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Special Issue on Robotics and Mechatronics Technology for Aerial Robots

Aerial robot technologies, such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles, are rapidly advancing in various domains. These robots now possess enhanced autonomous flying abilities and use sensor technology, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system, and cameras to avoid obstacles, automatically land, and track flights. Evolving technologies in airspace management and route optimization ensure that flights are efficient and safe. Aerial robots have a wide range of applications, such as agriculture, disaster response, environmental monitoring, and inspection. These devices excel at precise data collection thanks to their high-resolution cameras and high-precision sensors. Swarm robotics, which allows collaboration between multiple aerial and ground robots, is also progressing. This enables quick coverage of large areas, which benefits disaster relief and land management. In addition, research and development of flying robots modeled after flying animals is underway. The evolution of aerial robots results in their efficient use in a variety of fields and new applications. This special issue includes the latest research papers and development reports on aerial robotic technology from the aforementioned perspectives. We hope that this special issue will pique researchers’ and engineers’ interest in aerial robots, thereby encouraging additional research and development. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all authors, all reviewers, the editorial board of the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, and Fuji Technology Press Ltd.

Management of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: A Scoping Review.

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) refer to physical, cognitive, or affective symptoms that arise in the late luteal phase and remit with menses. The present work is a clinically focused scoping review of the last twenty years of research on treatment for these disorders. A search of key terms using the PubMed/Medline, the Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of Science databases was performed, and 194 studies of adult women met initial inclusion criteria for review. Research studies concerning medications, pharmacological and non-pharmacological complementary and alternative medicine treatments, and surgical interventions with the most available evidence were appraised and summarized. The most high-quality evidence can be found for the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and combined oral contraceptives (COCs), with gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists and surgical interventions showing efficacy for refractory cases. While there is some evidence of the efficacy of alternative and complementary medicine treatments such as nutraceuticals, acupuncture, and yoga, variability in quality and methods of studies must be taken into account. Reprinted from Int J Womens Health 2022; 14:1783-1801, with permission from Dove Medical Press Ltd. Copyright © 2022.

Resisting Ableism in School-Based Speech-Language Therapy: An Invitation to Change.

Resisting Ableism in School-Based Speech-Language Therapy: An Invitation to Change.

Inauguration of a unique journal the Journal of Digital Health: a new beginning seeking innovative technology and research for digital health

As the Editor-in-Chief of the newly founded journal the Journal of Digital Health (JDH), I am honored to introduce this journal to you on behalf of Luminescience Press Ltd. JDH is an open access and peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and informatics in the medical and healthcare industries to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. The journal publishes original articles, reviews, perspectives, research highlights and case reports that present the application of digital technologies in medical diagnostics and treatment, medical devices, machine learning-based decision support, medical record database and intelligent and process-aware information system in healthcare and medicine. We are committed to promoting the interdisciplinary research among clinicians, basic scientists and industrial experts and facilitating the clinical transformation of industrial technologies. Our ultimate mission is to enable the frontiers of science and technology better serve medicine and ultimately contribute to the healthcare of patients.

Inauguration of a unique journal the Journal of Digital Health: a new beginning seeking innovative technology and research for digital health

As the Editor-in-Chief of the newly founded journal the Journal of Digital Health (JDH), I am honored to introduce this journal to you on behalf of Luminescience Press Ltd. JDH is an open access and peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and informatics in the medical and healthcare industries to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. The journal publishes original articles, reviews, perspectives, research highlights and case reports that present the application of digital technologies in medical diagnostics and treatment, medical devices, machine learning-based decision support, medical record database and intelligent and process-aware information system in healthcare and medicine. We are committed to promoting the interdisciplinary research among clinicians, basic scientists and industrial experts and facilitating the clinical transformation of industrial technologies. Our ultimate mission is to enable the frontiers of science and technology better serve medicine and ultimately contribute to the healthcare of patients.

