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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice based Study on Extreme Weather Events in Pakistan

NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Climate change is the global threat, and Pakistan is the eighth most affected country from the climate change. The study analyzes the status of knowledge, attitude and practice about extreme weather events among general population in Pakistan.
Aqsa Batool, Gul E Zahra, Dr. Ghulam Ishaq   +2 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
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Voluntary relocation as an adaptation strategy to extreme weather events

, 2014
Migration out of hazard-prone areas presents significant opportunities for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Alongside and intermingled with opportunistic migration there has always been relocation to escape, particularly from ...
King, David, Millar, Joanne, Okada, Tetsuya, Keogh, Diane, Boon, Helen, Thomas, Melanie, Box, Pamela, Bird, Deanne, Haynes, Katharine, Keough, Diane, Haynes, Katherine, Cottrell, Alison   +11 more
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Robotic Control for Human–Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Digital Human Model and Reinforcement Learning

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao, Hongzhou Ai, Wenjun Xu, Zude Zhou, Lihui Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vulnerability of horticultural crop production to extreme weather events [PDF]

, 2008
The potential impact of future extreme weather events on horticultural crops was evaluated. A review was carried out of the sensitivities of a representative set of crops to environmental challenges.
Semenov, Mikhail, Collier, Rosemary, Adams, S. R. (Steven R.), Fellows, J. R. (Jane R.), Thomas, Brian   +4 more
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Sustainable Fabrication of Tailored Bone Substitutes: From High‐Throughput Scaffold Manufacturing, Scaled‐Up HMSC Expansion to Dynamic Cultivation in a Perfusion Bioreactor

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The demand for off‐the‐shelf biocompatible bone substitutes has driven the development of numerous independent in vitro technologies to generate products resembling physiological tissues. Due to technical challenges and overly simplified cultivation approaches/niches, the end‐products are often uniformly shaped and inferior to native bone ...
Franziska Braun, Anna Paříková, Sandra Rother, Martin Kantor, Salman Muhammad Ilyas, Ricardo Bernhardt, Pavel Ndjawa Yomi, Jaromír Havlica, Revathi Appali, Benjamin Kruppke, Poh Soo Lee   +10 more
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Climatology of extreme rainfall from rain gauges and weather radar [PDF]

, 2009
Extreme neerslaggebeurtenissen hebben een grote invloed op de maatschappij en kunnen leiden tot materi¨ele schade en slachtoffers. Daarom is een betrouwbare klimatologie van extreme neerslag belangrijk, bijvoorbeeld voor het ontwerp van afvoersystemen ...
Overeem, A.
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Polymorphic Superparaelectric Engineering Boosting Energy Storage Capacity in BaTiO3‐Based Ceramics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Herein, Ca2+ incorporation promotes the coexistence of CaTiO3‐/BaTiO3‐derived paraferroelectric states, stabilizing cubic‐orthorhombic‐tetragonal polymorphic superparaelectric phases. This minimizes polarization energy barriers, facilitating full polarization saturation without compromising efficiency.
Pan Liu, Xiang Ren, Jin Qian, Haihua Huang, Peng Li, Peng Fu, Jigong Hao, Huarong Zeng, Wei Li, Zhenxiang Cheng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Racial and ethnic health inequities caused by extreme U.S. weather events: A nationally representative study

The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Introduction: As extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and magnitude due to climate change, racially and ethnically marginalized communities are likely to experience inequities in health burdens from these extreme weather events.
Carl A. Latkin, Kelsie Parker, Melissa L. Walls, Lauren Dayton   +3 more
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