MUSCULOSKELETAL LOAD ANALYSIS FOR THE DESIGN AND CONTROL OF A WEARABLE ROBOT BRACING THE HUMAN BODY WHILE CRAWLING ON A FLOOR

Musculoskeletal Load Analysis for the Design and Control of a Wearable Robot Bracing the Human Body While Crawling on a Floor

Wearable robots, such as exoskeletons, can potentially reduce the load at targeted muscles of the human body during fatiguing tasks.It is common, however, that use of a wearable robot causes increased load at untargeted muscles, leading to minimal net improvement.Here, musculoskeletal impacts of a wearable robotic device are examined to establish a

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Testing quasi-Dirac leptogenesis through neutrino oscillations

The lightness of the Standard Model (SM) neutrinos could be understood if their masses were to be generated by new Lamps physics at a high scale, through the so-called seesaw mechanism involving heavy fermion singlets.We consider a novel scenario where the new physics violates baryon minus lepton number by only a small amount resulting in both heav

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Esophageal Inlet Patch

An inlet patch is a congenital anomaly consisting of ectopic gastric mucosa at or just distal to the upper esophageal sphincter.Most inlet patches are largely asymptomatic, but in problematic cases complications related to acid secretion such as esophagitis, ulcer, web and stricture may occur.The diagnosis of inlet patch is strongly suggested on ba

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Canonical Wnt Signaling Promotes Formation of Somatic Permeability Barrier for Proper Germ Cell Differentiation

Morphogen-mediated signaling is critical for proper organ development and stem cell function, and well-characterized mechanisms spatiotemporally limit the expression of ligands, receptors, and ligand-binding cell-surface glypicans.Here, we show that in the developing Drosophila ovary, Merch canonical Wnt signaling promotes the formation of somatic

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