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taxel

(TActile piXEL) A sensor that recognizes the pressure of contact with a physical object. Used in robotic devices, taxels can determine how much force is being applied to an area by a human finger or hand or even a non-human object.

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Since no additional Integrated Circuits (ICs) with cumbersome package are used for the conditioning electronics, the types of components to mount on the flexible PCB, for each taxel, are only three and small enough to maintain an high flexibility of the PCB.

A Distributed Tactile Sensor for Intuitive Human-Robot Interfacing

As Nelson Taxel, CEO of Positive Promotions stated, “having this merchandise that can be made here in the United States, there are people waiting in the promotional products business that can make all of these different things and to us this bill would be a tremendous boost and as we would increase our business and increase employment.”

Positive Promotions CEO Joins Congressman Steve Israel to Discuss Legislation to Require "Made in the USA" Products in National Parks

In addition to Joel Taxel's "Marketing" in the Routledge Handbook of Research, Brian Alderson, Andrea Immel, and Deborah Stevenson do discuss marketing concerns in the Cambridge Companion, as does June Cummins uniquely in Keywords in her piece specifically on "Marketing" and Margaret Mackey uniquely in the Routledge Companion in her essay on "Media Adaptations." Mackey says quite rightly that "material conditions ...

The disappearing childhood of children's literature studies

These touch-sensitive transistors - dubbed "taxels" - could provide significant improvements in resolution, sensitivity and active/adaptive operations compared to existing techniques for tactile sensing.

'Smart' artificial skin could give robots adaptive sense of touch

Teachers, librarians, and parents must offer enthusiastic assistance to children in discovering the best books to embrace (Taxel, 2002).

Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children?

Taxel of the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington.

Aromatase inhibitors may hasten bone loss in osteopenia

Following directions comprised the "main part" of the assessment for the students' projects and presentations; students were thus rewarded for their demonstrations of character as envisioned in the low-track curriculum (see Smagorinsky & Taxel, 2005, for an account of the ways in which a character curriculum is often aimed at normalizing the behavior of low-income students according to middle-class values).

Student teaching in the contact zone: learning to teach amid multiple interests in a vocational English class

Third, a large part of each class session was devoted to whole-class and small-group discussions where TESs had the opportunity to engage in sharing their voices and listening to others' voices, particularly through reading and responding to culturally relevant children's literature (Dillard 1997; Gollnick, 1992; Klassen-Endrizzi & Ruiz, 1995; Pinsent, 1997; Taxel, 1989).

The discussion filter: culturally relevant children's literature in the teacher education classroom

* a teacher-developed literacy lesson, such as the one demonstrated in the video of kindergarten teacher Claudia Taxel of South Jackson, Georgia (http://ctell.uconn.edu/sample_play_anchor.htm).

Scripted reading instruction? What's a teacher educator to do? For years, Ms. Commeyras resisted teaching her elementary education students about scripted reading instruction. But now she has decided that it is less important to convince them of the superiority of a particular method than to prepare them to enter their first classrooms with the confidence and flexibility they need to succeed

Research has shown that children's literature is an important part of children's construction of reality (Taxel 1989).

The portrayal of Arabs in textbooks in the Jewish school system in Israel

A conservative political climate has engendered defense of the traditional literary canon and attacks on including multicultural literature as no more than politically correct advocacy (Taxel, 1997).

Deepening teacher knowledge of multiculural literature through a university-schools partnership

Smagorinsky and Taxel analyze the ways in which the issue of character education has been articulated in the US, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in the 1990s.