This paper presents a novel method to compensate the eeects of exi-bility in belt-driven drive trains. Such drives are found in robot manipulators, for example, where drive exibility is undesirable. Unfortunately, the eeects of exibility can be diicult to compensate using the primary actuator, due to bandwidth limitations. By introducing a second actuator, which applies a force to the belt at a...

Statistical approaches to study the properties of neurons in sensory system ascribe the selectivity of neurons in visual and auditory cortices to regularities of signals in natural environment. “Efficient coding” hypothesis is an outstanding theory that explains the work of sensory system in discarding unnecessary data and supplying higher order brain areas with the most informative features in...

Cloutier, Nyman, and Su (Mathematical Social Sciences 59 (2005), 26–37) initiated the study of envy-free cake-cutting problems involving several cakes. The classical result in this area is that when there are q players and one cake, an envy-free cake-division requiring only q − 1 cuts exists under weak and natural assumptions. Among other results, Cloutier, Nyman, and Su showed that when there ...

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An associative information space contains all information relevant for a person organized using associations. Connecting such information spaces with each other allows the seamless integration of other’s information into our own. We believe this to be highly beneficial for group collaboration because it allows sharing of information in a very natural and efficient way without the need for a uni...

Intelligent rooms are responsive environments in which human activities are monitored and responses are generated to facilitate these activities. Research and development on intelligent rooms currently focuses on the integration of multiple sensor devices with pre-programmed responses to specific triggers. Developments in intelligent agents towards intrinsically motivated learning agents can be...

Contamination with radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine centers in addition to being a health concern requires time-consuming decontamination efforts. According to NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) contamination should be monitored in nuclear medicine centers where radiopharmaceuticals are prepared and administrated at the end of each working session; otherwise, contamination spread...

background and purpose: upon centuries, wars have taken over countries due to theadvancement of sophisticated warfare,causingserious injuries among soldiers. nurses are directly involved in preoperative and postsurgical patient care. one of the most remarkable contributions of the iranian operating room nurses was to provide medical care for wounded soldiers in field hospitals during the iran-i...

background and objectives: efficient cost management in hospitals’ pharmaceutical inventories have thepotential to remarkably contribute to optimization of overall hospital expenditures. to this end, reliable forecasting models for accurate prediction of future pharmaceutical demands are instrumental. while the linear methods are frequently used for forecasting purposes chiefly due to their sim...