The selection of one of two visual stimuli as a target for a motor action may depend on external as well as internal variables. We examined whether the preference to select a leftward or rightward target depends on the action that is performed (eye or arm movement) and to what extent the choice is influenced by the target location. Two targets were presented at the same distance to the left and...

Background: The effectiveness and adequacy of occupational health and safety management system should be monitored and evaluated at organization level on a regular basis. Safety audit has a clear role in the development of organizations safety management systems. Internal safety audit is a method to appraise to the management the current status of occupational health and safety at workplace. Se...

Background: Conceptual review is a creative research method for generating new knowledge in the context of a vague and complex concept that helps to explain and clarify the concept, its components and its relation to related concepts. This study aimed to explain the methodology of conceptual review in the health system. Methods: Articles related to the conceptual research method were searched ...

Presence of antibiotic resistance markers has always been considered as one of the main safety concerns in transgenic plants and their derived products. Elimination of antibiotic selectable markers from transgenics is a major hurdle for finding efficient and safe candidates. Herbicide tolerance genes might be attractive alternatives. In this study, a variant form of the 5-enoylpyruvyl shikimate...

Position selection is a key task that must be carried out by a soccer-playing agent, but is often overlooked in favour of the more active tasks such as ball control. This paper examines the position selection implemented by the Essex Wizards team in the RoboCup Simulator league in recent competitions. The initial approach using task specific behaviours is firstly reviewed. The new approach is t...

In the General Position Subset Selection (GPSS) problem, the goal is to find the largest possible subset of a set of points, such that no three of its members are collinear. If sGPSS is the size the optimal solution, √ sGPSS is the current best guarantee for the size of the solution obtained using a polynomial time algorithm. In this paper we present an algorithm for GPSS to improve this bound ...

The traditional beam selection algorithms determine the optimal beam direction by feeding back the perfect channel state information (CSI) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. Popular beam selection algorithms mostly focus on the methods of feedback and exhaustive search. In order to reduce the extra computational complexity coming from the redunda...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper considers visual feature selection to implement position estimation using an omnidirectional camera. The localization is based on a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with a map from optimally selected visual features using Gaussian process (GP) regression. In particular, the collection of selected features over a surveillance region is modeled by a multivariat...