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Web-Based Coping Skills Training and Coach Support for Women Living With a Partner With an Alcohol Use Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial by Rychtarik, Robert G, Danaher, Brian G, McGillicuddy, Neil B, Tyler, Milagra S, Barrick, Christopher, Leong, Florence, Kosty, Derek B

“…Individuals living with a partner with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) can experience significant psychological distress and use health care more than those…”
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Characteristics of Patients Presenting at an Emergency Department for a Heroin Overdose vs Detoxification by Leonard, Kenneth E, Lynch, Joshua J, Leong, Florence W, Kruger, Daniel J, Clemency, Brian M

“…This study compares substance use, treatment histories, and sociodemographic characteristics of patients presenting to an emergency department (ED) following a…”
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Facial Expression Rendering in Medical Training Simulators: Current Status and Future Directions by Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, Tan, Yongxuan, Leong, Florence, He, Liang, Van Zalk, Nejra, De Lusignan, Simon, Iida, Fumiya, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…Recent technological advances in robotic sensing and actuation methods have prompted development of a range of new medical training simulators with multiple…”
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A Surrogate Model Based on a Finite Element Model of Abdomen for Real-Time Visualisation of Tissue Stress during Physical Examination Training by Leong, Florence, Lai, Chow Yin, Khosroshahi, Siamak Farajzadeh, He, Liang, de Lusignan, Simon, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha, Ghajari, Mazdak

“…Robotic patients show great potential for helping to improve medical palpation training, as they can provide feedback that cannot be obtained in a real…”
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Modeling and Control of Local Electromagnetic Actuation for Robotic-Assisted Surgical Devices by Mohammadi, Alireza, Samsonas, Danielius, Leong, Florence, Ying Tan, Thiruchelvam, Dhan, Valdastri, Pietro, Oetomo, Denny

“…This paper proposes an electromagnetic-based local magnetic actuation (LMA) as a novel actuation system for cases where it is required to actuate a mechanical…”
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Robotic Simulators for Tissue Examination Training With Multimodal Sensory Feedback by He, Liang, Maiolino, Perla, Leong, Florence, Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, de Lusignan, Simon, Ghajari, Mazdak, Iida, Fumiya, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination,…”
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Magnetic Surgical Instruments for Robotic Abdominal Surgery by Leong, Florence, Garbin, Nicolo, Di Natali, Christian, Mohammadi, Alireza, Thiruchelvam, Dhan, Oetomo, Denny, Valdastri, Pietro

“…This review looks at the implementation of magnetic-based approaches in surgical instruments for abdominal surgeries. As abdominal surgical techniques advance…”
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MorphFace: A Hybrid Morphable Face for a Robopatient by Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, Tan, Yongxuan, He, Liang, Leong, Florence, Van Zalk, Nejra, de Lusignan, Simon, Iida, Fumiya, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…Physicians use pain expressions shown in a patient's face to regulate their palpation methods during physical examination. Training to interpret patients'…”
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Modeling and analysis of coagulated liver tissue and its interaction with a scalpel blade by Leong, Florence, Huang, Wei-Hsuan, Chui, Chee-Kong

“…Radiofrequency-assisted methods have been used in hepatectomy—the resection process of removing liver tissue which encapsulates the tumor from the liver organ…”
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Disturbance Rejection in Multi-DOF Local Magnetic Actuation for the Robotic Abdominal Surgery by Leong, Florence, Mohammadi, Alireza, Tan, Ying, Thiruchelvam, Dhan, Lai, Chow Yin, Valdastri, Pietro, Oetomo, Denny

“…The potential of multi-degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) local magnetic actuation (LMA) has been established in recent years for dexterous minimally invasive surgical…”
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A Haptic Mouse Design with Stiffening Muscle Layer for Simulating Guarding in Abdominal Palpation Training by He, Liang, Leong, Florence, Lalitharatne, Thilina Dulantha, de Lusignan, Simon, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…A patient would contract surface muscles as a reaction called muscle guarding when experiencing discomfort and pain during physical palpation. This reaction…”
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Dynamics of Insufflated Abdominal Wall Tissue for Magnetically Anchored Surgical Instruments by Leong, Florence, Mohammadi, Alireza, Rajagopal, Vijay, Tan, Ying, Thiruchelvam, Dhan, Valdastri, Pietro, Oetomo, Denny

“…Magnetically-anchored surgical devices have recently gained attention in abdominal surgery, with the use of magnets to anchor surgical devices onto the…”
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Modeling and simulation of tissue/device interaction using standard viscoelastic model by Leong, F., Chee-Keong Chui, Chang, S., Sakuma, I., Aun-Neow Poo

“…Blood loss is a concern in the liver resections. In line with the wide implementation of ablation process, bleeding during liver resections can be minimized…”
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Alcohol use, stress, coping, and blood pressure in Vietnam -era men by Leong, Florence W

“…The association of stress and alcohol use on blood pressure is a multidimensional phenomenon involving behavioral, cultural, sociological, physiological, and…”
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Flumazenil (Ro15-1788) does not affect ethanol tolerance and dependence by Chan, A W, Leong, F W, Schanley, D L, Langan, M C, Penetrante, F

“…There are conflicting reports concerning whether flumazenil (Ro15-1788) can antagonize the central effects of ethanol and ethanol withdrawal reactions…”
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Transferrin and mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase in young adult alcoholics by Chan, A W, Leong, F W, Schanley, D L, Welte, J W, Wieczorek, W, Rej, R, Whitney, R B

“…Two recently proposed biochemical markers of alcoholism, namely, quantitation of plasma transferrin variant (Tf5.7) and the ratio of plasma mitochondrial…”
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Partial cross-dependence on ethanol in mice dependent on chlordiazepoxide by Chan, A W, Langan, M C, Leong, F W, Penetrante, M L, Schanley, D L

“…Mice which had been fed chronically a liquid diet containing chlordiazepoxide (CDP) showed spontaneous and Ro15-1788-induced withdrawal signs upon CDP…”
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Does chronic ethanol intake confer full cross-tolerance to chlordiazepoxide? by Chan, A W, Langan, M C, Leong, F W, Schanley, D L, Penetrante, M L

“…Four behavioral tests, namely, hypothermia, horizontal dowel, runway and head-dipping, were used to assess tolerance to ethanol and cross-tolerance to…”
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A liquid diet model of chlordiazepoxide dependence in mice by Chan, A W, Leong, F W, Schanley, D L, Langan, M C, Penetrante, M L

“…Mice fed chronically (3 to 4 weeks) a liquid diet containing chlordiazepoxide (CDP) became physically dependent on the drug as demonstrated by the occurrence…”
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The ability of chlordiazepoxide to maintain ethanol tolerance and dependence by Chan, A W, Leong, F W, Langan, M C, Schanley, D L, Penetrante, M L

“…Two criteria need to be satisfied in the demonstration of cross-dependence to chlordiazepoxide (CDP) in ethanol-dependent mice. These are the ability of CDP to…”
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