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Air Efficient Soft Wearable Robot for High-Torque Elbow Flexion Assistance
No full text: Recent developments in soft wearable robots have shown promise for assistive and rehabilitative use-cases. For inflatable approaches, a major challenge in developing portable systems is finding a balance between portability, performance, and usability. In this paper, we present a textile-based robotic sleeve that can provide functional elbow flexion assistance and is compatible with a portable actuation unit (PAU). Flexion is driven by a curved textile actuator with internal pneumatic supports (IPS). We show that the addition of IPS improves torque generation and increases battery-powered actuations by 60%. We demonstrate that the device can provide enough torque throughout the ROM of the elbow joint for daily life assistance. Specifically, the device generates 13.5 Nm of torque at 90°. Experimental testing in five healthy individuals and two individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) demonstrates its impact on wearer muscle activity and kinematics. The results with healthy subjects show that the device was able to reduce the bicep muscle activity by an average of 49.1±13.3% during static and dynamic exercises, 43.6±11.1% during simulated ADLs, and provided an assisted ROM of 134°±13°. Both ALS participants reported a reduced rate of perceived exertion during both static and dynamic tasks while wearing the device and had an average ROM of 115°±8°. Future work will explore other applications of the IPS and extend the approach to assisting multiple joints
Yogatise: an on-line yoga program for children and youth with disabilities
Full text linkYogatise is a home-based, online yoga program that was specifically developed for children and youth with disabilities between 6 and 17 years of age to create a meaningful occupation outside of school and to increase their social, emotional and physical well-being. It has been found that children and youth with disabilities experience occupational injustice including limited participation in sports, music programs and other organized social activities in schools. The Social Cognitive Theory and the Mindfulness theory provide the theoretical foundation of the problem and the development of the program Yogatise. A search of the evidence-based literature on well-being in children and youth with disabilities and yoga-based interventions showed that important social, emotional and physical skills in these individuals can be increased through these interventions.
Yogatise was developed to offer children and youth with disabilities the opportunity to practice yoga according to their unique abilities and skills. It was created to reach children and youth with a variety of disabilities internationally to improve their occupational performance, occupational participation and occupational justice. Yogatise can increase an individual’s well-being and decrease long-term challenges to their school education, future employment and housing. The program involves families and caregivers and offers a community of like-minded people. Yogatise is unique in its focus on the particular needs and abilities of each particular participant and provides the possibility to practice yoga on their terms (e.g., personal schedule, abilities). Yogatise can be implemented in health care facilities, yoga studios and schools
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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