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Social-distancing fatigue: Evidence from real-time crowd-sourced traffic data.

Jenni A Shearston, Micaela E Martinez, Yanelli Nunez, Markus Hilpert · 2021

To mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, social-distancing policies such as school closure, stay-at-home orders, and indoor dining closure have been utilized w…

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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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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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Ventilatory parameters measured during a physiological study of simulated powered air-purifying respirator failure in healthy volunteers.

Lachlan F Miles, Timothy Makar, Chad W Oughton, Philip J Peyton · 2021

Powered air-purifying respirators (PAPR) are a high level of respiratory personal protective equipment. Like all mechanical devices, they are vulnerable to failure. The precise physiological consequen…

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Speech Interaction to Control a Hands-Free Delivery Robot for High-Risk Health Care Scenarios.

Lukas Grasse, Sylvain J Boutros, Matthew S Tata · 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a widespread effect across the globe. The major effect on health-care workers and the vulnerable populations they serve has been of particular concern. Near-complete lock…

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Guidelines for Robotic Flexible Endoscopy at the Time of COVID-19.

Onaizah Onaizah, Zaneta Koszowska, Conchubhair Winters, Venkatamaran Subramanian, David Jayne, Alberto Arezzo, Keith L Obstein, Pietro Valdastri · 2021

Flexible endoscopy involves the insertion of a long narrow flexible tube into the body for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, flexible endoscopy plays a major r…

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Social-distancing Fatigue: Evidence from Real-time Crowd-sourced Traffic Data.

Jenni A Shearston, Micaela E Martinez, Yanelli Nunez, Markus Hilpert · 2021

To mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, social-distancing policies such as school closure, stay-at-home orders, and indoor dining closure have been utilized w…

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Deployable Telescopic Tubular Mechanisms With a Steerable Tongue Depressor Towards Self-Administered Oral Swab.

Kirthika Senthil Kumar, Tuan Dung Nguyen, Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj, Vishnu Mani Hema, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Hui Huang, Chwee Ming Lim, Hongliang Ren · 2021

Swabbing tests have proved to be an effective method of diagnosis for a wide range of diseases. Potential occupational health hazards and reliance on healthcare workers during traditional swabbing pro…

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Modelling the Impact of Robotics on Infectious Spread Among Healthcare Workers.

Raul Vicente, Youssef Mohamed, Victor M Eguiluz, Emal Zemmar, Patrick Bayer, Joseph S Neimat, Juha Hernesniemi, Bradley J Nelson, Ajmal Zemmar · 2021

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has brought the world to a standstill. Healthcare systems are critical to maintain during pandemics, however, providing service to sick patients has po…

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Personal Protective Equipment: A Pandora's Box.

Gopal Chawla, Nupur Abrol, Kamna Kakkar · 2020

Countries all over the world writhing under the wrath of coronavirus face not only the challenge of protecting their population but the tougher challenge of protecting their healthcare workers (HCWs) …

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Demand-Side Power Paradigm-Oriented Analysis of Reactive Electric Spring Stabilization Capabilities

Giuseppe Buja, Stefano Giacomuzzi, Qingsong Wang, Manuele Bertoluzzo · 2020

Electric Spring (ES) technique is a user-level solution developed to stabilize the supply voltage of a user under variations of the grid voltage. This paper analyzes the stabilization capabilities of …

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Potentiometric response of a neutral-carrier-based membrane to aqueous mercury in Cl(-)-rich media.

 · 1970

The unique potentiometric response of mercury sensors was investigated in aqueous Cl(-)-rich media, which are often encountered in natural, especially biological samples. The conventional neutral-carr…

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Silicone-fat differentiation in the breast: exploiting the bright-fat phenomenon in fast spin-echo MR imaging.

 · 1970

Selective suppression of silicone or fat with chemical shift-selective (CHESS) pulses is difficult because of the small chemical shift difference between the primary lipid signal and the primary silic…

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Nanostructure of a poly(acrylic acid) brush and its transition in the amphiphilic diblock copolymer monolayer on the water surface.

 · 1970

The nanostructure and its transition of in a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) brush in the water surface monolayers of poly(hydrogenated isoprene)-b-poly(acrylic acid) with different block lengths and block r…

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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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Occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields of uninterruptible power supply industry workers.

 · 1970

There is an increasing concern that exposure to extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) may cause or contribute to adverse health effects. To assess exposure to ELF EMFs, electric …

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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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Electrophysiological mechanisms of spontaneous termination of sustained monomorphic reentrant ventricular tachycardia in the canine postinfarction heart.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: The electrophysiological mechanisms of spontaneous termination of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT), in the postinfarction heart, generally considered secondary to a ree…

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Glycerol conformation and the crystal structure of lipids. I. An electron diffraction study of tripalmitin and conformationally fixed analogs.

 · 1970

Transmission electron diffraction is used as a qualitative analytical probe of polymethylene chain packing in three conformationally-restricted analogs of tripalmitin derived from configurational isom…

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Binding of a synthetic targeting peptide to a mitochondrial channel protein.

 · 1970

Membrane crystals of the mitochondrial outer membrane channel VDAC (porin) from Neurospora crassa were incubated with a 20-amino-acid synthetic peptide corresponding to the N-terminal targeting region…

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