We have proposed a new type of audio-tactile interface called the Straw-like User Interface (SUI) that allowed users to virtually experience the sensations of drinking with straw. The sensations were created based on data of pressure, vibration and sound recorded during drinking with a straw. The device enabled us to develop many unique interfaces, facilitating extension of research fields rela...

Although human exposure to arsenic is thought to be caused mainly through arsenic-contaminated underground drinking water, the use of this water for irrigation enhances the possibility of arsenic uptake into crop plants. Rice is the staple food grain in Bangladesh. Arsenic content in straw, grain and husk of rice is especially important since paddy fields are extensively irrigated with undergro...

3. The adhesive backed 'hook' Velcro ® is adhered to the thermoplastic , passed under the distal phalanx and wrapped around the spring on the other side of the Ligamentotaxor ® device, fastening to the loop Velcro ® underneath, thereby supporting the distal phalanx (Fig 2). DISCUSSION Prompt recognition of extensor lag and treatment using this frame modification arrests progression of the probl...

Single-use plastic drinking straws is difficult to recycle and one of the main causes water pollution marine animal destruction. An option for single use reusable ones. This study applies theory planned behavior (TPB) determine factors affecting intention straw using a survey method in Selangor, Malaysia. Based on an OLS multiple regression result, concluded that attitude perceived behavioral c...

Fluid-feeding Lepidoptera use an elongated proboscis, conventionally modeled as a drinking straw, to feed from pools and films of liquid. Using the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus), we show that the inherent structural features of the lepidopteran proboscis contradict the basic assumptions of the drinking-straw model. By experimentally characterizing permeability and flow in the p...

This case report details the emergency department course of a 34 year-old female who presented with abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding after reportedly falling one week earlier. She was subsequently found to have a drinking straw within her uterus next to an eight week-old live intrauterine pregnancy on ultrasound. This case report and discussion reviews the literature on retained foreign bodi...

A total of eight Simmental heifers (114 ± 3.2 days old and weighing 118 ± 3.8 kg BW) were used to study the effects of feeding method on intake and animal behaviour in a crossover design experiment. Treatments consisted of feeding concentrate and chopped barley straw as (1) choice (CH; concentrate and straw in separate feedbunks) or (2) total mixed ration (TMR; concentrate and straw in one feed...