Sea animals such as leptocephali develop tissues and organs composed of active transparent hydrogels to achieve agile motions and natural camouflage in water. Hydrogel-based actuators that can imitate the capabilities of leptocephali will enable new applications in diverse fields. However, existing hydrogel actuators, mostly osmotic-driven, are intrinsically low-speed and/or low-force; and thei...

Selectivity is a fishing gear characteristic capable of catching fish specific size and species from the existing population distribution. Mesh one important factors that influence gillnets’ selectivity, because different length-classes are caught by them. This report focuses on selectivity two mesh sizes gillnets (8.89 cm 10.16 cm) mackerel's catch constructing gillnet in Sungailiat waters. Ex...

Michaels reported a compatibility effect in which responses were fastest at the destination of a moving stimulus; she interpreted this "destination" compatibility effect in terms of catching actions "afforded" by the stimulus motion. The present study evaluated implications of the catching-affordance account and compared them with those of an account based on spatial coding of relative directio...

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language and developing methods to identify and deal with metaphors is an open problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper we describe results from using a maximum entropy (ME) classifier to identify metaphors. Using the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus, we annotated all the verbal targets associated with a set of frames which includes frames of spati...

Although researchers agree that the first 5 years of life are critical for children's developing executive functions (EFs), further advances are hindered by a lack of consensus on the design and selection of developmentally appropriate EF tasks for young children. Given this debate, well-established adult measures of EF routinely have been adapted for young children. Given young children's comp...

We apply the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (GPLVM) to tackle the inverse kinematic problem in character animation during a ball catching scenario. The goal is to generate realistic upper-body movements with only the tip of the hand specified as the constraint. We ran a series of motion capture experiments to capture the body movement in a subject as he performs a ball catching task and...

Present work is an attempt to describe the socio-economic status of homeless people. It was conducted in Bahir Dar city of Amhara region with objectives to identify demographic characteristics and socio-economic status of the homeless population, and to describe problems faced by homeless people. On basis of random sampling four kebeles were selected where using purposive sampling 120 homeless ...

Our focus is on creating interesting, realistic behaviors for humanoid robots and virtual characters. Among the methods we use to create human-like movements are a template-based approach, where example movements from humans are stored for later use, and a dynamical systems approach where new movements are generated from motion primitives as they are needed. Here we discuss a dynamical systems ...

I am quite aware that anybody doubting the value of vaccines and vaccination for smallpox, to which you refer in this article, is at once written down as an ignorant crank. I have, however, been studying the Registrar-General's figures and other facts relating to smallpox, and I am bound to say, so far, I cannot find anything whatever in favour of the practice. I wish you could help me to find ...