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Shaking hands: Priming by social action effects

In a semi-naturalistic response-effect compatibility paradigm, participants were given the opportunity to learn that hand-shaking actions would be followed by social effects (human hand-shaking stimuli from a third-person perspective) or inanimate effects (block arrow stimuli). Relative to the actions, these effects appeared on the same or the opposite side of the screen (positional compatibility), and pointed towards or away from the response hand (directional compatibility). After learning, response times indicated a positional compatibility effect for both social and inanimate effects, but a directional compatibility effect occurred only for social action effects. These findings indicate that actions can be represented, not only by their effects on the inanimate world, but also by their effects on the actions of others. They are consistent with ideomotor theory, and with the view that actions are represented by bidirectional response-effect associations. They also have implications with respect to the origins and on-line control of imitation and the systems supporting imitation.

A survey of multi-fingered robot hands: issues and grasping achievements

Recently a substantial amount of research has been done in the field of dextrous manipulation and hand manoeuvres. The main concern has been how to control robot hands so that they can execute manipulation tasks with the same dexterity and intuition as human hands. This paper surveys multi-fingered robot hand research and development topics which include robot hand design, object force distribution and control, grip transform, grasp stability and its synthesis, grasp stiffness and compliance motion and robot arm-hand coordination. Three main topics are presented in this article. The first is an introduction to the subject. The second concentrates on examples of mechanical manipulators used in research and the methods employed to control them. The third presents work which has been done on the field of object manipulation.

Within, but not between hands interactions in vibrotactile detection thresholds reflect somatosensory receptive field organization

Detection of a tactile stimulus on one finger is impaired when a concurrent stimulus (masker) is presented on an additional finger of the same or the opposite hand. This phenomenon is known to be finger-specific at the within-hand level. However, whether this specificity is also maintained at the between-hand level is not known. In four experiments, we addressed this issue by combining a Bayesian adaptive staircase procedure (QUEST) with a two-interval forced choice (2IFC) design in order to establish threshold for detecting 200ms, 100Hz sinusoidal vibrations applied to the index or little fingertip of either hand (targets). We systematically varied the masker finger (index, middle, ring, or little finger of either hand), while controlling the spatial location of the target and masker stimuli. Detection thresholds varied consistently as a function of the masker finger when the latter was on the same hand (Experiments 1 and 2), but not when on different hands (Experiments 3 and 4). Within the hand, detection thresholds increased for masker fingers closest to the target finger (i.e., middle>ring when the target was index). Between the hands, detection thresholds were higher only when the masker was present on any finger as compared to when the target was presented in isolation. The within hand effect of masker finger is consistent with the segregation of different fingers at the early stages of somatosensory processing, from the periphery to the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). We propose that detection is finger-specific and reflects the organisation of somatosensory receptive fields in SI within, but not between the hands.

Detection of enterotoxin genes of Staphylococcus sp isolated from nasal cavities and hands of food handlers

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Trasformazioni del piano, curve e moti

Caratterizzazione delle trasformazioni e riferimento di Frenet-Serret

Analisi e revisione del livello di servizio dei fornitori. Ottimizzazione degli effetti sul piano strategico-operativo: Il caso Celine Production

Nel presente elaborato vengono presentati, a seguito di una breve prefazione, sei capitoli. Nella Prefazione viene descritto l’ambito in cui è stato effettuato lo studio, con un breve riferimento all’argomento trattato. Nel Capitolo 1, introduttivo, viene descritta l’azienda in cui si è svolto il tirocinio, Céline Production s.r.l., ed a cui si è collegata la stesura dell’elaborato, ed il gruppo LVMH a cui l’azienda appartiene. Nel Capitolo 2 viene, in primo luogo, fornita una descrizione della letteratura esistente su Operations e Supply Chain Management, ed in seguito viene parafrasata al contesto in cui è stato svolto il tirocinio. Nella parte conclusiva del capitolo viene descritto l’obiettivo del lavoro. Nel Capitolo 3, primo capitolo centrale dell’elaborato, viene descritto in maniera approfondita il problema alla base del lavoro di tirocinio e vengono elencate le cause individuate. Nel Capitolo 4 vengono proposte e descritte delle azioni di miglioramento per le cause individuate mentre nel Capitolo 5 vengono confrontati i risultati ottenuti. Nel Capitolo 6, infine, vengono descritte le conclusioni e gli sviluppi futuri.

