With the rising concern about the needs of people with physical disabilities and with the aging of the population there is a major concern of creating electronic devices that may improve the life of the physically handicapped and elderly person. One of these new solutions passes through the adaptation of electric wheelchairs in order to give them environmental perception, more intelligent capab...

workers?deals with Voluntary Social Service inspired by the philanthropic motive. This section deals with a great variety of organizations, showing the way in which many of them have developed to meet the needs of a changing social structure. Particularly striking in this connection is the evolution of the Charity Organization Society with its emphasis on the giving of material aid, into the Fa...

Guthkelch, A. N. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 104. Occipital cranium bifidum. This paper describes a follow-up of 74 consecutive cases of occipital cranium bifidum born and treated between 1948 and 1965, and the surgical technique used in their repair. When no hydrocephalus developed, 86%/' of the cases of cranial meningocele, but only 40% of those of encephalocele, showed norm...

We are well aware that 1981 has been declared as International year for the handicapped. All those countries including India, who are signatories to this resolution owe a special responsibility towards providing some fundamental facilities for the vast numbers and varieties of the handicapped. Though India has, since ancient times, extended humanitarian consideration to the handicapped, yet for...

We present a physically-based animation method for simulating the diffusion of water pollutant in this paper. Our method allows animating the dynamic evolution of biological pollutants (e.g., water hyacinth, algae) on largescale water surface effectively. To enable the simulation of such a phenomenon in large scale virtual environment, we simplify the problem by considering the water pollutants...

Films like Shrek, Madagascar, The Chronicles of Narnia and Charlotte’s web all have something in common: realistic quadruped animations. While the animation of animals has been popular for a long time, the technical challenges associated with creating highly realistic, computer generated creatures have been receiving increasing attention recently. The entertainment, education and medical indust...

Interactive simulation is made possible in many applications by simplifying or culling the finer details that would make real-time performance impossible. This paper examines detail simplification in the specific problem of collision handling for rigid body animation. We present an automated method for calculating consistent collision response at different levels of detail. The mechanism works ...

This paper proposes a soft-remote-control (soft-remocon) system based on EMG signals for the Intelligent Sweet Home. The proposed system is applied to Intelligent Sweet Home which was developed to help the independence living of the elderly and physically handicapped individuals. The goal of proposed system is to control home-installed electronic devices such as TV, air-conditioner, curtain and...

Two surveys of special education facilities produced at the close of 1964 were The Special School: Aims, Facilities and Amenities* and Special Education in London.f The first was prepared by the National Union of Teachers' Advisory Committee for Special Education, and stresses that: "Special schools in this country have always claimed to place high value on individual consideration, and given a...