While complex hands seem to offer generality, simple hands are often more practical. This raises the question: how do generality and simplicity trade off in the design of robot hands? This paper explores the tension between simplicity in hand design and generality in hand function. It raises arguments both for and against simple hands; it considers several familiar examples; and it proposes a c...

in multi-step organic syntheses, the protection and deprotection of tetrahydropyranyl (thp) ethers is one of the most frequently used methods. over the years, different methods have been used from various catalytic systems for the protection of hydroxyl groups as thp ethers and their deprotection. herein we have reported that various alcohols and phenols have been efficiently converted to the c...

The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991) is an often-used device for assessment of adult antisociality. This research examined generalizability by replicating the 2-factor model for a sample of 326 male prisoners and assessing its congruence and relative reliability and specificity among 620 substance-dependent patients. Generality was assessed also across addiction subtypes ...

Four studies probe Ps sensitivity to absolute and relative savings. In three studies, Ps read scenarios forcing a tradeoff of saving more lives (230 vs. 225) vs. saving a larger proportion of a population (225 ‚ 230 = 75% vs. 230 ‚ 920 = 25%). Ps preferences were driven by both absolute and relative savings. Maximizing relative savings, called ‘‘proportion dominance’’ (PD), at the expense of ab...

Various characterizations of distributions, in their generality, are presented in terms of the conditional expectations. Some special  examples are given as well.

This paper studies generality relations on logic programs. Intuitively, a program P1 is more general than another program P2 if P1 gives us more information than P2. In this paper, we define various kinds of generality relations over nonmonotonic programs in the context of answer set programming. The semantic properties of generality relations are investigated based on domain theory, and both a...