BACKGROUND The ability to adjust walking to environmental context is often reduced in older adults and, partly as result of this, falls are common in this population. A treadmill with visual context projected on its belt (e.g., obstacles and targets) allows for practicing step adjustments relative to that context, while concurrently exploiting the great amount of walking practice associated wit...

organization’s obligation for responding to demand changes and creating strategic opportunity, drives focus toward entrepreneurship, so that scholars’ attention turns toward influential factors on entrepreneurship more and more. the objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of human resource flexibility on entrepreneurship at research institute of petroleum industry (ripi). research ...

abstract the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of stair's relationship approach on marital conflict and adaptability of couples. the sample consisted of 24 couples who were selected by random sampling procedure, from among 36 voluntary's couples. couples were randomly, divided into two equal groups. two groups were randomly assigned to experimental group and control group. ex...

Possible paradigms for concept learning by feedfor-ward neural networks include discrimination and recognition. An interesting aspect of this di-chotomy is that the recognition-based implementation can learn certain domains much more ee-ciently than the discrimination-based one, despite the close structural relationship between the two systems. The purpose of this paper is to explain this diier...

Whole person adaptive comfort is discussed with reference to recent findings in molecular scale systems biology. The observations are upscaled to hypotheses relating to less traditional interpretations of thermal processes, which have new implications for indoor climate management and design. Arguments are presented for a revision of current focus, model and paradigm. The issue is seen as a pro...

Dynamic adaptability of operating systems becomes more and more important, to be able to deal with new requirements, without the necessity of recompiling and rebooting the whole system. In the eld of software development the object-oriented paradigm has been widly accepted as powerful method to achieve adaptability. This paper presents a novel approach to achieve ne-grained, dynamic adaptabilit...

This study examined relations between family cohesion and adaptability (as measured by the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales-III) and the formation of trust and intimacy (assessed with the Measure of Psychosocial Development) among adolescents in residential treatment. Bivariate correlation revealed a significant association between family cohesion and adaptability and psychosocial stages...

Introduction One way to increase software system adaptability is to allocate resources dynamically at run-time rather than statically at design time. For example, fine-grained run-time allocation of processor utilization and network bandwidth creates an opportunity to execute multi-modal operations. This allocation strategy enhances adaptability by combining deterministic and non-deterministic ...

The subject of this paper is a hybrid hip biped climbing robot. The hybrid hip provides both prismatic and revolute motion, discretely, to the robot, using a single actuator. This is intended to improve its adaptability in confined environments and its capability to maneuver over and around obstacles. Optimization of the hybrid hip relative to robot size, weight, and actuation limits is conside...

This study analyses the location of patterns of brain activity in the signal space while a human subject is trained to operate a brain-computer interface. This evaluation plays an important role in the understanding of the underlying system, and it gives valuable information about the translation algorithms. The relative position and morphology of the patterns in a training session, and from on...