Objectives: Mirror therapy is a unique treatment with a touch of modality that is purported to improve the motor function of the affected limb in individuals with hemiplegia. Previous studies have focused on the neuro-physiological factors underlying the mechanism of the clinical effect of this technique. The present study aims to understand the mechanism using the rehabilitation method and neu...

Previous work has shown that both human adults and children attend to grasping actions performed by another person but not necessarily to those made by a mechanical device. According to recent neurophysiological data, the monkey premotor cortex contains "mirror" neurons that discharge both when the monkey performs specific manual grasping actions and when it observes another individual performi...

We present an integrated environment for stereoscopic acquisition, off-line 3D elaboration, and visual presentation of biological hand actions. The system is used in neurophysiological experiments aimed at the investigation of the parameters of the external stimuli that mirror neurons visually extract and match on their movement related activity.

The purpose of this note is to point out some very elementary examples of special Lagrangian tori in certain Calabi-Yau manifolds that occur as hypersurfaces in complex projective space. All of these are constructed as real slices of smooth hypersurfaces defined over the reals. This method of constructing special Lagrangian submanifolds is, of course, well known. What does not appear to be in t...

Since Pnueli's seminal paper in 1977, Temporal Logic has been used as a formalism for specifying and verifying the correctness of reactive systems. In this paper, we show that, besides its expressive power, Temporal Logic enjoys a very strong structural property: it is categorical on processes. That is, we show how temporal specifications (as theories) can be embedded in categories of process b...

The distinctly over-developed American beauty culture virtually compels women to take part in a quest for physical perfection from the age of 5 until the day they die. Personal liberty amounts to the freedom to choose which of the available stereotypes one selects for oneself. This sad and horrific quest is well-established in Britain, only the intensity is different. 'Children basically don't ...