BACKGROUND There is an ongoing debate on whether consumers of child pornography pose a risk for hands-on sex offenses. Up until now, there have been very few studies which have analyzed the association between the consumption of child pornography and the subsequent perpetration of hands-on sex offenses. The aim of this study was to examine the recidivism rates for hands-on and hands-off sex off...

In this paper, we consider hands-off control via minimization of the CLOT (Combined L-One and Two) norm. The maximum hands-off control is the L-optimal (or the sparsest) control among all feasible controls that are bounded by a specified value and transfer the state from a given initial state to the origin within a fixed time duration. In general, the maximum hands-off control is a bang-off-ban...

'Interactives" have become an integral part of the exhibits of many museums. The term 'interactives' has been used as a shorthand description for interactive multi-media displays based around a computer and operated by an individual. In the Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest museum, the term's usage has been expanded to include manually controlled exhibits that don't use a computer at all. ...

Residual limb shape capturing (Casting) consistency has a great influence on the quality of socket fit. Magnetic Resonance Imaging was used to establish a reliable reference grid for intercast and intracast shape and volume consistency of two common casting methods, Hands-off and Hands-on. Residual limbs were cast for twelve people with a unilateral below knee amputation and scanned twice for e...

There is a lack of consensus regarding the best treatment for chronic pancreatitis (CP). The condition usually presents with pain and, as very little can be done to change the natural history of the disease process, our efforts are directed at improving the quality of life of the patients. The most common associated etiological factor is alcohol addiction or abuse. The personality type of many ...

This paper describes a hands-off therapist robot that assists, encourages, socially interacts, monitors and reminds post-stroke users to use the weaker, stroke-affected limb. We investigate the role of the robot’s personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversion-introversion of the robot and the user. The experimental results show the ...