They Look but Do Not See—Gaze‐Evoked Eyelid Spasm

They Look but Do Not See—<scp>Gaze‐Evoked</scp> Eyelid Spasm

Book Reviews

Jonathan Romain and David Mitchell, Inclusive Judaism: The Changing Face of an Ancient Faith, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020, $19.95Keith Kahn-Harris, Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Limits of Diversity, Repeater Books, 2019, £10.99A.C. Jacobs, Nameless Country: Selected Poems, edited by Merle Bachman and Anthony Rudolf, Carcanet Press Ltd, 2018, £12.99

Crossmark Policy of Asian Medical Press Ltd.

Crossmark Policy of Asian Medical Press Ltd.

Crossmark Policy of Asian Medical Press Ltd.

Crossmark policy of Asian Medical Press Ltd.

Crossmark policy

Crossmark policy of Asian Medical Press Ltd.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.

Роль предрасполагающих факторов в развитии тромбоза глубоких вен у пациентов пожилого и старческого возраста

Введение. Тромбоз глубоких вен (ТГВ) является жизнеугрожающим заболеванием и осложнением, имеющим большое количество этиологических факторов. В современной литературе основным предрасполагающим фактором развития ТГВ в пожилом и старческом возрасте принято считать онкологические заболевания. Цель исследования: оптимизировать скрининговую диагностику и тактику антикоагулянтной терапии у пациентов пожилого и старческого возраста с ТГВ в зависимости от этиологического фактора. Материалы и методы. В рамках исследования проводили лечение 40 больных c ТГВ из них 29 пациентов находились на амбулаторном лечении, 11 на стационарном. Среди них было 18 (45) мужчин и 22 (55) женщины в возрасте от 61 года до 87 лет, средний возраст составил 72 года. Диагноз ТГВ устанавливали на основании клинического обследования и данных ультразвукового дуплексного сканирования (УЗДС) вен нижних конечностей. Амбулаторно обследовались и получали лечение пациенты с низким риском развития тромбоэмболии легочной артерии по шкале Geneva. Все пациенты сдавали анализы крови на наличие наследственных тромбофилий. Наблюдение осуществляли в течение 1 года, что включало визиты в клинику и телефонные звонки, а также регулярные УЗДС нижних конечностей и лабораторный контроль пациента через 3, 14 дней, 1, 3, 6 мес и 1 год. Результаты. У 26 (65) человек тромботический процесс локализовался в подвздошно-бедренном сегменте, изолированный дистальный тромбоз обнаружен у 8 (20) пациентов. Новообразования найдены у 16 (40) обследованных, причем в органах малого таза в 33 случаев. По классификации ТNM (tumor, nodus, metastasis) выявленные онкологические патологии были представлены IIII стадиями. У 6 (9) пациентов обнаружена мутация V фактора (Лейденская мутация) свертывания крови (у 5 гетерозиготная, у 1 гомозиготная), 3 (3) пациента имели мутацию гена протромбина (у всех гетерозиготная). Заключение. Генетические тромбофилии очень скромный предиктор развития ТГВ у пациентов пожилого и старческого возраста. Онкологическая патология является более сильным драйвером тромбоза глубоких вен, чем генетическая предрасположенность. Introduction. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a life-threatening disease and complication, and has a large number of etiological factors. In modern literature cancer is considered to be the main predisposing factor for DVT development in elderly and senile age. Aim: to optimize the screening diagnostics and tactics of anticoagulant therapy in elderly and senile patients with DVT depending from etiological factor. Materials and methods. We treated 40 patients with DVT 29 of them were outpatient and 11 inpatient. Among them were 18 (45) men and 22 (55) women aged 6187 years, the average age was 72 years. DVT was diagnosed on the basis of clinical examination and ultrasound duplex scanning (USDS) of the veins of lower extremities. Patients with a low risk of pulmonary embolism according to the Geneva scale were examined and received treatment on an outpatient basis. All patients were examined for hereditary thrombophilia. The observation was carried out for 1 year: visits to the clinic and phone calls, as well as regular USDS of the lower extremities and laboratory monitoring after 3, 14 days, 1, 3, 6 months and 1 year. Results. In 26 (65) patients the thrombotic process was localized in the ileo-femoral segment isolated distal thrombosis was found in 8 (20) patients. Neoplasms were found in 16 (40) patients, and in pelvic organs in 33 of cases. According to the TNM classification (tumor, nodus, metastasis), the identified oncological pathologies were represented by stages IIII. In 6 (9) patients factor V mutation (Leiden mutation) of blood coagulation was detected (in 5 heterozygous, in 1 homozygous), 3 (3) patients had a prothrombin gene mutation (all heterozygous). Conclusion. Genetic thrombophilia is a very modest predictor of DVT development in elderly and senile patients. Oncological pathology is a stronger driver of DVT than a genetic predisposition.

