N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a precursor to the amino acid cysteine, a modulator of the glutamatergic system. Thus, NAC may exert a therapeutic effect in several psychiatric disorders, namely schizophrenia and affective disorders, as well as symptoms and syndromes of the obsessiveimpulsive spectrum (e.g., trichotillomania and other grooming disorders, pathological gambling, and substance misuse). ...

Order picking is one of the most important process steps in logistics. Because of their flexibility, human beings cannot be replaced by machines. But if workers, in order, picking systems are equipped with a head-mounted display, Augmented Reality can improve the information visualization. In this paper, the development of such a system—called Pick-by-Vision—is presented. The system is evaluate...

Self-injurious skin picking is characterized by repetitive, ritualistic, or impulsive skin manipulation that results in tissue damage. It occurs in the absence of an underlying dermatologic condition and causes significant distress or impairment in daily functioning. The present article reviews the clinical characteristics of self-injurious skin picking, methods for assessing this problem, and ...

Picking sequences are a natural way of allocating indivisible items to agents in a decentralized manner: at each stage, a designated agent chooses an item among those that remain available. We address the computational issues of the manipulation of picking sequences by an agent or a coalition of agents. We show that a single agent with additively separable preferences can compute an optimal man...

The Amazon Picking Challenge (APC) [1], held alongside the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May 2015 in Seattle, challenged roboticists from academia and industry to demonstrate fully automated solutions to the problem of picking objects from shelves in a warehouse fulfillment scenario. Packing density, object variability, speed, and reliability are the main complexities o...