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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of personal call alarms among community-dwelling older people. [PDF]

, 2012
Having a fall and then lying on the floor for an hour or more is known as a ‘long lie’, which are associated with serious injury and an elevated risk of admission to hospital, long-term care, and death.
Brownsell, CHRISTINA R. VICTOR, Field, Levine, Marmot, Marmot, Martin, McKee, Noury, Nunn, Nyman, Prado-Velasco, Punie, Rosenberg, SAMUEL R. NYMAN, Scholes, Skelton, Steel, Taylor, Todd, Victor   +20 more
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Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour, Elnaz Irannezhad, Rodney A. Stewart, Oz Sahin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Walking behaviour of healthy elderly: attention should be paid [PDF]

, 2010
Previous studies have reported an association between executive function (EF) and measures of gait, particularly among older adults. This study examined the relationship between specific components of executive functions and the relative dual task costs ...
de Bruin, Eling D., Schmidt, André
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The Mitochondrial Guardian α‐Amyrin Mitigates Alzheimer's Disease Pathology via Modulation of the DLK‐SARM1‐ULK1 Axis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dietary habits play a key role in chronic diseases, and higher annual consumption of fruit and vegetable may lower risk of dementia. Artificial intelligence predicts the lipid‐like compound α‐Amyrin (αA) from plants with edible peels as a drug candidate against Alzheimer's disease.
Shu‐Qin Cao, Juan Ignacio Jiménez‐Loygorri, Yunguang Qiu, You Jung Kang, Khanh Van Do, Annabel E. Smith, Junjie Huang, Jun‐ping Pan, Lipeng Mao, Ang Li, Hangge Yang, Yahyah Aman, Maria Jose Donate Lagartos, Sofie Hindkjær Lautrup, Anbin Chen, Kristina Xiao Liang, Hailong Zhang, Juan Yi, Xurui Jin, Tin Cho Cheung, Olympia Apokotou, Florentia Papastefanaki, Rebecca Matsas, William A. McEwan, Feixiong Cheng, Hansang Cho, Guobing Chen, Huanxing Su, Konstantinos Palikaras, Oscar Junhong Luo, Qian Hua Zhao, Ding Ding, Cornelia van Duijn, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Patricia Boya, Tewin Tencomnao, Evandro F. Fang   +36 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between Nocturnal Sleep Status and Multimorbidity among Community-dwelling Older Adults in China [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue
Background With the rapid progression of aging in China, the challenge of multimorbidity has become a significant concern for both public health and clinical practice.
XIA Gaoyan, LIU Ming, QI Yuxin, XIAO Peigen, DING Xiaojiao, NING Rongrong, YE Xianfeng
doaj   +1 more source

Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Kirk, B, Salech, F, Duque, G
openaire   +6 more sources

Social support and sense of loneliness in solitary older adults [PDF]

, 2017
Older people are vulnerable to loneliness and isolation. Solitary seniors are more likely to suffer the feelings of loneliness with inadequate social networks. Based on a face-to-face questionnaire survey with 151 community-dwelling solitary seniors, the
CT Veit, H White, I Chi, J Jong Gierveld De, JE Lubben, KB Adams, MMS Rodrigues, MP Lawton, X Bai, Y Chen, Y Chen, Y Netz, YZ Shi   +12 more
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MGM as a Large‐Scale Pretrained Foundation Model for Microbiome Analyses in Diverse Contexts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the Microbial General Model (MGM), a transformer‐based foundation model pretrained on over 260,000 microbiome samples. MGM learns contextualized microbial representations via self‐supervised language modeling, enabling robust transfer learning, cross‐regional generalization, keystone taxa discovery, and prompt‐guided generation of realistic,
Haohong Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Zixin Kang, Jiayun Xiong, Ronghua Yang, Kang Ning   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reporting on psychological well-being of older adults with chronic aphasia in the context of unaffected peers [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: It is important that professionals working with individuals with acquired neurogenic communication disorders consider their clients’ psychological wellbeing. Much is known about the significant emotional, social and psychological consequences of
Cruice, M., Hickson, L., Worrall, L.
core   +1 more source