Anthropo-Mechanical Cradles: A Multidisciplinary Review.

Domestic cradles are beds that are movable but non-mobile for babies up to five months of age. The "anthropo-mechanical" cradle simulates the physiological movement of the human body. The article reviews scientific literature discussing the impacts of swinging on infants, provides classifications of all currently used cradles due to how the child moves, and briefly describes modern technologies within cradle automation.

Designing Innovative Assistive Technology Devices for Tourism.

Active tourism improves human health and well-being regardless of age or disabilities. The paper analyses and describes current issues concerning the tourism of people with disabilities. The starting point is the currently insufficient availability of tourist offers for individuals with considerable motor dysfunctions.

A Method for Modeling the Individual Convenient Zone of a Human.

When designing products to fit a specific user, it is essential to know the user's upper limb range and strength capabilities at each point of the range space. This is particularly relevant when those capabilities are atypical, e.g.

Osteoporosis in mineral and bone disorders of chronic kidney disease.

Osteoporosis is one of the epidemics in modern aging societies. Epidemiological studies indicate that many patients with osteoporosis are also characterized by diminished glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which indicates various degrees of chronic kidney disease (CKD). On the other hand, the status of osteoporosis in the classification of mineral and bone disorders in CKD has not been well defined.

Renal involvement in multiple myeloma.

In this paper, the spectrum of renal involvement in the course of multiple myeloma (MM) is discussed. We describe the most important pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of renal complications observed in MM. In particular, we focused on the correlations between morphological changes in the kidneys and clinical signs and symptoms.