Many participants in the movement had been involved in previous political demonstrations, and far from being spontaneous, the Occupy Wall Street protests were carefully planned.
"The demonstrations had moved from being non-violent protests to a minority of violent protestors who were making a lot of noise and problems.
"This is the very first experimental demonstration" that females benefit from being choosy, says evolutionary biologist Tommaso Pizzari of the University of Oxford, U.K., and "sheds some new light on the adaptive significance of female preference".
The call for peaceful demonstration from organisers was defied by a small group who clashed with riot officers near the Place de la Republique.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has implied that the permit hinged on the demonstration's being dropped from the block party program.
"Moral certainty" is our mode of thinking when we draw ideas by demonstration from premises that are a mix of knowledge and belief; "opinion" is our mode of thinking when we hold ideas drawn either by bad argument or by an argument in which confused ideas serve as premises.
The performance of PSL as a method for learning from demonstration is evaluated with, and without, contextual information.
Our second algorithm, abstraction and decomposition from demonstration (ADA), is additionally able to determine a task decomposition from the demonstrations.
Two major challenges with Learning from Demonstration (LfD) are to identify what information in a demonstrated behavior requires attention by the robot, and to generalize the learned behavior such that the robot is able to perform the same behavior in novel situations.