Survival in Seattle: the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit

Survival in Seattle: the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit

Regarding Revoke of the Paper “A Distributed Autonomous Approach to Developing a Disaster Evacuation Assist System,” Published in the JDR

As an issue was raised with respect to the following paper published in the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), we conducted an investigation. A) Paper published in the JDR Yasuki Iizuka, Katsuya Kinoshita, and Kayo Iizuka, “A Distributed Autonomous Approach to Developing a Disaster Evacuation Assist System,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.10, No.6, pp. 1081-1090, 2015. (Received: July 31, 2015, Accepted: October 21, 2015, Published: December 1, 2015) B) Paper compared Yasuki IIZUKA, Katsuya KINOSHITA, Kayo IIZUKA, “Agent Based Disaster Evacuation Assistance System,” Information Engineering Express International Journal, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 41-50 (2015). (Published: June 30, 2015) 1. Results of Investigation – The texts of the two papers were compared, whereupon a percentage match exceeding 47 percent was found in terms of the number of words. When the comparison was made with the initially submitted manuscript, that is, the manuscript before it was revised based on peer reviews, the percentage match with paper B was 58 percent. – When the conclusions of the two papers were compared, they were found to be nearly identical, from which we conclude that paper A does not display sufficient novelty. – Paper B is not cited as a reference in paper A, and when the same figure appears in the two documents, its source is not cited. – It was found that, during the period from manuscript submission to publication, the authors failed to submit paper B as a previously published paper, as stipulated in Article 11.2 of the JDR Instructions to Authors (Japanese version), or otherwise submit any documentation that refers to the existence of paper B. 2. Decision As a result of the above investigation, the JDR editorial board concludes that paper A constitutes a duplicate submission and is in violation of the JDR Instructions to Authors (Japanese version). Its acceptance is thereby revoked, and it has been duly removed from the JDR official website. Any inquiries regarding this matter should be made to this office: JDR Editorial Office, Fuji Technology Press Ltd. Unizo Uchikanda 1-Chome Bldg. 2F 1-15-7 Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0047, Japan TEL: 03-5577-3851 FAX: 03-5577-3861 E-mail: disaster@fujipress.jp

Congratulations on the 30th Anniversary of the JRM

Congratulations to the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (JRM) on its 30th anniversary. I would like to thank all authors and readers who have contributed to the JRM through 30 years. The JRM started as an English-language journal published to provide articles on robot technologies to the world from Japan. It has been jointly edited by the Robotics and Mechatronics Division (RMD) of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and Fuji Technology Press Ltd. Five years ago, when the English-language journal of the JSME was reorganized, the JRM also underwent some changes, and it has since been issued under the editorial direction of Fuji Technology Press Ltd. Immediately after the reorganization, beginning with Vol.26, I was appointed Editor-in-Chief. Now, as five years have passed, the next Editor-in-Chief will take over from Vol.31. Over these five years, the number of submissions and their quality have been our major concern, as we have been seeking to register the JRM with the Science Citation Index (SCI). To achieve this goal, we have published special issues on the robot technologies required as the field has progressed as well as on the mechatronics technologies that underlie them. The JRM plans to continue providing the world with information on robot technologies, so please keep reading it and submitting your articles to it on a regular basis. Yoshihiro Takita

Books: Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass: Structure Versus Agency.

