Many educational institutions have adopted e-learning under COVID-19 pandemic to maintain school teaching activities. Most teachers were encouraged use online instruction in early February 2020. Thus, whether learning changes students’ habits and replaces traditional physical methods, has become a keen topic. Based on the push–pull–mooring model, we proposed comprehensive research model explore...

The pursuit of higher levels autonomy and versatility in robotics is arguably led by two main factors. First, as we push robots out the labs production lines, it becomes increasingly challenging to design for all possible scenarios that a particular robot might encounter. Second, cost designing, manufacturing, maintaining such systems prohibitive.

Continuing the Push for Cost Reductions The single most important issue in health care is eliminating unnecessary medical spending. Health costs have traditionally increased at 1% to 2% annually above the growth of the economy. Long-term financial security requires the growth in cost to slow to economic growth or less. With about one-third of medical spending estimated to be wasted, achieving l...

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We present methods for extracting a fast indicator for push-recovery strategy selection from the data of an inertial measurement unit mounted on a human or humanoid torso. The methods serve the purposes of detecting the beginning, the direction and intensity of the push as well as predicting the feasible recovery strategy. We test our methods on a dataset of 78 push-recovery trials collected wi...

A coupled oscillator array using push-push oscillators and resonator type coupling circuits is presented. In the proposed oscillator array, the coupling circuit operates at the fundamental frequency and the output signal is the 2nd harmonics. The adjacent oscillators are connected via the coupling circuits. The coupling circuit is used to synchronize the oscillators and control the phase differ...

In this paper we describe the OnEQL system, a query engine that implements optimization techniques and evaluation strategies to speed up the evaluation time of querying and reasoning services in the Semantic Web. To identify execution plans that reduce the cost of evaluating a query, we developed a twofold optimization strategy that combines cost-based optimization and Magic Sets techniques. In...

Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) assumes that demonstrations are the solution to an optimal control problem with unknown underlying costs, and extracts parameters of these underlying costs. We propose the framework of Inverse KKT, which assumes that the demonstrations fulfill the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of an unknown underlying constrained optimization problem, and extracts parameters of thi...

In 2004, the NIH set a remarkable challenge: the 1000 dollars genome. Roughly speaking, success would provide, by 2015, the ability to sequence the complete genome of an individual human, quickly and at an accessible price. An intermediate goal of a 100,000 dollars genome was set for 2010. While the cost of Sanger sequencing has dropped dramatically over the past two decades, it is unlikely tha...