A soft robotic simulator is developed to replicate the digital removal of feces (DRF), a sensitive yet essential nursing procedure. Integrating soft actuators, sensors, and a realistic rectal model, the simulator balances functional fidelity with perceptual realism. Engineering evaluations and nurse feedback confirm its potential to enhance training in
Shoko Miyagawa +10 more
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Differences in the Complexity of Office Visits by Physician Specialty: NAMCS 2013-2016. [PDF]
Goodson JD, Shahbazi S, Rao K, Song Z.
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Influence of Caregiver Presence During Physician Office Visits on Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation Therapy for Esophageal Cancer. [PDF]
Ho JK +5 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Comparing telehealth to traditional office visits for patient management in the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in a respiratory assessment clinic. [PDF]
Phillips JC +4 more
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Custom Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments; Behavioral Propensities in Physician's Choices [PDF]
To customize treatments to individual patients entails costs of coordination and cognition. Thus, providers sometimes choose treatments based on norms for broad classes of patients.
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Richard G. Frank
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This review identifies current and future directions in abiotic nanostructured catalysts to develop reliable and sustainable glucose fuel cells to power the next generation of bioelectronic devices. ABSTRACT The global rise in incidence of chronic diseases has led to the demand for innovative solutions that help patients manage their conditions with ...
Asghar Niyazi +3 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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What factors influence patient experience in orthopedic oncology office visits? [PDF]
Blank AT +6 more
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Asthma-related physician office visits
The rate of physician office visits with asthma as the first-listed diagnosis was 304.4 per 10,000 persons.Long-term control (LTC) medications help reduce airway inflammation, control chronic symptoms, and prevent asthma attacks. These medications do not
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