The term affordance describes an object's utilitarian function or actionable possibilities.
Product designers have taken great interest in the concept of affordances because of the …

Microwave plasma (MWP) technology is currently being used in application fields such as
semiconductor and material processing, diamond film deposition and waste remediation …

Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has induced a
reinforcement of infection control measures in the hospital setting. Here, we assess the …

Background The rapid growth of the size of the older population is having a substantial effect
on health and social care services in many societies across the world. Maintaining health …

This paper reviews the use of video games for measuring intelligence differences and
reports two studies analyzing the relationship between intelligence and performance on a …

It has been known since 1904 that, in humans, diverse cognitive traits are positively
intercorrelated. This forms the basis for the general factor of intelligence (g). Here, we …

Theories of adult cognitive development classically distinguish between fluid abilities, which
require effortful processing at the time of assessment, and crystallized abilities, which …

The human skeletal form underlies bipedalism, but the genetic basis of skeletal proportions
(SPs) is not well characterized. We applied deep-learning models to 31,221 x-rays from the …

Background Research efforts to measure the concept of healthy ageing have been diverse
and limited to specific populations. This diversity limits the potential to compare healthy …

In the context of converting electricity into value-added chemicals, the reduction of carbon
dioxide (CO 2) with hydrogen (H 2) in a surface-wave-induced microwave plasma …