The CMDragons team placed second out of twenty-one teams in the Small Size League of RoboCup 2014. In this paper, we present the team’s recent work on the offensive and defensive tactics, low level skills, and state estimation. Among the offensive tactics, we introduce the concept of contingency options for teams of robots in the presence of uncertainty via zone-based, and support attack. We in...

A 10 year old boy presented with straining, weak stream, sense of incomplete voiding, suprapubic discomfort and occasional dribbling of urine for 6 months. General and systemic examinations revealed no abnormality. Urine examination showed plenty of red blood cells (RBCs) and few pus cells; however the culture was sterile. Hematological and biochemical investigations were normal. Ultrasonograph...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and the correlation between LUTS and ED. METHODS We enrolled 1 000 men aged 40 - 80 years with regular sex partners, evaluated their erectile function using IIEF-5, and investigated LUTS among them by International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS). We studied the relationship betwe...

Objective: Although dapoxetine is the only oral pharmacological agent approved for the treatment of premature ejaculation (PE) and is very effective, its discontinuation rate is high compared to PDE5 inhibitors in patients with erectile dysfunction (ED). This study assessed the discontinuation rate of dapoxetine treatment in patients with PE and the reasons for discontinuation a clinical settin...

Fundamental principles and recent methods for investigating the nonlinear dynamics of legged robot motions with respect to control, stability and design are discussed. One of them is the still challenging problem of producing dynamically stable gaits. The generation of fast walking or running motions require methods and algorithms adept at handling the nonlinear dynamical effects and stability ...

The existence of a congenital urinary obstruction may be suggested when routine examination of the newborn infant reveals such signs as enlargement of one or both kidneys, distension of the bladder or slow, dribbling micturition. The paediatrician should also be alerted to the possibility of obstructive uropathy when there are present non-urological congenital anomalies which often secondarily ...

Steering behaviors are a set of motion based reactive procedures used for navigating autonomous agents in their environment. Combinations of steering behaviors can be used to create complex behaviors. One problem inherent to existing approaches to arbitrating between single behaviors is that their combination may lead to suboptimal, undesired, or even catastrophic results in certain situations....

This research investigated stereotype threat effects on women's performance in sports and examined the mediation of this effect by achievement goals. The influence of two stereotypes-relative to the poor athletic ability and the poor technical soccer ability of women-were studied. Fifty-one female soccer players were randomly assigned to one of three conditions, introducing the task as diagnost...

This research develops a learning method for the pass selection problem of midfielders in RoboCup Soccer Simulation games. A policy gradient method is applied as a learning method to solve this problem because it can easily represent the various heuristics of pass selection in a policy function. We implement the learning function in the midfielders’ programs of a well-known team, UvA Trilearn B...

Case Report A male Hindu child, aged 9 years, was admitted to this hospital with the complaint of having difficulty in micturition for 6 years. Previous history.?Since the age of one year dribbling of urine after completion of the act of micturition was noted. When the child was 3 years old a small nodular swelling was noticed in the middle of the scrotum and the child experienced more difficul...