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The extent of protective footwear use among school-age rural children at high risk for podoconiosis and socio-economic correlates: A household cross-sectional survey in Southern Ethiopia.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundPodoconiosis is preventable if genetically susceptible people wear shoes starting from an early age and do so consistently. However, lack of routine use of footwear is one of the major risk factors for podoconiosis and several other foot ...
Abebayehu Tora, Getnet Tadele, Gail Davey, Colleen M McBride   +3 more
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Identification of subject-specific responses to footwear during running

Scientific Reports, 2023
Placing a stronger focus on subject-specific responses to footwear may lead to a better functional understanding of footwear’s effect on running and its influence on comfort perception, performance, and pathogenesis of injuries.
Fabian Horst, Fabian Hoitz, Djordje Slijepcevic, Nicolas Schons, Hendrik Beckmann, Benno M. Nigg, Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn   +6 more
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Auditing the usage of therapeutic footwear in diabetic foot patients through Amit Jain’s extended ‘SCC’ classification for therapeutic footwear

Medicine Science, 2020
An audit was conducted from 2 centres’ to analyze and study the therapeutic footwear used in diabetic foot patients through the new Amit Jain’s classification for therapeutic footwear.
Amit Kumar C Jain, Apoorva HC
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Improving Cotton Fabric Dyeability by Oxygen Plasma Surface Activation

Surfaces
This paper focuses on investigating the use of low-pressure oxygen plasma as a surface treatment aimed at enhancing the wettability and dyeability of cotton fabrics for use in textiles and footwear materials.
Víctor M. Serrano-Martínez, Carlos Ruzafa-Silvestre, Carlota Hernández-Fernández, Elena Bañón-Gil, Francisca Arán-Ais, Elena Orgilés-Calpena   +5 more
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Evaluation and optimisation of a footwear assessment tool for use within a clinical environment

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2022
Footwear has been documented as a significant factor in the aetiology of foot pain in the general population. Assessing footwear in a clinical setting continues to be practitioner specific and there is limited guidance to direct advice.
Stephen Ellis, Helen Branthwaite, Nachiappan Chockalingam   +2 more
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'Choosing shoes': a preliminary study into the challenges facing clinicians in assessing footwear for rheumatoid patients

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2010
Background Footwear has been accepted as a therapeutic intervention for the foot affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Evidence relating to the objective assessment of footwear in patients with RA is limited.
Dalbeth Nicola, Williams Anita E, Silvester Renee N, Rome Keith   +3 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
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Steam Explosion-Based Method for the Extraction of Cellulose and Lignin from Rice Straw Waste

Applied Sciences
This paper focuses on the optimisation of an efficient extraction process for cellulose and lignin from rice straw waste from the Albufera of Valencia using the steam explosion method.
Víctor M. Serrano-Martínez, Henoc Pérez-Aguilar, María Pilar Carbonell-Blasco, Francisca Arán-Ais, Elena Orgilés-Calpena   +4 more
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Moisture‐Adaptive Triboelectric Materials and Platforms: Design Strategies, Performance Enhancement, and Applications in Energy Harvesting and Wearable Electronics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes moisture‐adaptive strategies that enable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) to operate across diverse moisture conditions. It examines moisture‐management methods, including exclusion, directional transport, removal, and utilization, with charge‐regulation approaches based on interfacial, dielectric, and structural engineering.
Junzhe Gan, Zhao Sha, Xuehua Zhang, Hoang‐Phuong Phan, Jin Zhang   +4 more
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In-shoe computed pedobarography as a new method for the assessment of efficiency of orthopedic footwear in diabetic patients

Сахарный диабет, 2009
Aim. To assess efficiency of orthopedic footwear for diabetic patients by in-shoe computed pedobarography. Materials and methods. The study included 20 women with type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus, diabetic polyneuropathy and/or angiopathy combined ...
Sergey Valentinovich Gorokhov, Oleg Viktorovich Udovichenko, Gagik Radikovich Galstyan, Evgeny Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, Galina Yur'evna Volkova   +4 more
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