"Real Baby - Real Family" Multi-Sensory Feedback Tangible Baby VR

Can you identify which faces are real ? Your Baby can !

Another productive and busy year here at the Emory Infant and Child Lab, thanks to the joint effort of many individuals: the diligent care and supervision of our Lab Coordinator Theresa Nettles, all the good work from our visiting scholars, graduate, as well as volunteering undergraduate students. And again, thanks to the parents and children who came to visit the Lab and participated in our st...

Real-Time Output Feedback Neurolinearization

 An adaptive input-output linearization method for general nonlinear systems is developed without using states of the system. Another key feature of this structure is the fact that, it does not need model of the system. In this scheme, neurolinearizer has few weights, so it is practical in adaptive situations.  Online training of neuroline...

Marketing wearable home baby monitors: real peace of mind?

Wearable devices for infants are a growing industry. In April 2014, the US company Owlet announced that it had raised $1.85m (£1.2m; €1.5m) to develop and launch a “smart sock” that can be attached to a newborn baby’s ankle to monitor its vital signs. Parents can use a smart phone to check heart rate, oxygen concentrations, and skin temperature and to receive alerts if the child rolls over. Owl...

Mermaids are Real!! Sirenomelia: A Case of Mermaid Baby

We report a case of sirenomelia baby (mermaid syndrome) born to a thirty years old female at 36 weeks of gestation. It is a rare syndrome in which there is fusion of lower limbs. Classification of caudal regression syndrome (CRS) from sirenomelia is still debated. According to some authors, this syndrome should be classified separately from caudal regression syndrome and is likely to be the res...

Baby M: catalyst for family law reform?