The reader will observe that our customary "P’s and Q’s" column has been changed to a "P’s and R’s" commentary this time, in keeping with the general theme of disability in this issue. When mortality is being studied, survival (’P) and death rate (Q) are among the measures commanding attention. When morbidity is being assessed, P becomes event-free survival, the inverse of some event-rate R for...

Despite rapid advancements in dexterity and mechanical design, the utility of humanoid robots outside of a controlled laboratory setting is limited in part due to the complexity involved in programming robots to grasp common objects. There exists a need for an efficient method to command high degree-of-freedom (DoF) position-controlled dexterous manipulators to grasp a range of objects such tha...

We present a novel multimodal system for creating and commanding groups of robots from a population. Extending our previous work on dynamically creating groups of robots using face engagement and voice commands, we show that we can identify an individual or a group of robots using haptic stimuli, and name them using a voice command (e.g. “You two, join Green”). Subsequent commands can be addres...

MUSCULAR CONTRACTIONS LEAD to a large (2) and rapid (14) increase in muscle perfusion, providing a challenging field of research for over a century. A particular challenge has been deciphering the mechanism(s) that regulate the increase in vascular conductance that, in turn, enables the large change in muscle perfusion. To further complicate the problem, the mechanism(s) regulating blood flow c...

The active imperative sentences often tend to sound harsh. sentence has a commanding meaning and ends with an exclamation mark. In the Indonesian language, be more polite, uses word politeness different structure. These polite are called passive sentences. Changing can done mathematically through several stages. stages determining set of word, types, using binary operations obtain rules for cha...

In the torpedo attack, appropriate firing distance is key to ensure hit target, it’s necessary used within maximum distance. Therefore, under premise of known conditions, determine and be familiar with factors that affect value influencing rules each factor. Based on model acoustic homing torpedo, expression established, main affecting are obtained. Through simulation, influence analyzed quanti...

The benefits associated with structural control include the mitigation of undesired structural responses and reduction in the probability of damage to structural components during seismic events. Structural control systems in current use depend on extensive wired communication systems to connect sensors and actuators with a centralized controller. While wired architectures are appropriate when ...