisons, in this paper we review the evaluation methods, scenarios, datasets, and metrics commonly used in previous socially-aware navigation research, discuss the limitations of existing evaluation protocols, and highlight research opportunities for advancing socially-aware robot navigation.

Productive Development Partnership in Brazil

Brazil was one of the first countries to adopt significant health policies to better attend people with HIV. The integrated analysis of the high cost of medicines, public health, and access to medicines comprises an extremely complex task, and Productive Development Partnerships (PDP) was the mechanism used by the Brazilian government, with a view to technological development and training of national production complex. The PDP of atazanavir was formalized in late 2011, and the agreement includes the transfer of technology, manufacturing, and distribution of the drug. The PDP emerges as a solution found by the government to minimize the Ministry of Health drug spending and encourage the local production. However, one should not ignore that there are risks associated with regulatory barriers and problems in negotiations with the holders of technology. Thus, this chapter presents a case study of the successes the management information of the productive development partnerships in Brazil as a collaborative tool for global health.

Productive Development Partnership as a Strengthening of the South-South Relationship

Productive Development Partnership (PDP) established by the Ministry of Health comprehends cooperation, by agreements, between public and private institutions for development, transfer, and absorption of technology regarding strategic products in accordance with the demands of the Unified Health System. The PDP program represents one of the most important initiatives for building an industrial policy and systemic innovation in the health area. It also could promote the strengthening of the national production, public-private integration, favoring the incorporation of new technologies, which were dominated only by big multinational corporations in the private pharmaceutical sector. Additionally, the establishment of a PDP with a pharmaceutical company from a South American country, which is also part of Mercosur, expands the range of interaction beyond those already existing with American, European, and Asian companies, strengthening technical development-scientific of the region that will be able to catalyze the interaction with other companies also from the region.

Productive Development Policies in the Mining Value Chain: Policy Opportunity and Alignment

Natural resources are an important source for development, and Latin America is one of the regions with the highest endowment. This calls for a reconsideration of resource-based development. Ambitious countries are moving toward high-value activities and more diversified economies to continue moving up the development ladder. In this sense, the resurgence of industrial policy can correct market failures and lead to the implementation of mission-oriented policies. This document analyzes opportunities to design and implement integrated policies through a revised taxonomy of mining-related policies, applying it to Australia, South Africa, and Chile. The mining sector has been a fertile field, characterized by high technology niches, growth, and innovation. Demand and supply policies can shape the path for development within the sector and across the economy due to the potential of vertical and horizontal linkages.

The phenomenon of laziness as a risk factor of high school students' fascination with gadgets

In the study presented in the paper, the term passion for computer games and viewing social networks is used as a predictor of computer addiction and, which is not legally defined as addiction, but its blocking effect on the educational activity and productivity of schoolchildren can be stated. The study was carried out in accordance with the ecopsychological model of the formation of subjectivity from the subject of perception to the subject of productive development. The aim was to study the possible links between the passion for computer games and social networks, and such a state of personality, which in everyday consciousness is defined as laziness of schoolchildren. In accordance with the understanding of the formation of subjectivity (the subject of productive development) in the ecopsychological model, the key condition is human activity. We suggested that the lack of activity or passivity of students in grades 8-11 may be a condition for the emergence of excessive enthusiasm for computer games and viewing social networks. Two authors methods were used: Personal characteristics as predictors of abnormal behavior and Laziness or unwillingness to learn, the creation of which is associated with the need to study the intrapersonal causes of passivity or lack of activity in educational activities or the phenomenon of learning laziness in students. The hypotheses are confirmed by the fact that Spearmans correlation coefficients were obtained, showing statistically significant links between computer and social media involvement with all the identified causes of laziness, namely: reduced learning motivation, lack of self-confidence, attitudes that everything does not depend on me, so there is nothing to try, poor health, lack of conscious self-regulation, dissatisfaction with the attitude of teachers. Spearman coefficients from .326 to .421 at p 0.001. In general, the results obtained confirm the theoretical validity of the developed methods and show the validity of their use for psychological and pedagogical support for the development and formation of subjectivity of high school students.

Challenges for innovation in health: the Brazilian experience of Public-Private Partnerships for Productive Development in the Economic Industrial Health Complex and Universal Health Coverage context

Objectives. To provide the conceptual, historical, and normative framework, the analysis of aims and criteria for the establishment of public-private partnerships (Partnerships for Productive Development) in the period of 2009-2020, in the context of the industrial economic complex that serves the Brazilian public health system. Methods. We presented the conceptual, historical, and normative framework of Partnerships for Productive Development using exploratory and documental bibliography to build an introductory contextual narrative review. We analyzed the objectives from its regulatory framework and the guiding normative criteria of these technology transfer projects. We assigned the Public Health Implications with critical analysis for the establishment of the public-private partnerships in the present context. Results. For a decade, technology transfer projects for the production of strategic inputs have been established in Brazil. The regulatory framework is established that includes the procedures, objectives, and criteria. The priority objectives originated in 2009, being the main motivators: expansion of access, productive and technological development in the country, and savings for the Ministry of Health. In 2020, 81 projects were in force, including 75 drugs, vaccines, and blood products and six health product projects. Among the drug partnerships, 33% of the projects are in an effective technology transfer phase. The guidelines and requirements were analyzed in terms of participants, object, intellectual property, schedules, documentation for registration with the National Health Surveillance Agency and certification of production lines, productive integration of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, production process, price, supply capacity, balance exchange, risk analysis, and necessary investments. Conclusions. The Partnerships for Productive Development present critical aspects for their conclusion considering the priority objectives. The difficulties to carry out the technology transfers in progress for the national production of strategic inputs are the maintenance of the economy for federal public purchases, the national industries production, the actions for monitoring and evaluation, and, finally, can be listed, the reconstruction of political and decision-making governance in the context of the Ministry of Health of Brazil.

