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Soft and ion-conducting hydrogel artificial tongue for astringency perception

open access: yesScience Advances, 2020
Artificial tongue for astringency perception is demonstrated with a saliva-like chemiresistive ionic hydrogel. Artificial tongues have been receiving increasing attention for the perception of five basic tastes.
Jeonghee Yeom   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Ethnic disharmony exists among the people of Ghana. What are the reasons for this? Ghana is an amalgamation of different ethnic groups, cultures, peoples and states to form one entity.
Frederick Mawusi Amevenku
doaj   +1 more source

Reproductive Justice: The Final (Feminist) Frontier

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans, 2022
From Gattaca to Star Trek, problematic tropes surrounding reproduction can easily be found in works of mainstream science fiction. Such tropes uphold conservative anxieties around reproductive technologies, abortion, and pregnancy, and these works thus ...
Zoe Tongue
doaj   +1 more source

Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2023
Translated sacred writings from various religious traditions often retain a few selected cultural terms borrowed from the incipient sign system, while other cultural dimensions are translated in ways that can broadly be construed as domestication.
J.A. Naudé   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy of Tongue Swab Testing Using Xpert MTB-RIF Ultra for Tuberculosis Diagnosis

open access: yesmedRxiv, 2022
Tongue dorsum swabs have shown promise as alternatives to sputum for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).
A. Andama   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Paediatric Geographic Tongue: A Case Report, Review and Recent Updates [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Geographic tongue is a benign recurrent condition of uncertain aetiology affecting the tongue characterized by loss of epithelium especially filiform papillae giving a characteristic appearance.
Doddabasavaiah Basavapur Nandini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient-collected tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs compared to health care worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Patient-Collected Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs to detect SARS-CoV-2 were collected by 530 outpatients before a health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swa...
Y. Tu   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Automated Tongue Tracker for Quantifying Bulbar Function in ALS

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2022
IntroductionBulbar symptoms, including difficulty swallowing and speaking, are common in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological disorders, such as stroke.
Alicia Northall   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Weight Loss on Upper Airway Anatomy and the Apnea Hypopnea Index: The Importance of Tongue Fat.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
RATIONALE Obesity is the primary risk factor for sleep apnea (OSA). Tongue fat is increased in obese persons with OSA, and may explain the relationship between obesity and OSA. Weight loss improves OSA, but the mechanism is unknown.
Stephen H Wang   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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