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  1. Evolution of the Internet Topology and Traffic Dynamics of Data Packets

    In recent years, the Internet has become one of the most influential media in our daily life, going beyond in its role as the basic infrastructure in...
    Kwang-Il Goh, Byungnam Kahng, Doochul Kim in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  2. 4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems

    In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  3. Virtual Reality in Healthcare

    In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with special...
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  4. Access to Information on Demand by the aid of Digital Talking Books

    This chapter addresses the concept and the fundamental ideas of the digital talking book (DTB), with a particular focus on DTBs in the DAISY format....
    Thomas Kjellberg Christensen, Margit Dühring in Intelligent Paradigms for Assistive and Preventive Healthcare
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  5. Synchronization in Complex Networks

    The study of complex systems pervades all of science, from cell biology to ecology, from computer science to meteorology. A paradigm of a complex...
    Ljupco Kocarev, Gábor Vattay in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  6. Data Traffic, Topology and Congestion

    We consider the interaction between the topology of a network and the tra.c carried along its channels. The binding elements between the topology and...
    David K. Arrowsmith, R.J. Mondrag, M. Woolf in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks
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  7. 1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems

    When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  8. 9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems

    Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream...
    Zhengguo Li, Yengchai Soh, Changyun Wen in Switched and Impulsive Systems
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  9. 13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation

    This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have...
    Bessam Abdulrazak, Mounir Mokhtari, Bernard Grandjean in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  10. 2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective

    Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical...
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  11. 12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots

    Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A...
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  12. 4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II

    Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with...
    Z. Zenn Bien, Kwang-Hyun Park, ... **-Woo Jung in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  13. 5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life

    The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf...
    O. Kouzmitcheva, C. Martens, ... A. Gräser in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  14. 6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance

    The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and...
    M.J. Johnson, E. Guglielmelli, ... P. Dario in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  15. Content Based Image Compression in Biomedical High-Throughput Screening Using Artificial Neural Networks

    Biomedical High-Throughput Screening (HTS) requires specific properties of image compression. Particularly especially when archiving a huge number of...
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  16. 10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots

    It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for...
    Makoto Nokata, Noriyuki Tejima in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  17. 14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands

    This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as...
    Gert Willem Römer, Harry Stuyt, ... Koos van Woerden in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  18. Discriminative Clustering of Yeast Stress Response

    When a yeast cell is challenged by a rapid change in the conditions, be it temperature, osmolarity, pH, nutrient or other, it starts a genome stress...
    Samuel Kaski, Janne Nikkilä, ... Christophe Roos in Bioinformatics Using Computational Intelligence Paradigms
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  19. Medical Bioinformatics: Detecting Molecular Diseases with Case-Based Reasoning

    Based on the Human Genome Project, the new interdisciplinary subject of bioinformatics has become an important research topic during the last decade....
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  20. A Imperfection Data Bank

    For the stochastic modeling of geometric imperfections as described in Sec. 12.1, a database [5] has been available. This database provides...
    Christian A. Schenk, Gerhart I. Schuëller in Uncertainty Assessment of Large Finite Element Systems
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