Computer science students who take a network programming or system administration class that involves a hands-on lab are generally not given administrative rights on lab machines because universities have security policies in place to protect the integrity of the network infrastructure. The research community is beginning to address this by applying Virtual Machine (VM) technology such as VMwar...

We present a method for autonomous learning of dextrous manipulation skills with robot hands. We use heuristics derived from observations made on human hands to reduce the degrees of freedom of the task and make learning tractable. Our approach consists of learning and storing a few manipulation primitives for a few prototypical objects and then using an associative memory to obtain the require...

This paper presents a research on ideal interaction techniques for augmented reality systems. They have been determined for two different settings. In the ‘lab setting’, the ideal technique should enable the user to work precisely with multiple virtual objects by using real objects, to input large amounts of different types of data. In the ‘action-outdoors setting’, the ideal technique should n...

The College-wide Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science serves six departments and more than 2,400 undergraduate students. The ITL hands-on learning approach places a strong emphasis on enhancing engineering education through the integration of experiments that use computerized data acquisition, and in...

BACKGROUND Assisting mothers to breastfeed is not easy when babies experience difficulties. In a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), nurses often help mothers by using hands-on-breast without their permission. Little is known about how mothers feel about this unusual body touching. To gain more knowledge from mothers who lived through this experience, this hands-on practice was studied in a NI...

physical development of rural areas can be effective when occur conducted and controlled, and, options are reviewed and evaluated for this purpose before the site selection of them. in the present study using ten villages of khaf county as the study area and identifying the status quo, first identified restrictive criteria involved in the physical development of these villages, and using descri...

introduction: medical professionals are often under the influence of stress due to the responsibility of providing patients with comfort and care.  working conditions in hospitals create much stress and anxiety and can affect the health of staff, especially the nurses.  this study was designed to investigate the job stressors of nursing personnel in the emergency wards of zahedans’ hospitals du...