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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
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The relationship between kinship and foster placement on mental health indicators in children and youth seeking treatment

Child Protection and Practice
Background: Children living in both kinship and foster care placements often face considerable adversity. It is possible that these placements can have differential impacts on children’s socioemotional, psychological, and educational outcomes and well ...
Shannon L. Stewart, Boden Brock, Jordyn Manis, Aadhiya Vasudeva, Jeffrey W. Poss   +4 more
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The Sibling Relationship in Foster Care: Policy Implications

Columbia Social Work Review, 2017
The majority of children placed into foster care are separated from their siblings upon entering the child welfare system. Some research suggests that siblings enjoy more stable home environments and fewer behavioral problems when placed together in care.
Kate Sheehan
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Adipocyte‐Derived Leptolin Enhances Energy Expenditure and Prevents Obesity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We identified a novel adipokine, which we named leptolin. In humans, leptolin levels in white adipose tissue were positively correlated with exercise and negatively associated with body mass index. We observed elevated leptolin in serum from athletes and lower leptolin in serum from obese individuals.
Jiarui Liu, Bingwei Wang, Zhijie Su, Xiaoxv Han, Miao He, Yun Zhao, Yujia Hou, Daotong Li, Weiguang Zhang, Lihua Qin, Ke Wang, Yanchun Li, Yi Yan, Siwang Yu, Xiaoshuai Huang, Tairan Yuwen, Jianyuan Luo, Ruimao Zheng   +17 more
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Engineering Approaches to Modify Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs): Tissue Regeneration and Clinical Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang, Kejia Li, Ning Wang, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Rocky S. Tuan, Yangzi Jiang   +6 more
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The Lived Experiences of Former Foster Care Children in Iceland

Nordisk Välfärdsforskning
This study aimed to illuminate the experiences of former foster care children in Iceland through both quantitative and qualitative methods. Participants aged 20 to 25 completed a questionnaire, with responses from 71 individuals yielding a 38% response ...
Freydís Jóna Freysteinsdóttir, Heiður Sævarsdóttir, Birgitta Rós Laxdal   +2 more
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Optimization of B Cell Responses in Human Immune System Mice Through Organoid Based Screening

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human immune system (HIS) mice show limited B cell responses to immunization. Using HIS mouse spleen organoids, this study identifies cytokine combinations and innate immune signals that drive human B cell expansion, differentiation, and class‐switch. Applying these signals in vivo through temporal separation enables antigen‐specific IgG responses and ...
Haiqiao Sun, He Li, Xu Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Deshan Ren, Shuai Ding, Yan Li   +6 more
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Diary

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018
I discuss the excessive toys and presents that were expected to make up for the lack of affection in my first foster home. I compare life at home to life in care using money and love as a theme.
Olivia Khan
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Experience and Perceptions of Changes in the Living Environment by Older People Losing Their Autonomy: A Qualitative Study in the Caribbean

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021
Rita Chammem,1,2 Serge Domi,2 Claire Della Vecchia,1 Thomas Gilbert,1,3 Anne-Marie Schott1,3 1University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, HESPER Laboratory, Lyon, EA 7425, France; 2CRIFONDO, Caribbean Renaissance Initiative, Département de Gé ...
Chammem R, Domi S, Della Vecchia C, Gilbert T, Schott AM   +4 more
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Multifaceted Roles of Tantalum in Promoting the Thermoelectric Performance of Mg3(Sb,Bi)2 Based Materials

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A multifunctional tantalum incorporation strategy enables simultaneous tuning of carrier concentration, mitigation of grain‐boundary scattering, and enhanced phonon scattering in Mg3(Sb,Bi)2. These synergistic effects markedly improve carrier mobility and suppress lattice thermal conductivity, yielding both high material zT and high module conversion ...
Guangmeng You, Jingdan Lei, Kai Xu, Yuntian Fu, Xueke Gu, Chengxiao Peng, Zhen Wang, Jing Chen, Kunpeng Zhao, Chao Wang   +9 more
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