Finding a Way to Participate

Finding a Better Way.

Our patient was Mary (please note that the name has been changed to protect confidentiality). She was a mother to one daughter and 3 sons and a grandmother to 5 young children. She was a sister, a daughter, and a dear friend to many. She was a physical therapist whose patients adored her. We, her daughter and sister, were her caregivers. We experienced Mary’s slow demise firsthand, from October...

Which Way to Turn? Guide Orientation in Virtual Way Finding

In this paper we describe an experiment aimed at determining the most effective and natural orientation of a virtual guide that gives route directions in a 3D virtual environment. We hypothesized that, due to the presence of mirrored gestures, having the route provider directly face the route seeker would result in a less effective and less natural route description than having the route provid...

Finding our way home

Eleven years ago, my wife and I lost our son Callum to cancer. He had just celebrated his 3 birthday at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto where he was undergoing his 3 “rescue” stem cell transplant for his 6 and final chemotherapy cycle, following the surgical removal of a brain tumor. The image above is a plaster imprint of Callum’s untouched foot, and was created on November 11, 2006 – just momen...

A NEW WAY TO EXTEND FUZZY IMPLICATIONS

The main purpose of this paper is to use a new way to extend fuzzy implications $I$ from a generalized sublattice $M$ to a bounded lattice $L$, such that the extended implications preserve many of the considered properties of fuzzy implications on $M$.Furthermore, as a special case, we investigate the extension of $(S,N)-$implications. Results indicate that the extended implications preserve ma...

Membrane reactors: A way to increase efficiency