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Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Touch Craft Ltd completed a feasibility study to understand the market position, technologies and user requirement for a smart sock sensing system designed to help monitor foot problems for people living with diabetes. The proposed system would involve a
Lucie Hernandez
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Expansion and contraction of resource allocation in sensory bottlenecks
eLife, 2022 Topographic sensory representations often do not scale proportionally to the size of their input regions, with some expanded and others contracted. In vision, the foveal representation is magnified cortically, as are the fingertips in touch.
Laura R Edmondson +2 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) is one of the most prevalent preventable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the world. In women, C. trachomatis infection can lead to long-term complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and other
Michael Muljadi +5 more
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Can surgical simulation be used to train detection and classification of neural networks?
Healthcare Technology Letters, 2017 Computer-assisted interventions (CAI) aim to increase the effectiveness, precision and repeatability of procedures to improve surgical outcomes. The presence and motion of surgical tools is a key information input for CAI surgical phase recognition ...
Odysseas Zisimopoulos +7 more
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The Role of Touch in Comprehending Love: Jesus’s Foot Washing in John 13
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2022 When Jesus humbly washes his disciples’ feet (John 13), he engages his friends up close using the sense of touch. This article explores how his touch conveys a quality of love that no other physical sense can capture.
Jeannine Marie Hanger
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Neural encoding of actual and imagined touch within human posterior parietal cortex
eLife, 2021 In the human posterior parietal cortex (PPC), single units encode high-dimensional information with partially mixed representations that enable small populations of neurons to encode many variables relevant to movement planning, execution, cognition, and
Srinivas Chivukula +6 more
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Follow Your Nose: Extended Arm Reach After Pinocchio Illusion in Virtual Reality
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 In this study, we recreate the Pinocchio Illusion—a bodily illusion whereby the perceived length of one’s nose is extended—in Virtual Reality. Participants (n = 38) self-administered tapping on the tip of the nose of a virtual avatar seen from the first ...
Christopher C. Berger +6 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2012 Chemoattractant cytokines or chemokines constitute a family of structurally related proteins found in vertebrates, bacteria, or viruses. So far, 48 chemokine genes have been identified in humans, which bind to around 20 chemokine receptors. These receptors belong to the seven transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor family.
Blanchet, Xavier +4 more
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The use of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery: A systematic review
JPRAS Open, 2017 Introduction: This systematic review aims to study the feasibility, procedural, approaches, outcomes and complications of robot-assisted plastic and reconstructive surgery in patients and models. Method: A systematic review was performed. Medline, Web of
Jean Nehme +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Touch is recognised as crucial for survival, fostering cooperative communication, accelerating recovery, reducing hospital stays, and promoting overall wellness and the therapeutic alliance.
Zoe McParlin +6 more
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