Reduction of dimensionality of a cellular actuator array for driving a robotic hand by Cho, Kyu-Jin, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Explaining the decision-making process. by Tan, Veronica., Lee, Mabel Liying.

“…Respondents do not react to the framing of the vouchers given and instead, choose their choice of voucher randomly. Neither grouping, gender, nationality and brand awareness has an effect on their choice of voucher.…”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…To the best of my knowledge, no approach has been presented to infer grasp status from just the sensed forces in a grasp. …”
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Development of a learning system for robot control by Tan, Chee Wee

“…As robot manipulator often requires managing a variety of tasks regarding grasping an object, it requires recognizing the object. …”
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Distributed droop schemes for standalone and interlinked AC microgrids by Inam Ullah

“…Experimental results have verified the reduction or cost saving achieved. Like the grouping of DGs to form a single standalone microgrid, the grouping of multiple microgrids to form a larger interlinked system is possible and likely given its more efficient reserve sharing without demanding for standby generators. …”
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My music my way : a case study of identity contestation among Singaporean musicians by Dcruz, Nigel Jude

“…This paper argues for Singapore musicians to be seen as a heterogeneous group of individuals, with differing opinions, motivations and experiences and agency given their relatively disadvantaged position. …”
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Step motion control of servo motors for robotic orthosis triggered by bio signal by Tommy Kangdra.

“…Currently, some of Robot aided Rehabilitation system for upper extremities face challenges to provide system which is low cost and portable, promotes active engagement and provides pinching and grasping movement as it is the basic and important movement for hands to do Activities of Daily Living. …”
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Four secular Ruke Dongba notes generated during fieldwork: an innovative language documentation approach by Xu, Duoduo

“…It compares these Dongba pictographs with the Geba script, the syllabic writing system of Naxi people, as well as the various types of scripts used by some other ethnic groups, which show a general tendency of Romanization in the generation of alphabetic writing systems and provides a pattern inherent in the historical evolution of writing. …”
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Future failure rate prediction for transformers in power systems by Tan, Jia Le

“…The coefficients of these hazard functions are run through a clustering algorithm to calculate the grouping of brands. These groups will serve to simplify the data in future analysis.…”
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Global Human Resource Development : Regional and Country Perspectives / by Garavan, Thomas N., editor 517539, McCarthy, Alma, editor 655105, Morley, Michael, editor 312792

“…Specifically, the volume provides an overview of 17 regions, 85 countries and includes one emerging market grouping, CIVETS. This book examines the role of the state in HRD, the relationship between HRD and the level of economic development in the country or region, the influence of foreign direct investment within the country or region, and firm-level HRD practices within countries or regions. …”
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Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Nationhood is constructed to embrace different ethnic groups through fostering recognition of the party. …”
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Bioinformatics study of enteroviruses which cause waterborne diseases by Koh, Aik Nam.

“…Viruses belonging to this group spread via different pathways. In this study, focus will be placed on the group which are waterborne, and spread waterborne diseases. …”
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Perceputal rendering algorithm by Gong, Yi Fan

“…The K-mean Clustering method can generally reduced the pixel color calculation by grouping the similar color pixels. And the Visual Importance can help emphasize the parts that will be easily focused on by the human eye and omit the parts will hardly be noticed. …”
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Multiple centers based fuzzy clustering for imbalanced data by Liao, Hongda

“…Clustering for data mining is a useful technique in terms of identifying interesting distributions and discovering groups in the underlying data. K-means is a particular clustering technique that is world-renowned and widely spread for its low computational cost, which mainly includes the hard k-means clustering algorithms and the fuzzy k-means clustering algorithms. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…This technique promotes an interactive and easy drawing environment to build objects, associations, layout information by zooming, navigation, and grouping. It will lead to future possibilities such as 3D world modelling, printing and multisensory integration of inputs and output methods.…”
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Object mining using a matching graph on very large image collections by Philbin, J, Zisserman, A

“…Often, what is required is that images taken in the same place, of the same thing, or of the same person be conceptually grouped together. This work focuses on grouping images containing the same object, despite significant changes in scale, viewpoint and partial occlusions, in very large (1M+) image collections automatically gathered from Flicker. …”

Mitochondrial genome of endangered Hylobatidae, Hylobates lar, and Hylobates agilis, of Peninsular Malaysia by Roberta Chaya Tawie Tingga, Millawati Gani, Badrul Munir Md-Zain

“…Phylogenetic analysis showed both species formed a strong monophyletic clade within Hylobates grouping. Mitogenomic data of this study is essential for future references in evolutionary biology and conservation management of endangered Malaysian gibbons in captivity.…”
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Rethinking the Evaluation of Compositional Reasoning for Modern VLMs by Huang, Irene Y.

“…Recent advancements in modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs), comprising a visual encoder coupled with a Large Language Model (LLM) decoder, have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in Compositional Reasoning (CR). CR entails grasping the significance of attributes, relations, and word order. …”
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Development of sensorised tool for robotic manipulation of objects by Seetharaman, Yuvanesh

“…However commonly robotic grippers often face difficulties when grasping objects with irregular shapes or uneven surfaces. …”
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“Laboratory in a dirty sky”: Aerial media, art, and air pollution in Project Da Vinci (1974–1979) by McCormack, DP

“…This article develops the idea of aerial media as a way of grasping the conceptual and empirical intersection of geographies of air pollution, artistic experiment, and media. …”