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An Optimal Control Formulation of Tool Affordance Applied to Impact Tasks

Sylvain Calinon, Jie Zhao

Humans use tools to complete impact-aware tasks, such as hammering a nail or playing tennis. The postures adopted to use these tools can significantly influence the performance of these tasks, where the force or velocity of the hand holding a tool plays a ...

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Improved antibody pharmacokinetics by disruption of contiguous positive surface potential and charge reduction using alternate human framework

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Optimal pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are essential to achieve the desired pharmacological benefits in patients. To accomplish this, we followed an approach comprising structure-based mAb charge engineering in ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

Evaluation of genetic demultiplexing of single-cell sequencing data from model species

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Single-cell sequencing (sc-seq) provides a species agnostic tool to study cellular processes. However, these technologies are expensive and require sufficient cell quantities and biological replicates to avoid artifactual results. An option to address thes ...

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC2023

Closed-Loop Control of Epidural Electrical Stimulation in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury and Parkinson's Disease

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Over the past two decades, epidural electrical stimulation (EES) has transitioned from a treatment for chronic pain to a promising paradigm for ameliorating deficits associated with neurological disorders like spinal cord injury (SCI) and Parkinson's Disea ...

EPFL2023

Streamline RimNet: Tools for Automatic Classification of Paramagnetic Rim Lesions in MRI of Multiple Sclerosis

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This site provides two software tools related to "RimNet: A deep 3D multimodal MRI architecture for paramagnetic rim lesion assessment in multiple sclerosis" by Barquero et al. NeuroImage: Clinical (2020). People using in part or f ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Testing Benchmark for a Block Conjugate Gradient Solving Scheme in Poroelasticity

With the advancement in fields of science more complex and more coupled phenomena can be explained, calculated and predicted. To solve these problems one has to update the related tools. Since analytical solutions do not exist for all physical processes, s ...

2023

Micromachining of Hafnium Carbide

Fabian Linus Bauer

During this project, the microfabrication of Hafnium Carbide (HfC) was investigated. Multiple tools were considered and tested for their compatibility and effectiveness when working with HfC. The main method of choice for the machining of HfC thin films wa ...

2023

Heralded Spectroscopy: a new single-particle probe for nanocrystal photophysics

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Semiconductor nanocrystals feature multiply-excited states that display intriguing physics and significantly impact nanocrystal-based technologies. Fluorescence supplies a natural probe to investigate these states. Still, direct observation of multiexciton ...

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Participation citoyenne et numérique. Les civic tech : de nouveaux dispositifs pour planifier le territoire ?

Armelle Loreline Hausser

Civic technologies emerged a few years ago as tools to create new dynamics in the management and governance of urban planning, as well as renewing participatory democracy. In territories where the collision of different scales complicates the understanding ...

EPFL2023

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