Closing the Frontier, Opening Doors

Injuries associated with opening and closing of garage doors

Injury data were obtained from the database of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP). CHIRPP is an injury surveillance system operating in the emergency departments of 10 pediatric and 4 general hospitals in Canada. Data collection began in April 1990 at the pediatric hospitals and between 1991 and 1995 in the general hospitals. CHIRPP is a program of the Injur...

Closing the doors of perception.

ANESTHESIOLOGY is a discipline that is uniquely placed to contribute to the preeminent scientific quest of this century–namely the understanding of the neurologic mechanisms that underpin the phenomena of consciousness. The operating room is the crucible in which any putative theory should be tested. While acknowledging that there are arguments as to whether rapid eye movement sleep is really a...

HIV Transmission: Closing All the Doors

Visually and Force Controlled Opening and Closing of Doors by Means of a Mobile Robot Arm

A multi-sensory discrete-continuous control concept has been developed to realize interactive basic skills for humanoid and mobile service robots. In the upper hierarchy level a discrete task control structure enables the flexible execution of primitive skill sequences. In the lower continuous level a suitable controller is chosen with control parameters adapted to the current primitive skill. ...

Phenotype–genotype complexities: opening DOORS

The escalating pace of molecular genetic discoveries in neurological diseases is repeatedly providing surprises that challenge our ability to match phenotype and genotype. With the current transition of whole-exome sequencing from the laboratory to clinical use, the ability to understand and interpret molecular-level data becomes ever more important. The classic view of one gene encoding one pr...