In the context of human-robot collaboration in close proximity, safety and comfort are the two important aspects to achieve joint tasks efficiently.For safety, the robot must be able to avoid dynamic obstacles such as a human arm with high reliability.For comfort, the trajectories and avoidance behavior of the robot need to be predictable to the hu

Protein-based textiles, such as wool and silk, possess special properties and they are ranked higher on the hierarchical scale than the cellulosic ones (e.g., cotton, linen, hemp), in terms of quality.Wool is composed of keratin as the main protein component FX787GBP and silk consists of approx.80% fibroin and 20% sericin.The degradation of protein

This Wipes 8-page fact sheet written by experts at North Florida REC Peter C.Andersen, Robert C.Hochmuth, Sean R.McCoy, and Lei Lani L.Davis, assists farmers in locating recommended cultivars of fruit and nut crops from Florida nurseries.The nurseries listed in Table 1 offer fruit and nut trees and are listed as certified nurseries with the Florida

We examine tidal flexure in the grounding zone of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using a combination of TerraSAR-X repeat-pass radar interferometry, a precise digital elevation model, and GPS ground validation data.Satellite and field data were acquired in tandem between October and December 2014.Our GPS data show a horizontal modulation of up