OBJECTIVE To assess the opportunities present in the home environment for motor development of infants. METHODS This was a cross-sectional population-based epidemiological study on 239 infants aged three to 18 months who were living in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Southeastern Brazil, in 2010. The participants were selected by means of stratified random sampling, in clustered multiple st...

after forty years, the act of motor vehicle compulsory insurance was amended in 1387(2008).the act has changed some areas and protected third parties rather than former act. some protections are: increasing third parties, development of sphere of insurance and acceptance of an insurance policy as a mortgage in courts. however we see some ambiguities in the late act. the article analyses changes...

[1] Despite the importance of methane for climate, it has remained difficult to measure gross rates of methane production and consumption without inducing artifacts. To remedy this, we have developed, tested, and applied a field-based CH4 pool dilution technique. Laboratory tests, sensitivity analyses, and field data indicate that this technique is robust for measuring gross rates of methane pr...

Bayesian models have been applied to many areas of cognitive science including vision, language, and motor learning. We discuss the implications of this framework for cognitive development. We first present a brief introduction to the Bayesian framework. Bayesian models make assumptions about representation explicit, and provide a detailed account of learning. Furthermore, they can provide an a...

Conventional fluid motors require high-pressure fluids (20MPa~) and rotation speeds of these motors are extremely high (2,000~10,000rpm or more). Therefore it is difficult to apply these motors to mobile robots under hard conditions, like in fire disasters. Usually, high torque, low rotation speed, low pressure fluid motors are desired in robotics. This paper describes a new fluid motor named “...

Autism is a syndrome that emerges in the first three years of life and is defined by a pattern of qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction, communication, and repetitive interests and behaviors. One of the characteristics which is most noticeable in those young children with autism who remain severely intellectually disabled is their propensity to engage in repetitive self-sti...

The study of motor development has long influenced the clinical practice of physical therapy. We first review the contributions and deficiencies of two traditional maturational and reflex-based models of motor development. Secod, we describe basic principles of kinemutic and kinetic analyses of movement and show how we Basic research in movement science has influenced, and can continue to influ...

This article reviews research on the development of motor behavior from a developmental systems perspective. We focus on infancy when basic action systems are acquired. Posture provides a stable base for locomotion, manual actions, and facial actions. Experience facilitates improvements in motor behavior and infants accumulate immense amounts of experience with all of their basic action systems...