An essential part of the work of mourning is, as Freud points out in 'Mourning and Melancholia', the testing of reality. He says that 'in grief this period of time is necessary for detailed carrying out of the behest imposed by the testing of reality, and ... by accomplishing this labour the ego succeeds in freeing its libido from the lost object', And again: 'Each single one of the memories an...

Actual applications of the energy absorbers showed that actual loads are not applied in the form of pure axial compression, pure bending or pure torsion. In reality, an energy absorber component may be subjected to combined loading of compression, bending and torsion. A number of previous articles have investigated the behavior of energy absorbers under oblique loading. In such cases, the obliq...

Mathematics is a science that is traditionally known as a highly abstract discipline. Due to its apparent possibility of deducing abstract formulas without the necessity of back-linking to the outside reality, pure mathematics’ status is often experienced as being isolated from and superior to the dubious reality and our evenly ambiguous perception of it. Despite this attitude, several examples...

Virtual reality has the potential to be a powerful new tool in engineering education by bringing experience based learning to all students, by addressing the needs of students with alternate learning styles, and by providing enhanced impact to educational presentations. As with any new tool, we must first learn how, when, and where to apply it before it becomes useful. This paper describes Vich...

Software testing is an important tool for ensuring that software products produced and launched on the market reach the appropriate quality standards. Testing maturity models such as MPT.BR or TMMI, appear in the software scenario as a way to support introducing elements that are essential for developing the discipline of software testing within organizations. Together with this reality, it is ...

INTRODUCTION The sense of touch plays a crucial role in our everyday lives. Touch allows us fine motor control, adds to our sense of self, and helps with our perception of the world around us [3]. Without it, accomplishing simple everyday tasks would become overwhelmingly difficult. Such is the life of approximately two million amputees in the United States today [2]. In order to improve the li...

OBJECTIVE To provide information for community pharmacies considering implementation of a pharmacogenetic testing service. SETTING A single community pharmacy from a regional chain. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION Community pharmacists at the study site routinely provide pharmacy services including medication therapy management, immunizations, point-of-care testing, blood pressure monitoring, and diab...

A number of successful tone mapping operators for contrast compression have been proposed due to the need to visualize high dynamic range (HDR) images on low dynamic range (LDR) devices. They were inspired by fields as diverse as image processing, photographic practice, and modeling of the human visual systems (HVS). The variety of approaches calls for a systematic perceptual evaluation of thei...

Fusion of vision-based and inertial pose estimation has many high-potential applications in navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Our research aims at the development of a fully mobile, completely self-contained tracking system, that is able to estimate sensor motion from known 3D scene structure. This requires a highly modular and scalable software architecture for algorithm design and ...

This paper introduces an augmented reality authoring tool that allows users to edit and publish an examination application with the Augmented Reality (AR) interface. The AR authoring system in this paper is constructed with the help of ARToolKit, a widely used open source for AR. This unique system can help users with no programming knowledge to build AR applications quickly and efficiently. 2D...