A Neuromechanical Model-Based Strategy to Estimate the Operator's Payload in Industrial Lifting Tasks.

One of the main technological barriers hindering the development of active industrial exoskeleton is today represented by the lack of suitable payload estimation algorithms characterized by high accuracy and low calibration time. The knowledge of the payload enables exoskeletons to dynamically provide the required assistance to the user. This work proposes a payload estimation methodology based on personalized Electromyography-driven musculoskeletal models (pEMS) combined with a payload estimation method we called "delta torque" that allows the decoupling of payload dynamical properties from human dynamical properties.

Toward autonomous robotic prostate biopsy: a pilot study.

Purpose: We present the validation of PROST, a robotic device for prostate biopsy. PROST is designed to minimize human error by introducing some autonomy in the execution of the key steps of the procedure, i.e.

Actuation Selection for Assistive Exoskeletons: Matching Capabilities to Task Requirements.

Selecting actuators for assistive exoskeletons involves decisions in which designers usually face contrasting requirements. While certain choices may depend on the application context or design philosophy, it is generally desirable to avoid oversizing actuators in order to obtain more lightweight and transparent systems, ultimately promoting the adoption of a given device. In many cases, the torque and power requirements can be relaxed by exploiting the contribution of an elastic element acting in mechanical parallel.

Digital Sorting of Pure Cell Populations Enables Unambiguous Genetic Analysis of Heterogeneous Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tumors by Next Generation Sequencing.

Precision medicine in oncology requires an accurate characterization of a tumor molecular profile for patient stratification. Though targeted deep sequencing is an effective tool to detect the presence of somatic sequence variants, a significant number of patient specimens do not meet the requirements needed for routine clinical application. Analysis is hindered by contamination of normal cells and inherent tumor heterogeneity, compounded with challenges of dealing with minute amounts of tissue and DNA damages common in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimens.

Applicability of a new robotic walking aid in a patient with cerebral palsy. Case report.

Background: Gait training with the help of assistive technological devices is an innovative field of research in neurological rehabilitation. Most of the available gait training devices do not allow free movement in the environment, which would be the most suitable natural and motivating condition for training children with neurological gait impairment.

Aim: To evaluate the potential applicability of a new robotic walking aid as a tool for gait training in non-ambulatory children with Cerebral Palsy.

[Detection of lysergic acid diethylamide in human urine: elimination, screening and analytical confirmation].

The Coat-A-Count DPC and Roche Abuscreen RIA for LSD were used to search for LSD in urines containing various drugs commonly found in specimens from addicted groups. Elimination of LSD in urine of a volunteer after ingestion of 50 micrograms confirmed that LSD can be detected after 3 days at 0.1 ng/ml cut-off level.

[The transsexual after sex change. Evolution and prognosis].

Sex reassignment surgery is at the present time the most acceptable solution which can be offered to the transsexuals. Diagnosis, postoperative status, prognostic factors and outcome are taken into account, with the purpose of having a better assessment for these patients.

[Catamnestic study of 76 cases of heroin addiction among young adults (5 to 12 year follow-up)].

A group of 76 narcotic addicts (53 male, 23 female) first admitted to the "Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire", Lausanne, between January 1970 and December 1977 were followed up 5 to 12 years later. The average age of first admission was 21,82; the average age of narcotic addition, 19. Over the period, 5.

[Drug addiction and culture].

In the course of ages drug always existed. It accompanied man in migrations, conquests and defeats. Formerly bordered upon some countries, and witness of a determined culture, drug has now a planetary dimension.

[Ophthalmological side effects of lithium (author's transl)].

Among the side-effects due to the psychotropic drugs, one knows the ocular lesions, especially those due to major tranquillizers (f.e. opacities in the cornea and the lens).

[Alcoholism in the young].

The ideas on alcoholism have somehow changed during these last years. In the past, ideas were axed mainly on the individual causes of alcoholism; today we are more interested on the sociocultural factors. Statistics prove, on the other hand, that there is a considerable increase of alcoholism by the youth.