To provide an overview of molecular and cellular processes involved in erectile dysfunction (ED) with emphasis on circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) and discuss possible nutraceutical means of intervention. A review of literature on Pubmed related to EPC and ED was conducted. Patients with ED appear to possess a reduced number of circulating EPC, which is associated with poor endoth...

This chapter provides an overview of force and tac-tile sensing, with the primary emphasis placed on tactile sensing. We begin by presenting some basic considerations in choosing a tactile sensor and then review of a wide variety of sensor types, including proximity, kine-matic, force, dynamic, contact, skin deflection, thermal and pressure sensors. We also review various transduc-tion methods,...

We introduce Servomatic, a modular system for robot motion control based on calibration-insensitive visual servoing. A small number of generic motion control operations referred to as primitive skills use stereo visual feedback to enforce a speciic task-space kine-matic constraint between a robot end-eeector and a set of target features. Primitive skills are able to position with an accuracy th...

The ep collider HERA is ideally suited to search for new particles which could be produced resonantly via the fusion of the incoming 27.5 GeV electron and a quark from the incoming 920 GeV proton. Particle masses up to the electron-proton centre-of-mass energy, √ s = 318 GeV, are kine-matically accessible. Two collider experiments, H1 and ZEUS, have searched for the production of squarks, the s...

Visoko obrazovanje u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama je po većini kvantita¬tivnih i kvalitativnih pokazatelja najbolje na svetu. Univerziteti Državama, zajedno sa onima Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu, privlače studente ne samo iz Evrope već širom sveta uključujući najmnogoljudnije zemlje rastuće ekonomije poput Kine, Indije, Brazila ili Indonezije. Istovremeno, priznati profesori istraživači mahom rade...

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A simultaneous measurement of the top-quark, W-boson, and neutrino masses is reported for tt events selected in the dilepton final state from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb −1 collected by the CMS experiment in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. The analysis is based on endpoint determinations in kine-matic distributions. When the neutrino and W-boson masses are co...

This paper proposes an Adaptative Multi-Chromosome Evolutionary Algorithm (AMEA) to perform task based design of modular robotic systems. The kine-matic design is optimized by the AMEA which uses both binary and real encoding (for kinematic and con-guration parameters). In the problem considered for illustration, the robotic system consists in a mobile base and a manipulator arm which may be bu...

Asthma is caused by memory Th2 cells that often arise early in life and persist after repeated encounters with allergen. Although much is known regarding how Th2 cells develop, there is little information about the molecules that regulate memory Th2 cells after they have formed. Here we show that the costimulatory molecule OX40 is expressed on memory CD4 cells. In already sensitized animals, bl...