A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to analyze the physical performance of a swarm-bot as function of its size (number n of s-bots composing it). We present three tasks and the corr...

The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (Bruininks, 1978) is a standardized, norm-referenced measure used by physical therapists and occupational therapists in clinic and school practice settings. This test recently was revised and published as the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition (BOT-2; Bruininks & Bruininks, 2005). The BOT-2 is an individually administe...

This report mainly discusses the adaptability of the IRC-based Bot detection method to be used in the P2P-based Bot detection. The first section introduces the IRC-based bot and the newly appeared P2P-based bot to see their difference. The second section shows the related work and the traditional method of BOTNET detection. The third section discusses the methodology used by the IRC based Botne...

Louisiana Tech University has recently developed a curriculum (NASA-Threads) that integrates engineering, mathematics, and physics. The curriculum, which targets junior and senior high school students, uses hands-on projects that develop student ability to solve realistic multiple-step problems and bring excitement into the classroom. NASA-Threads integrates NASA applications, fundamentals, tec...

Diese Arbeit präsentiert den intelligenten Gehhilferoboter Care-O-bot. CareO-bot ist der Prototyp eines multifunktionalen Heimund Pflegeassistenten, konzipiert zur Benutzung von älteren Personen. Der Roboter soll es diesen Personen ermöglichen, trotz verschiedener Gebrechen weiterhin eigenständig in ihrer heimischen Umgebung wohnen zu können. Um den Umgang mit der intelligenten Gehhilfe möglich...

Epithelial borderline ovarian tumors (BOT) are distinctive from benign tumors and carcinoma. They occur in younger women more often than carcinoma, and there is some difficulty making correct diagnosis of BOT. Two subtypes of BOT, serous and mucinous borderline tumor have different characteristics and very different clinical behavior. Serous borderline tumor (SBT) with micropapillary pattern sh...

Borderline epithelial ovarian tumours (BOT) represent 15-20% of all non-benign ovarian epithelial neoplasms. Compared to malignant ovarian tumours, they usually present at a younger age and carry a far superior prognosis. Fertility-conserving surgery is an important treatment option for patients with BOT. Ultrasound and CT are both widely available and play roles in the initial investigation an...

Data mining applications are composed of computing-intensive processing tasks, which are natural candidates for execution on high performance, high throughput platforms such as PC clusters and computational grids. Besides, some data-mining algorithms can be implemented as Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications, which are composed of parallel, independent tasks. Due to its own nature, the adaptation of...