The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) recently started a project on Modular Robotics for the future Learning Centre of the EPFL: Roombots, Modular Robotics for adaptive and self-organising furniture. It intends to design modular robots for furniture with ability for locomotion, self-assembling, self-organisation, self-reconf...

Traditional approaches to semantics give a logical, settheoretic account of category conjunction, where an item is a member of a conjunction A&B only if it is a member of both single categories A and B. However, people do not always follow this logical approach when classifying items in conjunctions. For example, Hampton (1988) found that people typically classify blackboards as non-members of ...

In the last few years the market of robotics has significantly changed and the growing sector of service robotics requires new considerations in civil engineering. This paper investigates different room and furniture arrangements in the view of mobile robot navigation requirements. The described method provides robot motion and path planning cost functions for different furniture arrangements a...

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The Eighteenth Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, addressed to the Right Honourable Richard A. Cross, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been duly presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, and thereafter published for the information of anyone interested in the management and disposal of the i...

The purpose of tables and figures is to report data too numerous or complicated to be described adequately in the text and/or to reveal trends or patterns in the data. Tables and figures are critical. If readers go beyond the abstract, they are likely to examine the tables and figures next. Before writing the first draft of your manuscript, it is important to organize the data you plan to prese...

This Supplemental Material comprises eight appendixes: Appendix A proves the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium prices; Appendix B presents a detailed description of the data used in the paper; Appendix C considers four alternative search frameworks; Appendix D considers three alternative complete information frameworks that may be consistent with the observe empirical patterns; Appendix E...

Cultural Heritage scientists need methodologies to examine Art and Archaeology in order to understand artistic materials and techniques and devise better conservation procedures. This review discusses the most successful and promising applications of Terahertz (THz) technology in Cultural Heritage Science. THz is used in homeland security and for plenty of other industrial sectors and it presen...

A new gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric (GC/MS) method was developed to detect 2-methylanthraquinone (2-MeA) in wood dust. 2-MeA is present in teak wood (a suspected human carcinogen) but not in oak, beech, mahogany, birch, ash or pine. The method involved collection of workplace dust on filters and extraction of 2-MeA with methanol and GC/MS analysis. The method was tested on teak wood du...

Previous work by the author used Markov Latent Class Analysis (MLCA) to make aggregate estimates of the underreporting of household expenditure by category (e.g. clothes, furniture, and electricity) by exploiting the four interview, rotating panel design of the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey (CE). This analysis collapsed a few years of the CE into a pooled single panel. Estimates from th...