Advanced action manipulator system (ADAMS)

Manipulator offers improved performance over other models in its category. It features larger force and reach capabilities and is readily convertible for underwater use. Unique kinematic arrangement provides extremely large working envelope. System has six degrees of motion: azimuth joint, shoulder joint, upper arm rotating joint, elbow joint, wrist pitch, and wrist twist

Counter-intuitive moral judgement following traumatic brain injury

Several neurological patient populations, including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), appear to produce an abnormally ‘utilitarian’ pattern of judgements to moral dilemmas; they tend to make judgements that maximise the welfare of the majority, rather than deontological judgements based on the following of moral rules (e.g., do not harm others). However, this patient research has always used extreme dilemmas with highly valued moral rules (e.g., do not kill). Data from healthy participants, however, suggests that when a wider range of dilemmas are employed, involving less valued moral rules (e.g., do not lie), moral judgements demonstrate sensitivity to the psychological intuitiveness of the judgements, rather than their deontological or utilitarian content (Kahane et al., 2011). We sought the moral judgements of 30 TBI participants and 30 controls on moral dilemmas where content (utilitarian/deontological) and intuition (intuitive/counterintuitive) were measured concurrently. Overall TBI participants made utilitarian judgements in equal proportions to controls; disproportionately favouring utilitarian judgements only when they were counterintuitive, and deontological judgements only when they were counterintuitive. These results speak against the view that TBI causes a specific utilitarian bias, suggesting instead that moral intuition is broadly disrupted following TBI

Mandatory Custody Mediation: The Debate Over its Usefulness Continues

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

HE, SHE, THEY, OTHER: AN EXAMINATION OF GENDER ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE CHATELAINE IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE

The purpose of this paper is to study the chatelaine as a marker of gender attribution and overall usage within the Anglo-Saxon culture. Chatelaines are artifacts used to suspend multiple items to be employed for such purposes as grooming, tools, or keys and have been used widely from the Roman occupation of England during which it was used by all genders, to the Ninth Century when it was primarily used by women. As such, it is asserted that a single artifact should not to be solely relied upon to assign a gender identity to a burial, that these should be used with reservation and/or with additional, independent lines of evidence to avoid erroneous conclusions. By examining the chatelaine’s use as a diagnostic measure of identity within the culture or society and how that limited the possible interpretations it is expected to show that this artifact is not gendered in it’s overall usage and should not be further used to determine gender in Anglo-Saxon research. The overall goal of this research is to show the varied theories that are being used to explore the presence of chatelaine throughout the eras of the Anglo-Saxon culture and further to examine its presence regionally and its treatment by all persons within the cultural periods. Through this, it is hoped that an more inclusive view of Anglo-Saxon culture can be perceived and allow for unbiased and through research into gender, material culture, identity, and society