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Impact of Surfactants on the Electrical and Rheological Aspects of Silica Based Synthetic Ester Nanofluids

S. K. Amizhtan, A. J. Amalanathan, R. Sarathi, Balaji Srinivasan, Ramesh L. Gardas, Hans Edin, Nathaniel Taylor · 2022

This study reports experimental investigations of the effects of different surfactants (CTAB, Oleic acid and Span 80) on silica based synthetic ester nanofluids. The positive and negative potential ob…

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An Active and Reactive Power Controller for Battery Energy Storage System in Microgrids

Jun-Ting Gao, Chang-Heng Shih, Chun-Wei Lee, Kuo-Yuan Lo · 2022

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are widely used for renewable energy applications, especially in stabilizing the power system with ancillary services. The objective of this paper is to propose a…

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Large-Aperture Metamaterial Lens Antenna for Multi-Layer MIMO Transmission for 6G

Jaehyun Lee, Hogyeom Kim, Jungsuek Oh · 2022

A metamaterial lens refers to a planar structure having multiple metamaterial unit cells capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves to improve antenna gains by changing their shape, geometry, size,…

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Effect of Additional Transmitting Coils on Transfer Distance in Multiple-Transmitter Wireless Power Transfer System

Seon-Jae Jeon, Dong-Wook Seo · 2022

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has been widely introduced and developed over the past few years. Nevertheless, the basic WPT configuration using one transmitting (Tx) coil and one receiving …

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Is Robotics the real game changer for Urological cancer care during COVID-19 crisis?

Indraneel Banerjee, Indrajit Banerjee, Shantimoy Banerjee · 2021
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Expectations and Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals for Robot Deployment in Hospital Environments During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Sergio D Sierra Marin, Daniel Gomez-Vargas, Nathalia Cespedes, Marcela Munera, Flavio Roberti, Patricio Barria, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Marcelo Becker, Ricardo Carelli, Carlos A Cifuentes · 2021

Several challenges to guarantee medical care have been exposed during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although the literature has shown some robotics applications to overcome the potential hazards and …

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A portable triboelectric spirometer for wireless pulmonary function monitoring.

Qinghao Xu, Yunsheng Fang, Qingshen Jing, Ning Hu, Ke Lin, Yifan Pan, Lin Xu, Haiqi Gao, Ming Yuan, Liang Chu, Yanwen Ma, Yannan Xie, Jun Chen, Lianhui Wang · 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a severe acute respiratory syndrome infection has spread rapidly across the world since its emergence in 2019 and drastically altered our way of life. Patients w…

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Elliptical Pipette Generated Large Microdroplets for POC Visual ddPCR Quantification of Low Viral Load.

Liao Chen, Vivek Yadav, Chenguang Zhang, Xiaoye Huo, Ceming Wang, Satyajyoti Senapati, Hsueh-Chia Chang · 2021

Rapid point-of-care (POC) quantification of low virus RNA load would significantly reduce the turn-around time for the PCR test and help contain a fast-spreading epidemic. Herein, we report a droplet …

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Special surgical approaches during peri-COVID-19 pandemic: Robotic and transanal minimally invasive surgery.

Luis Sanchez-Guillen, Rosa M Jimenez-Rodriguez · 2021

During the peri-coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the need of special care has raised, not only for our patients but also for health care workers. These needs are different regarding the procedure an…

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Internet of Things and Robotics in Transforming Current-Day Healthcare Services.

Bikash Pradhan, Deepti Bharti, Sumit Chakravarty, Sirsendu S Ray, Vera V Voinova, Anton P Bonartsev, Kunal Pal · 2021

Technology has become an integral part of everyday lives. Recent years have witnessed advancement in technology with a wide range of applications in healthcare. However, the use of the Internet of Thi…

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A Symposium on the Clinic of the Future and Telehealth: Highlights and Future Directions.

