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PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Lower-limb exoskeletons have demonstrated great potential for gait rehabilitation in individuals with motor impairments; however, maintaining human-exoskeleton coordination remains a challenge. The coordination problem, referred to as any mismatch or asynchrony between the user's intended trajectories and exoskeleton desired trajectories, leads to sub-optimal gait performance, particularly for individuals with residual motor ability. Here, we investigate the virtual energy regulator (VER)'s ability to generate coordinated locomotion in lower limb exoskeleton.
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January 2025
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset-with data collected between 2020 and 2022 -to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (N = 56,968). All participants completed the SWLS under largely uniform conditions.
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January 2025
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
In this review paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of approaches for collecting time-activity pattern (TAP) data from individuals, a crucial component in understanding human behavior and its implications across various fields such as urban planning, environmental science, and, particularly, public health in relation to air pollution exposures.Furthermore, our paper introduces and critically evaluates several emerging methods for TAP data collection. These novel approaches, including but not limited to Google Location History, iPhone Significant Locations, and crowdsourced smartphone location data, offer unprecedented granularity in tracking human activities.
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January 2025
F.I.R.M.O. Italian Foundation for the Research on Bone Diseases, Florence, Italy.
Rare bone diseases are clinically and genetically heterogenous. Despite those differences, the underlying pathophysiology is not infrequently different. Several of these diseases are characterized by abnormal bone metabolism and turnover with subsequent abnormalities in markers of bone turnover, rendering them useful adjuncts in the diagnostic process.
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January 2025
Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14049-900, Brazil.
Second-generation (2G) bioethanol production, derived from lignocellulosic biomass, has emerged as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels by addressing growing energy demands and environmental concerns. Fungal sugar transporters (STs) play a critical role in this process, enabling the uptake of monosaccharides such as glucose and xylose, which are released during the enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass. This mini-review explores recent advances in the structural and functional characterization of STs in filamentous fungi and yeasts, highlighting their roles in processes such as cellulase induction, carbon catabolite repression, and sugar signaling pathways.
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