Publications by authors named "R Gillette"
Topology, dynamics, and control of a muscle-architected soft arm.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- - Muscular hydrostats, like octopus arms and elephant trunks, lack bones, granting them extraordinary flexibility and the ability to reshape themselves effectively.
- - The arrangement of muscle fibers in these structures acts like a complex mechanical program that helps control intricate shapes and movements.
- - Research combining imaging, biomechanics, and simulations led to the creation of an octopus-inspired arm with 200 muscle groups, showcasing innovative design and control principles relevant to robotics that allow for simple yet effective manipulation across various tasks.
Background: Although older adults with heart failure (HF) and multiple chronic conditions (MCC) frequently rely on caregivers for health management, digital health systems, such as patient portals and mobile apps, are designed for individual patients and often exclude caregivers. There is a need to develop approaches that integrate caregivers into care. This study tested the feasibility of the Social Convoy Palliative Care intervention (Convoy-Pal), a 12-week digital self-management program that includes assessment tools and resources for clinical palliative care, designed for both patients and their caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this report, passive elasticity properties of Octopus rubescens arm tissue are investigated using a multidisciplinary approach encompassing biomechanical experiments, computational modeling, and analyses. Tensile tests are conducted to obtain stress-strain relationships of the arm under axial stretch. Rheological tests are also performed to probe the dynamic shear response of the arm tissue.
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- Data sharing is becoming a big part of health research, especially with new rules from the National Institutes of Health in 2023 that include qualitative studies, which look at people's experiences and opinions.
- The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) created a new data repository for qualitative research to go along with their existing quantitative data, working with the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR).
- They developed guidelines and reached out to researchers to help them share their data, while also learning important lessons during the process to improve future data sharing practices.
Objectives: We sought to create a computational pipeline for attaching geomarkers, contextual or geographic measures that influence or predict health, to electronic health records at scale, including developing a tool for matching addresses to parcels to assess the impact of housing characteristics on pediatric health.
Materials And Methods: We created a geomarker pipeline to link residential addresses from hospital admissions at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) between July 2016 and June 2022 to place-based data. Linkage methods included by date of admission, geocoding to census tract, street range geocoding, and probabilistic address matching.