<p><span lang="EN-US">The invisible hand is one of Adam Smith’s prominent theories. It argues that if individuals are left to pursue their self-interest, it will unintentionally lead the public good. Scholars have been interpreting from many aspects: some regard as a strong justification for selfish acts and unethical, another sees perfect competition among small traditional firms, ...

Our goal is to develop the low level control system for an artificial hand ”Blackfingers”. Blackfingers was thought to have two main applications: as humanoid robot’s hand or as a human hand prothesis. In this last application our intent is to realize a device more sophisticated respect the actual commerce prothesis. Also in our intention is to use some biological paradigms to create a human li...

The ability to identify our own body is considered a pivotal marker of self-awareness. Previous research demonstrated that subjects are more efficient in the recognition images representing self rather than others' effectors (self-advantage). Here, we verified whether, at an electrophysiological level, bodily-self modulates change detection responses. In first EEG experiment (discovery sample),...

CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the thesis titled " A Study on Hand Gesture Recognition Technique " submitted by Mr. Sanjay Meena in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Master of Technology degree Electronics and Communication Engineering with specialization in " Telematics and Signal Processing " during session 2009-2011 at National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela is...

background hands burn was associated with significant functional disorders that severely affected patient’s quality of life. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational program based on exercise therapy on burned hand function. methods this experimental research was conducted in a period of ten months in 2010-2011 in mottahari hospital in tehran in iran. the sample included 6...

Should a syllabus be precise? Shall we indicate exactly how many points we should assign for each test and for each assignment? On the one hand, many students like such certainty. On the other hand, instructors would like to have some flexibility: if an assignment turns out to be more complex than expected, we should be able to increase the number of points for this assignment, and, vice versa,...