Abstract Soft and flexible strain piezoresistive sensors are gaining interest in wearable robotic applications, but resistance relaxation limits the widespread use of sensors. As soft, flexible, stretchable sensors, they can easily be retrofitted into any existing hand. To understand three different elastomers were used to fabricate soft The experimental results showed that sensor has good line...

Curiosity—the desire for information—underlies many human activities, from reading celebrity gossip to developing nuclear science. Curiosity is well recognized as a human blessing. Is it also a human curse? Tales about such things as Pandora’s box suggest that it is, but scientific evidence is lacking. In four controlled experiments, we demonstrated that curiosity could lead humans to expose th...

Nearest neighbor classification assumes locally constant class conditional probabilities. This assumption becomes invalid in high dimensions due to the curse-ofdimensionality. Severe bias can be introduced under these conditions when using the nearest neighbor rule. We propose an adaptive nearest neighbor classification method to try to minimize bias. We use quasiconformal transformed kernels t...

Techniques for the verification of structural invariants in graph transformation systems typically rely on the derivation of negative application conditions that are attached to graph transformation rules in order to avoid the runtime occurrence of forbidden structural patterns in the system model. In this paper, we propose a practical approach for this derivation process, which produces the re...

The correctness of embedded systems software is of critical importance as invalid states can cause a physical damage to hardware. One of approaches to verification of such systems is using source code analyzers. The Static Driver Verifier Research Platform (SDVRP), which is based on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and represents a tool that systematically analyzes source code and a...

We read with interest the article by Fries and Krishnan about equipoise, design bias and randomized controlled trials [1]. It is important to stress that equipoise is not the principle underlying company-driven clinical trials, which are doubtlessly necessary and useful for medical progress. As a rule, companies’ clinical research departments cannot afford the risk that their hypotheses are inv...

We examined (a) the fraction of and extent to which vaccinations were administered earlier than recommended (age-invalid) or with too short intervals between vaccine doses (interval-invalid) in countries of the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Region and (b) individual- and community-level factors associated with invalid vaccinations using multilevel techniques. Data from the Demographic...

NAND flash-based SSDs utilize out-of-place update to prevent erase operations from blocking regular requests, in the meanwhile, out-of-place update creates a huge amount of invalid pages. Traditional FTLs perceive these invalid pages as useless data and discard them during garbage collection. But given value locality, certain values are likely to appear afterward, resulting in abundant invalid ...

The Iranian government has placed new emphasis on urban renewal through participatory approaches in recent years. The main target areas are called deteriorated urban fabrics, characterized by micro-lots, impenetrability, and lack of sustainability. In Tehran, renovation of deteriorate urban fabrics has been initiated through dedicated neighborhood facilitation offices. This paper analyzes the a...

Although location based applications have been gaining popularity, most positioning devices do not work when in an indoor environment, hindering the development of both mixed and indoor location based applications. In this paper we present a point of interest aware application that shows information to the user that is dependent on his indoor location. To be able to detect the user’s position, ...