Devices and Vaccines

Characterisation and evaluation of soft elastomeric actuators for hand assistive and rehabilitation applications.

Various hand exoskeletons have been proposed for the purposes of providing assistance in activities of daily living and rehabilitation exercises. However, traditional exoskeletons are made of rigid components that impede the natural movement of joints and cause discomfort to the user. This paper evaluated a soft wearable exoskeleton using soft elastomeric actuators. The actuators could generate th...

Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2014).

The "Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies" (VDOS) international workshop series focuses on vaccine- and drug-related ontology modeling and applications. Drugs and vaccines have been critical to prevent and treat human and animal diseases. Work in both (drugs and vaccines) areas is closely related - from preclinical research and development to manufacturing, clinical trials, government approval and re...

The use of a robotic tibial rotation device and an electromagnetic tracking system to accurately reproduce the clinical dial test.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine whether a robotic tibial rotation device and an electromagnetic tracking system could accurat...

Energetic analysis and experiments of earthworm-like locomotion with compliant surfaces.

The energy consumption of worm robots is composed of three parts: heat losses in the motors, internal friction losses of the worm device and mechanica...

Calibration of an instrumented treadmill using a precision-controlled device with artificial neural network-based error corrections.

Instrumented treadmills (ITs) are used to measure reaction forces (RF) and center of pressure (COP) movements for gait and balance assessment. Regular...

Protective coatings for intraocular wirelessly controlled microrobots for implantation: Corrosion, cell culture, and in vivo animal tests.

Diseases in the ocular posterior segment are a leading cause of blindness. The surgical skills required to treat them are at the limits of human manip...

A neural-based vocoder implementation for evaluating cochlear implant coding strategies.

Most simulations of cochlear implant (CI) coding strategies rely on standard vocoders that are based on purely signal processing techniques. However, ...

Safety and Efficacy of Stabilized Hyaluronic Acid Gel for Breast Enhancement.

Long-term follow-up data following 2 breast enhancement treatments with stabilized hyaluronic acid (HA) gel are limited. Although HA gel is no longer ...

Selenium supplementation has beneficial and detrimental effects on immunity to influenza vaccine in older adults.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Mortality resulting from influenza (flu) virus infections occurs primarily in the elderly through declining immunity. Studies in mi...

Reappraisal of the Immunogenicity and Safety of Three Hepatitis A Vaccines in Adolescents.

Although the overall incidence of hepatitis A in Korea has been decreasing, adolescents remain highly vulnerable to its outbreaks. This study was cond...

First Clinical Experience With Thermal-Sprayed Silver Oxide-Containing Hydroxyapatite Coating Implant.

BACKGROUND: Prosthetic joint infection is a serious complication of implant therapy. To prevent prosthetic joint infection, we previously reported the...

Robot-assisted total hip arthroplasty.

Precise and accurate biomechanical reconstruction during total hip arthroplasty (THA) is essential for durable long-term survivorship. Accurate fit of...

Modification of Shape Memory Polymer Foams Using Tungsten, Aluminum Oxide, and Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles.

Shape memory polymer (SMP) foams were synthesized with three different nanoparticles (tungsten, silicon dioxide, and aluminum oxide) for embolization ...

Mutagenic Potential ofBos taurus Papillomavirus Type 1 E6 Recombinant Protein: First Description.

Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is considered a useful model to study HPV oncogenic process. BPV interacts with the host chromatin, resulting in DNA damag...

Relative Bioavailability of a Single Dose of Belimumab Administered Subcutaneously by Prefilled Syringe or Autoinjector in Healthy Subjects.

Intravenous belimumab is approved for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus; subcutaneous self-administration would enable greater patient acc...

Clinical course of H1N1-vaccine-related narcolepsy.

OBJECTIVE: To follow and analyze the clinical course and quality of life of Pandemrix H1N1-vaccine-related narcolepsy (pNT1).

Microrobotized blasting improves the bone-to-textured implant response. A preclinical in vivo biomechanical study.

This study evaluated the effect of microrobotized blasting of titanium endosteal implants relative to their manually blasted counterparts. Two differe...

Non-Invasive, Temporally Discrete Feedback of Object Contact and Release Improves Grasp Control of Closed-Loop Myoelectric Transradial Prostheses.

Human grasping and manipulation control critically depends on tactile feedback. Without this feedback, the ability for fine control of a prosthesis is...

Automatic Classification of Structured Product Labels for Pregnancy Risk Drug Categories, a Machine Learning Approach.

With regular expressions and manual review, 18,342 FDA-approved drug product labels were processed to determine if the five standard pregnancy drug ri...

Novel Balloon Surface Scanning Device for Intraoperative Breast Endomicroscopy.

Recent advances in fluorescence confocal endomicroscopy have allowed real-time identification of residual tumour cells on the walls of the cavity left...