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Towards collaborative robotic polishing of mould and die sets (2019)
Journal Article

Dies and moulds are fundamental elements in the manufacturing of a wide variety of products. The surface polishing of dies and moulds with complex features largely relies upon time-consuming manual work of skilled workers and, as a result of the dimi... Read More about Towards collaborative robotic polishing of mould and die sets.

Clinically Actionable Insights into Initial and Matched Recurrent Glioblastomas to Inform Novel Treatment Approaches (2019)
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© 2019 H. P. Ellis et al. Glioblastoma is the most common primary adult brain tumour, and despite optimal treatment, the median survival is 12-15 months. Patients with matched recurrent glioblastomas were investigated to try to find actionable mutati... Read More about Clinically Actionable Insights into Initial and Matched Recurrent Glioblastomas to Inform Novel Treatment Approaches.

Well-posedness of semilinear heat equations in L1 (2019)
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The problem of obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for local existence of non-negative solutions in Lebesgue spaces for semilinear heat equations having monotonically increasing source term f has only recently been resolved (Laister et al.... Read More about Well-posedness of semilinear heat equations in L1.

Experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion mediate the relationship between body evaluation and unhelpful body image coping strategies in individuals with visible differences (2019)
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Psychological flexibility, the capacity to be open to any internal stimuli and act in accordance with valued ends, has been identified as an explanatory variable in how people cope with body concerns. The role of psychological flexibility is unexplor... Read More about Experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion mediate the relationship between body evaluation and unhelpful body image coping strategies in individuals with visible differences.

A teleoperation framework for mobile robots based on shared control (2019)
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Mobile robots can complete a task in cooperation with a human partner. In this letter, a hybrid shared control method for a mobile robot with omnidirectional wheels is proposed. A human partner utilizes a six degrees of freedom haptic device and elec... Read More about A teleoperation framework for mobile robots based on shared control.

Auxiliary variable-based identification algorithms for uncertain-input models (2019)
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This study presents two auxiliary variable-based identification algorithms for uncertain-input models. The auxiliary variable-based least squares algorithm can obtain unbiased parameter estimates by introducing suitable auxiliary variable vectors. Fu... Read More about Auxiliary variable-based identification algorithms for uncertain-input models.

Initial trail results of a magnetic biosensor for the rapid detection of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus (PRRSV) infection (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The resonant coil magnetometer quantifies paramagnetic particles (PMPs) and has been used to develop magneto-immunoassays in a range of formats. The advantage of magneto-immunoassays is that they are relatively inexpensive, portable, easy to p... Read More about Initial trail results of a magnetic biosensor for the rapid detection of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Virus (PRRSV) infection.

The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour (2019)
Journal Article

Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armour is common, with most police forces mandating its usage when away from the police station. Of all the serving police officers in England and Wales 2... Read More about The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour.

Effect of hot cracking on the mechanical properties of Hastelloy X superalloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (2019)
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Nickel-based superalloys such as Hastelloy X (HX) are widely used in gas turbine engine applications and the aerospace industry. HX is susceptible to hot cracking, however, when processed using additive manufacturing technologies such as laser powder... Read More about Effect of hot cracking on the mechanical properties of Hastelloy X superalloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Nonlinea... Read More about Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems.

Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit (2019)
Journal Article

A planar duct flow configuration with a cross-flow injected from a longitudinal slit close to the upper wall of the duct is studied by using a direct numerical simulation approach to explore the underlying flow mechanism in relation to the tip-leakag... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit.

A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams (2019)
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© The Author(s) 2019. We present an approach for the verification and validation (V&V) of robot assistants in the context of human–robot interactions, to demonstrate their trustworthiness through corroborative evidence of their safety and functional... Read More about A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams.

Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s). Real-time grasp detection plays a key role in manipulation, and it is also a complex task, especially for detecting how to grasp novel objects. This paper proposes a very quick and accurate approach to detect robotic grasps. Th... Read More about Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest.

Physical human-robot collaboration: Robotic systems, learning methods, collaborative strategies, sensors, and actuators (2019)
Journal Article

This article presents a state-of-the-art survey on the robotic systems, sensors, actuators, and collaborative strategies for physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC). This article starts with an overview of some robotic systems with cutting-edge tec... Read More about Physical human-robot collaboration: Robotic systems, learning methods, collaborative strategies, sensors, and actuators.

Data set for influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions (2019)
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The present data article is based on the research work which investigates the influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions. In this experimental work, a 2.4 L, turbocharged, direct injection compression i... Read More about Data set for influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions.

On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy? (2019)
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© John Benjamins Publishing Company Trust is a key dimension of human-robot interaction (HRI), and has often been studied in the HRI community. A common challenge arises from the difficulty of assessing trust levels in ecologically invalid environmen... Read More about On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?.

Live birth rates and perinatal outcomes when all embryos are frozen compared with conventional fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a cohort study of 337,148 in vitro fertilisation cycles (2019)
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BACKGROUND: It is not known whether segmentation of an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycle, with freezing of all embryos prior to transfer, increases the chance of a live birth after all embryos are transferred. METHODS: In a prospective study of UK H... Read More about Live birth rates and perinatal outcomes when all embryos are frozen compared with conventional fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a cohort study of 337,148 in vitro fertilisation cycles.

Multilateral teleoperation over communication time delay using the time-domain passivity approach (2019)
Journal Article

A general framework to stabilize multilateral teleoperation system over a communication time delay based on the well-known time-domain passivity approach (TDPA) is proposed. The uniqueness of this framework is that it is independent of the amount of... Read More about Multilateral teleoperation over communication time delay using the time-domain passivity approach.

The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study (2019)
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In recent times, the number of criminal incidents involving crossbows in the UK has increased with many incidents resulting in either injuries or fatalities. Whilst the effects of crossbow bolts on the body are well understood, there is a limited und... Read More about The effects of crossbow impacts onto a common automotive vehicle side window—a preliminary study.

Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children (2019)
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Objectives: Exposure to adversity has been linked to accelerated biological aging, which in turn has been shown to predict numerous physical and mental health problems. In recent years, measures of DNA methylation-based epigenetic age––known as “epig... Read More about Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children.