Inexpensive Multi-Touch Pressure Acquisition Devices (IMPAD) are flexible, paperthin sensing surfaces that can scale from portable devices to large tables. These devices can sense varying levels of pressure at a resolution high enough to sense and distinguish multiple fingertips, the tip of a pen or pencil and other objects. Other potential applications include writing pads, floor mats and entr...

At hut night's Central Council meeting, in a proposal introduced by ten representatives, the members of the Council by a vote of 10-8-6, officially censured Terry Mathias, the President of Student Association. The move stemmed from a bill passed last week in Council concerning alcohol at the U n i v e r s i t y ' s "Wild, Wild W e e k e n d , " and Mathias' subsequent actions taken on that bill...

This letter suggests that in biological organisms, the perceived structure of reality, in particular the notions of body, environment, space, object, and attribute, could be a consequence of an effort on the part of brains to account for the dependency between their inputs and their outputs in terms of a small number of parameters. To validate this idea, a procedure is demonstrated whereby the ...

Building blocks are a ubiquitous feature at all levels of human understanding, from perception through science and innovation. Genetic algorithms are designed to exploit this prevalence. A new, more robust class of genetic algorithms, cohort genetic algorithms (cGA’s), provides substantial advantages in exploring search spaces for building blocks while exploiting building blocks already found. ...

A D E F I N I T I V E H I S T O R Y of vanity publishing can probably never be written. There is evidence to indicate that it has existed and at times even flourished during the last thirty-five or forty years, and it is not unreasonable to surmise that it goes back in time beyond that. But much of the published evidence takes the form of accounts of individual experiences with vanity publisher...

Chronological aging is associated with a decrease in skeletal muscle mass and bone mineral density, an increase in fat mass, frequency of falls and fractures, and the likelihood of obesity, diabetes, and coronary heart disease. Resistance exercise has been shown to counter all of these effects of aging and, in turn, reduce the risk of all-cause mortality. However, variables such as volume and f...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to compare dynamic muscle strength, functional performance, fatigue, and quality of life in premenopausal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with low disease activity versus matched-healthy controls and to determine the association of dynamic muscle strength with fatigue, functional performance, and quality of life in SLE patients. METH...

We evaluate the mass function of virialized halos, by using Press & Schechter (PS) and/or Steth & Tormen (ST) expressions, for cosmologies where Dark Energy (DE) is due to a scalar self– interacting field, coupled with Dark Matter (DM). We keep to coupled DE (cDE) models known to fit linear observables. To implement the PS–ST approach, we start from reviewing and extending the results of a prev...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy and safety of creatine supplementation in fibromyalgia patients. METHODS A 16-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial was conducted. Fibromyalgia patients were randomly assigned to receive either creatine monohydrate or placebo in a double-blind manner. The patients were evaluated at baseline and after 16 weeks. Muscle fun...

The loss of muscle mass and strength with aging results in significant functional impairment. Creatine supplementation has been used in combination with resistance training as a strategy for increasing lean tissue mass and muscle strength in older adults, but results across studies are equivocal. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of creatine supp...