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Design, characterisation and evaluation of a soft robotic sock device on healthy subjects for assisted ankle rehabilitation.

Motor impairment is one of the common neurological conditions suffered by stroke patients, where this chronic immobility together with the absence of early limb mobilisation can lead to conditions such as joint contracture with spastic limbs. In this study, a soft robotic sock device was developed, which can provide compliant actuation to the ankle joint in the early stage of stroke recovery. The ...

Dec 19 2017 29256765

Fast and easy extraction of antidepressants from whole blood using ionic liquids as extraction solvent.

This study aims to prove that ionic liquids (ILs) can be used as extraction solvents in a liquid-liquid microextraction, coupled to LC-MS/MS, for the quantification of a large group of antidepressants in whole blood samples. The sample preparation procedure consisted of adding 1.0mL aqueous buffer pH 3.0 and 60µL of IL (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate) to 1.0mL whole blood. Subsequ...

Dec 16 2017 29332813
Improved freeze drying efficiency by ice nucleation proteins with ice morphology modification.

This study aims to use ice nucleation proteins (INPs) as a novel approach to improve the efficiency of freeze drying process and investigate the relat...

Dec 14 2017 29580002
Investigation of the effects of carbon-based nanomaterials on A53T alpha-synuclein aggregation using a whole-cell recombinant biosensor.

The aggregation of alpha-synuclein (αS), natively unstructured presynaptic protein, is a crucial factor leading to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's dis...

Dec 14 2017 29276384
Lyme disease presenting with facial palsy and myocarditis mimicking myocardial infarction.

A 45-year-old woman presented with a sudden episode of typical chest pain, radiating to her neck. The patient denied premature coronary artery disease...

Dec 14 2017 29296249
Hydride generation coupled with thioglycolic acid coated gold nanoparticles as simple and sensitive headspace colorimetric assay for visual detection of Sb(III).

Antimony (Sb) is a toxic element which causes different health problems including cardiac problems and lung cancer in humans, and its levels in surfac...

Dec 12 2017 29329710
Cyanobacterium removal and control of algal organic matter (AOM) release by UV/HO pre-oxidation enhanced Fe(II) coagulation.

Harmful algal blooms in source water are a worldwide issue for drinking water production and safety. UV/HO, a pre-oxidation process, was firstly appli...

Dec 11 2017 29277080
Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Adrenal Insufficiency: A Short Review.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in the world. Recent studies have shown an association between adrenal insufficiency (A...

Dec 10 2017 29376070
Supervised learning for infection risk inference using pathology data.

BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial Resistance is threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases and overuse of antimicrobials to treat human infec...

Dec 8 2017 29216923
The synthesis, antifungal and apoptotic effects of triazole-oxadiazoles against Candida species.

In search of potent and safe antifungal agents, herein, we report the synthesis, characterization and biological activities of triazole-oxadiazole com...

Dec 7 2017 29274492
extract inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma via induction of caspase-dependent apoptosis.

INTRODUCTION: Cancer is a disease with a global burden and is a major and increasing threat to public health. The demand for new modalities to treat a...

Dec 4 2017 29270021
A systematic review of data mining and machine learning for air pollution epidemiology.

BACKGROUND: Data measuring airborne pollutants, public health and environmental factors are increasingly being stored and merged. These big datasets o...

Nov 28 2017 29179711
Determination of nitrite in water samples using atmospheric pressure glow discharge microplasma emission and chemical vapor generation of NO species.

In this work, a low-power (<25 W), portable direct current (dc) atmospheric pressure glow discharge microplasma (4 mm × 10  mm) molecular emission spe...

Nov 27 2017 29291791
FUZZY COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN.

OBJECTIVE: To build a fuzzy computational model to estimate the number of hospitalizations of children aged up to 10 years due to respiratory conditio...

Nov 13 2017 29160410
Novel cationic chitosan derivative bearing 1,2,3-triazolium and pyridinium: Synthesis, characterization, and antifungal property.

In this paper, novel cationic chitosan derivative possessing 1,2,3-triazolium and pyridinium groups was synthesized conveniently via cuprous-catalyzed...

Nov 7 2017 29279113
Simultaneous quantification of 49 elements associated to e-waste in human blood by ICP-MS for routine analysis.

Health risks concerns related to e-waste contamination are increasing all over the world, and especially in developing countries. We have developed an...

Oct 15 2017 29872637
The synthesis, biological evaluation and structure-activity relationship of 2-phenylaminomethylene-cyclohexane-1,3-diones as specific anti-tuberculosis agents.

The present study utilised whole cell based phenotypic screening of thousands of diverse small molecules against H37Rv () and identified the cyclohex...

Oct 13 2017 30108731
Exposome-Scale Investigations Guided by Global Metabolomics, Pathway Analysis, and Cognitive Computing.

Concurrent exposure to a wide variety of xenobiotics and their combined toxic effects can play a pivotal role in health and disease, yet are largely u...

Oct 9 2017 28945073
Associations of ambient coarse particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide with the risk of kidney disease: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Experimental evidence and preliminary clinical evidence suggest that environmental air pollution adversely effects kidney health. Previous...

Oct 5 2017 29851625
Modeling of yield and environmental impact categories in tea processing units based on artificial neural networks.

In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed for predicting the yield and life cycle environmental impacts based on energy in...

Sep 30 2017 28965294
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