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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. A C + + Parser for VOTables

    This paper provides a brief description of C + + Parser for VOTables. The parser is developed by Persistent Systems in association with IUCAA as part...
    Ajit Kembhavi, Hrishikesh Hegde, ... T. M. Vijayaraman in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  11. 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...
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  12. UCDs: Metadata for the VO

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    Sébastien Derriere, Thomas Boch, ... Patricio F. Ortiz in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  13. Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation

    The U.S. National Science Foundation is sponsoring the development of the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory via its Information...
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  14. 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,...
    Daniel Egret, Françoise Genova in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  15. 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...
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  16. Building Interoperable NASA Archives

    Over the past decades NASA has developed an extensive set of archives for space astronomy data. These archives are organized along mission,...
    Thomas McGlynn, Alberto Accomazzi, ... Brian Thomas in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  17. Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases

    XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has now become an almost inescapable tool for the exchange of formatted data over the World Wide Web and is now...
    Conference paper
  18. 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...
    Włodzimierz Godłowski, Magdalena Pietka, ... Marek Szydłowski in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  19. Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory

    We refer on novel X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view of order of 1 000 square degrees or even more. The results...
    René Hudec, Adolf Inneman, Ladislav Pina in Toward an International Virtual Observatory
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  20. Laplacean Ideology for Preliminary Orbit Determination and Moving Celestial Body Identification in Virtual Epoch

    Any CCD frames with stars or galaxies or clusters and other images must be studied for a searching of moving celestial objects, namely asteroids,...
    Conference paper
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