We present a telepresence system with visual and haptic feedback for a telemanipulation task in full six degrees-of-freedom. The employed teleoperator consists of an anthropomorphic manipulator arm mounted on a mobile base to allow task execution in wide remote environments. On the operator side we use a hyperredundant force-reflecting input device. Control issues of operator and teleoperator a...

Abstract. We analyze two Boolean function networks with different degrees of neutrality. The results show that the one with explicit neutrality is a small-world network where each pair of possible solutions has a short distance and most of the possible solutions are highly clustered. These network structural properties owe their existence to the “short cuts” introduced by redundant genes in the...

Reconfigurable robots can be defined as a group of robots that can have different geometries, thus obtaining different structures derived from the basic one, having different degrees of freedom and workspaces. Thanks to the optimum dexterity they offer, the user can accomplish a large variety of industrial tasks, using a structurally optimized robot leading towards better energy control and eff...

Finding relevant experts is essential for collaboration. Many Expert Finder applications succeed in finding experts, only at coarse levels of granularity, and within specific domains. Finding experts at fine granularity however, is often needed for effective functioning. Semantics can refine the granularity at which the expertise of various experts can be determined, by explicitly expressing re...

This paper describes the development of a novel wearable laparoscope manipulator which is put on the surface of the patient’s hypogastric region, using the artificial muscles. The manipulator was composed of a Stewart-Gough Platform with six degrees of freedom. This manipulator is compact and very lightweight. Its weight is 364g. This manipulator can be sterilized and cleaned, and this manipula...

abstract   background: academic burnout is the state of negative emotions and low motivation in one’s education. understanding the status of academic burnout is the primary step to make proper decisions. the present study, therefore, was conducted to investigate comparative degrees of academic burnout among medical students in their first five semesters of medical education at shahid beheshti u...

We present an overview of current academic curricula for Scientific Computing, High-Performance Computing and Data Science. After a survey of current academic and non-academic programs across the globe, we focus on Canadian programs and specifically on the education program of the SciNet HPC Consortium, using its detailed enrollment and course statistics for the past four to five years. Not onl...

Background: Identification of the factors that result in academic achievement and prevent academic failure is of extreme importance due to the effective role of nursing in the health and wellbeing of human beings. Objectives: This study is done with regards to the important role of academic emotions in academic achievement and the double effect of academic engagement mediators and cognitive st...