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Knowing when to stick: touch receptors found in the remora adhesive disc [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Remoras are fishes that piggyback onto larger marine fauna via an adhesive disc to increase locomotor efficiency, likelihood of finding mates and access to prey.
Karly E. Cohen, Brooke E. Flammang, Callie H. Crawford, L. Patricia Hernandez   +3 more
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Secondary bilateral cleft lip-nose deformity correction by rhinoplasty with simultaneous Abbe flap

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2014
Aim: The purpose of this article is to review modification and outcome of secondary rhinoplasty along with Abbι flap for correction of secondary bilateral cleft lip deformity.
Nitin J. Mokal, Manpreet Juneja
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The Virus Covid-19 and Dilemmas of Online Technology

Consortium Psychiatricum, 2020
Commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic must necessarily consider the medical issues in social and political context. This paper discusses one important dimension of the context, the long-term history of human activity as intrinsically technological in its ...
Roger Smith
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The Use of an Embedded Librarian to Enhance Student Information Literacy Skills: A Pilot Study

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2020
This pilot study explored an embedded librarian (EL) intervention to enhance occupational therapy student information literacy skills development. The EL provided computer laboratory and in-class instruction, online presence in the classroom website, and
Elaina DaLomba, Elizabeth Kavanaugh, Helen M. Simpson Rehabilitation Hospital, Samantha O'Neill, Kyle Soldevilla, Melanie Watson, Erin McLaughlin   +6 more
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The Functional Tactile Object Recognition Test: A Unidimensional Measure With Excellent Internal Consistency for Haptic Sensing of Real Objects After Stroke

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
IntroductionOur hands, with their exquisite sensors, work in concert with our sensing brain to extract sensory attributes of objects as we engage in daily activities.
Leeanne M. Carey, Leeanne M. Carey, Yvonne Y. K. Mak-Yuen, Yvonne Y. K. Mak-Yuen, Thomas A. Matyas   +4 more
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When consumers touch: a conceptual model of consumer haptic perception [PDF]

Spanish Journal of Marketing-ESIC, 2022
Purpose – Touch plays an important role in the evaluations of products. However, prior quantitative touch research does not present a holistic perspective of haptics.
Achini Tharaka Ranaweera
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A case study on building capacity to improve clinical mentoring and maternal child health in rural Tanzania: the path to implementation

BMC Nursing, 2017
Background Tanzania is a low income, East African country with a severe shortage of human resources for health or health workers. This shortage threatens any gains the country is making in improving maternal health outcomes.
Melissa T. Ojemeni, Paulomi Niles, Salum Mfaume, Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Linda Deng, Renae Stafford, Marie Jose Voeten, Kokusiima Theonestina, Wendy Budin, Nok Chhun, Allison Squires   +10 more
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Stroop Interference and Facilitation Effects in Kinesthetic and Haptic Tasks

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2010
Stroop interference and facilitation effects were documented in the visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory modalities. This study extends the Stroop phenomena also for kinesthetic and haptic tasks.
David Hecht, Miriam Reiner
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Customising the therapeutic response of signalling networks to promote antitumor responses by drug combinations

Frontiers in Oncology, 2014
Drug resistance, de novo and acquired, pervades cellular signalling networks from one signalling motif to another as a result of cancer progression and/or drug intervention.
Alexey eGoltsov, Simon eLangdon, Gregory eGoltsov, David eHarrison, James eBown   +4 more
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Aristotel o nujnosti čutnega zaznavanja [PDF]

Phainomena, 2018
Aristotle on the Necessity of Sense Perception - The purpose of the paper is to illuminate Aristotle’s understanding of sense perception. In doing so, we focus only on the question of the necessity of sense perception for animals. Firstly, Aristotle uses
Primož Turk
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