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De les màscares als avatars: transformacions mitjançant pròtesis digitals

Digithum, 2010
Aquest article proposa un enfocament i un raonament crítics sobre la connexió entre nocions i pràctiques relacionades amb les màscares, els avatars i els éssers humans, i mira de conèixer i entendre'n les funcions i els desenvolupaments en la ...
Renato Teixeira Bressan
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Intellectual Property Rights in Virtual Environments: Considering the Rights of Owners, Programmers and Virtual Avatars [PDF]

, 2005
A virtual environment is a computer-generated world that can be used for training, data visualization, recreation, and commerce. The visitors of virtual environments include not only humans but also virtual avatars.
Barfield, Woodrow
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Second Life: the seventh face of the library? [PDF]

, 2008
Viewpoint/Discussion Paper Purpose This paper gives a brief introduction to Second Life, an outline of how one academic librarian has got involved with using it and reviews the issues that have arisen from a library perspective.
Parker, Lyn
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Stiff to Soft: A Protein‐Based Buffer Layer for Improving the Long‐Term Performance of Microneedle Sensors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
To enhance stability and long‐term biocompatibility of wearable microneedle sensors, a crosslinking‐recombination bovine serum albumin material is used as a buffer layer coated on microneedle sensors. This coating layer possesses a unique stiff‐to‐soft transition function balancing the mechanical stiffness desired for puncturing and soft required for ...
Lihao Guo, Youbin Zheng, Shuxiang Xu, Bingbing Feng, Kan Wang, Rou Huang, Gandong Zhou, Chutong Liu, Rawan Omar, Danyao Qu, Jinbao Li, Min Zhang, Weiwei Wu, Guangjian Zhang, Lina Huang, Hossam Haick, Miaomiao Yuan   +16 more
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AVATARS FOR INTERNET FORUMS USERS

İmgelem, 2020
Considering the scope of coverage and the possibilities of World Wide Web to create fictional virtual realities, where people communicate and spend ever increasing share of their time, - the questions of virtual representation and online identity become ...
Mikail Puşkin
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Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaoao Shi, Haihui Pu, Jeffrey W. Elam, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling   +9 more
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Photonics of Topological Magnetic Textures

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Localized noncollinear magetic textures imprint their geometry and topology onto traversing photonic fields endowing them with orbital angular‐momentum, chirality, and magnetoelectric densities. Abstract Topological textures in magnetically ordered materials are an important case studies for fundamental research with promising applications in data ...
Vakhtang Jandieri, Ramaz Khomeriki, Daniel Erni, Nicolas Tsagareli, Qian Li, Douglas H. Werner, Jamal Berakdar   +6 more
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Low‐Strain Flexible Ink‐Based Sensors Enable Hyperelastic Inflation Perception Via Geometric Patterning for Balloon‐Type Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Integrating proprioceptive capabilities in balloon‐type robots enhances safe human–machine interactions. Traditional pressure estimates are inadequate due to nonlinear relationships. Instead, embedding stretchable sensors effectively measures deformation. This design optimizes sensor geometry to minimize damage risks.
Wenchao Yue, Shuoyuan Chen, Yan Ke, Yingyi Wen, Ruijie Tang, Guohua Hu, Hongliang Ren   +6 more
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The Greek Gods and the Metaverse: Legal Order in the Layered Universe

Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii "Al.I. Cuza" din Iaşi. Ştiinţe Juridice
The article explores how human relations in relationship with „the metaverse” – a novel term used to describe an alternative reality enabled by nascent immersive technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality, in combination with blockchain and ...
Crenguţa Leaua
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The Price of "Man" and "Woman": A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World [PDF]

This paper explores a unique new source of social valuation: a market for bodies. The internet hosts a number of large synthetic worlds which users can visit by piloting a computer-generated body, known as an avatar.
Edward Castronova
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