How to make Mandela smile: being methodical, motivated and meaningful

Quantitative Phase Microscopy: how to make phase data meaningful.

The continued development of hardware and associated image processing techniques for quantitative phase microscopy has allowed superior phase data to be acquired that readily shows dynamic optical volume changes and enables particle tracking. Recent efforts have focused on tying phase data and associated metrics to cell morphology. One challenge in measuring biological objects using interferome...

SoTL in Chemistry: How to Make the Learning Meaningful

How to Make a Robot Smile? Perception of Emotional Expressions from Digitally-Extracted Facial Landmark Configurations

To design robots or embodied conversational agents that can accurately display facial expressions indicating an emotional state, we need technology to produce those facial expressions, and research that investigates the relationship between those technologies and human social perception of those artificial faces. Our starting point is assessing human perception of core facial information: Movin...

How to Diagnose Arterial and Venous Ulcers and Make Good Medical Decisions

چگونگی مراقبت از یک زخم مزمن اغلب به علت آن بستگی دارد. برای مثال زخم های پا ممکن است در اثر بیماریهای شریانی و یا وریدی بوجود آیند. هر چند زخم های مزمن پا به دلایل متعددی بروز می کنند ولی اختلال در گردش خون شایعترین علت می باشد. اخذ تصمیمات مهم درمانی از قبیل درمان با استفاده از فشار و یا درمان تهاجمی جهت رفع عفونت همگی بستگی به این دارد که منشاء زخم شریانی است با وریدی .

Infants Time Their Smiles to Make Their Moms Smile

One of the earliest forms of interaction between mothers and infants is smiling games. While the temporal dynamics of these games have been extensively studied, they are still not well understood. Why do mothers and infants time their smiles the way they do? To answer this question we applied methods from control theory, an approach frequently used in robotics, to analyze and synthesize goal-or...