We describe the current state of ACME, the UBC Active Measurement facility, a telerobotic facility designed for building computational models of everyday physical objects. We show how ACME is being used to acquire models of contact texture (including friction and roughness), contact sounds, and contact deformation.

Physical activity and dietary modification work best. Family involvement, regular weight monitoring, and behavior modification also can help. Regular physical activity decreases long-term weight gain. Decreasing fat intake and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption also may decrease weight gain. Combined dietary and physical activity interventions prevent weight gain. Family involvement hel...

We show that minimal physical contact can increase people’s sense of security and consequently lead them to increased risktaking behavior. In three experiments, with both hypothetical and real payoffs, a female experimenter’s light, comforting pat on the shoulder led participants to greater financial risk taking. Further, this effect was both mediated and moderated by feelings of security in bo...

Purpose Biofield therapies, e.g. External Qigong, Healing Touch, Johrei, Reiki and Therapeutic Touch, commonly combine physical touch and non-physical contact to stimulate healing. Interpretation of such healing as mediated via electromagnetic and/or other types of biofield(s) is confounded by findings that light touch can lessen stress and reduce pain. The present review of human RCTs that rep...

Downscaling of the contact length Lc of a side-contacted carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET) is challenging because of the rapidly increasing contact resistance as Lc falls below 20-50 nm. If in agreement with existing experimental results, theoretical work might answer the question, which metals yield the lowest CNT-metal contact resistance and what physical mechanisms govern the ...

Physical contact between teachers and students in physical education (PE) has been a troubling, complex unsolved issue. Research shown that PE struggle with high levels of fear, insecurity anxiety when it comes to students. However, most the research conducted so far focused on few countries regard dominant no-touch societal discourse related sexual connotations. from other PE-related touch non...

BACKGROUND Prediction of a protein's structure from its amino acid sequence is a key issue in molecular biology. While dynamics, performed in the space of two-dimensional contact maps, eases the necessary conformational search, it may also lead to maps that do not correspond to any real three-dimensional structure. To remedy this, an efficient procedure is needed to reconstruct three-dimensiona...

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