In working machines the human operator is essential for the performance of the total system. Productivity and energy efficiency are both dependent not only on inherent machine properties and working place conditions, but also on how the operator manoeuvres the machine. In order to operate energy-efficient the operator has to experience the machine as harmonic. This is important to consider duri...

This paper describes a large scale experiment aimed to detect the reliability of users when converting their written opinions on product into a numerical score (e.g. number of stars). The study shows that, due to a number of factors, such a judgment is highly unreliable and, confronted with a uniform gold standard, provides accuracy inferior to a state of art system for opinion detection (namel...

1. Peter Brinson What is the take-home message of the final chapter in Democracy and the Market, entitled “The Political Dynamics of Economic Reform”? In the chapter, Przeworski is primarily concerned with showing the potential economic changes and dynamics that can accompany the transition from a command to a capitalist economy and the political dynamics that are inextricably tied up in the pr...

Our novel prosthetic hand is controlled by extrinsic flexor muscles and tendons of the metacarpal-phalangeal joints. The hand uses tendon-activated pneumatic (TAP) control and has provided most subjects, including amputees and those with congenital limb absence, control of multiple fingers of the hand. The TAP hand restores a degree of natural control over force, duration, and coordination of m...

uc_FIDO is an ontology that unambiguously characterizes food interactions with drugs in the human body. This ontology is part of a group of food ontologies describing food and the human experience at the International Center for Food Ontology Operability, Data and Semantics (IC-FOODS) at UC Davis. The first of its kind, uc_FIDO characterizes relations between food, medicine, and human health. u...

In previous work, we have introduced a model-theoretic semantics for compositional units, i.e. reusable units that can be used for compositional program development. Such units contain open (logic) programs and our modeltheoretic semantics characterizes their correctness and the correctness of their composition. However, for real-world software development, compositional units should be inter-o...

An explicit form of reliability and economical stationary performance indexes for monotonous multicomponent system with regard to its elements’ maintenance has been found. The maintenance strategy investigated supposes preventive maintenance execution for elements that has attained certain operating time to failure. Herewith for the time period of elements’ maintenance or restoration operable e...

Electrical energy substitution is an important way to achieve the optimization of consumption structure as well alleviate environmental problems, and it also source benefits integrated system. However, there are few works that study effects electrical on construction system (IES) work without incentives carried out in IES. To this end, paper proposed a G1 method with constructing consistency ma...