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Soft Actuators and Robotic Devices for Rehabilitation and Assistance
Min Pan, Chenggang Yuan, Xianrong Liang, Tianyun Dong, Tao Liu, Junhui Zhang, Jun Zou, Huayong Yang, Chris Bowen
Apr 30, 2022
Soft actuators and robotic devices have been increasingly applied to the field of rehabilitation and assistance, where safe human and machine interaction is of particular importance. Compared with their widely used rigid...
Doing “gendered exit”
Previous research into the exclusion of disabled persons from paid work tends to compartmentalize them into a stable and undifferentiated category of “cared‐for” subjects. This fixation implicitly approves the ethics of work as...
Association of migration status with quality of life among rural and urban adults with rare diseases
BACKGROUND: A considerable proportion of rare disease patients decide to migrate to access a definitive diagnosis or appropriate care, which could affect their quality of life in a long term. OBJECTIVE: To compare quality of...
Soft Actuators and Robotic Devices for Rehabilitation and Assistance
Min Pan, Chenggang Yuan, Xianrong Liang, Tianyun Dong, Tao Liu, Junhui Zhang, Jun Zou, Huayong Yang, Chris Bowen
Apr 30, 2022
Soft actuators and robotic devices have been increasingly applied to the field of rehabilitation and assistance, where safe human and machine interaction is of particular importance. Compared with their widely used rigid...
Quality of life and its contributors among adults with late-onset Pompe disease in China
Abstract: Background: Pompe disease (PD) is a rare inherited disorder caused by the deficiency of acid-α glucosidase, which leads to the impairment of organ and tissue functions and causes disabilities. As the first national...
Quality of life and its contributors among adults with late-onset Pompe disease in China.
BACKGROUND: Pompe disease (PD) is a rare inherited disorder caused by the deficiency of acid-α glucosidase, which leads to the impairment of organ and tissue functions and causes disabilities. As the first national survey on...
Difficulty and help with activities of daily living among older adults living alone during the COVID-19 pandemic
Shanquan Chen, Linda A Jones, Shan Jiang, Huajie Jin, Dong Dong, Xi Chen, Dan Wang, Yun Zhang, Li Xiang, Anna Zhu, Rudolf N Cardinal
Apr 04, 2022
BACKGROUND: Older adults who live alone and have difficulties in activities of daily living (ADLs) may have been more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about pandemic-related changes in ADL...
Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting
This study sets out to describe simultaneous interpreters' attention-sharing initiatives when exposed under input from both videotaped speech recording and real-time transcriptions. Separation of mental energy in acquiring...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Barriers of effective health insurance coverage for rural-to-urban migrant workers in China
Shanquan Chen, Yingyao Chen, Zhanchun Feng, Xi Chen, Zheng Wang, Jianfeng Zhu, Jun Jin, Qiang Yao, Li Xiang, Lan Yao, Ju Sun, Lu Zhao, Hong Fung, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Dong Dong
Jun 06, 2020
Abstract: Background: More than 90% of the Chinese population was covered by its three basic social health insurances. However, the Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), accounting for about one-fifth of China’s total...
Difficulty and help with activities of daily living among older adults living alone during the COVID-19 pandemic
Shanquan Chen, Linda A Jones, Shan Jiang, Huajie Jin, Dong Dong, Xi Chen, Dan Wang, Yun Zhang, Li Xiang, Anna Zhu, Rudolf Cardinal
Mar 04, 2022
BACKGROUND: Older adults who live alone and have difficulties in activities of daily living (ADLs) may have been more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about pandemic-related changes in ADL...
Barriers of effective health insurance coverage for rural-to-urban migrant workers in China
Shanquan Chen, Yingyao Chen, Zhanchun Feng, Xi Chen, Zheng Wang, Jianfeng Zhu, Jun Jin, Qiang Yao, Li Xiang, Lan Yao, Ju Sun, Lu Zhao, Hong Fung, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Dong Dong
May 01, 2020
BACKGROUND:More than 90% of the Chinese population was covered by its three basic social health insurances. However, the Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), accounting for about one-fifth of China's total population...
Published by: BMC public health
Barriers of effective health insurance coverage for rural-to-urban migrant workers in China
Shanquan Chen, Yingyao Chen, Zhanchun Feng, Xi Chen, Zheng Wang, Jianfeng Zhu, Jun Jin, Qiang Yao, Li Xiang, Lan Yao, Ju Sun, Lu Zhao, Hong Fung, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Dong Dong
Mar 30, 2021
BACKGROUND: More than 90% of the Chinese population was covered by its three basic social health insurances. However, the Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), accounting for about one-fifth of China's total...
China Rural-to-urban Migrant Workers Systematic review universal health coverage China Delivery of Health Care Female Health Policy Healthcare Disparities Humans Insurance Coverage insurance health Male Population Dynamics Rural Population State Medicine Transients and Migrants Urban Population Vulnerable Populations
Erythrocyte n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Gut Microbiota, and Incident Type 2 Diabetes
Why do corporate codes of conduct fail? Women workers and clothing supply chains in Vietnam
Despite criticisms of their derivation and implementation, corporate codes of conduct (CoCs) continue to dominate debates on Corporate Social Responsibility and the informal regulation of worker exploitation and abuse by...
Why do corporate codes of conduct fail? Women workers and clothing supply chains in Vietnam
Despite criticisms of their derivation and implementation, corporate codes of conduct (CoCs) continue to dominate debates on Corporate Social Responsibility and the informal regulation of worker exploitation and abuse by...
From amplitudes to contact cosmological correlators
Abstract: Our understanding of quantum correlators in cosmological spacetimes, including those that we can observe in cosmological surveys, has improved qualitatively in the past few years. Now we know many constraints that...
How natural disasters affect carbon emissions
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has once again made the impacts of natural disasters a hot topic in academia. The environmental impacts of natural disasters, however, remain unsettled in the existing literature. This study...
Emo, love and god
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where producers and consumers of content unify, has drastically changed the information market. On the one hand, the promise of...
From amplitudes to contact cosmological correlators
Abstract: Our understanding of quantum correlators in cosmological spacetimes, including those that we can observe in cosmological surveys, has improved qualitatively in the past few years. Now we know many constraints that...
Grain Moisture Sensing Using Electrical Capacitance Tomography
Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is a non-destructive electrical imaging method used to visualise dielectric permittivity changes across a cross-section of a sample. This paper explores the effectiveness of ECT for...
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