As we push the limit on exploration of uninhabitable environments, human explorers have been increasingly replaced by robots. We have attempted to give these robot explorers a human advantage. To accomplish this task a multifingered ten degree of freedom robot hand has been constructed. The robot’s actions are dynamically controlled by actuator cables attached to radial servomechanisms. Its fun...

84 The Science of Christian Economy S ince we did not desire to narrow our audience to exclude non-specialists in the following matter, the author has chosen to relegate to this appended section the treatment of certain topics relevant to Chapter VI, "The reproduction of man." To indicate the fuller sCIOpe of relevance of the techni­ cal difficulties addressed in this Appendix, we excerpt two p...

The purpose of this work was to extend the verification of Monte Carlo based methods for estimating radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) exams beyond a single CT scanner to a multidetector CT (MDCT) scanner, and from cylindrical CTDI phantom measurements to both cylindrical and physical anthropomorphic phantoms. Both cylindrical and physical anthropomorphic phantoms were scanned on an MDC...

With the introduction of software agents and assistants, the concept of so-called social user interfaces evolved, incorporating natural language interaction, context awareness and anthropomorphic representations of visuals, scales, and degrees of freedom for interactions. Today’s challenge is to build a suitable visualization architecture for anthropomorphic conversational user interfaces, and ...