Designing a Least Mean Square (LMS) family adaptive algorithm includes solving the wellknown trade-off between the initial convergence speed and the mean-square error in steady state according to the requirements of the application at hands. The trade-off is controlled by the step-size parameter of the algorithm. Large step size leads to a fast initial conver‐ gence but the algorithm also exhib...

one form or another featured twice in the course of one week on the National Television System recently. Whether this means that we have mass media appeal or that we are known by the programme writers as an easy touch is not clear, but the occurrence surely merits a comment in the annals of local hospital events. The week got off to a rousing start with a 'Your Life in Their Hands' programme st...

Key items in the development of a new smart robot generation are explained in light of DLR's recent activities in robotics research. These items are the design of articulated hands, ultra-lightweight links, and joint drive systems with integrated joint torque control, sensory feedback including real-time 3-D vision, learning and skill-transfer, modeling the environment using sensorfusion, and n...

This grime is hard to wash off with water, simply because water molecules are more attracted to one another than they are to oil. Oil and water don't mix; thus, they separate into two. We have been taught this since elementary school, with lots of demonstrations. Oil molecules are large and awkward; they are not polar, so water, a very polar molecule, can’t bond with it. This is why when you ha...

Hands-off legislation, toothless policy statements, unknowing parents, uncaring participants, and unwilling social network intermediaries (SNIs), have conspired to invite impersonation, denigration, sexual or aggressive solicitation, cyber-bullying, and happy slapping to the members of most social networking websites (SNWs). The situation is serious serious because the user-generated content (U...

The interosseous and lumbrical muscles in twenty-five hands of Japanese adult cadavers were dissected. The palmar and dorsal interosseous muscles continued, with few exceptions, into the wing tendons. The dorsal interosseous muscles gave off tendons which pierced the transverse laminae or passed deep to the transverse laminae, and attached to the bases of the proximal phalanges. The palmar inte...

INTRODUCTION Coordination of the tasks of performing chest compressions and defibrillation can lead to communication challenges that may prolong time spent off the chest. The purpose of this study was to determine whether defibrillation provided by the provider performing chest compressions led to a decrease in peri-shock pauses as compared to defibrillation administered by a second provider, i...

Control methods of the commercial prosthetic hands were categorized into three distinct generations by a previous work [1]; first generation used an on-off switch type control scheme for hand motor activation. Second generation hands have ability to adjust thresholds for motor activation, and proportional controllability of motor speed was provided in this generation. In the third generation, c...