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Light-Tissue Interactions
A fundamental challenge in biophotonics is to understand the interaction of light with multilayered, multicomponent, and optically inhomogeneous...
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Overview of Biophotonics
Biophotonics or biomedical optics has become an indispensible tool for basic life sciences research and for biomedical diagnosis, therapy,...
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Liquid Crystals as Effective Drugs for Treatment of Articular Disorders and Similar Pathologies
The problem of treatment of rheumatic diseases has pronounced medicosocial significance. It is certain that similarity of the tribological,...
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Influence of low intensity laser therapy (AsGa) on the cicatrization process of mechanic tendon injury in wistar rats
The aim of this study was to compare the effect of the low level Laser therapy (AsGa) in the experimental tendon injury. Low level Laser therapy has...
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Introduction
The transporting behavior of colloidal particles generated by external electric potential, temperature, or gradient of solute concentration in...
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Analysis of two colliding fractionally damped spherical shells in modelling blunt human head impacts
The collision of two elastic or viscoelastic spherical shells is investigated as a model for the dynamic response of a human head impacted by another...
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Upper limb joint motion of two different user groups during manual wheelchair propulsion
Manual wheelchair users have a high risk of injury to the upper extremities. Recent studies have focused on kinematic and kinetic analyses of manual...
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Formula One
The monocoque chassis is barely big enough to accept the driver, the fuel tank, the radiators, and the myriad electronic systems that control the...
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They Don’t Exist
The final class of solutions to the Fermi paradox are based around the notion that for some reason “they”—extraterrestrial civilizations with whom we...
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Experimental and numerical analysis of Izod impact test of cortical bone tissue
Bones can only sustain loads until a certain limit, beyond which they fail. Usually, the reasons for bone fracture are traumatic falls, sports...
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Project MX981
It is 1946, just a few months after the end of the Second World War. A B-17 Flying Fortress arcs skyward on an urgent mission. Stripped of guns and...
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Fifty Years in the BAA and Halley
November 1984 to late 1986. Patrick celebrates 50 years as a BAA member, observes Halley’s comet, breaks his shoulder, is horrified by the Challenger...
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Fiber optic intensity-modulated sensors: a review in biomechanics
Fiber optic sensors have a set of properties that make them very attractive in biomechanics. However, they remain unknown to many who work in the...
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Human Innovation
In Greek mythology, Icarus takes to the sky on wings of feather and wax. All goes well until he flies too close to the sun, his wings melt, and he...
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Modeling of the Brain for Injury Simulation and Prevention
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious public health issue affecting 1.7 million...
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Torque and power outputs on different subjects during manual wheelchair propulsion under different conditions
Manual wheelchair users are at a high risk of pain and injuries to the upper extremities due to mechanical inefficiency of wheelchair propulsion...
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Activated Natural Zeolites on Textiles: Protection from Radioactive Contamination
Clothing designed to protect against radioactive contamination was based on a simple principle. It was important not to inhale contaminated dust and...
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Heat Strain in Personal Protective Clothing: Challenges and Intervention Strategies
Humans rely on sweat evaporation during exercise in the heat to promote cooling and to maintain thermal homeostasis. In protective clothing, however,...
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The Adaptive Suite of Genus Homo: Cognitive Modernity and Niche Construction
In the previous chapter we saw the early evolution of our genus, and began to see some glimmers of behavior that seem familiar: the making and use of...
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The Engineering Design of Intelligent Protective Textiles and Clothing
Terrorism has been on the rise in the past decade and continues to disrupt everyday life in many parts of the world. Protection against such threats...