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From Origami to Bistable and Laminate Structures: A Review for Multifunctional Applications from Structural Perspective of Shape‐Changing Structures

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review explores how shape‐changing structures—origami, bistable, and laminate structures—enable multifunctionality in soft robotics and metamaterials. Starting from structural design, it examines core principles, real‐world applications, and ongoing challenges.
Lingchen Kong, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

Responsible Blockchain: STEADI Principles and the Actor-Network Theory-based Development Methodology (ANT-RDM)

Foundations and Trends® in Information Systems
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and controversies associated with blockchain technology. It identifies technical challenges such as scalability, security, privacy, and interoperability, as well as business and adoption challenges, and the social, economic, ethical, and environmental controversies present in current ...
Li, Yibai, Gomaa, Ahmed, Li, Xiaobing
openaire   +3 more sources

Donors Do Not Trust

Nordicom Review, 2017
Focusing on a story exposing Donors Trust (DT) as a funding source for climate denial campaigns, we introduce actor-network theory (ANT) as a methodological tool for studying online intermedia agenda-setting.
Yagodin Dmitry, Tegelberg Matthew
doaj   +1 more source

Charting new directions: The Potential of Actor-Network Theory for Analyzing Children’s Videomaking

Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2013
This paper represents preliminary efforts to understand what Actor-Network Theory (ANT) might contribute to our interest in analyzing what we hope are enhanced educational practices for second language (L2) learners.
Diane Degenais, Andreea Fodor, Elizabeth Schulze, Kelleen Toohey   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ultrafast Biodiesel Synthesis via K2CO3‐Supported Mg‐Al Hydrotalcite Catalyst With Tailored Basicity and Mesoporous Structure

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing global energy demand and the growing prominence of environmental issues, biodiesel has garnered significant attention as a renewable, low‐emission green energy source. Conventional hydrotalcite‐based catalysts often suffer from insufficient basicity and limited accessibility of active sites, leading to relatively long ...
Jingdi Zheng, Kefan Wang, Chunhui Wang, Xiang Li, Ying Tang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht, Christian Kandler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the transformation mechanism of modern agricultural villages in the loess hilly and gully regions using actor-network theory

Regional Sustainability
As urbanization accelerates, rural regions in China are experiencing transformative changes. This study examines the transformation mechanism of modern agricultural villages in the loess hilly and gully regions, using Zhaojiawa Village in Shannxi ...
ZHANG Tianyang, LI Linna
doaj   +1 more source

Illuminating the Dark Side of the Internet with Actor-Network Theory: An Integrative Review of Current Cybercrime Research [PDF]

Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition, 2014
Cybercrime is a relatively new area of research within criminology and media studies. The purpose of this paper is to pull together current research scholarship at the intersection of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and cybercrime by addressing the following ...
Rocci Luppicini
doaj  

Flow of Elastoviscous Nanofluid Through an Elongating Surface With Dissipative Heat: A Confluent Hypergeometric Solution

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thermal energy transport likely through polymer extrusion, cooling of metallic plates, and chemical processing equipment relating to the flow of viscoelastic nanofluid has a greater role in engineering because of its elastic characteristics.
Rupa Baithalu, S. R. Mishra, Ram Prakash Sharma, Laxmipriya Swain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]

, 2003
From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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