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  1. 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....
    Shyni Varghese, Jennifer H. Elisseeff in Polymers for Regenerative Medicine
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  2. 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...
    James P. Davis, Raphael Blanco in Intelligent Paradigms for Healthcare Enterprises
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  3. 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...
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  4. 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...
    Bessam Abdulrazak, Mounir Mokhtari, Bernard Grandjean in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  5. 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...
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  6. 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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  7. 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...
    Z. Zenn Bien, Kwang-Hyun Park, ... **-Woo Jung in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  8. 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...
    O. Kouzmitcheva, C. Martens, ... A. Gräser in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  9. 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...
    M.J. Johnson, E. Guglielmelli, ... P. Dario in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  10. 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...
    Makoto Nokata, Noriyuki Tejima in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  11. 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...
    Gert Willem Römer, Harry Stuyt, ... Koos van Woerden in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  12. 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...
    Makoto Nokata, Koji Ikuta, Hideki Ishii in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  13. 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...
    Dragoljub Surdilovic, Rolf Bernhardt, ... **yu Zhang in Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics
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  14. 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...
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  15. 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...
    Hideo Nakano, Yasuaki Kawarasaki, Tsuneo Yamane in Recent Progress of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering in Japan I
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  16. 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...
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  17. 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...
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  18. 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...
    Masamichi Kamihira, Ken-ichi Nishijima, Shinji Iijima in Recent Progress of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering in Japan II
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  19. Recent Progress in Microbial Cultivation Techniques

    Recent advances in the improvement of microbial cultivation are reviewed, with emphasis on biochemical engineering techniques as a means of obtaining...
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  20. High Rate Production of Hydrogen/Methane from Various Substrates and Wastes

    To treat soluble and solid wastes and recover energy from them, high rate methane fermentation, especially using the UASB (upflow anaerobic sludge...
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