Grasping in unstructured environments requires highly adaptable and versatile hands together with strategies to exploit their features get robust grasps. This letter presents a method grasp objects using novel reconfigurable soft gripper embodied constraints, the Soft ScoopGripper (SSG). The considered strategy, called scoop grasp, exploits SSG perform constraint, i.e., scoop, is used slide bet...

Standard provisions for wind loads on buildings have traditionally been based on summary tables and/or plots suitable for slide-rule calculations. The accuracy in the definition of wind loads inherent in such tables and plots is far lower than that inherent in current methods for stress computation. Advances in computational power now make it possible to reduce this discrepancy and achieve stru...

Cervical cytology is a screening tool that helps to categorize patients for their risk of cervical neoplasm depending on the degree of shift from normal cervical cytology and the amount of the abnormal change seen. Since the cervix is subject to hormonal effects, the clinical context (exogenous estrogens, pregnancy, etc.) should be considered when evaluating cervical cytology specimens. The fir...

The present work was carried out to evaluate the ap plication of delayed ripening (employing controlled atmo sphere (CA) storage) to minimize or alleviate the development of the ripening disorder known as internal bruising. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits, cv. Solimar, were har vested in Bradenton (Florida) at the mature-green stage and gassed with 100 mLL1 of ethylene at 20 C to ...