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Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
The advancements in scaffold-supported cell therapy for musculoskeletal tissue engineering have been truly dramatic in the last couple of decades.... -
Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there... -
Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection... -
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... -
2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective
Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots
An aged society comes soon. Human-care robots must be realized to nurse aged and disabled persons. Human-care robot will need to work around elderly... -
26 STRING-MAN: A Novel Wire Robot for Gait Rehabilitation
This paper presents a novel robotic prototype for advanced gait rehabilitation. This system integrates sophisticated robotic technology with control... -
Application of Knowledge Information Processing Methods to Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical and Bioinformatics Fields
In biochemical and biomedical engineering fields there are a variety of phenomena with many complex chemical reactions, in which many genes and... -
Cell-free Protein Synthesis Systems: Increasing their Performance and Applications
The Escherichia coli cell-free protein synthesis system can now be used for various proteins that need special requirements, such as disulfide bond... -
Bioprocess Monitoring Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is a nondestructive analytical technique that has been used for simultaneous prediction of the concentrations of... -
Metabolic Flux Analysis Based on 13C-Labeling Experiments and Integration of the Information with Gene and Protein Expression Patterns
The recent progress on metabolic systems engineering was reviewed, in particular focusing on the metabolic flux analysis (MFA) based on the... -
Transgenic Birds for the Production of Recombinant Proteins
Transgenic birds were expected to be an excellent transgenic bioreactor for the production of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins. However, the only... -
Critical Phenomena in a Small World
We consider the behavior of various systems on a small-world network near a critical point. Our starting point is a different, nonrandom system with... -
Who Is the Best Connected Scientist?A Study of Scientific Coauthorship Networks
Using data from computer databases of scientific papers in physics, biomedical research, and computer science, we have constructed networks of...