The article presents a neural architecture for gesture-based interaction between a mobile robot and its user. One of the main goals of our research is the greatest possible robustness of the intelligent interface under highly varying environmental conditions. After a short introduction of our mobile robot, a discussion of a reliable operation scenario and the motivation for a gesture-based dial...

Bodensteiner KJ. Emergency contraception and RU-486 (mifepristone): do bioethical discussions improve learning and retention? Adv Physiol Educ 36: 34–41, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00122.2011.—To systematically investigate whether the inclusion of a bioethical discussion improves the learning and retention of biological content, students in two sections of an introductory zoology class were taught...

1 " I don't see any principled way to distinguish linguistics from neurolinguistics any more than one can distinguish chemistry from physical chemistry in principle. These may be useful distinctions for temporary purposes, but one looks forward to erosion of such boundaries as understanding progresses. My own view has always been that the part of the study of language relevant here is in princi...

The objectives of the study were to (i) investigate whether short term mineralization varies to a greater extent by charring organic matter (OM) or by exposure to different mineral surfaces, (ii) examine the effect of clay mineralogy on mineralization of either charred or uncharred OM and (iii) quantify these differences in mineralization in the context of C evolution during charring. Mineraliz...

Communicative moves and lexical cohesion patterns (LCPs), as mounting evidence shows, are two important indicators in writing and publishing the RAs. However, the interaction between these two crucial elements and the contribution of this interaction to the failure or success of the RAs have not been given due attention to date. Having this in mind and based on a sound theoretical framework, at...

Much has been written in the past few decades about the reasons why many research articles (RAs) do not find their ways into well-established academic journals. While some doubt viable comparison between "big" English-language journals (to use Swales' 2004 words) or international journals (IJs) and "small" ones published in other local languages, there is still a good many reasons to hope for t...

This chapter discusses the central physical phenomena involved in music. The aim is to provide an explanation of the related issues in an understandable level, without delving unnecessarily deep in the underlying mathematics. The chapter is divided in two main sections: musical sound sources and sound transmission to the observer. The first section starts from the definition of sound as wave mo...

The Regularity Method for hypergraphs is a newly emerging technique that grew out of the famous Regularity Lemma of Szemerédi for graphs [53]. The purpose of this Focused Research Group was to bring together the experts who developed the Regularity Method for hypergraphs with some other leading researchers in extremal hypergraph theory, so that all participants could learn the technical details...