We consider the problem of how to grasp an object given that we know its desired placement location. Instead of making path planning an intrinsic part of the grasp point evaluation algorithm, we attempt to evaluate the “goodness” of certain grasps by calculating metrics on the grasps and object point clouds themselves. This work aims to capture human intuitions about good grasps for certain pla...

Mental state representations are a crucial input to human moral judgment. This fact is often summarized by saying that we restrict moral condemnation to ‘intentional’ harms. This simple description is the beginning of a theory, however, not the end of one. There is rich internal structure to the folk concept of intentional action, which comprises a series of causal relations between mental stat...

abstract aims: the reason of selecting self-immolation as a mean to commit suicide is unclear. this study was designed to compare 2 groups of people with and without intention to suicide that had self-immolated. instrument & methods: all 227 self-immolated patients who had been admitted to the burn unit of imam khomeini hospital of kermanshah city, iran, during 2003 to 2004  participated in thi...

journal.publications.chestnet.org patients). Similarly, determining the incidence of HIT in patients exposed to therapeutic treatment with heparin was supported by a paper reporting a retrospective study assessing the incidence of secondary thrombocytopenia recorded in the discharge boards of patients who were referred for a short stay in nonfederal US hospitals with a diagnostic code for throm...