Abstract Transcranial anodal stimulation (tDCS) over primary motor cortex (M1) improves dexterous manipulation in healthy older adults. However, the beneficial effects of anodal tDCS in combination with motor practice on natural and clinically relevant functional manual tasks, and the associated changes in the digit contact forces are not known. To this end, we studied the effects of 20 min of ...

Machine to machine communications are at the center stage of the Internet of things (IoT). Connecting the physical world with the digital world not only creates new opportunities for innovation and discovery, but also opens doors for misuse and abuse. This paper argues that reputation based trust can be an effective countermeasure for securing machine-to-machine communications. We propose to es...

Neural mass modeling is a part of computational neuroscience that was developed to study the general behavior of a neuronal population. This type of mesoscopic model is able to generate output signals that are comparable to experimental data, such as electroencephalograms. Classically, neural mass models consider two interconnected populations: excitatory pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneu...

in this paper, a novel approach for control of the dc-dc buck converter in high-power and low-voltage applications is proposed. designed method is developed according to state feedback linearization based controller , which is able to stabilize output voltage in a wide range of operation. it is clear that in high-power applications, parasitic elements of the converter may become comparable with...

since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. the question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of english as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...

For flexible robots with rotational joints it has been shown previously, by the first author, that direct strain feedback can damp out vibrations very satisfactorily. In this paper, a simple sensor-based output feedback control law, called shear force feedback, is newly proposed to control vibrations arising from structural flexibility of robots of Cartesian or SCARA types. Closed-loop exponent...