Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a technique for recording natural muscle activation signals, which can serve as control inputs for exoskeletons and prosthetic devices. Previous experiments have incorporated these signals using both classical and pattern-recognition control methods in order to actuate such devices. We used the results of an experiment incorporating grasp and release actions w...

Program accreditation, which serves as a designator of quality based on a review by colleagues external to the institution using standards established by the profession, is playing an increasingly important role in the preparation and credentialing of school psychologists. Doctoral school psychology programs often seek accreditation by the American Psychological Association (APA), which impacts...

We conduct a randomized field experiment with a Yale service club and find that the promise of public recognition increases giving. Some may claim that they give when offered public recognition in order to motivate others to give too, rather than for the more obvious expected private gain from increasing one’s social standing. To tease apart these two theories, we also conduct a laboratory expe...

We describe a machine learning system for the recognition of names in biomedical texts. The system makes extensive use of local and syntactic features within the text, as well as external resources including the web and gazetteers. It achieves an Fscore of 70% on the Coling 2004 NLPBA/BioNLP shared task of identifying five biomedical named entities in the GENIA corpus.

Spectacular novel principles in medicine can definitely not originate from physicians, because they have become addicted to a dogmatized guideline-dictated medicine, based on firm belief in a study concept for “scientific studies.” It needs recognition that the medical methodology in several areas have not developed beyond external technical influence. The reason for this widely unrecognized ca...

Speech and Gesture recognition systems constitute an ideal aid for the disabled with speech hearing impairments. Approximately, there are 466 million people in world impairment around 16 impairment. They require external to recognize their gestures, express thoughts ideas world. The proposed Recognition System (SGRS) takes forward solve communication barriers faced by subjects, recognizing both...

A major emerging problem among consumer finance institutions is that customers that are not well recognized might be riskier than customers that are fully recognized. Fortunately, financial institutions count with external vendors databases that indicate the level of recognition of their customers. However, this information is normally presented as features with partial scores that must be aggr...

Psychotic patients have problems with bodily self-recognition such as the experience of self-produced actions (sense of agency) and the perception of the body as their own (sense of ownership). While it has been shown that such impairments in psychotic patients can be explained by hypersalient processing of external sensory input it has also been suggested that they lack normal efference copy i...

Statistical quality control in semiconductor manufacturing hinges on effective diagnostics of wafer bin maps, wherein a key challenge is to detect how defective chips tend spatially cluster wafer--a problem known as spatial pattern recognition. Recently, there has been growing interest mixed-type recognition--when multiple defect patterns, different shapes, co-exist the same wafer. Mixed-type r...

In this paper, a noble nonintrusive three-dimensional (3D) face modeling system for random-profile-based 3D face recognition is presented. Although recent two-dimensional (2D) face recognition systems can achieve a reliable recognition rate under certain conditions, their performance is limited by internal and external changes, such as illumination and pose variation. To address these issues, 3...