Hands-Free Navigation in Immersive Environments for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Indoor Navigation Systems

While navigation systems for cars are in widespread use, only recently, indoor navigation systems based on smartphone apps became technically feasible. Hence tools in order to plan and evaluate particular designs of information provision are needed. Since tests in real infrastructures are costly and environmental conditions cannot be held constant, one must resort to virtual infrastructures. This paper presents the development of an environment for the support of the design of indoor navigation systems whose center piece consists in a hands-free navigation method using the Microsoft Kinect in the four-sided Definitely Affordable Virtual Environment (DAVE). Navigation controls using the user's gestures and postures as the input to the controls are designed and implemented. The installation of expensive and bulky hardware like treadmills is avoided while still giving the user a good impression of the distance she has traveled in virtual space. An advantage in comparison to approaches using a head mounted display is that the DAVE allows the users to interact with their smartphone. Thus the effects of different indoor navigation systems can be evaluated already in the planning phase using the resulting system

Grand duo pour piano e viola

arr. par F. Hermann d'après Le Grand Septuor Oeuvre 20 composé par L. van Beethoven

Hebrew songs : for piano and voice

by M. Halpern

Obras para voz y piano de Honorio Siccardi : música argentina del siglo XX

Con la edición del presente trabajo entregamos a los estudiosos de la historia de la Música Argentina del Siglo XX, recopilación y digitalización de obras para voz y piano del compositor Honorio Mario Siccardi (1897-1963). Cabe mencionar que este trabajo se inicia en el año 2005 a partir del proyecto de investigación: “Música Argentina del Siglo XX. Obras para voz y piano de Honorio Siccardi", subsidiado por Secretaría de Ciencia, Técnica y Posgrado de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y continúa con mi tema de Tesis: “Obras para voz y piano de Honorio Siccardi: una aproximación analítica", en la Maestría en Arte Latinoamericano, defendida en marzo de 2009[418 páginas], en la misma Universidad. La documentación es relevada del archivo personal del compositor, situado en la Ciudad de Dolores en la provincia de Buenos Aires, el cual está bajo la supervisión y cuidado de su hijo Héctor Siccardi. Las partituras publicadas, con el consentimiento de las editoriales citadas y los herederos habientes, están agotadas (casi en su totalidad) o de difícil acceso, por lo tanto han sido incorporadas en este trabajo para completar el total de obras para voz y piano del compositor. El trabajo de digitalización de los manuscritos de las obras presentadas es realizado por las profesoras Verónica Cortes (Nº 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16), María Emilia Greco (Nº 2, 3, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 y 23) y Natacha Sánchez (Nº 1 y correcciones generales), integrantes del proyecto mencionado, egresadas y docentes de la Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.

Hands-on training in Nonimaging Optics for SME's: the SMETHODS experience

A 5-day training in Nonimaging Optics for European SME’s employees was carried out in June 2012 in the framework of the FP7 funded Support Action "SMETHODS". The training combined theoretical introduction and hands-on practice. The experience was very positive, and the lessons learned will improve the next scheduled sessions. Introduction The FP7 funded Support Action "SMETHODS" [1] is an initiative of seven European academic institutions to strengthen Europe's optics and photonics industry, which has started on 1 September 2011. Participation in training sessions is free for participants, who are selected with priority will be given to employees of small and medium sized European enterprises (SMEs). The consortium in SMETHODS is formed by seven partners that are the most prominent academic institutions in optical design in their countries. Through fully integrated collaborative training sessions, the consortium provides professional assistance as well as hands-on training in a variety of design tasks in four domains: (1) imaging optics, (2) nonimaging optics, (3) wave optics, and (4) diffractive optics. For each of this domains domain, 5-day training sessions are scheduled to be hold in different locations throughout Europe, four times in two years, the teach four times in a 2.5 years period.