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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Adult palliative day-care services : an investigation of the factors influencing access to services using the case of a cancer network in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Background: Literature indicates underutilization of Palliative Care Services in the UK, with possible inequalities of access. These trends in underutilization are seen in Adult-Palliative Day-Care (APDC), a Specialist Palliative Care Service delivered
Greaves, Natalie
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Irish Association for Palliative Care: Directory of specialist palliative care services in Ireland.
, 2005 The Irish Association for Palliative Care was established in 1993 to promote the development of palliative care throughout the island of Ireland. It is a multi-professional organisation whose membership is open to clinical staff (doctors, nurses ...
Irish Association for Palliative Care
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Literature Review of the Evidence Base for a Hospice at Home Service [PDF]
, 2008 This literature review aimed to identify the evidence base for a hospice at home service at the end of life for facilitating death at home to narrow the gap between preference and reality.
Stosz, Laura
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao +6 more
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Cell‐Based Biohybrid Micro/Nanorobots for Biotherapy
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review systematically evaluates cell‐based biohybrid micro/nanorobots (CB‐BMRs), highlighting their cell selection criteria, fabrication strategies, and diverse actuation modes. Furthermore, it surveys the promising therapeutic applications of CB‐BMRs in targeted cancer, thrombosis, and inflammation treatments, while comprehensively discussing ...
Lin Wang +11 more
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A Transnasal Endoscope for Robotically Assisted Gastroscopy
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work introduces a 4.25 mm diameter magnetically navigated transnasal endoscope for upper gastrointestinal (GI) screening and intervention. The system enables precise remote steering throughout the upper GI tract and is demonstrated through in vitro and in vivo experiments, including the robotic execution of preprogrammed retroflexions, trans ...
Alexandre Mesot +6 more
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A combined perception and needs assessment study of home based palliative care among patients with life-threatening diseases attending the Federal Medical Centre Abeokuta, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2009 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-77).This study aimed to evaluate the perception and needs for Home Based Palliative Care (HBPC) among patients suffering from life-threatening conditions presenting at the Federal Medical ...
Oyebola, Folaju Olusegun
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study identified Danofloxacin as a novel supporter of the maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency. It functions partially by inhibiting HDAC1, which increases specific histone acetylation marks and activates key genes like Tert and Prdm10.
Yan Zhang +8 more
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