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25 Post Stroke Shoulder-Elbow Physiotherapy with Industrial Robots
Robotic motor rehabilitation is a promising approach to rehabilitation of post stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury neuromotor...
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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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Simulation of Charged Colloids in Solution
Physicochemical properties of solutions of charged colloids are often dominated by the electrostatic interactions present in such systems. A full...
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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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What Has Theory and Crystallography Revealed About the Mechanism of Catalysis by Orotidine Monophosphate Decarboxylase?
In 1995, Wolfenden and Radzicka showed that orotidine 5′-monophosphate decarboxylase (ODCase) was the most proficient enzyme. Since then, the...
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Structure of Polymer Melts and Blends: Comparison of Integral Equation Theory and Computer Simulations
This review covers the most recent developments using the Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) integral equation theory to study polymer...
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Supramolecular Organization of Foldable Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers
This review summarizes the supramolecular organization of foldable phenylene ethynylene (PE) oligomers and polymers. m-Phenylene ethynylenes (mPEs)...
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Simple Dipolar Fluids as Generic Models for Soft Matter
The physical properties, based on simulation results, of model fluids and solids bearing an electric or magnetic point dipole moment are described....
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Controlled Synthesis of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Synthesis of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals is discussed in this chapter. Although the focus is on the recent progress in synthesis of...
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Crystal Engineering Using Multiple Hydrogen Bonds
Crystal engineering is the branch of supramolecular chemistry concerned with the design and synthesis of extended structures with predictable form...
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Functional Magnetic Particles for Medical Application
Magnetic particles for medical applications have been developed by many researchers. Since magnetic particles have unique magnetic features not...
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Catalysis by Enzyme Conformational Change
An energy decomposition scheme is presented to elucidate the importance of the change of protein conformation substates to the reduction of...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...
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Development of Culture Techniques of Keratinocytes for Skin Graft Production
The in vitro cultures of human tissues have attracted a great deal of medical attention as a promising technique for repairing defective tissues in...
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Large-Scale Micropropagation System of Plant Cells
Plant micropropagation is an efficient method of propagating disease-free, genetically uniform and massive amounts of plants in vitro. The scale-up...
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Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism of Orotidine 5′-phosphate Decarboxylase from Crystallography and Mutagenesis
With a half-time of 78 million years at room temperature, the spontaneous decarboxylation of orotidine 5′-phosphate (OMP) is among the slowest...
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17 A Concept for Control of Indoor-Operated Autonomous Wheelchair
The present chapter introduces a navigation algorithm for a wheelchair in semistructured home environment. The user sets the end position and...
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18 Design of an Intelligent Wheelchair for the Motor Disabled
As rehabilitation technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer science have been rapidly developed, the dream of overcoming...