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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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Multifunctional Flexible PVDF-TrFE/BaTiO3 Based Tactile Sensor for Touch and Temperature Monitoring [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents an enhanced piezoelectricity based sensor for touch and temperature sensing. The sensor is realized over flexible polyimide film, making it suitable for application like e-skin.
Dahiya, Ravinder, Gupta, Shoubhik, Lorenzelli, Leandro   +2 more
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Obstacles Affect Perceptions of Egocentric Distances in Virtual Environments

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
Distance perception in humans can be affected by oculomotor and optical cues and a person’s action capability in a given environment, known as action-specific effects.
Daisuke Mine, Sakurako Kimoto, Kazuhiko Yokosawa   +2 more
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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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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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TRPC3 and TRPC6 are essential for normal mechanotransduction in subsets of sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells [PDF]

Open Biology, 2012
Summary Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels TRPC3 and TRPC6 are expressed in both sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells. Deletion of TRPC3 or TRPC6 in mice caused no behavioural phenotype, although loss of TRPC3 caused a shift of rapidly ...
Kathryn Quick, Jing Zhao, Niels Eijkelkamp, John E. Linley, Francois Rugiero, James J. Cox, Ramin Raouf, Martine Gringhuis, Jane E. Sexton, Joel Abramowitz, Ruth Taylor, Andy Forge, Jonathan Ashmore, Nerissa Kirkwood, Corné J. Kros, Guy P. Richardson, Marc Freichel, Veit Flockerzi, Lutz Birnbaumer, John N. Wood   +19 more
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Artistic healing of post-disaster people through fibre art [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2023
At the start of 2020, novel coronavirus swept the world, bringing cities to a halt and economies to a standstill. For months, mental health became an urgent concern in the wake of the epidemic.
Ma Xinyue, Zha Huimin
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Tactile Hypersensitivity and “Overwhelming Subjectivity” in the Touch Experience of People With Congenital Deafblindness: Implications for a Touch-Based Pedagogy

Frontiers in Education, 2020
Tactile hypersensitivity, sometimes referred to as tactile aversion, shyness or defensiveness, is a frequently cited challenge for support partners and educators in working with people with congenital deafblindness (CDB). Touch is the most fundamental of
Kirsten Costain
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Knitting out the Touch Hunger: A Research Project to Design the Overcoming of Post-Pandemic Emotional Fear of Touching

Fashion Highlight, 2023
The pandemic has altered human attitudes affecting common gestures: hugs, kisses, hands shaking, all the human behaviors related to touching have become dangerous, generating what scientists called “touch hunger”. If with touch we define ourselves as our
Martina Motta, GIOVANNI MARIA CONTI
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Electrotactile displays: taxonomy, cross-modality, psychophysics and challenges

Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Touch is one of the primary senses, and the receptors for touch sense are spread across the whole human body. Electrotactile displays provide tactile feedback to generate different sensations (such as tickling, tingling, itching, and pressure) in human ...
Rahul Kumar Ray, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, M. Manivannan   +3 more
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