Osteopathic physicians have a unique opportunity to affect the US epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Osteopathic physicians make up a disproportionately high number of primary care physicians who are on the front lines of managing T2DM. In addition, the unique training of osteopathic physicians allows them to direct additional diagnostic and treatment modalities toward the musculoskel...

In recent years, the spread of data-driven approaches for robotic grasp synthesis has come with increasing need reliable datasets, which can be built e.g. through video labelling. To this goal, it is important to define suitable rules characterize main human types, easily identifying them in streams. work, we present a novel taxonomy that builds upon related state art, but specifically thought ...

Vertebrates have repeatedly filled and partitioned the terrestrial ecosystem, and have been able to occupy new, previously unexplored habitats throughout their history on land. The arboreal ecospace is particularly important in vertebrate evolution because it provides new food resources and protection from large ground-dwelling predators. We investigated the skeletal anatomy of the Late Permian...

The prehensile grip configurations of infants aged 4 through 8 months were examined as they grasped objects that varied in size and shape. The findings revealed that infants as young as 4 months systematically differentiate grip configurations as a function of the object properties in essentially the same way that 8-month-old infants do. However, the younger 4-month-old infants predominantly us...

Few studies have investigated how the cortex encodes the preshaping of the hand as an object is grasped, an ethological movement referred to as prehension. We developed an encoding model of hand kinematics to test whether primary motor cortex (MI) neurons encode temporally extensive combinations of joint motions that characterize a prehensile movement. Two female rhesus macaque monkeys were tra...

The most popular model to explain how prehensile movements are organized assumes that they comprise two "components", the reaching component encoding information regarding the object's spatial location and the grasping component encoding information on the object's intrinsic properties such as size and shape. Comparative kinematic studies on grasping behavior in the humans and in macaques have ...

This paper presents the work performed in the context of the VIMANCO on-going project. It has the objective of improving the autonomy, safety and robustness of robotics system using vision. Vision is certainly the most adequate exteroceptive sensor to deal with complex and varying environments and for manipulation tasks of non cooperative objects. The approach we propose is based on an up-to-da...