Darren McGarvey Luath Press Ltd, 2017, PB , 224 pp , £6.29, 978-1912147038 It is often said that statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away. Halfway through Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass , the first book by the Scottish rapper, writer, and columnist Darren McGarvey, the author provides us with some statistics. Now in his mid-thirties, he looks back at his upbringing in Pollok, a so-called ‘deprived’ area of Glasgow, with his four siblings: ‘Four out of five have experienced alcohol or substance misuse problems at some point. Five have experienced long term financial problems which involve debilitating debt or defaults and poor credit history.’ The list goes on: ‘Five have experienced abuse and neglect at the …

Minority young men’s gendered tactics for making space in the city and at school

ABSTRACTThis article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore young minority men’s relation to school and city space in Helsinki from the perspective of their everyday experiences of racialisation in public spaces. The article uses the concept of ‘power geometrical’ relations of space by drawing on several research traditions, including youth and masculinity studies, studies on social space, racialisation and ethnicity, and human geography. The evidence shows the school to be an important site of local and national power geometry (Massey, D. [1994]. Space, Place and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press), in which ‘informal’ and ‘physical’ spheres are dominated by peers and connect to streets and public spheres (Gordon, T., J. Holland, and E. Lahelma. [2000]. Making Spaces: Citizenship and Difference in Schools. Houndsmills et al. London: MacMillan Press Ltd). The article shows how young minority men knew their place both in narrow local power geometries, and within the wider city and school spaces, exploring how they formed their own lived spaces (Lefebvre, H. [1991]. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell), claimed their spaces and marked their spaces with diverse tactics. Some tactics were socially open, such as making friends; some were very mobile, such as claiming their own urban spaces by mobility, or marking and ‘hanging around’; and some involved big groups of friends, crowds, defence and embodied accounts.

Seismic status in Bangladesh

Seismic status in Bangladesh

CDK10 Mutations in Humans and Mice Cause Severe Growth Retardation, Spine Malformations, and Developmental Delays

In five separate families, we identified nine individuals affected by a previously unidentified syndrome characterized by growth retardation, spine malformation, facial dysmorphisms, and developmental delays. Using homozygosity mapping, array CGH, and exome sequencing, we uncovered bi-allelic loss-of-function CDK10 mutations segregating with this disease. CDK10 is a protein kinase that partners with cyclin M to phosphorylate substrates such as ETS2 and PKN2 in order to modulate cellular growth. To validate and model the pathogenicity of these CDK10 germline mutations, we generated conditional-knockout mice. Homozygous Cdk10-knockout mice died postnatally with severe growth retardation, skeletal defects, and kidney and lung abnormalities, symptoms that partly resemble the disease's effect in humans. Fibroblasts derived from affected individuals and Cdk10-knockout mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) proliferated normally; however, Cdk10-knockout MEFs developed longer cilia. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of mutant and wild-type mouse organs revealed lipid metabolic changes consistent with growth impairment and altered ciliogenesis in the absence of CDK10. Our results document the CDK10 loss-of-function phenotype and point to a function for CDK10 in transducing signals received at the primary cilia to sustain embryonic and postnatal development.

Economics of Science: Historical Evolution

Science plays a fundamental role in society. Social studies of science have analyzed the nature of scientific research and the fruitful effects for innovation, employment and economic growth of nations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins, nature, evolution and structure of the economics of scientific research. The paper suggests that one of the first scholars that has tried to systematize this discipline is Paul Freedman with the book “The principles of scientific research” published in London in 1949 by Pergamon Press Ltd. Although this book is largely forgotten, it represents a main contribution to lay the foundations for the economics of science and research. The study here also endeavors to develop, whenever possible the structure of this discipline through central topics from emerging research fields.