Surface engineering at the nanoscale is a rapidly developing field that promises to impact a range of applications including energy production, water desalination, self-cleaning and anti-icing surfaces, thermal management of electronics, microfluidic platforms, and environmental pollution control. As the area advances, more detailed insights of dynamic wetting interactions on these surfaces are...

In an earlier version of this paper written by the second named author, we showed that the jumping coefficients of a hyperplane arrangement depend only on the combinatorial data of the arrangement as conjectured by Mustaţǎ. For this we proved a similar assertion on the spectrum. After this first proof was written, the first named author found a more conceptual proof using the Hirzebruch-Riemann...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a remote control system for a bio‐ inspired jumping robot. The system is composed of a server, a gateway, and a jumping robot. The proposed remote control system is used to monitor the posture of the jumping robot and control it in remote places. A three‐axis accelerometer is used to detect the t...

The remarkable ability of humans to perform jump maneuvers greatly contributes to the improvements of the obstacle negotiation ability of humans. The paper proposes a jumping control scheme for a bipedal robot to perform a high jump. The half-body of the robot is modeled as three planar links and the motion during the launching phase is taken into account. A geometrically simple motion was firs...

OBJECTIVE To identify the most frequent gender-specific suicide methods in Europe. DESIGN Proportions of seven predominant suicide methods utilised in 16 countries participating in the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD) were reported in total and cross-nationally. Relative risk (RR) relating to suicide methods and gender was calculated. To group countries by pattern of suicide method...

BACKGROUND Although antipsychotic medication still represents the treatment of choice for schizophrenia, its objective impact on symptoms is only in the medium-effect size range and at least 50% of patients discontinue medication in the course of treatment. Hence, clinical researchers are intensively looking for complementary therapeutic options. Metacognitive training for schizophrenia patient...

Muscle function can be assessed through jumping mechanography, where portable ground reaction force plates collect dynamic information as a subject jumps. The aim of this study was to assess both intra- and inter- rater reliability of jumping mechanography. Ten healthy adults underwent 3 sets of testing (collected by 3 different raters) at two separate sessions, one week apart. They performed a...

This paper presents a planning framework for jumping over obstacles with quadruped robots. The accomplishes via structured predictive control strategy that combines the use of heterogeneous simplified models different prediction time scales. A receding multi-horizon controller coordinates approach before jump using kinematic point-mass model. Consideration optimal value function horizons enable...

Given an ideal in the local ring at a rational surface singularity, we define what it means for a collection of exceptional divisors on a fixed log resolution to critically contribute a jumping number. This is shown to be a numerical property of the collection, and can be used to give an explicit algorithm for finding all of the jumping numbers of the ideal. In addition, the jumping numbers of ...

To learn motion verbs and prepositions, children must categorize event components such that jumping 1 meter over the puddle and jumping 3 meters over the puddle are both instances of jumping. Thus, children’s categories must allow variability in coordinate properties, while preserving the relational component labeled by motion verbs and prepositions. The current study asks if preverbal infants ...