Soft Actuators for Facial Reanimation

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Soft Actuators for Facial Reanimation

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Post-Paralysis Upper Facial Movement Restoration in Real Time using Soft Actuators

Small antennas with broad beamwidth integrated on a drone enclosed in a protective structure

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Susceptibility of enveloped and non-enveloped viruses to ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV-LED) irradiation and implications for virus inactivation mechanisms

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A Protocol for Electrocatalyst Stability Evaluation: H2O2 Electrosynthesis for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

On the relevance of P poisoning in real-world DOC aging

Utterance Verification-Based Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Assessment Using Phonetic Posterior Features

Poly(lactide)/cellulose nanocrystal nanocomposites by high-shear mixing

The performance of collars on scour reduction at tandem piers aligned with different skew angles

Joint Segmentation and Path Classification of Curvilinear Structures

Neural Network Based End-to-End Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Evaluation of Total Reactive Oxide Ratios and Working Solution Ratios on Strength Development in Fly Ash-Based Geopolymers

Gamified Motor Training With Tangible Robots in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study and Comparison With the Young

Global spatial analysis of toxic emissions to freshwater: operationalization for LCA

Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex Radios

Monitoring particulate fouling of North Sea water with SDI and new ASTM MFI0.45 test

Rapid solidification of Al-Cu droplets of near eutectic composition

Enhancing solar disinfection of water in PET bottles by optimized in-situ formation of iron oxide films. From heterogeneous to homogeneous action modes with H2O2 vs. O-2 - Part 1: Iron salts as oxide precursors