36 To contribute appropriately to voluntary reaching during body motion, vestibular signals must be 37 transformed from a headto a body-centered reference frame. We quantitatively investigated the 38 evidence for this transformation during online reach execution by using galvanic vestibular 39 stimulation (GVS) to simulate rotation about a head-fixed, roughly naso-occipital axis as human 40 sub...

To contribute appropriately to voluntary reaching during body motion, vestibular signals must be transformed from a head-centered to a body-centered reference frame. We quantitatively investigated the evidence for this transformation during online reach execution by using galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to simulate rotation about a head-fixed, roughly naso-occipital axis as human subjects...

This work addresses the problem of resolving kinematic redundancy in legged robots, with the dual goals of maintaining a large reachable workspace and of achieving fast end effector motions in task space. In particular, for robots with four or more legs, gait planning allows for considerable flexibility in the orientation of a stance limb with respect to both body orientation and the ground. By...

PVC frame cutting process by guillotine is a common method that attracted attention of car parts and PVC decorating furniture producers. In this paper, the effects of main parameters such as cutting speed, lubricants and cutting frame holder pressure force on PVC frame section surface smoothness is investigated by experimental methods on a specified PVC frame sample and then by FEM simulation u...

From her erudite postcolonial perspective, Ann Laura Stoler invites historians, social scientists, and scholars from the humanities to look at the racializations and the intimacies generated by empires in the cores, the United States in particular, and to avoid privileging strategies emanating from the metropoles over circuits of people and ideas. She engages scholars not to read the nineteenth...

The objective of the study was to assess the dimensionality of seven linear traits (body condition score, body stature, body length, heart girth, navel height, body depth and flank circumference) in Nguni cows using factor analysis and indicate the relationship between the extracted latent variables and calving interval (CI) and age at first calving (AFC). The traits were measured between Decem...

In [1], Savage described a unified mathematical framework for strapdown inertial navigation algorithm design. The commenting note [2] showed that the " velocity translation vector " (VTV) in the Savage's framework is equivalent to the dual part of an appropriate screw vector in the dual quaternion representation [3] and significantly simplified the VTV rate equation by way of the screw vector r...

The governing equations for electromagneto-thermomechanical systems are well established and thoroughly derived in the literature, but have been limited to small deformations. This assumption provides an “ease” in the formulation: electromagnetic fields are governed in a Eulerian frame, whereby the thermomechanics is solved in a Lagrangean frame. It is possible to map the Eulerian frame to the ...