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Six degrees of separation
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Six links rule
, Separation
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Six degrees of separation is the idea that all living things and everything else in the world is six or fewer steps away from each other so that a…
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2012
2012
Six Degrees of Separation among US Researchers
Hakan Kardes
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Abdullah Sevincer
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M. H. Gunes
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M. Yuksel
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in…
2012
Corpus ID: 7264636
Funding from the government agencies has been the driving force for the research and educational institutions particularly in the…
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
Position Control in Lithographic Equipment [Applications of Control]
H. Butler
IEEE Control Systems
2011
Corpus ID: 29564831
This article describes the basic optical principles in the lithographic tool, with the resulting positioning accuracy…
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2009
2009
Six Degrees of Separation in Online Society
Lei Zhang
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Wanqing Tu
2009
Corpus ID: 10115279
Six degrees of separation is a well-known idea that any two people on this planet can be connected via an average number of six…
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
On the Ability of a Cable-Driven Robot to Generate a Prescribed Set of Wrenches
Samuel Bouchard
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C. Gosselin
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Brian Moore
2008
Corpus ID: 4114135
This paper presents a new geometry-based method to determine if a cable-driven robot operating in a d-degree-of-freedom workspace…
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
The Effect of Family Control on Firm Value and Performance: Evidence from Continental Europe
R. Barontini
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L. Caprio
2006
Corpus ID: 55136827
We investigate the relation between ownership structure and firm performance in Continental Europe, using data from 675 publicly…
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2005
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2005
On six degrees of separation in DBLP-DB and more
Ergin Elmacioglu
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Dongwon Lee
SGMD
2005
Corpus ID: 178590
An extensive bibliometric study on the db community using the collaboration network constructed from DBLP data is presented…
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Teleoperation of a robot manipulator using a vision-based human-robot interface
J. Kofman
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Xianghai Wu
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Tim Luu
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Siddharth Verma
IEEE transactions on industrial electronics…
2005
Corpus ID: 28261451
Remote teleoperation of a robot manipulator by a human operator is often necessary in unstructured dynamic environments when…
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
The Gaussian sampling strategy for probabilistic roadmap planners
V. Boor
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M. Overmars
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A.F. van der Stappen
Proceedings IEEE International Conference on…
1999
Corpus ID: 15737700
Probabilistic roadmap planners (PRMs) form a relatively new technique for motion planning that has shown great potential. A…
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1993
Highly Cited
1993
The NIST robocrane
J. Albus
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R. Bostelman
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N. Dagalakis
J. Field Robotics
1993
Corpus ID: 13408195
The Robot Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been experimenting for several years…
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1984
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1984
Walking and running
R. M. Alexander
Mathematical Gazette
1984
Corpus ID: 118187526
The human body is a complicated machine whose movements involve many different joints, operated by a great many muscles. For that…
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