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Microfluidic Valve‐Integrated Garment for Smooth Sequential Gradient Mechanotherapy

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
We present a soft wearable sleeve that delivers smooth, gap‐free compression using overlapping air‐filled actuators and tiny microfluidic valves. The system reduces bulk, lowers power needs, and uses a smartphone‐sized control box. It can provide sequential gradient compression, gradient pressure holding, and fast deflation, supporting more portable ...
Run Ze Gao, Chen Xi Huang, Drew M. Werbowski, Jacqueline Mary Kormylo, Clark R. Dickerson, Carolyn L. Ren   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design Optimization of Soft Fabric Pneumatic Actuators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a systematic optimization framework for elongating and bending fabric‐based soft pneumatic actuators. After a preliminary design‐space reduction, the framework minimizes energy consumption under mechanical performance constraints by integrating validated finite element modeling with statistical surrogate models. Optimal designs were
Grigorios M. Chatziathanasiou, Konstantina Tsintzira, Panagiotis Polygerinos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Twins for the Design, Interactive Control, and Deployment of Modular, Fiber‐Reinforced Soft Continuum Arms

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A digital twin framework is presented for modular soft continuum arms built from fiber‐reinforced pneumatic actuators. Cosserat rod models describe individual actuators, while virtual assemblies are formed through serial and parallel networks, preserving actuator‐level architecture and arm deformation.
Seung Hyun Kim, Jiamiao Guo, Arman Tekinalp, Heng‐Sheng Chang, Ugur Akcal, Tixian Wang, Darren Biskup, Benjamin Walt, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Krishnan, Prashant G. Mehta, Mattia Gazzola   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconfigurable Design and Optimization‐Based Control of an Integrated Leg‐Arm Robot for Space Applications With an Underactuated Body

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A quadrupedal integrated leg‐arm robot with an underactuated reconfigurable body is developed. By using a Sarrus mechanism as the body, the robot enables reconfiguration through its supporting limbs, achieving mode switching without additional actuators.
Xinghan Zhuang, Kun Xu, Shutao Wu, Haoyuan Liu, Bochao Song, Jiawei Chen, Peijin Zi, Tao Zhang, Xilun Ding   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Fully Soft and Multifunctional Shape Sensing via Optical Waveguide Arrays

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work develops a sheet made with arrays of soft optical fibers that can reconstruct its 3D surface shape. Synergy of the waveguides’ responses to bending and pressing force allows shape reconstruction with resilience to damage. Applied onto surfaces of robotic or living systems, our design can be implemented in virtual reality, teleoperation ...
Qifan Yu, Nina Cao, Kaitlyn Becker
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization and Selection of Contractile Actuators for Soft Robotics Operating in the Quasistatic Regime

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
We developed methods to characterize soft contractile actuators using force–displacement measurements in the passive state and the total force in the active state and define the operational range of thermal, electrothermal, and pneumatic muscles. A graphical method enables the selection of an actuator based on the required mechanical force–displacement
Qiong Wang, Liuyang Cheng, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Devin Roach, Sameh Tawfick   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
wiley   +1 more source

Milestone Attainment in Young Children With Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita: Developmental Profile and Associated Factors

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evidence on developmental milestones in children with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) under the age of five is scarce. This multisite cross‐sectional study described developmental status and examined factors associated with milestone attainment in 143 children aged 0–66 months from a pediatric AMC Registry.
Ahlam Zidan, Sophia C. Pasia, Emmanouil Rampakakis, Reggie Hamdy, Frank Rauch, Lauren C. Hyer, Joel Lerman, Haluk Altiok, Krister Freese, Cary Mielke, Sarah B. Nossov, Philip F. Giampietro, Thania Ordaz‐Robles, Noémi Dahan‐Oliel   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lipoma Arborescens of the Elbow: Case Report

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2015
Lipoma arborescens is a rare, benign articular lesion characterized by villous lipomatous proliferation of the synovium caused by replacement of mature fat cells with subsynovial tissue.
Dilek BADAY, Meltem ARAS, Aysel ÇOLAK, Şükrü Cem HATİPOĞLU, Özdamar Fuad ÖKEN, Sumru ÖZEL   +5 more
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Therapy for Myhre Syndrome: Goals, Misconceptions, and Current Agents

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre Syndrome (MYHRS, MIM #139210) is a rare, multisystem connective tissue disorder caused by recurrent heterozygous gain‐of‐function pathogenic variants in the SMAD4 gene, a key player in TGF‐β signaling and a regulator of extracellular matrix homeostasis.
Alessandro De Falco, Alfonso Manuel D'Alessio, Nicola Brunetti‐Pierri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source