T his special issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) has been prepared in the scope of the activities of the Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicle and Intelligent Transportation Systems (AGV-ITS) (http://www.ieee-ras.org/ autonomous-groundvehicles-and-intelligenttransportation-systems) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The purpose of this special issue ...

This 2-year prospective study examined the exercise and self-esteem model in middle-aged women (N = 143) previously enrolled in a randomized controlled exercise trial. Across the 2-year period, increases in physical activity (PA) and self-efficacy and reductions in body mass index (BMI) were associated with improved subdomain self-perceptions relative to physical condition, and reductions in BM...

This certainly is the ideal form of a distributed system, where the “implementation detail” of building a powerful system out of many simpler systems is entirely hidden from the user. Are there any such systems? Unfortunately, when we look at the reality of networked computers, we find that the multiplicity of system components usually shines through the abstractions provided by the operating s...

Is the amount of "greenness" within a 250-m, 500-m, 1000-m or a 2000-m buffer surrounding a person's home a good predictor of their physical health? The evidence is inconclusive. We reviewed Web of Science articles that used geographic information system buffer analyses to identify trends between physical health, greenness, and distance within which greenness is measured. Our inclusion criteria...

Tietze found no other abnormal findings, and the condition was self-limiting and of unknown aetiology. A revival of interest occurred at the beginning of the second world war, when Gill, Jones, and Pollak (1942) described the syndrome in five young soldiers. He noticed the persistence of the symptoms and absence of pathological changes. Geddes (1945) observed a series of 35 cases in Canadian so...

[Purpose] We investigated the physical condition of middle-aged workers in Korea by job category (office job vs. production job). [Subjects] In total, 3,650 middle-aged workers (production job, n = 2,615; office job, n = 1,035) ≥50 years of age from eight geographical areas were evaluated from 2007 to 2008. [Methods] The subjects' subjective physical condition, exercise status, smoking status, ...

To improve the efficiency of forest fire fighting, ride comfort is very important for firemen to maintain good physical condition. Firstly, a whole vehicle model was established with the ADAMS/view(Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems) software. Next, test and simulation were performed to verify the three-dimensional model. Finally, the comparison of real vehicle test and ride comfo...

Inflammare, or to set ablaze, is the Latin origin of the word inflammation, a physical condition that was undoubtedly already familiar to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. It is, however, the Roman Aulus Celsus who is credited with describing, in the first century AD, the four cardinal signs of inflammation consisting of rubor et tumor cum calore et dolore (redness and swelling with heat and pa...

There are significant inequalities in the lives of America’s children, including inequalities in the education that these children receive. These educational inequalities include not only disparities in funding per pupil but also in class size, teacher qualification, and resources such as books, labs, libraries, computers, and curriculum, as well as the physical condition of the school and the ...

This certainly is the ideal form of a distributed system, where the “implementation detail” of building a powerful system out of many simpler systems is entirely hidden from the user. Are there any such systems? Unfortunately, when we look at the reality of networked computers, we find that the multiplicity of system components usually shines through the abstractions provided by the operating s...