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e-Science and the Grid
Many areas of science involve access to distributed computing and data resources, specialized and expensive instruments for world-wide collaborations... -
The Hamburg/RASS Catalogue of Optical Identifications of ROSAT Bright Source X-Ray Sources
We used digitized Schmidt direct and prism plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) to obtain optical identifications for... -
A Galactic Model as a Useful Tool for Virtual Observatories
Many observational data will be available through Virtual Observatories, but at some wavelengths and in some directions, no data yet exist.... -
Multiwavelength Studies of Microquasar GRS 1915 + 105
The microquasar GRS 1915 + 105 has shown spectacular variability and has been extensively studied in multiwavelengths during last few years. The... -
11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots
An aged society comes soon. Human-care robots must be realized to nurse aged and disabled persons. Human-care robot will need to work around elderly... -
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... -
26 STRING-MAN: A Novel Wire Robot for Gait Rehabilitation
This paper presents a novel robotic prototype for advanced gait rehabilitation. This system integrates sophisticated robotic technology with control... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Visualisation Tools for Very Large Amounts of Data
Can we perceive a billion stars? How would you go about classifying them? How quantitatively good would your analysis be? How reliable would your... -
Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Information: Standards and Tools for the Virtual Observatories
We present a review of the current organization of astronomical archives and data centers in terms of data federation. We point the challenges faced,... -
Meeting the User Science Challenge for a Virtual Universe
The AstroGrid project, a core UK eScience programme, is rapidly implementing the UK’s contribution to the global drive towards the Virtual... -
The Astronomy Digital Library and the VO
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is the central part of the Digital Library in Astronomy. It provides the users with a search system for the... -
Power Spectrum for the Distribution of Galaxies on the Sphere
A method of Gorski of calculation of the power spectrum for CMB for incomplete COBE data set is applied to the distribution of galaxies on the...