OBJECTIVE To evaluate changes in activity of daily living before and after provision of electric-powered indoor/outdoor chair (EPIOC), discuss problems of current activities of daily living (ADL) evaluating tools for EPIOC users, and provide preliminary data to develop ADL evaluation tool for EPIOC user. METHODS A total of 70 users who were prescribed EPIOC and had been using for more than 1 ...

Conditional independence provides an essential framework to deal with knowledge and uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and is fundamental in probability and multivariate statistics. Its associated implication problem is paramount for building Bayesian networks. Saturated conditional independencies form an important subclass of conditional independencies. Under schema certainty, the implica...

Syndecan family proteins are heparan sulfate proteoglycans, which involved in various cellular activities and associating with metastatic potential and chemosensitivity of tumor cells. Melanoma is one of malignant tumors with poor prognosis upon metastasis. Previously, we had shown that melanoma cells remained survived under cell detachment, which was similar to the initial steps of tumor metas...

The rapidly increasing number of diabetes patients across the world poses a great challenge to the current therapeutic approach. The traditional method of exogenous supply of insulin has ephemeral effect and often causes lethal hypoglycemia that demands to develop a novel strategy. Recent investigations on regeneration of insulin producing cells (IPCs) revealed that in addition to primary sourc...

In this paper, a novel cylindrical metamaterial exhibiting zero Poisson’s ratio in two different directions is introduced. Detailed CAD modelling of curved Fish-Cells necessary for numerical and experimental analysis are presented. High-fidelity finite element models developed to assess the homogenisation studies ratio, Young’s modulus torsion behaviour, demonstrating curvature effect independe...