The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae) is well known for its seasonal long-distance migrations and for its dramatic population fluctuations between years.Although parasitism has occasionally been noted as an important mortality factor for this butterfly, no comprehensive study has quantified and compared
Objective The emergency department (ED) is pivotal in treating serious injuries, making it a valuable source for population-based injury surveillance.In Victoria, information that is relevant to injury surveillance is collected in the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD).This study aims to assess the data quality of the VEMD as an injury data
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
Abstract The German federal government is facing criticism for using the exemption from the national debt brake due to the coronavirus crisis to Aquarium Cleaning Chemicals expand the fiscal leeway for its future energy and climate policies.The budget dispute is taking place against the backdrop of a massive expansion of government debt in Europe.I
This paper explores the strong potential of chemical mining of wastewater for markers of community-wide intake of wide-ranging harmful chemicals belonging to several usage groups: industrial chemicals, personal care products, pesticides, illicit drugs, lifestyle chemicals and prescription pharmaceuticals as a proxy for multi-chemical community-wide