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Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites for Stretchable Electronics: Material Selection, Design, and Applications.

Shuhua Peng, Yuyan Yu, Shuying Wu, Chun-Hui Wang · 2021

Stretchable electronics that can elongate elastically as well as flex are crucial to a wide range of emerging technologies, such as wearable medical devices, electronic skin, and soft robotics. Critic…

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A bio-inspired force control for cyclic manipulation of prosthetic hands.

 · 1970

The human hand is considered as the highest example of dexterous system capable of interacting with different objects and adapting its manipulation abilities to them. The control of poliarticulated pr…

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Comparative morphology of dendritic arbors in populations of Purkinje cells in mouse sulcus and apex.

 · 1970

Foliation divides the mammalian cerebellum into structurally distinct subdivisions, including the concave sulcus and the convex apex. Purkinje cell (PC) dendritic morphology varies between subdivision…

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Automated fiducial marker detection for patient registration in image-guided neurosurgery.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: The registration of applied fiducial markers within the preoperative data is often left to the surgeon, who has to identify and tag the center of each marker. This is both time-consuming an…

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Technical Note: Evaluation of the systematic accuracy of a frameless, multiple image modality guided, linear accelerator based stereotactic radiosurgery system.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To evaluate the total systematic accuracy of a frameless, image guided stereotactic radiosurgery system.METHODS: The localization accuracy and intermodality difference was determined by deliv…

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A comparison of the minimum canal wall thickness remaining following preparation using two nickel-titanium rotary systems.

 · 1970

AIM: To examine in vitro whether Profile or Hero 642 nickel-titanium rotary instrument systems substantially reduce the minimum canal wall thickness present following root-canal preparation.METHODOLOG…

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Visceral fat is associated with elevation of serum alanine aminotransferase and gamma glutamyltransferase in middle-aged Chinese adults.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND : Elevation of hepatic enzymes is associated with insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia and obesity. However, the factors behind elevation of liver enzymes remain unclear. The aim of this study…

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Second canal in mesiobuccal root of maxillary molars is correlated with root third and patient age: a cone-beam computed tomographic study.

 · 1970

INTRODUCTION: There is little evidence supporting the use of cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) scanning in root canal anatomy investigation. This study aimed to investigate the presence of second …

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Accuracy of a Radiological Evaluation Method for Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Curvatures Using Spinous Processes.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess a radiographic method for spinal curvature evaluation in children, based on spinous processes, and identify its normality limits.METHODS: The sample …

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Assessment and confirmation of tracheal intubation when capnography fails: a novel use for an USB camera.

 · 1970

A 62 year old male with a right pyriform fossa lesion extending to the right arytenoid and obscuring the glottic inlet was planned for laser assisted excision. Direct laryngoscopic assessment after to…

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Muscle chamber with strain gauge adapted for isotonic/isometric recording.

 · 1970

Simple devices are described that can facilitate student experiments on mechanical and electrical aspects of muscle contraction, for example, of isolated preparations such as frog gastrocnemius and sa…

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Integration of posture and movement: contributions of Sherrington, Hess, and Bernstein.

 · 1970

Neural mechanisms that integrate posture with movement are widespread throughout the central nervous system (CNS), and they are recruited in patterns that are both task- and context-dependent. Scienti…

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An investigation of the evolutionary origin of reciprocal communication using simulated autonomous agents.

 · 1970

How does communication originates in a population of originally non-communicating individuals? Providing an answer to this question from a neo-Darwinian epistemological perspective is not a trivial ta…

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Optimization of the oblique angles in the treatment of prostate cancer during six-field conformal radiotherapy.

 · 1970

Historically, four perpendicular treatment fields or bilateral arcs have been used in the treatment of prostate cancer. As new techniques challenge the four-field box technique for their superiority o…

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Possible factors influencing the immunoglobulin G concentration in swine colostrum.

 · 1970

The immunoglobulin (Ig) G concentration in swine colostrum was determined by the single radial immunodiffusion method, using 157 samples collected from farm-raised sows in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of …

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Performance analysis and early validation of a bi-modal ultrasound transducer.

 · 1970

In this paper we report on results from experiments performed on a bi-modal piezoelectric transducer used both as an active ultrasound transceiver and a passive acoustic sensor. The transducer, which …

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Entomological indices of malaria transmission in Chikhwawa district, Southern Malawi.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Although malaria is highly prevalent throughout Malawi, little is known of its transmission dynamics. This paper describes the seasonal activity of the different vectors, human biting indi…

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Regulating Child Sex Robots: Restriction or Experimentation?

 · 1970

In July 2014, the roboticist Ronald Arkin suggested that child sex robots could be used to treat those with paedophilic predilections in the same way that methadone is used to treat heroin addicts. Ta…

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Variation of amide proton transfer signal intensity and apparent diffusion coefficient values among phases of the menstrual cycle in the normal uterus: A preliminary study.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To explore changes in the amide proton transfer (APT) signal intensity (SI) among different phases of the menstrual cycle in healthy young women and to determine whether the APT SI correlates…

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Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils.

 · 1970

Structures resembling remarkably preserved bacterial and cyanobacterial microfossils from about 3,465-million-year-old Apex cherts of the Warrawoona Group in Western Australia currently provide the ol…

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