historical perspectives cultural influences and current challenges

... demand and often required capital investment that farmers cannot afford Often models are based on lowland agriculture and are promoted in upland and mountainous areas without prior testing and ... Annual cropland Irrigated annual Perennial cropland Forest land % having land Size1 (m2) % having land2 Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) North East Kinh Ethnic Min 87 ... cropland and forestry land has often been based on the ability to invest in the land with labour and capital Given that poor people, including the ethnic minorities, have a shortage of funds and...

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... other countries Authors with background from various cultural groups and with firsthand knowledge of the socio-economic impacts, influences and challenges of the digital economy has contributed ... this volume were guided by the quality, relevance and coverage of the vital issues and proper analysis and depiction of the impacts, influences and challenges of the digital economy The brief TLFeBOOK ... “transactional and institutional trust,” and “attitudes toward debt,” that may impact a broader acceptance and development of e-commerce in China To identify the current infrastructure and socio-economic influences...

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... Historical Current Lifestyle Disease 5.2 4.1 7.1 33.6 — — — — 5.2 4.1 7.1 33.6 Multiple predictor groups Historical + Current Historical + Lifestyle Historical + Disease Historical + Current + ... groups in the model For the Historical SEI + Current SEI” model, the common variation is: Historical SEI model variation + Current SEI model variation – (Historical SEI + Current SEI) model variation, ... prediction groups: historical socioeconomic indicators (H), current socioeconomic indicators (C), lifestyle risk factors (L), and disease indicators (D), in study of historical and current predictors...

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... 1978; Andreassen and Rosenfalck, 1981) 3.2.2 Assumptions of the core-conductor model and the line-source model: the first approach to convolutional models Clark and Plonsey (1966, 1968) and then Andreassen ... Analysis – 16 A Perspective on Current Applications and Future Challenges most widely used relationship between fiber diameter and conduction velocity (Nandedkar and Stålberg, 1983) is: v = 3.7 ... empirical and computational aspects of EMG research This book was born from discussions with researchers in the EMG community and aims to provide a snapshot of some current trends and future challenges...

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... University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 7Fits Institute, Poland Physical Therapy Perspectives in the 21st Century – Challenges and Possibilities pulmonary problems, and progression during adulthood ... generally initiated and body selfimage and self-esteem develops (Falstrom et al,1986) Surgery has also been shown to have a Physical Therapy Perspectives in the 21st Century – Challenges and Possibilities ... Usual sitting position for writing and using the computer Fig 14 “Grand porter” Stage IV: What not to and why? Much more important and rarely described are exercises and postures to avoid in scoliosis...

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... al.: Ventilator-induced lung injury: historical perspectives and clinical implications Annals of Intensive Care 2011 1:28 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online ... content and pulmonary permeability Pulmonary edema was assessed by measuring extravascular lung water content (Qwl/BW) and permeability alterations by measuring bloodless dry-lung weight (DLW/BW) and ... with a moderately increased VT *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 vs ZEEP and the same VT Used with permission From Dreyfuss and Saumon [33] blebbing and interstitial edema [29] This beneficial effect of PEEP...

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... their advantages, and limitations In Section 4, based on previous discussion, we will discuss the principal challenges and perspectives for selective encryption 1.1 Shannon and selective encryption ... image and video A Massoudi et al Wen, Severa, Zeng, Luttrel, and Jin, 2002 A general selective encryption approach for fixed and variable length codes (FLC and VLC) is proposed in [24] FLC and ... approximation subband can be reconstructed This will give the attacker the size of the approximation subband (lower resolution) and then neighboring subbands can be reconstructed since close subbands contain...

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... arm inertia,  ,  and  are the angular position and its derivatives, Cv and Cs are respectively the viscous and dry friction coefficients, Mx and My represent the load among x and y axes Being ... models: friction, gravity and rated flow (converted into torque units) 8 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Table and Table present the performance for both oil and water Obviously internal ... Transactions on Robotics and Automation 9(5): 571 – 580 44 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems in Terms of Quasi-Velocities 45 Modeling and Control of...

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... ΓTAW (4) 270 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges where TMotor , THull and TAW denote kinetic energies of the motor, hull and the angled wheels, respectively, and Γ denotes the number of ... right hand side in the case, 2-4s), gets up by lateral flexion which makes center of FMT elevate (5-7s), and recovers to straight configuration 256 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges ... 260 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe Crawling Robot 261 15 Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe...

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... University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 7Fits Institute, Poland Physical Therapy Perspectives in the 21st Century – Challenges and Possibilities pulmonary problems, and progression during adulthood ... generally initiated and body selfimage and self-esteem develops (Falstrom et al,1986) Surgery has also been shown to have a Physical Therapy Perspectives in the 21st Century – Challenges and Possibilities ... Usual sitting position for writing and using the computer Fig 14 “Grand porter” Stage IV: What not to and why? Much more important and rarely described are exercises and postures to avoid in scoliosis...

