Delay And Uncertainty In Human Balancing Tasks

Author : Tamás Insperger,John Milton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030845827

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Delay and Uncertainty in Human Balancing Tasks by Tamás Insperger,John Milton Pdf

This book demonstrates how delay differential equations (DDEs) can be used to compliment the laboratory investigation of human balancing tasks. This approach is made accessible to non-specialists by comparing mathematical predictions and experimental observations. For example, the observation that a longer pole is easier to balance on a fingertip than a shorter one demonstrates the essential role played by a time delay in the balance control mechanism. Another balancing task considered is postural sway during quiet standing. With the inverted pendulum as the driver and the feedback control depending on state variables or on an internal model, the feedback can be identified by determining a critical pendulum length and/or a critical delay. This approach is used to identify the nature of the feedback for the pole balancing and postural sway examples. Motivated by the question of how the nervous system deals with these feedback control challenges, there is a discussion of ‘’microchaotic’’ fluctuations in balance control and how robust control can be achieved in the face of uncertainties in the estimation of control parameters. The final chapter suggests some topics for future research. Each chapter includes an abstract and a point-by-point summary of the main concepts that have been established. A particularly useful numerical integration method for the DDEs that arise in balance control is semi-discretization. This method is described and a MATLAB template is provided. This book will be a useful source for anyone studying balance in humans, other bipedal organisms and humanoid robots. Much of the material has been used by the authors to teach senior undergraduates in computational neuroscience and students in bio-systems, biomedical, mechanical and neural engineering.

Author : Michael J. Richardson,Michael A. Riley,Kevin Shockley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461454656

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Progress in Motor Control by Michael J. Richardson,Michael A. Riley,Kevin Shockley Pdf

This volume is the most recent installment of the Progress in Motor Control series. It contains contributions based on presentations by invited speakers at the Progress in Motor Control VIII meeting held in Cincinnati, OH, USA in July, 2011. Progress in Motor Control is the official scientific meeting of the International Society of Motor Control (ISMC). The Progress in Motor Control VIII meeting, and consequently this volume, provide a broad perspective on the latest research on motor control in humans and other species.

Author : Ewa Fratczak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137318541

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Childbearing, Women's Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe by Ewa Fratczak Pdf

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities.

Author : Chima Mordi,Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi,Olatunji David Adekoya,Toyin Ajibade Adisa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031338786

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Managing Human Resources in Africa by Chima Mordi,Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi,Olatunji David Adekoya,Toyin Ajibade Adisa Pdf

Over the decades, academic literature has too often neglected the complexities and diversity of the African continent and the challenges faced by both multinational companies working across Africa and domestic African companies, particularly in the field of human resources. This edited collection has been compiled with the aim of developing our understanding and practice of HRM in an African context within an increasingly global work milieu. Chapters focus on different African countries and are underpinned by a critical approach to HRM, which goes beyond focussing on the business cases but considers the sensitivity of the national context. The authors will draw on various types of research (conceptual, theoretical and empirical) and incorporate contextual issues such as technology, politics, culture, and economics to supplement the readers’ insights into the current state of human resource management in African countries. By highlighting theoretical underpinnings and emphasising the practical relevance of HR issues, this proposed book will offer an insightful guide for students and scholars interested in HR and management in developing economies.

Author : Hiroshi Yamada,Kenway Louie,Jun Izawa,Tomohiko Takei
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889663033

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Mathematical Modeling toward Understanding Humans and Animals: from Decision Making to Motor Controls by Hiroshi Yamada,Kenway Louie,Jun Izawa,Tomohiko Takei Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951003085795N

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Joint Oversight Hearing on the National Forest Planning Process as Provided in the National Forest Management Act of 1976 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Pdf

Author : Federico Durbano,Floriana Irtelli,Barbara Marchesi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780854664108

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Depression - What Is New and What Is Old in Human Existence by Federico Durbano,Floriana Irtelli,Barbara Marchesi Pdf

This book addresses some issues related to depression. In particular, the edited chapters examine aspects related to culture and trauma as pathoplastic elements, innovative treatment aspects such as acupuncture or animal-assisted treatment, correlations between depression, and some somatic aspects. The volume is useful in renewing interest in a pathology that represents one of the most widespread mental illnesses that is also one of the least treated according to scientific evidence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015028103961

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Digest; Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020208820

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Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World by Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods Pdf

Author : Warren H. Meck,Valérie Doyère,Agnes Gruart
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889190348

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Interval Timing and Time-Based Decision Making by Warren H. Meck,Valérie Doyère,Agnes Gruart Pdf

