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Heart Failure in the Elderly: the Role of Biological and Sociocultural Aspects Related to Sex
Heart failure (HF) entails poor prognosis, with high morbidity and mortality burden, particularly in elderly patients. Notably, important sex differences have been described between men and women with HF. In t...
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Open AccessThe anti-aging factor Klotho protects against acquired long QT syndrome induced by uremia and promoted by fibroblast growth factor 23
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased propensity for arrhythmias. In this context, ventricular repolarization alterations have been shown to predispose to fatal arrhythmias and sudden cardi...
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Open AccessMitral valve prolapse morphofunctional features by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: more than just a valvular disease
Mitral valve (MV) prolapse (MVP) is a primary valvular abnormality. We hypothesized that additionally there are concomitant abnormalities of the left ventricle (LV) and MV apparatus in this entity even in the ...
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients with Severe Calcification
Our aim was to analyze its diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with high coronary calcium score (CCS). A total of 113 patients with CCS > 400 were included. Significant coronary artery disease (CAD) wa...
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Development of an Off-board Vision-Based Control for a Micro Aerial Vehicle
Our research aims to develop an intelligent robot vehicle with multimodal locomotion capabilities for the forest monitoring purpose. Due to the complexity of the proposed research, in this paper, we proposed a...
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Translanguaging for STEM Learning: Exploring Tertiary Learning Contexts
In recent years, translanguaging has emerged as both a theoretical and pedagogical concept through which to examine how multilingual speakers learn by leveraging their full set of linguistic resources (Vogel S, G...
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A Monte Carlo Based Computation Offloading Algorithm for Feeding Robot IoT System
Ageing is becoming an increasingly major problem in European and Japanese societies. We have so far mainly focused on how to improve the eating experience for both frail elderly and caregivers by introducing a...
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Preparing Pre-service Secondary Teachers to Teach Science to English Learners: Theory into Practice
This chapter focuses on the preparation of pre-service teachers to teach science to English Learners (ELs) and is based on the SSTELLA (Secondary Science Teaching with English Language and Literacy Acquisition...
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Pilot Experiments with the Human-Friendly Walking Assisting Robot Vehicle (hWALK)
Up to now, the embodiment of bodily-kinaesthetic, perceptual and cognitive capabilities for assistive robots has been scarcely studied. This research aims to incorporate and develop the concept of robotic huma...
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Mitral valve disease—morphology and mechanisms
Mitral valve disease is a major cause of heart failure and mortality
Even in adult life, the mitral valve i...
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Genetic association analyses highlight biological pathways underlying mitral valve prolapse
Christian Dina, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Xavier Jeunemaitre and colleagues from the Leducq Transatlantic MITRAL Network report the results of a genome-wide association study of nonsyndromic mitral valve prolapse. ...
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Mutations in DCHS1 cause mitral valve prolapse
Two mutations in the gene DCHS1 are shown to cause non-syndromic mitral valve prolapse (MVP), a common cardiac valve disease; understanding the role of DCHS1 in mitral valve development and MVP pathogenesis holds...
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Anthropomorphic Musical Robots Designed to Produce Physically Embodied Expressive Performances of Music
The recent technological advances in robot technology, musical information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and so forth, may enable anthropomorphic robots to roughly emulate the physical dynamics and motor...
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Wind Instrument Playing Humanoid Robots
Since the golden era of automata (17th and 18th centuries), the development of mechanical dolls served as a mean to understand how the human brain is able of coordinating multiple degrees of freedom in order t...
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Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems: An Introduction
As early as 17th and 18th centuries different researchers have been interested in studying how humans are capable of playing different kinds of musical instruments as an approach to provide a credible imitation o...
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Interactive Musical System for Multimodal Musician-Humanoid Interaction
The research on Humanoid Robots designed for playing musical instruments has a long tradition in the research field of robotics. During the past decades, several researches are develo** anthropomorphic and a...
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Musical-based interaction system for the Waseda Flutist Robot
Since 1990, at Waseda University the development on the Anthropomorphic Flutist Robot has been focused on mechanically reproducing the physiology of the organs involved during the flute playing (i.e. lungs, li...
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Development of the Anthropomorphic Waseda Saxophonist Robot
Our research is related to the development of an anthropomorphic saxophonist robot, which it has been designed to mechanically reproduce the organs involved during the saxophone playing. Our research aims in u...
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Path generator control system and virtual compliance calculator for maxillofacial massage robots
Oral disorders such as temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) and dry mouth are common and often require treatment. Maxillofacial massage is used as a complementary and alternative therapy for these disorders...
