Identification of solid state to investigate the possibility of physical interaction between Antimalarial Artemisinin Combination Treatment base Artesunate (AS) and Amodiaquine (AQ) by hot contact method Kofler, cold contact method (crystallization r...
Hydrogels are attractive biomaterials with favorable characteristics due to their water uptake capacity. However, hydrogel properties are determined by the cross-linking degree and nature, the tacticity, and the crystallinity of the polymer. These bi...
Among the existing technologies for hand protection, master–slave control technology has been extensively researched and applied within the field of safety engineering to mitigate the occurrence of safety incidents. However, it has been identif...
Dynamic and reversible polymer networks capable of self-healing, i.e., restoring their mechanical properties after deformation and failure, are gaining increasing research interest, as there is a continuous need towards extending the lifetime and imp...
With the development in the field of energy and the growing demand for sustainable energy, gas–electric integrated energy systems are attracting attention as an emerging energy supply method. At the same time, with the deep application of information...
Ensuring healthy living and promoting well-being (Sustainable Development Goals 3) is a key goal of school Physical Education. As many students in Poland perceive these lessons as unengaging and ineffective, there is a need to explore new educational...
For students with Special Educational Needs in their Emotional and Social Development (SEN-ESD), school interactions can intensify distrust in adults or foster corrective relational experiences. Physical Education (PE) presents a dual-natured context...
Food processes have been requiring increasingly more accurately designed operations. Successful design results in products with high quality, in addition to offering energy and cost savings. To these ends, fundamental knowledge regarding the physical...
Individuals develop interdependence through interactions. The process of physical coordination during face-to-face interactions facilitates relationship formation, emotional experiences, and emotional contagion. Workplaces inherently involve organic...
Children with physical disabilities are increasingly using socially assistive robots (SARs) as part of therapy to enhance motivation, engagement, enjoyment, and adherence. Research on SARs in rehabilitation has primarily focused on verbal and visual...
Immersive technology, refers to various novel ways of creating and interacting with applications and experiences, e.g., virtual reality (VR), has been used in various simulations and training where preparing real/physical settings is not ideal or pos...
The exoskeleton rehabilitation robot is a structural robot that uses the actuator to control, so as to construct a human–robot collaborative rehabilitation training system to realize the perception and decoding of patients and promotes the reco...
This study is aimed at bridging the gap from a transdisciplinary perspective between cyber-physical systems (CPS) architecture in the field of information science and emotional design in the field of humanistic science for interactive fashion innovat...
The idea to use a cost-effective pneumatic padding for sensing of physical interaction between a user and wearable rehabilitation robots is not new, but until now there has not been any practical relevant realization. In this paper, we present a nove...
In this paper, the problem of making a safe compliant contact between a human and an assistive robot is considered. Users with disabilities have a need to utilize their assistive robots for physical human–robot interaction (PHRI) during certain...
(1) Background: Rumination is closely associated with adolescent social interaction anxiety, and physical activity has been linked to both repetitive negative thinking and anxiety-related symptoms. This study examined the network relationships betwee...
In this paper, we present a physical interaction scheme for omnidirectional multirotor aerial vehicles (MRAVs) equipped with fixedly tilted non-coplanar propellers, based on an admittance control architecture. An external wrench observer is employed...
Physical interaction in peer learning has been proven to improve students’ learning processes, which is pertinent in facilitating a fulfilling learning experience in learning theory. However, observation and interviews are often used to investi...
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This study examines the effect of cross-level interaction between community physical environment and social capital among individuals on physical activity by considering gender difference. In this regard, we ask two research questions: (1) What is th...
As the global population rapidly ages with longer life expectancy and declining birth rates, the need for healthcare services and caregivers for older adults is increasing. Current research envisions addressing this shortage by introducing domestic s...
In order to analyze the complex interactive behaviors between the robot and two humans, this paper presents an adaptive optimal control framework for human-robot-human physical interaction. N-player linear quadratic differential game theory is used t...
In order to promote the development of individualized, accurate and intelligent physical education teaching, combined with artificial intelligence technology, the current physical education teaching mode has been improved. Through the establishment o...
Insight problems are traditionally presented in verbal or visual form; however, some research suggests that physically interacting with the problem materials may facilitate insight problem solving. In contrast, the more recent literature found no per...
Assistive robotics is increasingly relevant for supporting people with reduced mobility and reducing caregiver burden in healthcare, care-home, and domestic environments. In these contexts, physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) is essential,...
Despite the beneficial effect of exercise, children treated for cancer do not engage in sufficient physical activity. It is necessary to search for attractive forms of physical activity, including interactive video games (IVGs). The aim of this study...