Prioritization of Alternative Agricultural Products Based on Market Signals as a Tool for the Development of Innovative Projects

The Decentralized Autonomous Government of the province of Chimborazo promotes the agricultural productive development of the province by promoting entrepreneurship, and improving the capacities of producers, access to production factors, and integration of actors and subjects of agriculture and management on the basis to strategic planning. The construction of the Chimborazo Competitiveness Agenda was a participatory process that identified opportunities to improve the agricultural sector, where agricultural production at the primary level was recognized as a vocation and strength of the province; however, a strategic necessity was to establish possibilities of adding value and diversifying agricultural production. The definition of a set of agricultural products with high potential at the primary level and/or in agroindustrial processes that are not deeply explored required determining market signals to identify new medium- and long-term commercial possibilities for Chimborazo farmers. Additionally, it was recognized that the management of the province of Chimborazo was based on its management of the Millennium Development Goals, the Constitution of the Republic, the National Plan for Development in a Supra-Provincial Framework, as well as the Plan Development of Chimborazo, the Territorial Planning Plan and others that promoted planning with a focus on territorial and solidarity sustainable development. Keywords: Chimborazo, productive development, entrepreneurship, agricultural sector. Resumen El Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado de la Provincia de Chimborazo impulsa el fomento productivo agrícola de la provincia mediante la promoción del emprendimiento, el mejoramiento de las capacidades de los productores, acceso a factores de producción, integración de los actores y sujetos del agro y gestión en base a una planificación estratégica. Como parte de dicho accionar, la construcción de la Agenda de Competitividad Chimborazo fue un proceso participativo que identificó oportunidades para mejorar el sector agrícola, donde se reconoció la producción agrícola a nivel primario como una vocación y fortaleza de la provincia, no obstante, una necesidad estratégica fue el establecer posibilidades de agregación de valor y de diversificar la producción agrícola. La definición de un conjunto de productos agrícolas con alto potencial a nivel primario y/o en procesos agroindustriales que no están profundamente explorados requirió determinar señales de mercado para identificar posibilidades comerciales nuevas a mediano y largo plazo para los agricultores de Chimborazo. Adicionalmente, se reconoció que la gestión de la provincia de Chimborazo tuvo como base los Objetivos del Milenio, la Constitución de la República, el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo en un marco supra-provincial, así como el Plan de Desarrollo de Chimborazo, el Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial y otros en su conjunto que promovieron una planificación con un enfoque de desarrollo sostenible territorial y solidario. Palabras clave: Chimborazo, fomento productivo, emprendimiento, sector agrícola.

History training: a time of lost opportunities

The article analyzes the problem of Ukraine's independence. Independence is viewed in two ways: as a formal legal act and as the real sovereignty of the people. The acquisition of real sovereignty is seen as a process of achieving social maturity (education) of the people in the course of its history. Shows the genealogy of the idea of an independent state and its connection with the era of modernity. The idea of state independence is not inherent in either the political consciousness or the practice of most of the era of civilization until the beginning of modernity. The thesis is substantiated that independence is an important social task of modern Ukrainian society, and not a fact of its life. The political and legal basis of independence is the sovereignty of the people. It is declared by the constitution, but did not take place de facto. The limited sovereignty of the people is associated with the usurpation of power and property in Ukraine by a closed ruling corporation. The article analyzes three main social forces that determined the development of the country during the period of independence. They are: the selfish interest of the new ruling class, the state aspiration of the protest movement (it is usually called national democratic) and the inertia of Soviet life of the bulk of the population. There is a meaningful connection between the way of governing in the Soviet system and the regime of the dominant corporation in contemporary Ukrainian history. The key feature of the ruling corporation is the implicit, hidden nature of its dominance. This destroys productive social dynamics, creates the preconditions for social collapse. Recently, after the second Maidan, there has been a lawsuit between the people – civil society – and the corporation of rulers and its social satellites for the organization of public life. It is concluded that only the elimination of the privileged position of the ruling corporation opens up the prospect of real democracy and the productive development of Ukraine in a globalized world.

Analisis Manajemen Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Wakaf Produktif di Pondok Pesantren Darussalam Ciomas Bogor

Discussed about how research management and development waqf productive in Islamic boarding school darussalam bogor ciomas this study in use of kualittatif in descriptive where made Islamic boarding school darussalam bogor ciomas ciomas as a research.Research show that Islamic boarding school darussalam ciomas bogor of west java in management and use the waqf productive manjerial arise by using basic management for management waqf productive development and do with some effort of them are development through istibdal, coordination with third party, development through purchase assets from the wakif and development through the provision of new wakif assets..

Intuit of training and the failure of associations of rural producers in the district of Nicoadala / Intuição da formação e o fracasso das associações de produtores rurais no distrito de Nicoadala

The article demonstrates the purpose of training and the failure of most associations of rural producers in the district of Nicoadala, Zambezia province in Mozambique, in the center of the country. In order to compare the origin and the purpose of some associations operating in the district mentioned above, in relation to associations of rural producers with a focus on developed countries, this article excludes in this article, the difference of training, the way of driving the activities of the associations and their productive success. The characteristic dimensioning is also done; and the conditions that mark the differences in the success and failure of the associations in both countries are analyzed, finally, the conditions that do not favor the productive development of the associations of the district are criticized.