Stick-slip phenomenon is often associated with the control of low velocity motion because of the positional dependancy of friction and negative damping friction that decreases as the motion speed increases. In this paper, smooth low velocity tracking control of a commercial robot joint is demonstrated experimentally using a combination of high gain PID control, fast sampling rate and high posit...

An anthropometric study and dietary investigations were conducted in an Iban community in the Sixth Division of Sarawak. 140 children aged 0 to 6 years, were assessed anthropometrically. Their mean weights and heights were much lower than those of their counterparts in Singapore. 7% of the children were nutritional dwarfs while about 68% were either wasted or wasted as well as stunted. Rice was...

A digital audio effect for real time mixing applications, which dynamically adapts to the multi-channel input, has been implemented. The resulting audio mix is the direct result of the analysis of the content of each individual channel with respect to the other channels. The implementation permits the enhancement of a source with respect to the rest of the mixture by selectivity unmasking its s...

We have measured by cation exchange high pressure liquid chromatography adult hemoglobin (HbA) concentration at birth in 6,123 unselected single newborn individuals. Probably because of the high precision of the analytical method used, we could demonstrate clear a relationship between HbA concentration and, respectively, gestational age and birth weight. We also demonstrated a significant diffe...

SUMMARY Seismic inversion produces model estimates which are at most unique in an average sense. The model resolution matrix quantiies the spatial extent over which the estimate averages the true model. Although the resolution matrix has traditionally been deened in terms of the singular value decomposition of the discretized forward problem, this computation is prohibitive for inverse problems...

In species that live in stable groups, successful management of time budget (i.e., the proportion involved different behaviours) and social relationships has been proposed to be a key variable affecting individual fitness. Such is limited by constraints, which are group size season dependancy. However, link between constraints grooming patterns as means service never studied experimentally. Her...