This chapter 1 investigates the relation between the two key aspects of intelligent agents: intelligence and agent-hood. EEorts for building general architectures for intelligent agents have typically focussed on one of these aspects. The chapter rst reviews some work on cognitive architectures for intelligence and illustrates how these are being applied to physical agents. Secondly, this chapt...

After birth the umbilicus is the only naturally formed visible scar on the body. To reconstruct a neo-umbilicus following abdominoplasty various local interposition flaps have been described to circumvent a circular scar contracture and to recreate a superior hood. The additional scarring with these techniques can give an operated look to the neo-umbilicus. The importance of gravity in the form...

Address correspondence to: Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University, 1215 21st Ave. So., #8310, Medical Center East, So. Tower, Nashville, TN. 37232-8242. [email protected] Determination of hearing sensitivity for infants below 5–6 months of age depends on objective test methods. Objective appro...

This paper provides an illustrated key to about 40 species of Frankliniella recorded from Brazil, together with notes about each species. Two new synonyms are established: Frankliniella longispinosa Moulton is a synonym of Frankliniella varipes Moulton; Frankliniella rodeos Moulton is a synonym of Frankliniella gemina Bagnall, all described originally from South America. One new species is desc...

In this article we investigate the LBB condition for axisymmetric flow problems. Specifically, the sufficiency condition for approximating pairs to satisfy the LBB condition established by Stenberg in the Cartesian coordinate setting is presented for the cylindrical coordinate setting. For the cylindrical coordinate setting, the Taylor-Hood (k = 2) and conforming Crouzeix-Raviart elements are s...

This review discusses two distinct, yet related, mechanisms of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibition: Calorie restriction mimicry (CRM) and pro-ketogenic effect, which may explain their cardiovascular benefits. We term these adaptive CRM and pro-ketogenic effects of SGLT2 inhibition, the Robin Hood hypothesis. In English history, Robin Hood was a "good person," who stole from the ri...