The way we represent intentions, behaviors, and the spatial context, is crucial for any approach to mobile intention recognition. Formal grammars are cognitively comprehensible and make expressiveness properties explicit. By adding spatial domain knowledge to a grammar we can reduce parsing ambiguities. We argue that there are a number of mobile intention recognition problems which require the ...

Introduction Gears are highly engineered machine elements that must be designed not only to meet the torque, speed, life and noise requirements under nominal conditions, but also to compensate for adverse effects due to manufacturing errors, variations and elastic deformations of the support structures. In addition to the elastic deformation of the support and structures, manufacturing errors i...

The pathophysiological role of the central dopaminergic mechanism in human essential hypertension (EHT) is still unknown, so we investigated a possible relationship between the central dopaminergic activity and salt sensitivity to blood pressure in patients with EHT. We divided 22 inpatients with EHT into salt-sensitive (SS, n = 11) and non-salt-sensitive (NSS, n = 11) groups according to an 8%...

OBJECTIVE To examine articular cartilage of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint and distal sesamoidean impar ligament (DSIL) as well as the deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) for adaptive responses to contact stress. SAMPLE POPULATION Specimens from 21 horses. PROCEDURE Pressure-sensitive film was inserted between articular surfaces of the DIP joint. The digit was subjected to a load. Fin...

In a microgrid (MG), it is possible to have some sensitive loads that require high voltage quality. In this paper, a new technique is proposed for selective compensation of main voltage harmonics in islanded MGs. The proposed technique is capable of adjusting the compensation percentage in proportion with the existing disturbance in the sensitive load bus (SLB) and sharing the compensation work...

Pressure sensitive mounting tapes provide a quick and effective fastening method compared to most mechanical joining techniques. Due to the viscoelastic nature of pressure sensitive adhesives their response to mechanical and climatic stress in terms of durability is different from most structural adhesives. While the feature of compensating differences in thermal expansion of bonded members and...

Application Routing Load Balancing (ARLB) is the novel load balancing mode that combines QoS routing and load balancing in per application for support QoS for real-time application based on wired network. Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) is a recent hybrid proactive/reactive routing approach in an attempt to achieve scalability of ad-hoc network. This routing approach has the potential to be efficie...

In Elastography, strain estimation has been shown to be far more reliable compared to the elastic properties obtained using reconstruction techniques. In this study, to make the method less sensitive to noise in the experimental data and inspired by the clinical practice of palpation (i.e., the use of sequential finger loading), we investigated the effect of using several different smaller quas...

BACKGROUND EEG studies of working memory (WM) have demonstrated load dependent frequency band modulations. FMRI studies have localized load modulated activity to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), and posterior parietal cortex (PPC). Recently, an EEG-fMRI study found that low frequency band (theta and alpha) activity negatively correlated with the BOLD ...