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Future bathroom: A study of user-centred design principles affecting usability, safety and satisfaction in bathrooms for people living with disabilities [PDF]

, 2011
Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2010-11 (Department of Health) Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act ...
Burton, Maria, Chamberlain, Paul, Mountain, Gail, Reed, Heath   +3 more
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Micro Elastofluidics for Tuneable Droplet Merging

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This technical paper provides a proof of concept of fully flexible and stretchable microfluidic technology for tuneable droplet mixing and merging. The phenomenon is justified through theoretical, numerical and experimental studies. ABSTRACT Droplet microfluidics enables precise handling of discrete fluid volumes at the microscale, with broad ...
Uditha Roshan, Amith Mudugamuwa, Xiaoyue Kang, Prabuddha De Saram, Fariba Malekpour Galogahi, Du Tuan Tran, Lingxi Ouyang, Jun Zhang, Nam‐Trung Nguyen   +8 more
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A Feasibility Study of Microfinance for Chinese Disabled Farmers

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2007
The Chinese government supports development aid to persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the form of microfinance. The nation’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Plan for PWDs (2001-2010) and the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Rural Disabled Persons ...
Laura Pan Luo, Liu Lin
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Tongue-Placed Tactile Biofeedback for perceptual supplementation: application to human disability and biomedical engineering

, 2007
The present paper aims at introducing the innovative technologies, based on the concept of "sensory substitution" or "perceptual supplementation", we are developing in the fields of human disability and biomedical engineering.
Chenu, Olivier, Demongeot, Jacques, Moreau-Gaudry, Alexandre, Payan, Yohan, Vuillerme, Nicolas   +4 more
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Country Profile on Disability: Republic of Uzbekistan [PDF]

, 2002
[Excerpt] The Law on Social Security of Disabled People in the Republic of Uzbekistan, Article 1 defines a person with disability as one who is in need of aid because he/she has physical or mental problems. Daily activities such as moving, orientation,
Japan International Cooperation Agency
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On–Off Switchable Micromotors for Use in Steerable Microvehicles

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Electrically controllable micromotors and microvehicles are developed by tuning the diffusion of the fuel. Self‐propelled micromotors using bubble propulsion show great promise for miniaturized devices with multiuse purposes such as cargo delivery and sensing. However, there is currently no method to electrically switch the micromotors on or off. Here,
Hugo Severinsson, Eswaran Murugasen, Jose G. Martinez, Edwin W. H. Jager   +3 more
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Exercise training upregulates CD55 to suppress complement-mediated synaptic phagocytosis in Parkinson’s disease

Journal of Neuroinflammation
The primary pathological change in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Additionally, excessive microglial activation and synaptic loss are also typical features observed in PD samples.
Hongkai Yao, Weifang Tong, Yunping Song, Ruoyu Li, Xuerui Xiang, Wen Cheng, Yunjiao Zhou, Yijing He, Yi Yang, Yunxi Liu, Siguang Li, Lingjing Jin   +11 more
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Volunteering, Income Support Programs and Disabled Persons [PDF]

We study the propensity of disabled persons to engage in volunteer activity with the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) -- a unique Canadian dataset which provides extensive information on disabled persons as well as volunteering ...
Campolieti , Michele, Gomez, Rafael, Gunderson, Morley   +2 more
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Doing Business in Addis Ababa: Case Studies of Women Entrepreneurs with Disabilities in Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2003
[From Preface] The ILO Technical Cooperation Project, Developing Entrepreneurship among Women with Disabilities , is being implemented in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Federation of Persons with Disabilities (EFPD) and the Tigray Disabled Veterans ...
International Labour Organization
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Design Optimization of a Variable Stiffness Robotic Gripper with Passive Restoration Fabricated by Multimaterial 3D Printing

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimaterial robotic gripper fabricated via multimaterial 3D printing integrates conductive thermopolymer joints with flexible elastomeric components. Joule heating enables precise joint‐level stiffness modulation, enhanced by embedded temperature sensors, passive shape restoration, and active cooling, enabling versatile manipulation capabilities ...
Daniel Jee Seng Goh, Guo Liang Goh, Selvanther Sivarajan, Van Pho Nguyen, Wai Yee Yeong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source