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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"tool-use"”.
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Force-and-motion constrained planning for tool use
The use of hand tools presents a challenge for robot manipulation in part because it calls for motions requiring continuous force application over a whole trajectory, usually involving large joint-angle excursions. The feasible application of a tool, such as pulling a nail with a hammer claw, …
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What Dolphins Want: Animal Intentionality and Tool-Use
… I argue for this through the examination of tool-use among New Caledonian crows and Bottlenose dolphins. New Caledonian crows demonstrate advanced tool-manufacture and standardization, while Bottlenose dolphins use social learning to a much greater degree than other animals. These two case …
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Problem solving and tool use in three species of otter
Sea otters are well known tool users, yet the cognitive capacities of other otter species have been sparsely studied. Precedent exists for non-tool using species closely related to native tool users to display comparable abilities under experimental conditions. The social intelligence hypothesis …
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A Unifying Account of Technological Knowledge: Animal Construction, Tool Use, and Technology
… accounts of technology that include a “human clause,” some phrase to the effect that only humans use or make technologies. When these academics do consider tool use, they refer to a few cases, usually from chimpanzee studies, as special and unusual in the animal kingdom and whose similarities to …
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Determining Upper Extremity Posture Using a Simplified Marker Configuration for Biomechanical Risk Evaluation during Tool Use
… and quaternion methods, which are two commonly used methods for describing joint angles and body segment postures and movement, have great limitations when dealing with upper extremities. The planar projection method has also been used to represent joint angles and body segment postures and …
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A Comprehensive Methodology for Assessing Biomechanical Risks Associated with Hand Tool Use: Applied to Laparoscopic Surgical Instruments
… risk factors associated with surgical hand tools had never been performed. Utilizing an opto-electronic motion capture system meant the exact surgeon posture was recorded during simulated surgical tasks. Electromyography was used to evaluate muscle recruitment and workload for small forearm …
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Driving to Learn. The process of growing consciousness of tool use - a grounded theory of de-plateauing.
… eight-phase process of growing consciousness of tool-use, training strategies, a tool for assessment of joystick-use and identification of factors influencing the outcome of the training. The tool was tested for inter-rater reliability and used to evaluate the outcome of the 45 participants. …
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Investigating the Interplay of Teacher Orientations, Epistemic Tool Use, and Instructional Moves in Shaping Adaptive Teaching Expertise in Science Classrooms
… orientations toward knowledge generation, their use of epistemic tools, and their moment-to-moment instructional moves in elementary science classrooms. Grounded in complexity theory, AdTex is conceptualized as a dynamic, interconnected system comprising three interrelated layers: (1) teachers' …
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Using Educational Data Mining Techniques to Analyze the Effect of Instructors’ LMS Tool Use Frequency on Student Learning and Achievement in Online Secondary Courses
… evolves, the evaluation of the instructional tool’s effectiveness will continue to be an area of research need. The effectiveness of an instructional tool can be measured by student learning and achievement. Student learning and achievement was found to be most effective when the …
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So, why'd you post there? : the significance of instructor direction and reciprocity in online writing class interaction
… being the action itself, activity theory proves useful to analyze the human-computer and human-human interaction that occurs in the online environment. Drawing from Haas’ (1996) assertion that technology is a site to examine “the relationship between culture and cognition,” this dissertation …
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The Conundrum of Causal Reasoning in Elephants
… (2006) investigated causal reasoning in a tool-use task with elephants and concluded that elephants were not capable of causal reasoning. The current study, a modified replication, yielded results that were not congruent with Nissani’s (2006) manuscript. Additionally, it was very unlikely …
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Creation of tools for manipulation tasks through Task and motion Planning using differentiable physics
… of sequential manipulation tasks involving tools. The work, in part, mimics the human ability to plan using an 'intuitive physics engine' [2] by using physics-based primitives in task planning. The primitives are described by the stable kinematic or differentiable dynamic and impulse …
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Infants reason about functional information embedded in means-end sequences
… however, is more flexible. In this thesis, I use a special category of object—a tool—that can only be reasoned about appropriately if information is combined across domains. Using this special case, I examine whether older infants are capable of integrating functional information about the …
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Improving Staff Performance by Enhancing Staff Training Procedures and Organizational Behavior Management Procedures
… functional behavioral assessment is an essential tool needed for such documents to actually be meaningful to patients. Since direct care staff members spend the most time directly working with patients, it is imperative that they carry out intervention procedures with reliability and fidelity. …
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Scientific inquiry in high school science learning: Collaborative research activities applying scientific visualizations
… development activities and high performance tool use of four teams of high school students and teachers. The science learning and research activities of these four high school teams were followed from the start of their research in the summer of 1994 until the completion of their research …
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Brain Rhythms in Object Recognition and Manipulation
… of how does it retrieve object knowledge to use tools remains unanswered. Discovering the neuronal implementation of the retrieval of object knowledge would help understanding praxic impairments and provide appropriate neurorehabilitation. This thesis reports five investigations on the …
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Drumming Trees and Stone Percussion: An Evolution of Rhythm
… empirical studies in this thesis address rhythm use and its advantages, which present novel methodologies to visualise and evaluate rhythmicity. The first half of the thesis focuses on buttress drumming in wild chimpanzees as a cultural communication system. The second half of the thesis examines …
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Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy
… Impact Assessment (HIA) is a decision support tool that identifies and promotes the health benefits of policies while also mitigating their unintended negative consequences. Despite numerous calls to do so, the Ontario government has yet to implement HIA as a required component of policy …
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