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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Anti‐Amyloidogenic Approach to Specifically Block Memory Consolidation in Mice for Therapeutic Intervention

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Functional amyloid conversion of the translation regulator CPEB3 is essential for long‐term memory persistence. This study demonstrates that targeting this molecular switch with the anti‐amyloidogenic peptide QBP1 selectively blocks CPEB3 fibrillation without disrupting phase separation.
Paula López‐García   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Torture in Israel [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
EDITOR,—Jon Immanuel may not have intended to be an apologist for torture in Israel, but his review does insufficient justice to the stark material gathered by Human Rights Watch and other bodies.1 Over 100000 Palestinians have been arrested since 1987, thousands of whomentered the closed world of Israeli interrogation centres.
openaire   +2 more sources

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring and evaluation of remote medico-legal report assessments when documenting evidence of torture for asylum seekers detained on Diego Garcia

open access: yesTorture
Introduction: Between 2022 and 2023, Freedom from Torture (FfT) produced remote medico-legal reports for 19 asylum seekers unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia (DG), an island in the Chagos Archipelago.
Janine Bonnet   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: Victoria Canning. Torture and torturous violence. Transcending the definitions of torture

open access: yes, 2023
Book review by Pau Pérez-Sales on Victoria Canning's book "Torture and torturous violence.
Pérez-Sales, Pau
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of asylum interviews on the mental health of traumatized asylum seekers [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2015
Background: Asylum interviews within the asylum procedure are associated with psychological stress for traumatized asylum seekers. This study investigates the impact of asylum interviews on the mental health in a sample of 40 traumatized asylum seekers ...
Katrin Schock   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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