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Open AccessInteraction with a reactive partner improves learning in contrast to passive guidance
Many tasks such as physical rehabilitation, vehicle co-piloting or surgical training, rely on physical assistance from a partner. While this assistance may be provided by a robotic interface, how to implement ...
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Open AccessPrinciples of human movement augmentation and the challenges in making it a reality
Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one’s natural limbs has long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances have begun to make this poss...
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Open AccessENSO diversity shows robust decadal variations that must be captured for accurate future projections
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) shows a large diversity of events that is modulated by climate variability and change. The representation of this diversity in climate models limits our ability to predict t...
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Open AccessAn eye tracking based virtual reality system for use inside magnetic resonance imaging systems
Patients undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) often experience anxiety and sometimes distress prior to and during scanning. Here a full MRI compatible virtual reality (VR) system is described and tested...
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Near-term impacts of climate variability and change on hydrological systems in West and Central Africa
Climate change is expected to significantly impact on the availability of water resources in West and Central Africa through changes in rainfall, temperature and evapotranspiration. Understanding these changes...
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Southern African summer-rainfall variability, and its teleconnections, on interannual to interdecadal timescales in CMIP5 models
This study provides the first assessment of CMIP5 model performances in simulating southern Africa (SA) rainfall variability in austral summer (Nov–Feb), and its teleconnections with large-scale climate variab...
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Evaluation of the HadGEM3-A simulations in view of detection and attribution of human influence on extreme events in Europe
A detailed analysis is carried out to assess the HadGEM3-A global atmospheric model skill in simulating extreme temperatures, precipitation and storm surges in Europe in the view of their attribution to human ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CASPR-ROS: A Generalised Cable Robot Software in ROS for Hardware
In this paper, the software platform CASPR-ROS is introduced to extend the author’s recently developed simulation platform CASPR. To the authors’ knowledge, no single software framework exists to implement dif...
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The attribution question
Understanding how the overall risks of extreme events are changing in a warming world requires both a thermodynamic perspective and an understanding of changes in the atmospheric circulation.
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Cable Function Analysis for the Musculoskeletal Static Workspace of a Human Shoulder
The study of cable function allows the particular cables towards generation of to determined for cable-driven manipulators (CDPMs). This study is fundamental in the understanding of the arrangement o...
