In this paper, we demonstrate reliable navigation of a smart wheelchair system (SWS) in an urban environment. Urban environments present unique challenges for service robots. They require localization accuracy at the sidewalk level, but compromise GPS position estimates through significant multi-path effects. However, they are also rich in landmarks that can be leveraged by feature-based locali...

In this paper, we present a Notification Agent designed and implemented using Semantic Web Services. The Notification Agent manages alerts when critical financial situations arise discovering and selecting notification services. This agent applies open research results on the Semantic Web Services technologies including on-the-fly composition based on a finite state machine and automatic discov...

(for dissemination)This deliverable is for internal usage of the consortium. It specifies a prototypeof a tool for goal oriented SWS composition.Keywordscomposition, configuration, constraint, policy, finite model, search, semantic webservice, web service, workflow, modeling Version LogIssue Date Rev No. Author Change09-10-05 1L.Henocque v0.1 initial11-10...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is frequently associated with neurologic complications such as seizures, so diagnosing this condition has important implications for patient management. The purpose of this study was to report unusual neuroimaging findings in patients with facial port-wine stain (PWS) and clinically suspected SWS. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cranial MR imaging was ...

Cigarette smoking rates remain remarkably high in schizophrenia relative to smoking in other psychiatric groups. Impairments in the reward system may be related to elevated rates of nicotine dependence and lower cessation rates in this psychiatric group. Smokers with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder (SWS; n=15; M(age)=54.87, S.D.=6.51, 100% male) and a non-psychiatric control group of...

Memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep (SWS) influences the consolidation of recently acquired knowledge. This reactivation occurs spontaneously during sleep but can also be triggered by presenting learning-related cues, a technique known as targeted memory reactivation (TMR). Here we examined whether TMR can improve vocabulary learning. Participants learned the meanings of 60 novel words. ...

Fur seals (pinnipeds of the family Otariidae) display two fundamentally different patterns of sleep: bilaterally symmetrical slow-wave sleep (BSWS) as seen in terrestrial mammals and slow-wave sleep (SWS) with a striking interhemispheric EEG asymmetry (asymmetrical SWS or ASWS) as observed in cetaceans. We examined the effect of preventing fur seals from sleeping in BSWS on their pattern of sle...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate characteristic sleep architecture of different nocturnal sleep patterns in early infancy. METHODS Participants were 27 infants at the same conceptional age of 3-4months. Nocturnal sleep of these infants was monitored at home by simultaneously using actigraphy and a one-channel portable EEG device. According to the infants' activity for 6h from sleep onset, each night's ...

The cortical transition from the slow-wave pattern of sleep (SWS) to the rapideye-movement (REM) pattern is a dramatic feature of the somnogram. Indeed, the change in the electrocorticogram (ECoG) is so abrupt that the moment of transition usually can be identified with a time-resolution of about one second [8, 37]. Although the neuromodulatory environment and electroencephalographic patterns r...

AIM Scattered white spots (SWSs) in the descending duodenum are an uncommon finding of upper gastrointestinal system endoscopy (UGSE). Intestinal lymphangiectasia, chronic nonspecific duodenitis and giardiasis are associated with a SWS appearance. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of SWS during routine endoscopy, as well as to evaluate the effect of treatment on this finding....