Stress buffering effects of leader vision

Vision-based follow-the-leader

We consider the problem of having a group of nonholonomic mobile robots equipped with omnidirectional cameras maintain a desired leader-follower formation. Our approach is to translate the formation control problem from the configuration space into a separate visual servoing task for each follower. We derive the equations of motion of the leader in the image plane of the follower and propose tw...

Stress-buffering effects of psychosocial resources on physiological and psychological stress response in pregnant women.

Sixty healthy pregnant women (aged 21-35 years), including 30 pregnant women at the beginning of second trimester and 30 women at the beginning of third trimester underwent a psychosocial stress test. Physiological (salivary free cortisol levels, salivary alpha-amylase levels) and psychological (perceived stress, mood, anxiety) responses to standardized psychosocial stress have been brought in ...

Social buffering: relief from stress and anxiety.

Communication is essential to members of a society not only for the expression of personal information, but also for the protection from environmental threats. Highly social mammals have a distinct characteristic: when conspecific animals are together, they show a better recovery from experiences of distress. This phenomenon, termed 'social buffering', has been found in rodents, birds, non-huma...

Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

The purpose of this article is to determine whether the positive association between social support and well-being is attributable more to an overall beneficial effect of support (mainor direct-effect model) or to a process of support protecting persons from potentially adverse effects of stressful events (buffering model). The review of studies is organized according to (a) whether a measure a...

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