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Robust and stable locomotion over compliant terrains: application to lower-limb prostheses and bipedal robots

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Artemiadis, PanagiotisOver 2 million Americans are currently living with amputation, primarily of the lower limb. Although powered lower-limb prostheses manage to restore functional mobility and adapt to different speeds, conditions, and rigid terrains ...
Karakasis, Chrysostomos
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Training Revising Based Traversability Analysis of Complex Terrains for Mobile Robot

open access: yes, 2014
Traversability analysis is one of the core issues in the autonomous navigation for mobile robots to identify the accessible area by the information of sensors on mobile robots. This paper proposed a model to analyze the traversability of complex terrains
Xuewen Rong   +3 more
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary educational research: selected tactics and tools for traversing and transforming the terrains

open access: yes, 2008
Contemporary educational research seems to be undergoing a number of crises – of confidence, of conscience, of faith and of purpose. As educational researchers explore the multiple terrains and varying topologies of the research landscape – from flat and
Danaher, Patrick Alan, Henderson, Robyn
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
wiley   +1 more source

Realizability of tropical lines in the fan tropical plane [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
textIn this thesis we construct an analogue in tropical geometry for a class of Schubert varieties from classical geometry. In particular, we look at the collection of tropical lines contained in the fan tropical plane.
Haque, Mohammad Moinul
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Learning an Adaptive Fall Recovery Controller for Quadrupeds on Complex Terrains

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Legged robots have shown promise in locomotion complex environments, but recovery from falls on challenging terrains remains a significant hurdle. This paper presents an Adaptive Fall Recovery (AFR) controller for quadrupedal robots on challenging ...
Ma, Ji   +4 more
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Informe de la Comisión Interamericana del Atún Tropical correspondiente al ano 2000

open access: yes, 2002
ENGLISH:The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) operates under the authorityand direction of a convention originally entered into by Costa Rica and the United States. Theconvention, which came into force in 1950, is open to adherence by other

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