in order to design and manufacturing some postharvest equipment, determination of some hydrodynamic properties of crops are necessary. the quality of products in global and local markets can be increased by applying these properties and receive economical benefits. for these purpose, two local varieties of apples in the east azerbaijan province, iran(asheghi and gare yapraq)were selected.ashegh...

The Bouncy Knee concept has previously proved of value when fitted to stabilised knee units of active amputees. The stance phase flex-extend action afforded by a Bouncy Knee increased the symmetry of gait and also gave better tolerance to slopes and uneven ground. A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving...

1 Background In this document we describe a lifelike character Bouncy, which has been constructed in conjunction with a prototype developed for the STAGING project 1. The main objective of the STAGING project is to develop new multimedia tools to be used in theatrical productions. One ambition of this project is to create virtual actors that partake in a play in cooperation and interaction with...

This paper describes the speech interface of a multimodal application developed as part of a study in intelligent multimedia. The application centres on a pet-like autonomous agent “Bouncy” and users communicate with the agent through speech, gestures, and eye contact. The interface concentrates on extra-linguistic properties of the speech signal, pitch and speech rate, involving no actual “spe...

Almost all living species regularly explore environments that they experience as pleasant, aversive, arousing or frightening. We postulate that such exploratory behavior and emotional experience both are regulated based on the interdependent perception of one's body and stimuli that collectively define a spatial context such as a cliff. Here we examined this by testing if the interaction of the...