This paper deals with the problem of estimating an appropriate hand posture to grasp an object, from 2D object’s visual cues in a many-to-many (objects,grasp) configuration. A statistical learning protocol implementing vector-valued regression is adopted for both classifying the most likely grasp type and estimating the hand posture. An extensive experimental evaluation on a publicly available ...

BACKGROUND The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement recently proposed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-specific process measures. However, information about hospital performance on these measures and the association of PCI process and outcomes measures are not available. METHODS AND RESULTS We linked the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry with Me...

six-sigma has some measures which measure performance characteristics related to a process. in most of the traditional methods, exact estimation is used to assess these measures and to utilize them in practice. in this paper, to estimate some of these measures, including defects per million opportunities (dpmo), defects per opportunity (dpo), defects per unit (dpu) and yield, a new algorithm ba...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In the United States and elsewhere, stroke performance measures have been developed to monitor and improve the quality of care. The process by which these measures are developed, implemented, and evaluated is complex, evolving, and not widely understood. We review the methodological development of stroke performance measures in the United States. METHODS A literature se...

Abstract Metacognition is important for successful goal-directed behavior. It consists of two main elements: metacognitive knowledge and online awareness. Online awareness monitoring self-regulation. Metacognitive sensitivity the extent to which someone can accurately distinguish their own correct from incorrect responses an aspect Research into interplay between these elements currently lackin...

IMPORTANCE Dermoscopy permits the detection of early-stage melanomas but is difficult to learn. It is important to develop effective teaching methods. Spaced education is a methodology within the field of adaptive learning that uses online tools to reinforce long-term retention. OBJECTIVES To determine whether a spaced education dermoscopy module improved dermoscopy skills in the continuing m...

We show that the full version of the so-called ‘rural hospital theorem’ generalizes to many-to-many matching problems where agents on both sides of the problem have substitutable and weakly separable preferences. We also show that when agents’ preferences satisfy substitutability, the domain of weakly separable pref-