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4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II
Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with...
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13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation
This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have...
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10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots
It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for...
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14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands
This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as...
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12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots
Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A...
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5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life
The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf...
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6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance
The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and...
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1 Advances in Human-Friendly Robotic Technologies for Movement Assistance/Movement Restoration for People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation robots (RR) are expected to play an important role toward the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Such...
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22 A Gentle/S Approach to Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
Movement disorders (MD) include a group of neurological disorders that involve neuromotor systems. MD can result in several abnormalities ranging...
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23 Wire Driven Robots for Rehabilitation
In the last decades many attempts were made to employ robots or automatic mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation. In particular, orthopaedic...
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9 Enhancing the Usability of the MANUS Manipulator by Using Visual Servoing
Controlling MANUS, a wheelchair-mounted manipulator, can put a high cognitive load on the end user. Visual servoing techniques can help to reduce...
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7 Cooperative Welfare Robot System Using Hand Gesture Instructions
This paper explains the cooperative work system between manipulators and humans using hand gesture instructions. The goal of our system is that the...
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The Tensile Strength of Polymer Fibres
A theory of the tensile strength of oriented polymer fibres is presented. From an analysis of the observed fracture envelope it is shown that the...
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Stress Induced by Recombinant Protein Production in Escherichia coli
Strong production of recombinant proteins interferes with cellular processes in many ways. Drainage of precursors and energy urges the cell to...
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Roles of Heat-Shock Chaperones in the Production of Recombinant Proteins in Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli is a versatile organism for the production of recombinant proteins. Often, however, the recombinant protein does not reach its...
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Clarification of Interactions among Microorganisms and Development of Co-culture System for Production of Useful Substances
Co-culture systems containing two microorganisms for the production of useful substances are described. We developed a novel co-culture system...
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Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharide and Sugar Transferases
Capsular polysaccharides (CPs) of several pathogenic bacteria are thought to be good materials for the development of new therapeutic reagents. These...
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Bacterial Sterilization and Intracellular Protein Release by a Pulsed Electric Field
Several biotechnological applications of high-voltage pulsed electric field (PEF) are introduced. Electrical breakdown or disruption of a biological...
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Membrane Reactors at Degussa
The review covers the development of membrane reactor technologies at Degussa for the synthesis of fine chemicals. The operation of fed-batch or...
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Inclusion Bodies: Formation and Utilisation
The efficient in vivo folding of many heterologous proteins is a major bottleneck of high level production in bacterial hosts and simple optimisation...