Autonomous path-following robots that use visionbased navigation are appealing for a wide variety of tedious and dangerous applications. However, a reliance on matching pointbased visual features often renders vision-based navigation unreliable over extended periods of time in unstructured, outdoor environments. Specifically, scene change caused by lighting, weather, and seasonal variation lead...

Background Kidney transplant recipients need self-management during their lifetime, and training these patients is essential for the realization of self-management. Teach-back training (TBT) was used to receive, understand, and retain information. This study aimed to determine the effect of TBT on self-management in kidney transplant recipients. Methods In this clinical trial study, 84 kidney...

only long enough to satisfy the law. This law also brought back into the schools retarded children who had withdrawn because of inability to progress, or because of discouragement. In the summer of 1916, the authorities of the public schools of Austin took steps to remedy these obstacles to the efficiency of the schools, by instituting three ungraded classes in different ward schools in the cit...

Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies are common outpatient surgical procedures. After briefly discussing cholecystectomy and its indications, best practices in phase I, phase II, and phase III recovery are discussed. Typical pharmaceutical regimens for controlling pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting are summarized. By implementing best practices, nurses can prevent and recognize compl...

In cooperation with IVECO Magirus for the new generation of fire turntable ladders a trajectory tracking control was developed to avoid swaying of the cage especially in case of large ladder lengths. Beside the active damping of the upcoming oscillations as a new functionality a automated mode for the ladder operation was implemented. This automated mode has to provide time indexed reference fu...

The art of storytelling, similar to poetry, takes us to a different realm, yet always bringing us back to where we are. In many traditional societies, ethical concerns were taught through stories. A few stories from the Buddhist tradition have been selected to convey some basic teachings of the Buddha on ethical issues. This does not mean that these few stories capture the whole of Buddhist eth...

I was born in Vienna and came to the United States as a refugee in October 1938. This experience played an important role in my view of the world and my approach to science: It contributed to my realization that it was safe to stop working in fields that I felt I understood and to focus on different areas of research by asking questions that would teach me and others something new. I describe m...