Antimicrobial resistance and infection control
Feb 12, 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic due to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has challenged the availability of traditional surface disinfectants. It has also stimulated the production of ultraviolet-disinfection robots by companies and institutions. These r...
Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
Feb 11, 2021
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to compare productivity of the KIRO Oncology compounding robot in three hospital pharmacy departments and identify the key factors to predict and optimize automatic compounding time.
Although robot-assisted hepatobiliary and pancreatic (HPB) surgery has gained momentum over the last 2 decades, only a handful of units in the world perform major robotic resections. Adaptation of robotic surgery in the UK lags behind its European co...
PURPOSE: Choroidal metastases occur in many patients with systemic cancer and limit quality of life due to visual deterioration or pain. The limited prognosis of these patients demand treatment approaches that aim at a quick response and easy applica...
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Feb 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: The development of the Da Vinci robotic platform has drastically altered the paradigm of minimal invasive pancreatic surgery. However, the evidence of robotic total pancreatectomy (RTP) is still limited. Here we report an alternative appr...
The robotic platform is becoming a multidisciplinary tool, versatile, and suitable for multiple procedures. Combined multivisceral resections may represent an alternative to sequential procedures with a potential favorable impact on postoperative mor...
This article surveys reinforcement learning approaches in social robotics. Reinforcement learning is a framework for decision-making problems in which an agent interacts through trial-and-error with its environment to discover an optimal behavior. Si...
Variable stiffness actuation has applications in a wide range of fields, including wearable haptics, soft robots, and minimally invasive surgical devices. There have been numerous design approaches to control and tune stiffness and rigidity; however,...
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