Otisma: an integrated application and humanoid robot as an educational tool for children with autism.

Autistic children have difficulty communicating wants, needs, and thoughts. In cases of low functioning autism, an individual can have serious speech and language disabilities. In response to the need of parents and therapists dealing with autistic children, social robots have been developed and incorporated into assisting children with autism.

Carbon-Fiber Enriched Cement-Based Composites for Better Sustainability.

Damage caused by global warming is rapidly increasing, and its adverse effects become more evident with each passing day. Although it is known that the use of alternative binder materials in concrete would decrease this negative effect, reluctance to use such new composites continues. Waste plays a vital role in sustainability studies.

Data for bottom ash and marble powder utilization as an alternative binder for sustainable concrete construction.

In today's world where the effects of global warming are intense, alternative approaches for a sustainable concrete sector are rapidly increasing. The partial replacement of waste materials, such as bottom ash and marble powder to cement, leads to a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. The expected quality of materials to be used for the concrete sector is very important in terms of building safety.

Direct enrichment of perchlorate-reducing microbial community for efficient electroactive perchlorate reduction in biocathodes.

Biological reduction of perchlorate (ClO₄⁻) has emerged as a promising solution for the removal of perchlorate in contaminated water and soils. In this work, we demonstrate a simple process to enrich perchlorate-reducing microbial communities separately using acetate as electron donor and the municipal aerobic membrane bioreactor sludge as inoculum. Inoculation of cathodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with these enrichments, and further electrochemical enrichment at constant resistance operation of the MFCs, led to perchlorate-reducing biocathodes with peak reduction rates of 0.

Mechanism of sphingosine 1-phosphate- and lysophosphatidic acid-induced up-regulation of adhesion molecules and eosinophil chemoattractant in nerve cells.

The lysophospholipids sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) act via G-protein coupled receptors S1P(1-5) and LPA(1-3) respectively, and are implicated in allergy. Eosinophils accumulate at innervating cholinergic nerves in asthma and adhere to nerve cells via intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). IMR-32 neuroblastoma cells were used as an in vitro cholinergic nerve cell model.