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University of Lincoln
Education•Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom•
About: University of Lincoln is a education organization based out in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 2341 authors who have published 7025 publications receiving 124797 citations.
Topics: Population, Higher education, Mental health, Health care, Robot
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TL;DR: Describing and comparing the CM's role; responsibilities; qualifications; employment requirements and experience in undergraduate nurse education as enacted in 11 European Union and non- EU countries suggests that jurisdictions should work towards greater system harmonisation.
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TL;DR: This paper presents a vision-based approach to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in indoor/outdoor environments with minimalistic sensing and computational requirements, based on a graph representation of robot poses, using a relaxation algorithm to obtain a globally consistent map.
Abstract: This paper presents a vision-based approach to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in indoor/outdoor environments with minimalistic sensing and computational requirements. The approach is based on a graph representation of robot poses, using a relaxation algorithm to obtain a globally consistent map. Each link corresponds to a relative measurement of the spatial relation between the two nodes it connects. The links describe the likelihood distribution of the relative pose as a Gaussian distribution. To estimate the covariance matrix for links obtained from an omnidirectional vision sensor, a novel method is introduced based on the relative similarity of neighboring images. This new method does not require the determination of distances to image features using multiple-view geometry, for example. Combined indoor and outdoor experiments demonstrate that the approach can handle different environments (without modification of the parameters), and it can cope with violations of the ldquoflat floor assumptionrdquo to some degree and scales well with increasing size of the environment, producing topologically correct and geometrically accurate maps at low computational cost. Further experiments demonstrate that the approach is also suitable for combining multiple overlapping maps, e.g., for solving the multirobot SLAM problem with unknown initial poses.
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TL;DR: Infrared thermography can visualize changes in body surface temperature that result from stress-induced physiological changes and alterations of blood flow patterns, although there are some limitations related to dogs' hair structure over the ears, making it unsuitable for some subjects.
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TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the determinants of government size at the provincial level in China and showed that openness to trade and foreign direct investment may curtail government expansion, and that the provincial-level public sector is characterized by economies of scale.
Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of government size at the provincial level in China. We employ the panel data model as a platform for empirical analysis and control for endogeneity in the study. Our study shows that openness to trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) may curtail government expansion, and that the provincial-level public sector is characterized by economies of scale. This study also documents that Wagner’s law does not hold true for China. Moreover, both expenditure decentralization and revenue decentralization contribute to the expansion of China’s government.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a method to update the reference views in a hybrid metric-topological map so that a mobile robot can continue to localize itself in a changing environment.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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David R. Williams | 178 | 2034 | 138789 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
Hugh S. Markus | 118 | 606 | 55614 |
Timothy E. Hewett | 116 | 531 | 49310 |
Wei Zhang | 96 | 1404 | 43392 |
Matthew Hall | 75 | 827 | 24352 |
Matthew C. Walker | 73 | 443 | 16373 |
James F. Meschia | 71 | 401 | 28037 |
Mark G. Macklin | 69 | 268 | 13066 |
John N. Lester | 66 | 349 | 19014 |
Christine J Nicol | 61 | 268 | 10689 |
Lei Shu | 59 | 598 | 13601 |
Frank Tanser | 54 | 231 | 17555 |
Simon Parsons | 54 | 462 | 15069 |
Christopher D. Anderson | 54 | 393 | 10523 |