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Attrition in the Digital Age: Reminders from the Literature

open access: yes, 2013
Distance education (learning and teaching by distance modes of information exchange) is often characterised by having higher attrition rates (often labelled as "drop-out" or "withdrawal") compared to traditional face-to-face (or "on-campus") education ...
Wise, Nathan   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Digitizing the Filtration Interface: A Smart, Modular Janus Wood Platform for Self‐Reporting Oil/Water Remediation

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work developed a smart Janus wood membrane integrating asymmetric wettability with built‐in electrical sensing for oil‐water separation. The membrane achieved > 99.5% separation efficiency and high flux by leveraging wood's natural anisotropic pore structure.
Kaiwen Chen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review of TVET teacher retention, attrition, and factors influencing teachers’ intentions to stay in the teaching profession

open access: yesCogent Education
Although teacher retention is critical to the quality and sustainability of technical and vocational education and training (TVET), many teachers face pressures that weaken their intentions to remain in the profession.
Normala Binti Ismail   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities? [PDF]

open access: yes
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative (GEI) provided over $80 million to 51 treatment departments in the humanities and related social sciences during the 1990s to improve their PhD programs.
Ronald G. Ehrenberg   +4 more
core  

Sustainable Electrochemical Synthesis of High‐Quality MXenes: Mechanistic Insights, Applications, Challenges, and Technological Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI-Enabled Attrition Prediction Using Calibrated Boosting

open access: yesDigital
Employee attrition presents a significant threat to organizational continuity, as frequent turnover depletes valuable intellectual capital and incurs heavy recruitment costs.
Mohammed Al Ameri, Qurban Memon
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Decellularized Fibrocartilage Graft Promotes Tympanic Membrane Repair

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
An off‐the‐shelf decellularized porcine meniscus fibrocartilage graft (MEND) is engineered for pediatric tympanoplasty. Featuring a microchannel architecture that promotes host cell invasion, MEND rapidly closes tympanic membrane perforations and fully remodels in vivo, outperforming fascia and matching cartilage grafts while avoiding donor‐site ...
Paul M. Gehret   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data?:Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines

open access: yes
Based on household panel data that tracked migrant households (with an additional survey cost of 17 percent), this article describes behavior of household relocation and quantifies the extent of attrition biases in estimating the determinants of ...
Fuwa, Nobuhiko
core  

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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