OBJECTIVE We examined whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale for Children's Handwriting. METHOD The Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration ...

Coordination of reaching with the impaired and non-impaired arm in 10 children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy (SHCP) was examined in a stationary ball and moving ball context. Kinematic data on trunk, arm, and wrist movements, and coordination patterns between joint angles of elbow, shoulder, and trunk, were analyzed to determine how reaching was influenced by impairment and object mot...

Task-based planning problems for multi-agent systems require multiple agents to find a joint plan for a constrained set of tasks. Typically, each agent receives a subset of tasks to complete. Due to task interdependencies, such task allocations induce interdependencies between agents as well. These interdependencies will prevent the agents from making a plan for their subset of tasks independen...

1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; 2Department of Medicine III, University of Munich Hospital Grosshaden, and German Research Center for Environmental Health, Clinical Cooperative Group “Leukemia,” Munich, Germany; 3Mass Spectrometry Facility, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Loma L...

Muscle fatigue results in reduced force generating capacity of individual motor units [1] and increased muscle response time [2]. It may also alter muscle coordination [3] and ultimately affect performance. Some have suggested that under muscular fatigue, subjects alter their coordination strategies to achieve the same task goal [1, 4]. However, adaptations in coordination in response to muscle...

Business coordination is a very active research area, in which the decision-making process of an enterprise is non-trivial. In this paper, we focus on coordination process that involves a third party or mediator, which we call Mediated Business Coordination (MBC). We argue that business rules play an important role in the decision processes involved in MBC. We describe the decision processes in...

In this study, we considered the interacting effects of expertise in gymnastics, the type of support surface and the required frequency of head movement on the emergence of postural modes of coordination. A group of elite female gymnasts and a control group of non-gymnasts were asked to track the fore-aft motion of a target with their heads. Two support surface conditions (a balance beam vs the...