This paper presents a review of recent jumpingrobots including the following; the NASA JPLHopper, the Sandia National Laboratories Hopper,the University of Michigan Monopod Jumper,Kagoshima University Pendulum JumpingMachine, Tokyo Institute of Technology Air-hopper, University of Minnesota Scout robot, CaseWestern Reserve University Jumping MiniWhegsTM, and the ...

The environment is filled with emotionally significant information. On a walk in a forest, an individual might encounter a friendly dog or a disgruntled bear. In nearly every social interaction, an individual might be confronted with facial, vocal, and postural signs of emotion. Thus, spouses smile, colleagues frown, children pout, babies gurgle, and students tremble with anxiety or giggle with...

Some authors maintain that open source software processes areparticularly well-suited for delivering good reliability. We discuss thiskind of statement, first clarifying the different measures of reliabilityand of a process’s ability to deliver it that can be of interest, and thenproposing a way of addressing part of it via probabilistic modelling.We present a model of the r...

We present an extension to a comprehensive context model that has been successfully employed in a number of practical conversational dialogue systems. The model supports the task of multimodal fusion as well as that of reference resolution in a uniform manner. Our extension consists of integrating implicitly mentioned concepts into the context model and we show how they serve as candidates for ...

The do-calculus was developed in 1995 to facilitate theidentification of causal effects in non-parametric mod-els. The completeness proofs of [Huang and Valtorta,2006] and [Shpitser and Pearl, 2006] and the graphi-cal criteria of [Tian and Shpitser, 2010] have laid thisidentification problem to rest. Recent explorations un-veil the usefulness of the do-calculus in three ...

We used the teleost Astyanax mexicanus to examine the role of the lens in optic nerve and tectum development. This species is unusually suited for studies of nervous system development and evolution because of its two extant forms: an eyed surface dwelling (surface fi sh) and several blind cave dwelling (cavefi sh) forms. Cavefi sh embryos initially form eye primordia, but the lens eventually d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Self harm is a serious public health problem worldwide. Implicit attitude measures offer a novel method of exploring associations with self harm (SH). Here we used implicit measures in order to (i) examine implicit evaluative and arousal associations with SH (ii) compare the discriminatory power of implicit and explicit attitude measures in a non-clinical sample at hig...

A s evidenced in Paleolithic cave paintings of fi sh dating from 17,000 years ago, human-fi sh interactions have existed for thousands of years (Valladas et al. 2001). The earliest interactions likely involved fi sh as food and were necessarily tied to geographic access (i.e., island or coastal locations). Over time, the establishment of farm fi shing and the emergence of modern capture and tra...