The perception of time is crucial for everyday activities from the sleep–wake cycle to playing and appreciating music, verbal communication, to the determination of the value of a particular behavior. With regard to the last point, making decisions is heavily influenced by the duration of the various options, the duration of the expected delays for receiving the options, and the time constraints for making a choice. Recent advances suggest that the brain represents time in a distributed manner and reflects time as a result of temporal changes in network states and/or by the coincidence detection of the phase of different neural populations. Moreover, intrinsic oscillatory properties of neural circuits could determine timed motor responses. This Research Topic, partly an emergence of a Satellite EBBS meeting sponsored by the COST-Action TIMELY, will discuss how time in the physical world is reconstructed, distorted and modified in brain networks by emotion, learning and neuropathology. This Research Topic on Timing contains up-to-date reviews regarding the relationship between time and decision-making with respect to the underlying psychological and physiological mechanisms responsible for anticipation and evaluation processes.

Author : Suzan Lewis,Deirdre Anderson,Clare Lyonette,Nicola Payne,Stephen Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317405658

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Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond by Suzan Lewis,Deirdre Anderson,Clare Lyonette,Nicola Payne,Stephen Wood Pdf

This book reflects the enormous interest in work-life balance and current pressing concerns about the impacts of austerity more broadly. It draws on contemporary research and practitioner experiences to explore how work-life balance and related workplace and social policy fare in turbulent economic times and the implications for employees, employers and wider societies. Authors consider workplace trends, practices and employment relations and the impacts on work, care and well-being of diverse workers. A guiding theme throughout the book is a triple agenda of supporting employee work-life balance, workplace effectiveness and social justice. The final chapters present case studies of innovative processes and organizational practices for addressing the triple agenda, note the important role of social policy context and discuss the challenge of extending debates on work-life balance to include a social justice dimension. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of organisational psychology, sociology, human resource management, management and business studies, law and social policy, as well as employers, managers, HR managers, trade unions, and policy makers.

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods,Arthur Stimson Draper,Wilfred John Funk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010301146

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The Literary Digest by Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods,Arthur Stimson Draper,Wilfred John Funk Pdf

Author : John C. Bergstrom,Alan Randall
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784717933

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Resource Economics by John C. Bergstrom,Alan Randall Pdf

Resource Economics engages students and practitioners in natural resource and environmental issues from both local and global standpoints. The fourth edition of this approachable but rigorous text provides a new focus on risk and uncertainty as well as new applications that address the effect of new energy technologies on scarcity and climate change mitigation and adaptation, while preserving and systematically updating the approach and key features that drew many thousands of readers to the first three editions.

Author : Ian Roper,Rea Prouska,Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843983811

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Critical Issues in Human Resource Management by Ian Roper,Rea Prouska,Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Pdf

Critical Issues in Human Resource Management will enable all HR students to take a critical approach to HR issues. Outlining the influences and shapers of HR strategy including ethics, managing in different national contexts, employment relations, politics, governance and finance, this book provides students with a full understanding of the complexities of HRM strategy and what the implications of these are. There is also crucial discussion of critical issues in the processes and practice of HRM including the dilemmas of onshoring and offshoring, gender equality, challenging institutional racism and disability discrimination in the modern workplace to enable readers to think deeply and critically about these issues. Critical Issues in Human Resource Management also includes discussion of the application of HRM in different sectors such as manufacturing, the public sector, the private sector and not-for-profit organizations. This will enable HR students to examine HR practices in specific industries and to think about how issues might be dealt with differently in different sectors, rather than assuming that best practice is universal. Online resources include a lecturer guide with additional seminar activities and discussion topics, powerpoint slides and annotated weblinks for students to enable them to develop an astute, nuanced and critical approach to human resource management

Author : Pascal Béguin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317062523

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Risky Work Environments by Pascal Béguin Pdf

Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident investigation, regulation, operation) and their consequences for operational performance. The role of rules and regulations is explored, considering the consequences of deviations and the limitations of enforced compliance. Further, the book explains how to search for, think about and act on information about vulnerability, near misses and mistakes in a way that emphasizes accountability in ways that are not punitive but instead responsible, innovative and provide opportunities for learning. Writing from different disciplines and theoretical perspectives, the contributors analyse working in risky environments which include air traffic control, offshore mining, chemical plants, neo-natal intensive care units, ship piloting and emergency call dispatch centres. In each chapter the authors present rich empirical data and their analyses illustrate a variety of ways in which, despite imperfect systems, safety and resilience is created in human action. In the chapters where the focus is on error or mistakes, the analysis undertaken reveals the logic of actions undertaken at the time as well as their constraints. The contributors are all active researchers within their disciplines and come from Australia, Finland, France, Norway and the Netherlands. The book will be of direct interest to safety scientists, researchers and scientists, as well as human factors practitioners working in complex technological systems.