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Rethinking the Epidemiogenic Power of Modern Western Societies.

Annabelle Lever, Lou Safra · 2021
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Review: How Can Intelligent Robots and Smart Mechatronic Modules Facilitate Remote Assessment, Assistance, and Rehabilitation for Isolated Adults With Neuro-Musculoskeletal Conditions?

S Farokh Atashzar, Jay Carriere, Mahdi Tavakoli · 2021

Worldwide, at the time this article was written, there are over 127 million cases of patients with a confirmed link to COVID-19 and about 2.78 million deaths reported. With limited access to vaccine o…

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Information and Communication Technologies to Support Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.

Lorenzo Desideri, Patricia Perez-Fuster, Gerardo Herrera · 2021

 The aim of this systematic review is to identify recent digital technologies used to detect early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in preschool children (i.e., up to six years of age). A …

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A Novel Combined Conductance Sensor for Water Cut Measurement of Low-Velocity Oil-Water Flow in Horizontal and Slightly Inclined Pipes

Weihang Kong, He Li, Guanglong Xing, Lingfu Kong, Lei Li, Min Wang · 2019

This paper studied conductance-based method for water cut measurement to dynamically monitor the horizontal oil-producing wells. Existing conductance tools cannot obtain the response values correspond…

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[123I]beta-CIT SPECT in multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration.

 · 1970

Differentiation between Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders with parkinsonian features, such as multiple system atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and cort…

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Lhx9: a novel LIM-homeodomain gene expressed in the developing forebrain.

 · 1970

A novel LIM-homeodomain gene, Lhx9, was isolated by degenerate RT-PCR followed by mouse embryonic library screening. Lhx9 cDNA encodes a protein that is most closely related to Drosophila apterous and…

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Speckle reduction in ultrasound medical images using adaptive filter based on second order statistics.

 · 1970

This article discusses an adaptive filtering technique for reducing speckle using second order statistics of the speckle pattern in ultrasound medical images. Several region-based adaptive filter tech…

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Fibroblast growth factor-2 mRNA expression in the brainstem and spinal cord of normal and chronic spinally transected urodeles.

 · 1970

Descending pathways in the spinal cord of adult urodele amphibians show a high regenerative ability after body spinal cord transection; regenerated axons regrow into the transected spinal cord, and hi…

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Ookinete rates in Afrotropical anopheline mosquitoes as a measure of human malaria infectiousness.

 · 1970

Anopheles gambiae s.1. and An. funestus were sampled for Plasmodium spp. ookinetes in two P. falciparum-endemic sites in western Kenya. Since the ookinete is a transitional stage of short duration, oc…

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A new and simple method for evaluating masticatory function using newly developed artificial test food.

 · 1970

The aim of this study was to develop an objective evaluation system for the masticatory function. This system used paraffin wax cubes as a test food, which had six red- and green-coloured layers so th…

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Boilermakers' bronchitis. Respiratory tract irritation associated with vanadium pentoxide exposure during oil-to-coal conversion of a power plant.

 · 1970

Severe respiratory tract irritation occurred in at least 74 of 100 boilermakers who were exposed to high levels of vanadium pentoxide fume during oil-to-coal conversion of a utility company power plan…

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New Fully Automated Method for Segmentation of Breast Lesions on Ultrasound Based on Texture Analysis.

 · 1970

The study described here explored a fully automatic segmentation approach based on texture analysis for breast lesions on ultrasound images. The proposed method involves two main stages: (i) In lesion…

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Novel, cyclic heat dissipation method for the correction of natural temperature gradients in sap flow measurements. Part 2. Laboratory validation.

 · 1970

Sap flow measurements conducted with thermal dissipation probes (TDPs) are vulnerable to natural temperature gradient (NTG) bias. Few studies, however, attempted to explain the dynamics underlying the…

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New ultrasound techniques and their application in neurosurgical intra-operative sonography.

 · 1970

We describe a variety of new ultrasound techniques by their physical background, potentials and applications regarding usefulness during intra-operative neurosurgical procedures. Transducers like high…

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Stereological measures of trabecular bone structure: comparison of 3D micro computed tomography with 2D histological sections in human proximal tibial bone biopsies.

 · 1970

Stereology applied on histological sections is the 'gold standard' for obtaining quantitative information on cancellous bone structure. Recent advances in micro computed tomography (microCT) have made…

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Trajectory Space: A Dual Representation for Nonrigid Structure from Motion.

 · 1970

Existing approaches to nonrigid structure from motion assume that the instantaneous 3D shape of a deforming object is a linear combination of basis shapes. These bases are object dependent and therefo…

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When music is salty: The crossmodal associations between sound and taste.

 · 1970

Here we investigate associations between complex auditory and complex taste stimuli. A novel piece of music was composed and recorded in four different styles of musical articulation to reflect the fo…

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Comparative study of state-of-the-art myoelectric controllers for multigrasp prosthetic hands.

 · 1970

A myoelectric controller should provide an intuitive and effective human-machine interface that deciphers user intent in real-time and is robust enough to operate in daily life. Many myoelectric contr…

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Differential neural activity and connectivity for processing one's own face: a preliminary report.

 · 1970

The experience of self is unique and pivotal to clinically relevant cognitive and emotional functions. However, well-controlled data on specialized brain regions and functional networks underlying the…

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Maternal zinc restriction affects postnatal growth and glucose homeostasis in rat offspring differently depending upon adequacy of their nutrient intake.

 · 1970

INTRODUCTION: We have previously investigated effects of moderate maternal zinc (Zn) restriction on growth and glucose homeostasis in offspring, but interaction between maternal Zn restriction and pos…

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