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Grasps recognition and evaluation of stroke patients for supporting rehabilitation therapy
(2014-09-02)
Stroke survivors often suffer impairments on their wrist and hand. Robot-mediated rehabilitation techniques have been proposed as a way to enhance conventional therapy, based on intensive repeated movements. Amongst the ...
Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema : Virtual Worlds and Ethical Problems
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-09)
Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema addresses questions about the connections between body and soul, virtuality, and the ways in which we engage with spirituality in the digital age. The ...
Intensive care in patients with lung cancer : a multinational study
(2014-09-01)
BACKGROUND: Detailed information about lung cancer patients requiring admission to intensive care units (ICUs) is mostly restricted to single-center studies. Our aim was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes ...
Analysis of UK and European NOx and VOC emission scenarios in the Defra model intercomparison exercise
(2014-09)
Simple emission scenarios have been implemented in eight United Kingdom air quality models with the aim of assessing how these models compared when addressing whether photochemical ozone formation in southern England was ...
A systematic review of counterfeit and substandard medicines in field quality surveys
(2014-09)
Counterfeit and substandard medicines pose a great threat to public health and the economy worldwide. Reports suggest their prevalence is increasing and can no longer be ignored. A detailed account on the current nature ...
Automatic segmentation of odor maps in the mouse olfactory bulb using regularized non-negative matrix factorization
(2014-09-01)
Segmentation of functional parts in image series of functional activity is a common problem in neuroscience. Here we apply regularized non-negative matrix factorization (rNMF) to extract glomeruli in intrinsic optical ...
Protection Versus Pathology in Aviremic and High Viral Load HIV-2 Infection : The Pivotal Role of Immune Activation and T-cell Kinetics
(2014-09-01)
BACKGROUND: Many human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-2-infected individuals remain aviremic and behave as long-term non-progressors but some progress to AIDS. We hypothesized that immune activation and T-cell turnover would ...
Two planets around Kapteyn's star: a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf
(2014-09-01)
Exoplanets of a few Earth masses can be now detected around nearby low-mass stars using Doppler spectroscopy. In this Letter, we investigate the radial velocity variations of Kapteyn's star, which is both a sub-dwarf M-star ...
Effect of cassava chips on quality of silage from fresh forage sorghum plus Cavalcade forage legume hay mixtures
(2014-09)
Two experiments investigated the effects on silage quality of adding cassava chips at a range of levels to a sorghum forage plus Cavalcade legume hay mixture at ensiling at the Experimental Farm, Khon Kaen University, ...