Austin B Carpenter, Evan Sheppard, Shireen Atabaki, Natasha Shur, Annie Tigranyan, Theresa Benchoff, Adam Snyder, Aliza Fisher, Kevin Cleary · 2021

Children's National Hospital held a virtual symposium on "The Clinic of the Future and Telehealth" in December 2020. The goal of the symposium was to explore future trends in these domains. We also di…

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Aerosolized Particle Reduction: A Novel Cadaveric Model and a Negative Airway Pressure Respirator (NAPR) System to Protect Health Care Workers From COVID-19.

Tawfiq Khoury, Pascal Lavergne, Chandala Chitguppi, Mindy Rabinowitz, Gurston Nyquist, Marc Rosen, James Evans · 2021

This study aimed to identify escape of small-particle aerosols from a variety of masks using simulated breathing conditions. This study also aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a negative-pressure envir…

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Telesurgery and Robotics: An Improved and Efficient Era.

Anmol Mohan, Um Ul Wara, Muhammad Taha Arshad Shaikh, Rahil M Rahman, Zain Ali Zaidi · 2021

Telesurgery, or remote surgery, is widely known as a master-slave technology. It has achieved a milestone in surgical technology and intervention, providing widespread prospects of operating on a pati…

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Agents and robots for collaborating and supporting physicians in healthcare scenarios.

Francesco Lanza, Valeria Seidita, Antonio Chella · 2021

Monitoring patients through robotics telehealth systems is an interesting scenario where patients' conditions, and their environment, are dynamic and unknown variables. We propose to improve telehealt…

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Telerehabilitation in response to constrained physical distance: an opportunity to rethink neurorehabilitative routines.

Arturo Nuara, Maddalena Fabbri-Destro, Emilia Scalona, Stefano Elio Lenzi, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Pietro Avanzini · 2021

Ensuring proper dosage of treatment and repetition over time is a major challenge in neurorehabilitation. However, a requirement of physical distancing to date compromises their achievement. While mos…

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Approaches to assessing the impact of robotics in geriatric mental health care: a scoping review.

Emily Kulpa, Aniqa T Rahman, Ipsit V Vahia · 2021

The goals of this scoping literature review are to (1) aggregate the current research involving socially assistive robots in the setting of geriatric psychiatry and (2) examine the outcome measures us…

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Robotics in Simulated COVID-19 Patient Room for Health Care Worker Effector Tasks: Preliminary, Feasibility Experiments.

W David Freeman, Devang K Sanghavi, Masood S Sarab, Mary S Kindred, Elizabeth M Dieck, Suzanne M Brown, Tom Szambelan, Justin Doty, Brendan Ball, Heidi M Felix, Jesse C Dove, Jorge M Mallea, Christy Soares, Leslie V Simon · 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained health care systems and personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies globally. We hypothesized that a collaborative robot system could per…

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Automated processing of thermal imaging to detect COVID-19.

Rafael Y Brzezinski, Neta Rabin, Nir Lewis, Racheli Peled, Ariel Kerpel, Avishai M Tsur, Omer Gendelman, Nili Naftali-Shani, Irina Gringauz, Howard Amital, Avshalom Leibowitz, Haim Mayan, Ilan Ben-Zvi, Eyal Heller, Liran Shechtman, Ori Rogowski, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Eli Konen, Edith M Marom, Avinoah Ironi, Galia Rahav, Yair Zimmer, Ehud Grossman, Zehava Ovadia-Blechman, Jonathan Leor, Oshrit Hoffer · 2021

Rapid and sensitive screening tools for SARS-CoV-2 infection are essential to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to properly allocate national resources. Here, we developed a new point-of-care, non-cont…

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A farewell to : time-series models for tracking and forecasting epidemics.

Andrew Harvey, Paul Kattuman · 2021

The time-dependent reproduction number, R t , is a key metric used by epidemiologists to assess the current state of an outbreak of an infectious disease. This quantity is usually estimated using time…

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Image Processing for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases: Determination of Mask Wearing, Measurement of Hand Washing Time, and Disinfection Support System.

Sho Higuchi, Shunichi Taniguchi, Yuta Kawasaki, Atom Sonoda · 2021

The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has spread to numerous countries around the world since several cases of the disease were first reported in late December 2019 in China. Currently, the WHO str…

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