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A Vacuum-driven Origami “Magic-ball” Soft Gripper [PDF]
Soft robotics has yielded numerous examples of soft grippers that utilize compliance to achieve impressive grasping performances with great simplicity, adaptability, and robustness.
Diaz, Evelin Villegas +6 more
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Point‐of‐care assessment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy with DPN‐Check® was independently associated with a faster decline in renal function in type 2 diabetes, highlighting its potential as a tool to identify patients at high risk of kidney disease progression. ABSTRACT Aims/Introduction Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication
Tatsuya Fukuda +5 more
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Water system virus detection [PDF]
A monitoring system developed to test the capability of a water recovery system to reject the passage of viruses into the recovered water is described.
Fraser, A. S. +2 more
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What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles
ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann +1 more
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A novel multifunctional biomedical material based on polyacrylonitrile:preparation and characterization [PDF]
Wet spun microfibers have great potential in the design of multifunctional controlled release materials. Curcumin (Cur) and vitamin E acetate (Vit. E Ac) were used as a model drug system to evaluate the potential application of the drug-loaded microfiber
Bremner, David H. +6 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Previous studies on the relationship between global (top‐down) and domain‐specific (bottom‐up) evaluations of life satisfaction have revealed mixed findings. The current study investigated the reciprocal relationship between top‐down and bottom‐up processes using two analytic methods to properly account for time‐varying predictors ...
Gabriele Prati
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Gastrointestinal infection in a New Zealand community : a one year study : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University [PDF]
Diagnostic medical microbiology laboratories detect and identify pathogens in submitted specimens. The techniques used should maximise the detection of pathogens (sensitivity) while minimising the number of tests for their detection (efficiency).
Wright, Jacqueline Margaret
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Abstract Rapid rubber plantations (RB) expansion in Southeast Asia raises critical questions about regional ecosystem stability. We compared stability between monoculture RB and diverse tropical rainforests (RF) using 37 years of satellite‐derived gross primary productivity across three metrics: long‐term temporal stability, resilience, and resistance ...
Zhong‐Yi Sun +6 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is relatively common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Periodontitis and periodontopathic Porphyromonas gingivalis are risk factors for CKD. However, the association of serum immunity to P. gingivalis and its peptidylarginine deiminase (PPAD), as well as periodontitis severity, with CKD in ...
Tetsuo Kobayashi +5 more
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Estudo comparativo entre as manifestações oftalmológicas, sorológicas e resposta terapêutica de pacientes com esclerite isolada e esclerite associada a doenças sistêmicas [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Scleritis is a rare, progressive and serious disease, the signs of which are inflammation and edema of episcleral and scleral tissues and is greatly associated with systemic rheumatoid diseases.
Freitas, Denise de +5 more
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