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The UDAPAC Project - Uccle Direct Astronomical Plate Archive Centre: A New International Facility for Inherited Observations
We discuss a project to create a centralized astronomical direct-plate archive and digitizing facility, with a view to making photographic data fully... -
Aladin in the VO Context
Aladin, the CDS interactive sky atlas is one of the important interoperability tools of the astronomy Web. Several recent improvements prepare it for... -
The Russian Virtual Observatory Portal. Convenience and Attractiveness
Nowadays Web-site designers pay more attention on attractiveness in the presentation and convenient work with offered information for site users.... -
The Real Astronomy Experience: Making the IVO Effective for International Planetaria and Science Centers
The Real Astronomy Experience, or RAE, is a new exhibit just beginning development in the late fall of 2002, hopefully to be funded by the US... -
iAstro: Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid
The iAstro network is a European action supported by the COST program, to foster coordination in the domain of computational and information... -
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: A VO Test Case?
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey is an effort to orchestrate limiting observations of a northern (HDF-N) and a southern (CDF-S) field,... -
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Cancer Classification with Microarray Data Using Support Vector Machines
Microarrays (Schena et al. 1995) are also called gene chips or DNA chips. On a microarray chip, there are thousands of spots. Each spot contains the... -
Random Voronoi Ensembles for Gene Selection in DNA Microarray Data
Currently, cancer and other complex pathologies are analyzed mainly by morphological classification. In the past few decades there have been dramatic... -
Class Prediction with Microarray Datasets
Microarray technology is having a significant impact in the biological and medical sciences and class prediction will play an increasingly important... -
Ubiquitous Healthcare: Technology and Service
Ubiquitous healthcare is introduced in terms of technology and service, considering the current technology as well as the future technology and... -
Gait Training System for Computer-aided Rehabilitation
This Gait Training system is designed to simulate the effects of gait training in a swimming pool. The weight of the subject is supported by a... -
Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind: Towards More Assistive Systems
This chapter first presents a review of existing locomotion assistance devices for the blind. These devices are merely proximeters, that measure the... -
1 Advances in Human-Friendly Robotic Technologies for Movement Assistance/Movement Restoration for People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation robots (RR) are expected to play an important role toward the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Such... -
22 A Gentle/S Approach to Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
Movement disorders (MD) include a group of neurological disorders that involve neuromotor systems. MD can result in several abnormalities ranging... -
23 Wire Driven Robots for Rehabilitation
In the last decades many attempts were made to employ robots or automatic mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation. In particular, orthopaedic... -
9 Enhancing the Usability of the MANUS Manipulator by Using Visual Servoing
Controlling MANUS, a wheelchair-mounted manipulator, can put a high cognitive load on the end user. Visual servoing techniques can help to reduce... -
7 Cooperative Welfare Robot System Using Hand Gesture Instructions
This paper explains the cooperative work system between manipulators and humans using hand gesture instructions. The goal of our system is that the... -
Introduction
This book is written in two major parts. The first part includes the introductory chapters consisting of Chaps. 1 through 8. In part two, Chaps....