In order to achieve effective physical human–robot interaction, human dynamic characteristics needs to be considered in admittance control. This paper proposes a variable admittance control method for physical human–robot interaction based on traject...
Interactions between clouds, aerosol, and precipitation are crucial aspects of weather and climate. The simple Koren–Feingold conceptual model is important for providing deeper insight into the complex aerosol–cloud–precipitation sy...
Due to limitations in stability, solubility, and functional properties, natural proteins often fail to meet the demands of industrial production. Traditional chemical or enzymatic methods for protein modification suffer from high costs and the genera...
A safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) in rehabilitation requires reliable perception and low-latency decision making under heterogeneous and unreliable sensor inputs. This paper presents a multimodal sensor-fusion-based safety framewor...
In this paper, the problem of a fully actuated hexarotor performing a physical interaction with the environment through a rigidly attached tool is considered. A nonlinear model predictive impedance control (NMPIC) method is proposed to achieve the go...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated whether serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) modifies the association between meeting WHO aerobic physical activity guidelines and cardiometabolic risk clustering among rural older adults in South Korea....
Recently, due to the decrease in labor force, increase in labor costs, and the desire for improved quality of life, research on robots has been actively conducted to address these issues. However, it is currently difficult to find robots that physica...
While emerging technology for self-driving automation in vehicles progresses rapidly, the transition to an era of roads full of fully connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) may take longer than expected. Until then, it is inevitable that CAVs should...
This research focuses on the crucial issue of ascertaining safe and suitable massage forces for abdominal massage robots. It does so by constructing variable stiffness soft tissue physical models and devising a machine learning-based prediction algor...
Smart walkers are commonly used as potential gait assistance devices, to provide physical and cognitive assistance within rehabilitation and clinical scenarios. To understand such rehabilitation processes, several biomechanical studies have been cond...
Intuitive and comfortable physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) can be realized by changing impedance/admittance parameters corresponding to human interaction. However, this dynamic adjustment may result in drastically changed system dynamics...
The Central Limit Theorem stands as a milestone in probability theory and statistical physics, as the privileged, if not the unique, universal route to normal distributions. This article addresses and describes several other alternative routes to Gau...
Fungi serve as a biological scaffold for bacterial attachment. In some specialized interactions, the bacteria will invade the fungal host, which in turn provides protection and nutrients for the bacteria. Mechanisms of the physical interactions betwe...
Recently, the identification of inertia and damping matrices (IIDM) and safety issues, as well as natural cooperation, are interestingly considered to enhance the quality of the physical human–robot interaction (pHRI). To cover all of these issues, a...
Musculoskeletal disorders of the wrist are common in the meat industry. A proof of concept of a physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)-based assistive strategy for an industrial meat cutting system is demonstrated which can be transferred to an exos...
The reliable performance of the smart grid is a function of the configuration and cyber–physical nature of its constituting sub-systems. Therefore, the ability to capture the interactions between its cyber and physical domains is necessary to u...
We present a neuroadaptive control framework applied to a tactile sensing interface for real-time, human-guided physical interaction with a robotic arm. The framework employs a dual-loop architecture consisting of an inner-loop neuroadaptive controll...
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The prevalence of obesity in the Hispanic preschool population remains elevated, particularly among children in low income families below the poverty level. Obesity leads to the early onset of metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes. The Head Start po...
Floating-base robotic systems rely critically on their inertial geometry to maintain stability and regulate interaction forces in the absence of fixed ground constraints. Their control authority additionally depends on the placement and orientation o...
Inclusive elementary physics education for autistic learners (ASD Level 1) requires structured, predictable, and multimodal environments that support conceptual understanding and collaborative inquiry. This study evaluates a hyper-interactive framewo...
Lower limb exoskeletons and orthoses have been increasingly used to assist the user during gait rehabilitation through torque transmission and motor stability. However, the physical human-robot interface (HRi) has not been properly addressed. Current...
Background: Physical activity (PA) and weight regulation are influenced by both genetic and lifestyle factors. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of Polygenic Risk Scores (PRSs) for PA and weight outcomes, and their interaction with di...
The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a key role during cell migration, proliferation, and differentiation by providing adhesion sites and serving as a physical scaffold. Elucidating the interaction between the cell and ECM can reveal the underlying m...
Despite the success of Geometric Graph Neural Networks (GGNNs), their reliance on local message passing inherently limits the receptive field, leading to the over-squashing of distant information. Current solutions—ranging from graph rewiring t...
In eusocial insects (e.g., ants, bees, and termites), the roles of different castes are assigned to different individuals. These castes possess unique phenotypes that are specialized for specific tasks. The acquisition of sterile individuals with spe...
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