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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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Robotics and AI for Teleoperation, Tele-Assessment, and Tele-Training for Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Existing Challenges, and Future Vision.

Navid Feizi, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni V Patel, S Farokh Atashzar · 2021

The unprecedented shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has severely influenced the delivery of regular healthcare services. Most non-urgent medical activities, including elective surgeries, have been…

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Alleviating an Increasingly Burdened Healthcare System with Telemedicine: Anterior Segment.

Karam A Alawa, Christopher S Sales · 2021

Tele-ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving and exciting field that has become increasingly relevant amidst the current global pandemic. With advancements in technology, many components of an evaluation …

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Assessment of Damping Control Using Maximum Power Point Tracking Methods for Heaving Wave Energy Converters

Bisni Fahad Mon, Addy Wahyudie, Mohammed Abdi Jama, Siddiqul Akbar, Saad Mekhilef, Hussain Shareef, Khalifa Harib, Rachid Errouissi · 2021

There are not many studies conducted in the implementation of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods for heaving wave energy converters (WECs). An assessment of damping control using various MPPT…

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Standing, Walking, and Sitting Support Robot Based on User State Estimation Using a Small Number of Sensors

Mizuki Takeda, Kaiji Sato, Yasuhisa Hirata, Takahiro Katayama, Yasuhide Mizuta, Atsushi Koujina · 2021

With the aging of the population and the consequent severe shortage of caregivers, the demand for care robots to assist the elderly is increasing. However, care robots have yet to be widely adopted ow…

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ST-BFL: A Structured Transparency Empowered Cross-Silo Federated Learning on the Blockchain Framework

Umer Majeed, Latif U. Khan, Abdullah Yousafzai, Zhu Han, Bang Ju Park, Choong Seon Hong · 2021

Federated Learning (FL) relies on on-device training to avoid the migration of devices’ data to a centralized server to address privacy leakage. Moreover, FL is feasible for scenarios (e.g., autonomou…

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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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Computed Tomography Image Processing Analysis in COVID-19 Patient Follow-Up Assessment.

Santiago Tello-Mijares, Luisa Woo · 2021

The rapid worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has infected patients around the world in a short space of time. Chest computed tomography (CT) images of patients who are infected with COVID-19 ca…

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Robotics cyber security: vulnerabilities, attacks, countermeasures, and recommendations.

Jean-Paul A Yaacoub, Hassan N Noura, Ola Salman, Ali Chehab · 2021

The recent digital revolution led robots to become integrated more than ever into different domains such as agricultural, medical, industrial, military, police (law enforcement), and logistics. Robots…

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Robots as intelligent assistants to face COVID-19 pandemic.

Valeria Seidita, Francesco Lanza, Arianna Pipitone, Antonio Chella · 2021

The epidemic at the beginning of this year, due to a new virus in the coronavirus family, is causing many deaths and is bringing the world economy to its knees. Moreover, situations of this kind are h…

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Meteorological and human mobility data on predicting COVID-19 cases by a novel hybrid decomposition method with anomaly detection analysis: A case study in the capitals of Brazil.

Tiago Tiburcio da Silva, Rodrigo Francisquini, Maria C V Nascimento · 2021

In 2020, Brazil was the leading country in COVID-19 cases in Latin America, and capital cities were the most severely affected by the outbreak. Climates vary in Brazil due to the territorial extension…

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Onshoring Through Automation; Perpetuating Inequality?

Matthew Studley · 2021

Many analyses of the ethical, legal and societal impacts of robotics are focussed on Europe and the United States. In this article I discuss the impacts of robotics on developing nations in a connecte…

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An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Remote Health Monitoring Using Impulse Radio UWB Transceiver.

Faheem Khan, Asim Ghaffar, Naeem Khan, Sung Ho Cho · 2020

Non-invasive remote health monitoring plays a vital role in epidemiological situations such as SARS outbreak (2003), MERS (2015) and the recently ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 because it is extremely r…

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Low-Complexity System and Algorithm for an Emergency Ventilator Sensor and Alarm.

Ryan M Corey, Evan M Widloski, David Null, Brian Ricconi, Mark A Johnson, Karen C White, Jennifer R Amos, Alexander Pagano, Michael L Oelze, Rachel D Switzky, Matthew B Wheeler, Eliot B Bethke, Clifford F Shipley, Andrew C Singer · 2020

In response to anticipated shortages of ventilators caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have designed low-cost emergency ventilators. Many of these devices are pressure-cycled pneumati…

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Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease.

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Pathogens traverse disciplinary and taxonomic boundaries, yet infectious disease research occurs in many separate disciplines including plant pathology, veterinary and human medicine, and ecological a…

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Systematic Relations between Affective and Sensory Material Dimensions in Touch.

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Participants manually explored 47 solid, fluid, and granular materials and rated them according to a list of sensory and affective attributes. In principal component analyses (PCA) of sensory ratings,…

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Structure enhancement diffusion and contour extraction for electron tomography of mitochondria.

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The interpretation and measurement of the architectural organization of mitochondria depend heavily upon the availability of good software tools for filtering, segmenting, extracting, measuring, and c…

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

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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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Repeatability of Brain Volume Measurements Made with the Atlas-based Method from T1

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PURPOSE: An understanding of the repeatability of measured results is important for both the atlas-based and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) methods of magnetic resonance (MR) brain volumetry. However, …

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Numerical simulation of blood flow in an anatomically-accurate cerebral venous tree.

 · 1970

Although many blood flow models have been constructed for cerebral arterial trees, few models have been reported for their venous counterparts. In this paper, we present a computational model for an a…

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