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In Situ Reconfiguration of Assembling Pattern for Modular Continuum Robots
Modular continuum robots possess significant versatility across various scenarios; however, conventional assembling methods typically rely on linear connection between modules. This limitation can impede the r...
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Open AccessDevelo** and validating a clinlabomics-based machine-learning model for early detection of retinal detachment in patients with high myopia
Retinal detachment (RD) is a vision-threatening disorder of significant severity. Individuals with high myopia (HM) face a 2 to 6 times higher risk of develo** RD compared to non-myopes. The timely identific...
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A combined kinodynamic motion planning method for multisegment continuum manipulators in confined spaces
Multisegment continuum manipulators exhibit broad application prospects for complex tasks in confined spaces due to their inherent compliance and dexterity. However, the dynamic behaviors of these manipulators...
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Honeybee comb-inspired stiffness gradient-amplified catapult for solid particle repellency
Natural surfaces that repel foreign matter are ubiquitous and crucial for living organisms. Despite remarkable liquid repellency driven by surface energy in many organisms, repelling tiny solid particles from ...
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Open AccessATF3 coordinates the survival and proliferation of cardiac macrophages and protects against ischemia–reperfusion injury
Cardiac resident MerTK+ macrophages exert multiple protective roles after ischemic injury; however, the mechanisms regulating their fate are not fully understood. In the present study, we show that the GAS6-induc...
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Open AccessInversion study on elastic–plastic material parameters of red sandstone in uniaxial compression test
In order to obtain the real material parameters of heterogeneous rock, the material parameters of red sandstone specimens under uniaxial compression tests are inverted based on the Digital Image Correlation (D...
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An Origami-Like Sheath of a Honeybee Tongue for Fluid Viscosity Sensing
Mechanoreceptors play a vital role for animals to sense and monitor environmental parameters, like flow speed, tactile resistance, and pressure. The hairy-structured trichoid sensillum, a common type of mechan...
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Optimal biaxial prestretch ratios of soft dielectric elastomer actuators for maximal voltage-induced displacement
Prestretch plays an indispensable role in programming the voltage-induced deformation of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). However, lacking rational design methods, the level of prestretch is usually dete...
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Mechanistic Analysis and Bio-inspired Applications for a Bidirectional Stiffness of a Water Snail Operculum
The water snail Pomacea canaliculata retracts the discoidal and multi-layered operculum to protect the soft body from being attacked by predators, and releases it when threats lifted. However, the duration of the...
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Development and validation of a routine blood parameters-based model for screening the occurrence of retinal detachment in high myopia in the context of PPPM
Timely detection and treatment of retinal detachment (RD) could effectively save vision and reduce the risk of progressing visual field defects. High myopia (HM) is known to be associated with an increased ris...
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Jum** of flea beetles onto inclined platforms
The flea beetle, Altica cirsicola, escapes predators by jum** and landing in a dense maze of leaves. How do they land on such varied surfaces? In this experimental study, we filmed the take-off, flight, and lan...
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A study of the antibacterial mechanism of pinocembrin against multidrug-resistant Aeromonas hydrophila
Aeromonas hydrophila is a common pathogen in fish that has caused severe economic losses in aquaculture worldwide. With the emergence of bacterial resistance, it is necessary to develop new drugs to combat bacte...
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Study on a new inversion method for non-uniform distribution of rock material parameters
Combining the digital speckle correlation method (DSCM) with the finite element model updating (FEMU) method, a new inversion method of non-uniform distribution of rock material parameters is proposed to study...
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Effects of Nectar Property on Compensated Dip** Behavior of Honey Bees with Damaged Tongues
In nature, bees with damaged tongues are adapted to have a feat in collecting nectariferous sources in a large spectrum of concentrations (19%–69%) or viscosities (10–3 Pa·s to 10–1 Pa·s); however, effects of nec...
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Open AccessLong noncoding RNA SNHG12 is a potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in various tumors
Tumors are the second most common cause of death in humans worldwide, second only to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Although methods and techniques for the treatment of tumors continue to improve...
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Open AccessThe increasing expression of GPX7 related to the malignant clinical features leading to poor prognosis of glioma patients
Glioma is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults. The standard treatment scheme of glioma is surgical resection combined alternative radio- and chemotherapy. However, the outcome of glioma patients wa...
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An Approach to Observing and Quantifying Real-Time Mandibular Muscle Topology in the Trap-Jaw Ant Odontomachus monticola by Synchrotron Imaging
The ant Odontomachus monticola has a pair of elongated mandibles that can manipulate a variety of objects including food, brood and nestmates. Anatomical and theoretical studies indicate that different tasks may ...
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Functional Compensation in a Honey bee’s Damaged Tongue while Dip** Nectar
A honey bee has to visit 3000 flowers to produce one-gram of honey. A honey bee’s hairy tongue dips at an average frequency of 5 Hz, and its glossal hairs erect rhythmically, performing like an opening and clo...
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A Mathematical Modeling Method Elucidating the Integrated Grip** Performance of Ant Mandibles and Bio-inspired Grippers
The ability to grip unhatched eggs is a skill exploited by the ants Harpegnathos venator, as they care their brood in tunneled nests, which is of extreme difficulty to keep the eggs intact while grip**. In this...
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Divergence in Time Apportionments of Tongue Protraction and Retraction Phases for Feeding Honey Bee Drones and Workers
Honey bees have three castes, drones, workers, and queens, that accomplish different tasks. In this research, we revealed the divergence in feeding behavior of drones and workers by experimental and theoretica...
