Compliance in robot hands has been shown to enhance grasping performance and robustness. This paper presents analysis and experiments to show that compliance also enables measurement of important object parameters using simple joint angle sensors. Compliance reduces control requirements so that it is easy to trace object surfaces, while joint angle measurements can reveal contact locations and ...

This is based on joint work with R. T. Seeley. The introduction presents the problem of parameter-dependent calculi for do's and the question of trace asymptotics for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer operators. Chapter 2 establishes relations between the three operator functions: resolvent, heat operator and power operator (zeta function). Chapter 3 explains our parameter-dependent do calculus with weak po...

in most contemporary legal systems, beside of the ostensible commercial company, there are somekind of occult commercial company, like 'joint ventures, in english law and societe en participation, in franch law, that is necessary for both internal and international commercial practice. in our legal system there is not a legal commercial institution for the same purpose. in modern time with...

We rst exhibit in the commutative case the simple algebraic relations between the algebra of functions on a manifold and its in nitesimal length element ds. Its unitary representations correspond to Riemannian metrics and Spin structure while ds is the Dirac propagator ds = | = D 1 where D is the Dirac operator. We extend these simple relations to the non commutative case using Tomita's involut...

Axial length (AL) is a significant indicator of eyeball development, but reports on the overall status of axial development in congenital cataract (CC) patients and its relationship with patient demographics, such as age, sex, and laterality, are rare. We prospectively investigated the AL of 1,586 patients ≤ 18 years old and undergoing cataract surgery in China from January 2005 to December 201...

This study attempted to develop a formula for predicting maximum muscle strength value for young, middle-aged, and elderly adults using theoretical Grade 3 muscle strength value (moment fair: Mf )-the static muscular moment to support a limb segment against gravity-from the manual muscle test by Daniels et al. A total of 130 healthy Japanese individuals divided by age group performed isometric ...

AIM It has been suggested that during running proper coordination between subtalar pronation/supination and knee flexion/extension via tibial rotation is important to attenuate ground reaction impact forces (GRIF). Lack of coordination over time may produce a wide range of injuries. It was hypothesized that increasing stride length would result in higher GRIF. It was also hypothesized that alte...

The tremendous storage space required for a useful data base of memory reference traces has prompted a search for trace compaction techniques. PDATS is the standard trace format used in the NMSU TraceBase, a widely used archive of memory and instruction traces. The PDATS family of trace compression techniques achieves trace coding densities of about six references per byte with no loss of refer...

We consider the combinatorial properties of the trace of a random walk on the complete graph and on the random graph G(n, p). In particular, we study the appearance of a fixed subgraph in the trace. We prove that for a subgraph containing a cycle, the threshold for its appearance in the trace of a random walk of length m is essentially equal to the threshold for its appearance in the random gra...

Weanling crossbred pigs (Sus scrofa; 72 barrows and 72 gilts; BW = 7.4 ± 1.1 kg) were used to evaluate dietary supplemental trace mineral (Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn) source (inorganic vs. organic) and deletion (0, 2, 4, and 6 wk preharvest) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and pork quality. Pigs were blocked by BW, ancestry, and sex, and randomly allotted to 24 pens, and fed a diet cont...