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Special Issue on Novel Robotics and Control

This special issue focuses on the following topic areas: i Biomimetics and locomotion, ii mobile vehicles, iii human-robot systems and haptic interfaces, and iv novel systems modeling and analysis. We believe that this special issue provides a compilation of the most recent developments in the field of robotics and will be an important source of information for current and future researchers. B...

Special Issue on Intelligent Control and Robotics

The momentum of real industrial applications has accelerated the development of fuzzy control, neural-network based control, evolutionary control etc. During the last decade, several computational intelligence techniques haven been also incorporated into the intelligent robotics research domain. The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2006) gather...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

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It is with great pleasure that I introduce this specia l i s sue of Aging Successfully that focuses on Preventive Gerontology. Aging successfully is dependent on the individual himself or herself. While health professionals can act as a guide through life’s journey, it is only through one’s own efforts that the best outcomes can be assured. This issue provides tools that all of us can use to ag...