Background: Esophagectomy is considered to be the main treatment for esophageal malignancies. Among the different methods, transhiatal approach can cause less damage to patients and is widely used however, manipulation of esophagus result in heart rate and blood pressure variations. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in blood pressure and heart rhythm during transhiatal esophagect...

Seamless and minimally invasive three-dimensional interpenetration of electronics within artificial or natural structures could allow for continuous monitoring and manipulation of their properties. Flexible electronics provide a means for conforming electronics to non-planar surfaces, yet targeted delivery of flexible electronics to internal regions remains difficult. Here, we overcome this cha...

In this paper a robotic catching algorithm based on a nonlinear mapping of visual information to the desired trajectory is proposed. The nonlinear mapping is optimized by learning based on constraints of dynamics and kinematics. As a result a reactive and flexible motion is obtained owing to real-time high-speed visual information. Experimental results on catching a moving object using a high-s...

The conscious manipulation of mental representations is central to many creative and uniquely human abilities. How does the human brain mediate such flexible mental operations? Here, multivariate pattern analysis of functional MRI data reveals a widespread neural network that performs specific mental manipulations on the contents of visual imagery. Evolving patterns of neural activity within th...

Multimedia applications can be seen as sets of autonomous parts, independent yet capable of working together. This assumption allows for the construction of multimedia applications in a “connectionist” fashion. In this paper we describe mechanisms for the visual composition of multimedia applications. These mechanisms allow for quick and flexible application construction by direct manipulation ...

This paper describes the structure for a plan library of a service robot intended to perform household chores. The plans in the library are particularly designed to enable reliable, flexible, and efficient robot control, to learn control heuristics, to generalize the plans to cope with new objects and situations. We believe that plans with these characteristics are required for competent autono...

Spectral models provide ways to manipulate musical audio signals that can be both powerful and intuitive, but high-level control is often required in order to provide flexible real-time control over the potentially large parameter set. This paper introduces Metamorph, a new open source library for high-level sound transformation. We describe the real-time sinusoids plus noise plus transients mo...

Wearable antennas can suffer from a variety of mechanical deformations that are induced by the body dynamic. The article analyses how these complex impact performance flexible antenna operating in 5–6 GHz band. Green Coordinates (GC) spatial manipulation technique is used to generate range 2-D deformations, namely spherical, saddle, and twisting deformation. Generating full geometries key enabl...