KINESTHETIC AFTEREFFECT: CAN THIS SIMPLE TACTUAL TASK REALLY PREDICT PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTES?

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Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer: What Can We Really Predict Today?

Managing pancreatic cancer remains a big challenge due to its worse course and prognosis. However, therapeutic options and multimodal strategies are increasing nowadays, including new agents, new regimens and chemoradiation. Recently, the FOLFIRINOX regimen has been reported to be more active than gemcitabine in selected metastatic patients. In this setting, it will be of utmost interest to gui...

Hand-movement profiles in a tactual-tactual matching task: effects of spatial factors and laterality.

We examined the effect of spatial factors and hemispheric lateralization upon hand-scanning strategies in 14 right-handed men tested in a tactual-tactual matching task. The experiment involved comparisons (judgments of same or different) between two objects sequentially touched by the fingertips of the left or right hand. Stimuli were made of smoothly joined cubes whose junctions were not hapti...

Is this really pneumothorax?

A 75-year-old female non-smoker was admitted for investigation of suspected interstitial lung disease. A left lower lobe transbronchial lung biopsy was performed, complicated by suspected bilateral pneumothoraces, pneumomediastinum and surgical emphysema (fig 1). Bilateral intercostal catheters (ICCs) were inserted. In view of the ongoing air leak and worsening surgical emphysema, a CT chest wa...

Is Kinesthetic Teaching what Smart Factories Really Need?

Programming by demonstration techniques have been investigated to facilitate and speed up the setup of new robot tasks. Kinesthetic teaching (KT), i.e., teaching by physically guiding a robot in the execution of a motion, has been adopted in industrial scenarios for its ease of use. In the work described here, we analyse and discuss limits and drawbacks of KT and suggest the adoption of a set o...