1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 2. Beit CURE International Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi 3. Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom 4. Centre for Global Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 5. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculo...

This paper describes a novel action selection method for multiple mobile robots box-pushing in a dynamic environment. The robots are designed to need no explicit communication, and be adaptive to a dynamic environments by changing modules of behaviors. Though it is a significant problem to deal with adaptive action selection for multiple mobile-robots in a dynamic environment, few studies have ...

The use of information and communication technologies pervades our lives. Beyond the formal application of these technologies at work, we have recently seen civil society groupings using information technologies to facilitate the organization and coordination of civic actions aiming at collective goals. This research in progress addresses the study of a technologically enabled civic movement wh...

A goal of research in human-computer interaction is computer systems that can recognize and understand nonverbal communication. In a series of studies, we developed semiautomated methods of discriminating emotion and para-linguistic communication in face and voice. In study 1, three computervision based modules reliably recognized FACS action units, which are the smallest visibly discriminable ...

Ana akımın en tanınmış ve en önemli iki aydınının iletişim alanında en önemli klasik yapıtlarından biri de Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Action yapıtıdır. Lazarsfeld iletişimde ampirik yöntemin gelişmesinde ve yönetimsel araştırmanın yaygınlaşmasında öncülük etmiştir. Merton, T. Parsons’un yapısal fonksiyonalizmini geliştiren Amerikan ana akım sosyolojisinin önemli liderlerind...

The focus of this paper is on the modelling primitives which are not only taking into account semantic models of traditional approaches for information system development, but also put a communication aspect into the foreground of system analysis. Integration of static, dynamic and non-traditional communication dependencies is considered as a most important feature of the suggested framework. I...

Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New developments in information processing and information communication technologies allow increasingly complex and accurate descriptions, representations and models, ...

Diazepam is used clinically for its myorelaxant, anxiolytic, sedative, and anticonvulsant properties. Although the anxiolytic action is mediated by a2 g-aminobutyric acid A (GABAA) receptors, the sedative action and in part the anticonvulsant action are mediated by a1 GABAA receptors. To identify the GABAA receptor subtypes mediating the action of diazepam on muscle tone, we have assessed the m...

Early exposure to multiple languages can enhance children's communication skills, even when children are effectively monolingual (Fan, Liberman, Keysar & Kinzler, ). Here we report evidence that the social benefits of multilingual exposure emerge in infancy. Sixteen-month-old infants participated in a communication task that required taking a speaker's perspective to understand her intended mea...

See article by Saitongdee et al. [1] (pages 108 –115) in 2. Conduction at low temperature this issue. Cardiac action potential propagation depends on the combination of action potential upstroke velocity and electrical cell-to-cell communication via gap junctions.