Infection control / Modes of transmission

The Effects of Fluidic Loading on Underwater Contact Sensing with Robotic Fins and Beams.

As robots become more involved in underwater operations, understanding underwater contact sensing with compliant systems is fundamental to engineering useful haptic interfaces and vehicles. Despite knowledge of contact sensation in air, little is known about contact sensing underwater and the impact of fluid on both the robotic probe and the target object. The objective of this work is to understa...

Accurate contact predictions using covariation techniques and machine learning.

Here we present the results of residue-residue contact predictions achieved in CASP11 by the CONSIP2 server, which is based around our MetaPSICOV contact prediction method. On a set of 40 target domains with a median family size of around 40 effective sequences, our server achieved an average top-L/5 long-range contact precision of 27%. MetaPSICOV method bases on a combination of classical contact...

Protein contact prediction by integrating joint evolutionary coupling analysis and supervised learning.

MOTIVATION: Protein contact prediction is important for protein structure and functional study. Both evolutionary coupling (EC) analysis and supervise...

Measurement of Contact Behavior Including Slippage of Cuff When Using Wearable Physical Assistant Robot.

Continuous use of wearable robots can cause skin injuries beneath the cuffs of robots. To prevent such injuries, understanding the contact behavior of...

Context-dependent coding and gain control in the auditory system of crickets.

Sensory systems process stimuli that greatly vary in intensity and complexity. To maintain efficient information transmission, neural systems need to ...

Surrogate modeling of deformable joint contact using artificial neural networks.

Deformable joint contact models can be used to estimate loading conditions for cartilage-cartilage, implant-implant, human-orthotic, and foot-ground i...

Using wavelet-feedforward neural networks to improve air pollution forecasting in urban environments.

The paper presents the screening of various feedforward neural networks (FANN) and wavelet-feedforward neural networks (WFANN) applied to time series ...

Displaying Sensed Tactile Cues with a Fingertip Haptic Device.

Telerobotic systems enable humans to explore and manipulate remote environments for applications such as surgery and disaster response, but few such s...

Prescribed 3-D Direct Writing of Suspended Micron/Sub-micron Scale Fiber Structures via a Robotic Dispensing System.

A 3-axis dispensing system is utilized to control the initiating and terminating fiber positions and trajectory via the dispensing software. The polym...

Design of a novel telerehabilitation system with a force-sensing mechanism.

Many stroke patients are expected to rehabilitate at home, which limits their access to proper rehabilitation equipment, treatment, or assessment by t...

Printing 2-dimentional droplet array for single-cell reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay with a microfluidic robot.

This paper describes a nanoliter droplet array-based single-cell reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) assay method for quantifying gene ex...

Folding in and out: passive morphing in flapping wings.

We present a new mechanism for passive wing morphing of flapping wings inspired by bat and bird wing morphology. The mechanism consists of an unactuat...

Optical angular constancy is maintained as a navigational control strategy when pursuing robots moving along complex pathways.

The optical navigational control strategy used to intercept moving targets was explored using a real-world object that travels along complex, evasive ...

Modeling and motion compensation of a bidirectional tendon-sheath actuated system for robotic endoscopic surgery.

Recent study shows that tendon-sheath system (TSS) has great potential in the development of surgical robots for endoscopic surgery. It is able to del...

Data dependent random forest applied to screening for laryngeal disorders through analysis of sustained phonation: acoustic versus contact microphone.

Comprehensive evaluation of results obtained using acoustic and contact microphones in screening for laryngeal disorders through analysis of sustained...

Bridging the gap between motor imagery and motor execution with a brain-robot interface.

According to electrophysiological studies motor imagery and motor execution are associated with perturbations of brain oscillations over spatially sim...

Understanding Networks of Computing Chemical Droplet Neurons Based on Information Flow.

In this paper, we present general methods that can be used to explore the information processing potential of a medium composed of oscillating (self-e...

Neural network study for standardizing pulse-taking depth by the width of artery.

To carry out a pulse diagnosis, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physician presses the patient's wrist artery at three incremental depths, namely ...

Refining in silico simulation to study digestion parameters affecting the bioaccessibility of lipophilic nutrients and micronutrients.

Despite the considerable number of in vivo and in vitro studies on the digestive fate of lipophilic nutrients, micronutrients, and bioactives, the eff...

Improved Fault Classification in Series Compensated Transmission Line: Comparative Evaluation of Chebyshev Neural Network Training Algorithms.

This paper presents the Chebyshev neural network (ChNN) as an improved artificial intelligence technique for power system protection studies and exami...