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Overcoming barriers and increasing independence: service robots for elderly and disabled people [PDF]

, 2015
This paper discusses the potential for service robots to overcome barriers and increase independence of elderly and disabled people. It includes a brief overview of the existing uses of service robots by disabled and elderly people and advances in ...
Hersh, Marion, Marion Hersh
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Transcription Factor Promiscuity Drives Regulatory Rewiring and Evolvability in Gene Networks in Bacteria

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
When a master transcription factor (TF) is lost, bacteria can rapidly rewire gene regulatory networks by co‐opting related regulators. Using experimental evolution in Pseudomonas fluorescens, we show that TF promiscuity (low‐level, non‐cognate binding) provides the raw material for rewiring. Successful co‐option follows a predictable hierarchy governed
Tiffany B. Taylor, Alan M. Rice
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent disease detection after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using a recurrence-focused surveillance strategy (RADAR-PANC): protocol of an international randomized controlled trial according to the Trials within Cohorts design

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Background Disease recurrence remains one of the biggest concerns in patients after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Despite (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy, most patients experience local and/or distant PDAC recurrence within 2 years.
L. Daamen, I. V. Goor, V. P. Groot, P. Andel, L. Brosens, O. Busch, G. Cirkel, N. Mohammad, H. Heerkens, I. H. Hingh, F. Hoogwater, H. V. Laarhoven, M. Los, G. Meijer, V. E. Meijer, R. Pande, K. J. Roberts, J. Stoker, M. Stommel, G. Tienhoven, R. Verdonk, H. Verkooijen, F. Wessels, J. Wilmink, M. Besselink, H. C. Santvoort, M. Intven, I. Molenaar, for the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group   +28 more
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Inclusive design for air travel

, 2009
(Inclusive design in air travel by baird L and Dong H) This paper addresses the issue of inclusive design in air travel. Firstly the scale of the problem is defined with reference to passenger demographics, and the different stages of a typical ...
Baird, L, Dong, H
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An On‐Demand Neuromorphic Vision System Enabled by a Multi‐Paradigm Neuromorphic Device and Hierarchical Reconfigurability Designed from Device to System Level

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An on‐demand ultra‐reconfigurable intelligent vision system with hierarchical reconfigurability from device to system levels is demonstrated. Through co‐design of a multi‐paradigm device, reconfigurable circuits, and adaptive system architecture/algorithms, the system enables seamless switching among spiking, non‐spiking, neuromorphic imaging (NI), and
Biyi Jiang, Jiayi Xu, Liang Ran, Xinhe Feng, Khalil Harrabi, Yida Li, Longyang Lin, Feichi Zhou   +7 more
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Disability, access and design: a study of wheelchair access.

The aim of this study is to determine wheelchair user's views about access and ascertain whether designers are able to contribute to issues pertaining to inclusion through design solutions.
Adams, Stephanie Kathryn
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Anxiety and depression symptomatology in adult siblings of disabled individuals: The role of perceived parenting, attachment, personality traits and disability types [PDF]

, 2011
Objectives: (1) To ascertain whether adult siblings of disabled individuals are more prone to anxiety and depression symptomatology than a closely matched control group.
O'Neill, Linda P.
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A Pollen‐Enhanced Bionic Mechanoreceptor Induced by Asymmetric Ionic Convection in Hydrogel for Sensory‐Augmented Prostheses

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work proposed a pollen‐enhanced bionic mechanoreceptor based on ionic convection. Leveraging the ion anchoring effect of the pollen particle, the output performance could be ∼12 times higher than the original state. By employing deep learning models as AI brains, the feasibility of a sensory‐augmented prosthesis consisting of a pollen‐enhanced ...
Zi Hao Guo, Jingyu Deng, Yanzhang Xu, Chenchen Zhou, Yangshi Shao, Xiong Pu, Munho Kim, Namjoon Cho   +7 more
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Making the transition: disabled students in Higher Education

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, (Department for Education and Skills (DES) 2001) gave education providers in the UK legal responsibility to ensure disabled students are not disadvantaged in or excluded from education.
State, K., Hickling, Keith, Arthurs, David G, Blacktop, Jon, Fletcher-Cook, Phyllis Isobel, Golding, Berenice, Hargreaves, Janet, Walker, Lizzie   +7 more
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The Middlesex University rehabilitation robot

, 2005
This paper outlines the historical developments of Wheelchair-Mounted Robot Arms (WMRA's) and then focuses on the ongoing research at Middlesex to develop a low-cost aid to daily living for users with high-level quadriplegia.
Stephen Prior, Warner, Peter, Peter Warner, Prior, Stephen D., Anthony White, Parsons, Bernard, White, Anthony S., Bernard Parsons   +7 more
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