Slovak Republic: Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, Banking Supervision, Securities Regulation, Insurance Regulation, Corporate Governance, Payment Systems; and Summary Assessments of Insolvency and Credit Rights Systems and Anti-Money Laundering Practices [PDF]
, 2002 International Monetary Fund
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Fiber‐reinforced elastin‐like tubular scaffolds are engineered to achieve anisotropic and reversible actuation under external stimuli. By adjusting fiber's angle, actuation behavior is finely tuned, enabling distinct actuation responses, even within different regions of the same scaffold.
Federica Sallustio +7 more
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High Contrast and High Efficiency Optical Weighting for Integrated Photonic Computing
Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.Herein, a combined pulse optical weighting scheme is proposed for photonic synapses. Employing a 4 μm$\umu{\rm m}$ long non‐volatile phase‐change material covered on a straight waveguide, a transmission contrast of 31.2 dB is achieved. By exploiting the non‐Arrhenius behavior of the material, the crystallization energy is reduced to 107 pJ, with ...
Hengyu Zhang +4 more
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High‐Chroma, High‐Contrast Tunable Color Coatings Using Sb2S3 in a Metal‐Dielectric Stack
Advanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.A novel tunable color coating design is presented, using the phase‐change material Sb2S3 in a Fabry–Perot cavity. The resulting coatings yield bright, attractive colors, and display a significant color change when annealed using a hotplate or a laser. This demonstrates that Sb2S3 is a promising candidate for use in tunable color coatings.
Riley Shurvinton +7 more
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Consolidation and Market Structure in Emerging Market Banking Systems [PDF]
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Advanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.Scanning electron microscopy and white‐light reflectance images of the pillar‐supported distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) are presented before and after thermal shrinkage. The DBR, fabricated via two‐photon polymerization, consists of alternating high‐ and low‐index layers supported by vertical pillars.
Yu‐Shao Jacky Chen +4 more
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Vision‐Assisted Avocado Harvesting with Aerial Bimanual Manipulation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work outlines the design and implementation of a bimanual aerial robot that employs visual perception and learning to detect, reach, and harvest avocados. A new gripper and fixer arm assembly is used to harvest avocados, while visual perception enables the detection of avocados and estimation of their position and orientation for determining ...
Zhichao Liu +3 more
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A Quadruped Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Actuating Robot with Foot‐Leg‐Trunk‐Integrated Structure
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This study proposes a novel foot‐leg‐trunk‐integrated quadruped piezoelectric ultrasonic actuating robot with small size and lightweight. A hybrid vibration mode combining the first‐order out‐of‐plane bending vibration of the trunk and the first‐order horizontal bending vibration of driving legs is designed to generate elliptical trajectories at foot ...
Jie Deng +5 more
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