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A Portable Soft Robotic Glove with Fully Functional Thumb Assistance for Complex Dexterous Fine Motor Skills

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A portable, sensorized, and controlled dexterous thumb‐enhanced glove helps stroke survivors swipe phones, twist caps, and perform other tasks. It is based on a powerful continuously, segmented origami dual chamber actuator to achieve active thumb CMC and MCP joint assistance and passively extend the IP joint.
Disheng Xie, Zhen Wang, Zhongping Ye, Minghao Liu, Xiangqian Shi, Shuk Fan Tong, Jianbin Liu, Chuanbin Mao, Thomas W. Leung, Haitao Liu, Raymond Kai‐yu Tong   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prefrontal Cortex Dysregulation of Amino Acid-Glucose Homeostasis Links High-Fat and/or High-Fructose Intake to Cognitive Deficits in Male Mice. [PDF]

Neurochem Res
Martínez-Orozco H, Reyes-Castro LA, Lomas-Soria C, Solís-Ortíz S, Diaz-Miranda SY.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive deficits in individuals with comorbid personality disorder and schizophrenia: A scoping review. [PDF]

Schizophr Res Cogn
Chalut A, Potvin S, Iozzino L, Binette MA, Fiset-Renaud H, Chabake SA, Lecomte T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of psychological distress on working memory during COVID-19 by disentangling cognitive deficits from emotional burden. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chiara K, Sabrina T, Michael H, Catherine W.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire‐2 (PHQ‐2) in Detecting Depression Among Older Adults

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
PHQ‐2 effectively screens for geriatric depression with the optimal cut‐off of 3 points. ABSTRACT Objectives Depression screening tools like the Patient Health Questionnaire‐2 (PHQ‐2) are commonly used to detect depression. However, its performance in elderly populations has been less extensively studied compared to its broader adult use.
Francesco Salis, Maristella Belfiori, Alessandro Ferrau, Eleonora Bernardini, Emanuele Concas, Anna Maria Lugas, Antonella Mandas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Frailty in Chinese‐Language Biomedical Literature (2014–2024): A Decade of Conceptual Evolution

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Frailty definitions in Chinese‐language biomedical literature increasingly align with international frameworks, while retaining conceptual diversity, underscoring the need for multidimensional, cross‐cultural research and integration with traditional Chinese medicine for culturally sensitive clinical practice.
Haodong Wei, David Mockler, Giulia Cavrini, Nathan W. Hill, Daniel Kam Yin Chan, Román Romero Ortuño   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

D-serine ameliorates cognitive deficits by preserving neuronal and synaptic function in experimental anti-NMDAR encephalitis. [PDF]

J Neuroinflammation
Yao Y, E ED, Yang JH, Liu C, Xu TY, Zhang T, Huang Y, Wei C, Li X, Zhang XQ.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source