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... path between A and Y becomes blocked and A and Y become d-separated: AXEYO If, however, a collider such as Y is conditioned on, the path between A and O becomes unblocked and A and O become ... Unit, CeRMS and CPO-Piemonte, University of Turin, Italy 5National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland 6Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland 7IDIAP ... Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia Epidemiology – Current Perspectives on Research and Practice Two major developments have changed the scientific and societal...

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... context, cultural and political barriers to implementation, and the socio -cultural feasibly of, and suggestions for, the implementation of harm reduction interventions Transcripts were first hand-coded ... policies and practices with locally important policy questions was recently used in four countries (Poland Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) and found to be useful in identifying policy issues and ... machines, and SIFs and factors that may influence their implementation in Tijuana, Mexico [16] Herein, we specifically explored religious and cultural factors affecting the acceptability and http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/36...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... 2, (29) 52 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges and then define Γr ¯ Γ22 , and Γo ¯ Γ12 (30) Now, substituting (25) into (22) and then using definitions (28) and (29), we arrive at vr ... Transactions on Robotics and Automation 9(5): 571 – 580 44 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems in Terms of Quasi-Velocities 45 Modeling and Control of ... 28 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Operational Space Dynamics of a Space Robot and Computational Efficient Algorithm 29 Operational Space Dynamics of a Space Robot and Computational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 29(6), 1309–1314 62 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Spong, M W (1992) Remarks on robot dynamics: Canonical transformations and riemannian geometry ... boundedness Berghuis and Nijmeijer (1994); Egeland (1987); Qu and Dawson (1996) and nonlinear structure variable or switching controller that can guarantee global stability Liu and Goldenberg (1996); ... z, s and s being the generalized forces, coordinates, velocities and accelerations, re˙ ¨ spectively M , C and g consist in the positive definite and symmetric mass matrix, the Coriolis and centrifugal-forces...

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... q1  q1 max and q  q  q max • The object and the floor contact at a point and the object does not rotational motion • A mode where both contact points (hand and object / object and floor) are ... hands must have the same size and number of fingers and a tactile sense similar to those of the human hand It is necessary to develop dexterous robot hands Examples of multi-fingered robot hands ... joint angles of the manipulator and their velocities and also • position and velocity of the object and the ones of contact point • contact mode at contact point and (stick/slip to positive direction...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... end and the right end of the rope are represented by l1 and l2, and the left end and the right end of the object are represented by r1 and r2 The description of intersections on the rope and ... q 1and q3 are set to 90° The initial values of q5 and q6 are set to 0°, respectively q2 and q4, corresponding to θ1 and θ2 in Fig (a), respectively, are controlled by the neural oscillators and ... and to define the relationship between the knotting process and the individual skills that can be performed by a robot hand (Yamakawa et al., 2008) Finally, two kinds of knot (overhand knot and...

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... by the robot hand in knot manipulation Finally, we demonstrated productions of an overhand knot and a half hitch by using a highspeed multifingered hand with high-speed visual and tactile sensory ... High-speed Multifingered Hand and a High-speed Vision System, Proc IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation, pp 181-187 Inoue, H & Inaba, M (1984) Hand-eye Coordination in Rope Handling, Robotics Research: ... Bouri1, Reymond Clavel1, Yves Allemand2 and Roland Brodard2 1EPFL, LSRO Station 9, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2FSC, Rue du Commerce 2,1870 Monthey 2, Switzerland Introduction In industrialized...

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... right and left driving wheels, and ρis the distance from the rotational center to the center of TW-2 Fig 20 shows the rotational angles and load current values corresponding to the right and left ... right and left wheels of TW-2 and the midpoints of the right and left wheels It was found that TW-2 is rotated by making the left driving wheel the center of rotation Robotics 2010: Current and ... belt (the middle) and belt with grousers (the right) Fig Vertebral structure of FMT: 3D CAD image (the left) and its anatomy chart (the right) 246 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Fig...

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... the wheels ˙ ˙ K f1 φ and K f2 θ model the viscous friction on the hub and the wheels, respectively ˙ ˙ From (2), the angular velocities of the hub and the wheels, namely φ and θ are related Therefore ... substituting (14) and (16) in (11), the generalized force Q will be computed as: )2 ρC A ( ˙ ˙ Q = Tm − ΓµbFN − K f φ − bSδ d (b + r )θSδ + ν (17) Using (17) and substituting T and V from (6) and (9) into ... motor, eb is the back EMF of the motor and i a is the armature current Here v app is the input voltage (i.e., the control variable) and i a denotes the armature current In (20) it is assumed that...

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