Human-robot interaction is now understood well enough to allow us to build useful systems that can function outside of the laboratory. In my work, I propose the concept of a sociable robot system, which consists of a robot as a user interface to a complex system. There are three parts to this work: the definition of a sociable robot system and the background work that contributes to it (section...

Can online argument diagramming help students learn written argumentation skills? Students at Moi University Law School in Erldoret, Kenya, received free tablet computers through the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Researchers at the Learning Research and Development Center created a learning module to teach legal argumentation skills to over 400 Moi students in three sections of a law ...

Regions of tissue which are well oxygenated respond better to radiotherapy than hypoxic regions by up to a factor of three. If these volumes could be accurately estimated, then it might be possible to selectively boost dose to radio-resistant regions, a concept known as dose-painting. While imaging modalities such as 18F-fluoromisonidazole positron emission tomography (PET) allow identification...

I rst celebrate the immense success of twentieth century physics, but then urge that the future may bring many surprises, even in the basic structures of physical

Dating apps have become one of the most prominent and contentious topics in realm intimacy among wider public academia. Media communication researchers examined their uptake across cultural contexts, seeking to address dynamics between dating social processes. With knowledge accumulated this research field, we assemble a comprehensive account interactions through apps. We categorize existing fi...

introduction: to recognize the myelinated nerve fibers of the external capsule in human brain. materials and methods: 10 adult and normal brains (20 hemispheres) from both sexes were studied using 15 mm serial sections in all three cardinal planes after fixation and processing. these sections were stained by klüver - barrera and heidenhain - woelcke methods. results: some fibers from different ...

Species belonging to different sections of the genus Polygonum L. were studied micro-morphologically. For this purpose, digital images were obtained from all species and lower taxa belonging to sections Persicaria, Bistorta, Tiniaria and Pleuropterus. Since section Polygonum is much diverse, pollens of three representative species Polygonum luzuloides, P. olivascens and P. setosum were photogra...

Consider the following problem, that we call “Chordless Path through Three Vertices” or CP3V, for short: Given a simple undirected graph G = (V,E), a positive integer k, and three distinct vertices s, t, and v ∈ V , is there a chordless path from s via v to t in G that consists of at most k vertices? In a chordless path, no two vertices are connected by an edge that is not in the path. Alternat...

background and objective: intraoperative consultation by frozen section is a high – risk procedure with important consequences. therefore, it is critical to determine efficiency of frozen section performance periodically. this study was performed to determine the accuracy of frozen section in urmia university of medical sciences. materials & methods:inthis cross sectional study, we compare...