today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

When grasping an object, a robot must identify the available forms of interaction with that object. Each of these forms of interaction, a grasp affordance, describes one canonical option for placing the hand and fingers with respect to the object as an agent prepares to grasp it. The affordance does not represent a single hand posture, but an entire manifold within a space that describes hand p...

To obtain valid 3D joint angles with inertial sensors careful sensor-to-segment calibration (i.e. functional or anatomical calibration) is required and measured angular velocity at each sensor needs to be integrated to obtain segment and joint orientation (i.e. joint angles). Existing functional and anatomical calibration procedures were optimized for gait analysis and calibration movements wer...

To provide efficient tools for the capture and modeling of acceptable virtual human poses, we propose a method for constraining the underlying joint structures based on real life data. Current tools for delimiting valid postures often employ techniques that do not represent joint limits in an intuitively satisfying manner, and furthermore are seldom directly derived from experimental data. Here...

Abstract Aiming at the problem of multi-view high-resolution range profile (HRRP) target recognition under open set conditions, we proposed an method based on joint sparse representation (JSR), which solves low rate traditional methods conditions. This is applied to background radar single-station observation. JSR used solve reconstruction error HRRP by over-complete dictionary, while extreme v...

Abstract The present work proposes a solution to the challenging problem of registering two partial point sets same object with very limited overlap. We leverage fact that most objects found in man-made environments contain plane symmetry. By reflecting points each set respect symmetry, we can largely increase overlap between and therefore boost registration process. However, prior knowledge ab...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to perform a quantitative evaluation of the effect of static magnetic field orientation on cartilage transverse (T2) relaxation time in the intact living joint and to determine the magnitude of the magic angle effect on in vivo femoral cartilage. MATERIALS AND METHODS Quantitative T2 maps of the femoral-tibial joint were obtained in eight asymptomatic m...

Although it is widely held that colour and form are processed separately in early visual cortex, there is growing evidence that primary visual cortex (V1) may show some joint selectivity for orientation and colour. Colour is supplied to V1 via two very different pathways: the parvocellular pathway (which also supports detailed form processing) carries L-M ("red-green") chromatic information, wh...

This paper addresses the problem of three-dimensional speaker orientation estimation in a smart-room environment equipped with microphone arrays. A Bayesian approach is proposed to jointly track the location and orientation of an active speaker. The main motivation is that the knowledge of the speaker orientation may yield an increased localization performance and vice versa. Assuming that the ...