The machine to be designed and developed with a view to resolve one ofthe irksome problems of this institute has been facing every year. This institute issurrounded by vast non- fertile land area of about 200 acres, which becomes widelyoccupied by numerous breads of bushes and shrubs during post-rainy season. Due tothis unwanted proliferation of such verdant institute gets abysmal look and that...

Цель исследования – выявление особенностей песенно-танцевального творчества осетинских футбольных болельщиков, основанного на элементах традиционной культуры. Материалами послужили личные наблюдения автора за деятельностью лидеров фанатов, результаты исследований российских культурологов и социологов, посвященных осетинской народной культуре, фанатскому движению. Изучена деятельность группы бол...

An important issue in determining current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) support of rehabilitation robotics research is definitional: What constitutes robotics? Certainly, a wide range of devices are incorporating increasingly sophisticated microprocessors for control and identification. In the current context, we define robotics as semiautonomous systems that provide assistance...

Considerable evidence indicates that causal information provides a vital constraint on conceptual representation and coherence. We investigated the role of causal information as a constraint on similarity, exploiting an asymmetry between predictive causal reasoning (given the cause, predict the effect) and diagnostic causal reasoning (given the effect, diagnose the cause). This asymmetry allowe...

Robotics is a technology at the cusp. Long accepted by industry to improve factory quality, performance and efficiency, robotics has for at least three decades been a key technology in engineering industries (automotive, electronics, etc.) for increasing industrial productivity and for competitive manufacturing. After decades of hype and disappointment, robots are at last moving out of the shop...

To navigate successfully, a mobile robot must be able to estimate the spatial relationships of the objects of interest accurately. A SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system employs its sensor data to build incrementally a map of an unknown environment and to localize itself in the map simultaneously. Thanks to recent advances in computer vision and cheaper cameras, vision sensors ha...

In the last years, simple service robots such as autonomous vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers have become commercially available and increasingly common. The next generation of service robots should perform more advanced tasks, such as to clean up objects. Robots then need to learn to robustly navigate, and manipulate, cluttered environments, such as an untidy living room. In this thesis, we focu...

OBJECTIVE To examine the characteristics of children with traumatic amputations and the products associated with these injuries. METHODS Data regarding amputation injuries to children younger than 18 years treated in US emergency departments from 1990 to 2002 were obtained from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. Data included demographics, product involved, and body region in...

their individual seating needs. It can be adjusted in all directions, the height and angle of the arms, the angle of the feet to the back of the chair, the height of the legs, and the front in relation to the back can all be adjusted. It was built essentially for assessment but it was found in using it that it became a valuable piece of equipment within the department; and if a manufacturer cou...