81st (Spring) Meeting of Ulster Society of Internal Medicine, Friday 15th May 2009 Medical Education Centre, Craigavon Hospital, Portadown

We describe the locomotion dynamics of a biomimetic robot and compare them with those of its exemplar: the cockroach. The robot is a small (0.275kg) hexapod created using a layered manufacturing technique that allows us to tailor the compliance and damping of the limbs to achieve passive stabilization similar to that observed in insects. The robot runs at over 3 body-lengths per second (55 cm/s...

In this study, it is theorized that party websites play a distinctive role in two regards: (i) they function as a pluralistic civic forum by facilitating the voice of oppositional challengers and increasing the visibility of minor and fringe parties, so that attentive citizens can learn more about the range of electoral choices; (ii) in addition, party websites function as a channel for politic...

Get out of your chair and go look at some animals behaving. I hope that spring is in the air so that you can see animals courting and mating. Look at insects, birds, mammals, or reptiles. Go to the beach and look at the fiddler crabs. So sad if the dead of winter has set in and animals aren’t engaged in mating rituals. Look at fish in an aquarium. Go to a tropical fish store and look at a tank ...