CONTEXT One of the goals of providing manipulative treatment such as osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is to restore maximal, pain-free movement of the musculoskeletal system and to enhance neuromuscular function. Anecdotally, some athletes have reported that their athletic performance improves after manipulative treatment. OBJECTIVE To develop preliminary data to gain more understandi...

Ants balance the use of remembered private information and communicated public information to maximally exploit resources. This work determines how the strategy that best balances these two sources of information, and the performance of that best strategy, depend on the information in the distribution that is available to be exploited, and the number of ants in the colony. We answer this questi...

When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

Twenty first century learners are digital citizen and technologically savvy. This demands the use of innovative teaching strategies that take leverages affordance tools. In this study, effects SymboLab manipulative instruction on students’ performance in quadratic graph has been investigated. Three research questions three hypotheses guided study. The population study consisted all senior secon...

A static analysis of deformable object grasping based on bounded force closure is presented. There are many manipulative operations that deal with deformable objects in manufacturing processes. Manipulative operations for these objects are often performed by utilizing their deformation actively while the operations may result in failure because of unexpected deformation of the objects during th...

Manipulative therapy has known a parallel development throughout many parts of the world. The earliest historical reference to the practice of manipulative therapy in Europe dates back to 400 BCE. Over the centuries, manipulative interventions have fallen in and out of favor with the medical profession. Manipulative therapy also was initially the mainstay of the two leading alternative health c...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...