Publications by authors named "M G Catalano"
Construction machines, for example cranes, excavators, or bulldozers, are widely diffused systems operating outdoors in harsh and dangerous environments, such as building sites, forests, and mines. Typically, construction machines require the on-site presence of highly skilled users to manage the complexity of their control and the high power of hydraulic actuation. Construction machines could benefit from recent developments of robot avatar technology that has demonstrated the viability of remotizing human physical activities, leveraging on intuitive interfaces and controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on healthcare organizations, leading to a reduction in screening. The pandemic period has caused important psychological repercussions in the most fragile patients.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the levels of depression, anxiety, peri-traumatic stress, and physical symptoms in patients undergoing colposcopy during the COVID-19 pandemic and to compare these data with the post-pandemic period.
Despite the advances in bionic reconstruction of missing limbs, the control of robotic limbs is still limited and, in most cases, not felt to be as natural by users. In this study, we introduce a control approach that combines robotic design based on postural synergies and neural decoding of synergistic behavior of spinal motoneurons. We developed a soft prosthetic hand with two degrees of actuation that realizes postures in a two-dimensional linear manifold generated by two postural synergies.
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- Hyponatremia is known to indicate survival chances in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), but the effects of normal sodium levels had not been previously studied until this research.
- The study involved 88 mNSCLC patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and analyzed how sodium levels affected their treatment responses and overall survival.
- Results showed that patients with sodium levels ≥140 mEq/L had significantly better progression-free survival (7.0 months vs. 2.1 months) and overall survival (15.6 months vs. 6.8 months), suggesting low sodium levels are linked to worse outcomes in mNSCLC.
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- The IMDC score is crucial for predicting outcomes and guiding treatment in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), especially when starting therapy with nivolumab.
- A multicenter study analyzed 492 mRCC patients to see how changes in IMDC categories affected their overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) after starting nivolumab.
- Results indicated that patients maintaining or improving their IMDC category had better survival outcomes compared to those whose condition worsened, highlighting the importance of IMDC monitoring in mRCC treatment.