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Long-term trends in the longevity of scientific elites: evidence from the British and the Russian academies of science.

, 2011
National science academies represent intellectual elites and vanguard groups in the achievement of longevity. We estimated life expectancy (LE) at age 50 of members of the British Royal Society (RS) for the years 1670-2007 and of members of the Russian ...
Andreev Evgeny M., Anisimov Vladimir N., Berezkin Viktor G., Brunner Eric J., David A. Leon, Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny M. Andreev, Frenk Julio, Gurven Michael, Houdaille Jacques, Leridon Henri, Matthiessen Poul Christian, McKee Martin., Perchenok Felix F., Shkolnikov Vladimir M., Shkolnikov Vladimir M., Shkolnikov Vladimir M., Shkolnikov Vladimir M., Solomon Leon., Valkonen Tapani., Vallin Jacques, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Whalley Lawrence J., Zhu Bao-Ping   +23 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
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Living the Lake Life: Indiana’s Lake James in the 1950s and 1960s [PDF]

, 2017
At over a thousand acres, Lake James has been a staple for entertainment in northern Indiana for years. Lake James has changed significantly over the more than one hundred years of human interaction.
Travis, Warren
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The influence of neighbourhoods and the social environment on sedentary behaviour in older adults in three prospective cohorts [PDF]

, 2017
Sedentary behaviour is an emerging risk factor for poor health. This study aimed to identify ecological determinants of sedentary behaviour, for which evidence is currently scarce.
Andrews, Brown, Catharine Gale, Dawn Skelton, Geoff Der, Grundy, Ian Deary, Iva Čukić, Laura Macdonald, Manon Dontje, Pevalin, Philippa Dall, Richard Shaw, Sebastien Chastin, Shaw, Van Dyck   +15 more
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A Shape‐Adaptive, Performance‐Programmable, Self‐Healable and On‐Demand Destructible Robotic Skin via Self‐Strengthening Dynamic Silicone

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Enabled by the distinctive inter‐ and intra‐chain siloxane exchange in commercially available silicones as the dielectric layer, the omni‐adaptive robotic skin (OmniAdapt) integrates multiple advanced functionalities: programmable sensing performance via the self‐stiffening dielectric material, application as BPM sensor, shape adaptivity for electronic
Wusha Miao, Lara S. Laamari, Jing Yu, Sanjay Schreiber, Lukas Heer, Jiacheng Cui, Jiayuan Huang, Hedan Bai   +7 more
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Life cycle of the centrally planned economy: Why Soviet growth rates peaked in the 1950s [PDF]

The highest rates of growth of labor productivity in the Soviet Union were observed not in the 1930s (3% annually), but in the 1950s (6%). The TFP growth rates by decades increased from 0.6% annually in the 1930s to 2.8% in the 1950s and then fell ...
Popov, Vladimir
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Commissions and Buyouts of Artwork for Interiors of Public Institutions in Croatia during the 1950s and 1960s

Peristil, 2019
On the basis of archival, periodical and library records, the paper examines the role and relationship of state and art in implementation of a large number of commissions and buyouts of artwork for the interiors of public institutions in Croatia during ...
Patrica Počanić
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Putting Sylvia in her place: Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational theorist [PDF]

, 2009
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, a New Zealand teacher, won international acclaim in the 1950s-1950s with her novels, autobiographies, and accounts of her educational theory. Blurring genres between fiction and autobiography, much of her writing was centred on the ‘
Middleton, Sue
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PEDOT:PSS—A Key Material for Bioelectronics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
PEDOT:PSS ‐ Poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate ‐ is typically processed from water dispersions to form multifunctional and multidimensional constructs with tunable electronic and ionic conductivity. Throught processing engineering, PEDOT:PSS is intergrated in bioelectronic devices that operate efficiently in physiological conditions
Alan Eduardo Ávila Ramírez, David Pieter van der Laan, Mustafeez Bashir Shah, Liwen Wang, Erica Zeglio, Achilleas Savva   +5 more
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Une utopie “réalisée”? Elements pour une analyse des rapports sociaux dans les clubs Mediterranéé des années 1950

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2018
Holidays involve the «suspension» of usual routines. In the Early 1950s, when leisure vacation was confined to a small minority, traveling abroad to a «club de vacances» was an elitist habit in two different ways: to a large majority, it meant belonging ...
Bertrand Réau est Professeur du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Titulaire de la Chaire Tourisme, voyages et loisirs et chercheur au Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Sociologie Economique (CNRS). Ses travaux récents portent sur les pratiques touristiques et les usages sociaux du temps, les enjeux de la globalisation de la science, les rapports entre tourisme et ethnicité en Asie du Sud-Est. Il est notamment co-auteur, avec Saskia Cousin, de Sociologie du tourisme (Paris, La Découverte, 2016) et, avec François Denord, de La sociologie de Charles Wright Mills (Paris, La Découverte, 2014), et l’auteur de Les Français et les vacances. Sociologie de l’offre et des pratiques de loisirs (Paris, CNRS, 2011).
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