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Over two days of testing, nine subjects ranging from 30 to 67 years old who were undergoing rehabilitation after strokes all showed more efficient and less asymmetrical strides when wearing the device, both when walking on a treadmill in the lab and over ground in a real-world environment.

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"This study provides a glimpse of a new future where much of patient care will be carried out at home with the help of human-friendly robots, which look nothing like the robots we see in television and movies," Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, who was not involved in the study, said in a statement.

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"In about 80 percent of patients post-stroke, it is typical that one limb loses its ability to function normally -- a clinical phenomenon called hemiparesis," said the study published in the U.S. journal Science Translational Medicine.

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To help stroke patients regain their walking abilities, various robotics groups from industry and academia are developing powered wearable devices known as exoskeletons, but most of which are rigid, bulky products that are impractical for people to wear during everyday activities.

In search of a better alternative, researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Boston University's College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences developed a soft robotic ankle-support system weighing 0.9 kg Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2 Red Fuchsia Blast Women's , roughly twice as heavy as a soccer ball, to be worn on one side of the body.

Their system consists of a close-fitting waist belt and leg straps connected to a calf sleeve where small robotic actuators exerted force on a shoe insole to provide forward propulsion and correct problems with ankle dorsiflexion, commonly referred to as "drop foot," which affects roughly 20 percent of stroke survivors.

Over two days of testing, nine subjects ranging from 30 to 67 years old who were undergoing rehabilitation after strokes all showed more efficient and less asymmetrical strides when wearing the device, both when walking on a treadmill in the lab and over ground in a real-world environment.

What's more, the researchers observed the most pronounced improvements among the individuals who had the slowest unassisted walking speeds.

The team was now looking to further personalize its system to specific gait abnormalities Cheap Nike Air VaporMax 97 Metallic Dark Sea White Black Women's , investigate assistance at other joints such as the hip and knee, and assess longer-term therapeutic effects of their technology.

"This study provides a glimpse of a new future where much of patient care will be carried out at home with the help of human-friendly robots, which look nothing like the robots we see in television and movies," Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, who was not involved in the study, said in a statement.

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Foreign trade, a traditional engine of growth Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Plus Smokey Mauve Men's Bordeaux Black , ended 2015 with its first annual contraction in six years. Investment, another engine, also faltered, dragged down by a property market downturn and industrial overcapacity. Signs of economic stress are emerging: capital is leaving the country, bad debt is rising and financial market volatility is dampening confidence.

Yet that is not the full story. China's economy also has impressive underlying strengths, and policy makers have the determination to fix structural problems while containing risks.

Economists forecast growth will continue to decline. "It will be in an L-shape trajectory for a while," said Liu Shijin Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Plus String Men's Black Brown , former deputy director of China's State Council Development Research Center. "But that will be a process of transformation and rebalancing."

CAUSE OF CONCERN

A stimulus package, while helping lift China's economy out of the mire of the global financial crisis, also fueled over-investment and over-building nationwide, leading to industrial overcapacity and a surplus in property supply that turned the manufacturing and property sectors from drivers to drags on growth, economists said.

Many economists, including State Information Center economist Zhu Baoliang, Bank of Communications chief economist Lian Ping and Zhong Zhengsheng Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Utility Men's Racer Blue Blue , an economist with Caixin Insight Group, all labeled the property sector the biggest threat to the economy.

Growth of property investment, which used to account for about one-fifth of China's total investment and affects more than 40 other industries ranging from steel and cement to furniture, continued to decline. It fell to only 1.3 percent for the January-November period from the double-digit rises regularly reported until 2014.

Zhu expected property investment to register its first annual decrease this year, the first time in over a decade, as property development remained constrained by property developers' excess property inventories, which he estimated at 150 million units.

Despite stagnating economic growth Cheap Nike VaporMax Moc Flyknit Triple Black Women's , sustained poor performance of the property sector could breed financial risks, Zhong Zhengsheng warned.

Another major concern lies in the industrial sector, which is awash with excess capacity that is driving down profits and threatens to further destabilize the already slowing growth.

Industrial overcapacity is not a new problem, but it was exacerbated by the 2009 stimulus package and continued to worsen despite the government's efforts to curtail it in recent years.

China's industrial output growth slowed to 6.2 percent in November, a slight rebound from October, from the double-digit rates regularly recorded previously.

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