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Intimacy, pleasure and the men who pay for sex [PDF]

, 2008
About the repository: This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years.
Earle, Sarah, Sharp, Keith
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Autonomous Recognition of Retained Secretions in Central‐Airway Based on Deep Learning for Adult Patients Receiving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work presents a deep learning model to autonomously recognize and classify the secretion retention into three levels for patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, achieving 89.08% accuracy. This model can be implemented to ventilators by edge computing, whose feasibility is approved.
Shuai Wang, Zhuoran Xiao, Meng Wang, Jianchao Li, Chunjing Tao, Jiangzhen Guo, Yubo Fan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remora‐Inspired Sensing Suction Cup with Adhesion Monitoring and Force Detection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A suction cup with integrated liquid metal microchannel sensors enables stable multidirectional force sensing and adhesion monitoring in both air and water. The flexible resistive sensors, placed on the outer lip, transduce deformations into resistance changes under normal and shear loads.
Yuchen Liu, Bocheng Tian, Feiyang Yuan, Lei Li, Yinuo Cheng, Fuqiang Yang, Youning Duo, Li Wen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultra‐Efficient Kidney Stone Fragment Removal via Spinner‐Induced Synergistic Circulation and Spiral Flow

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Leveraging spinning‐induced localized suction, the spinner device enables ultra‐efficient removal of kidney stone fragments, capturing a larger quantity of fragments from distances exceeding 20 mm. The spinner significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of stone fragment removal by reducing operative time, increasing stone‐free rates, and ...
Yilong Chang, Jasmine Guadalupe Vallejo, Yangqing Sun, Ruike Renee Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rod‐Like PLGA Microrobots with Enhanced Motion and Biodegradation for Magnetic‐Guided Drug Delivery

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents drug‐loaded Poly (lactic‐co‐glycolic acid) (PLGA) microrobots fabricated from an oil‐in‐water (O/W) emulsion of PLGA, Fe3O4 nanoparticles, and Adriamycin (DOX). They are formed by film‐forming and stretching microrobots, and exhibit motion analyzed via video‐snapshots, speed graphs, and shape changes, advancing targeted for drug ...
Junkai Zhang, Yukun Zhong, Zihao Chu, Xinran Geng, Zerui Li, Hongxi Yin, U Kei Cheang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of animal-based health and welfare parameters – what is it all about? [PDF]

, 2008
Organic farming is characterized by several goals that are expressed in daily practices and in standards. Some of the important goals for organic production systems are naturalness, harmony on all levels of production, local recycling of resources, and ...
Winckler, Christoph
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A Review of Trans‐Dimensional Kirigami: From Compliant Mechanism to Multifunctional Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review outlines recent advancements in the geometric design and mechanical properties of kirigami. The kirigami is classified into two categories from a compliant mechanism perspective, highlighting their applications in metamaterials and robotic systems. Finally, the future research directions, is explored focusing on the potential of integrating
Yang Yu, Jinyao Zhang, Dengchen Wang, Yanqi Yin, Yehui Wu, Ruiyu Bai, Jiaqiang Yao, Yupei Zhang, Jingwen Yin, Chao Tang, Alexey S. Fomin, Wenjie Sun, Chen Liu, Bo Li, Guimin Chen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion of Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively surveys recent advances in multimodal locomotion within soft robotics. Typical locomotion modes are summarized and categorized. Furthermore, the underlying mechanisms enabling multimodal locomotion are discussed and classified into three primary categories: active control‐based, reconfiguration‐based, and environment ...
Zihao Yuan, Huangwei Ji, Kai Huang, Feifei Chen, Guoying Gu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral status and sucking of late preterm newborns undergoing phototherapy

Audiology - Communication Research
ABSTRACT Purpose To evaluate the behavioral state of late preterm newborns undergoing phototherapy and its association with non-nutritive sucking. Methods Cross-sectional study, carried out in a public teaching maternity hospital, a reference in high-risk pregnancy and part of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
Ana Paula Sabino de Medeiros Neves, Ramon Cipriano Pacheco de Araújo, Raquel Coube de Carvalho Yamamoto, Juliana Dantas de Araújo Santos Camargo, Hipólito Magalhães   +4 more
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Grouping of Red Flour Beetles using two Different Strains [PDF]

, 2018
In this research project I studied how the Red Flour Beetle grouped over a 10 day time period with two different strains of the Beetle. One strain was the Canadian Red Flour Beetle and the other was the Manhattan, KS Red Flour Beetle. The grouping of the
Henery, Caroline, Marshall, Jeremy
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