Contact formations have proven useful for programming robots by demonstration for operations involving contact. These techniques require real time recognition of contact formations. Single ended contact formation (SECF) classifiers using only forces/torques measured at the wrist of the robot have been shown to be quite effective for this purpose. To function properly, however, previous SECF cla...

Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Haematology, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Pediatric Oncology/ Hematology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Division of Haematol...

The Internet is sometimes said to be drown in contents. Users of information therefore experience an even more difficulties in identifying the accuracy, relevancy, and interpretability of information. Total Data Quality Management and centralized information intermediary are either too expensive for the vast amount of Internet contents or forcing information consumers to face another problem of...

The present study contributes to the question of school literacy about the brain, with an original survey conducted on Italian students from the 3(rd) to 10(th) grades (n=508). The main goal was to test student's knowledge, attitudes, and interests about neuroscience, to assess needs, prospects, and difficulties in teaching about the brain from elementary to high school. A written questionnaire...

Self-assembly is the fundamental but counterintuitive principle that explains how ordered biomolecular complexes form spontaneously in the cell. This study investigated the impact of using two external representations of virus self-assembly, an interactive tangible three-dimensional model and a static two-dimensional image, on student learning about the process of self-assembly in a group exerc...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To date, no large study has been conducted to investigate baseline stroke awareness within a nationally representative sample of the Korean population. METHODS A total of 1000 residents were randomly sampled according to regional demographic characteristics and were interviewed in person by trained interviewers. Structured, open-ended and close-ended questions were aske...

The study examines potential threats and prospects for the linguistic ecosystem of Balti other local languages spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. researchers employ a mixed-methods approach data is collected from 305 respondents through survey questionnaire developed on Google forms. are either native speakers or use as their second link language. used contains both close-ended open-ended qu...

the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people’s non-participation of mahabad’s dam catchment in watershed management projects. the research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity confirmed by panel of academic staff and reliability of questionnaire was confirmed. the target population of thi...