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Credit Reporting at the Base of the Pyramid

, 2011
Over the past five years, the microcredit sector has experienced unprecedented growth. The number of borrowers served by microfinance institutions (MFIs) has increased threefold to reach 120 million clients, according to MIX estimates as of December 2009 and by other estimates the number may ...
Lyman, Timothy, Lythgoe, Tony, Miller, Margaret, Reille, Xavier, Sankaranarayan, Shalini   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Freeform Manufacturing of Plant‐Based Structural Colors for Scalable Photonic and Mechanochromic Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A green, freeform manufacturing approach that utilizes robust aqueous two‐phase systems to create intricate and scalable photonic structures and non‐planar mechanochromic hydrogel actuators from plant‐based hydroxypropyl cellulose. This approach broadens the structural possibilities of sustainable photonic devices and mechanochromic systems, offering ...
Xiao Song, Peiqi Niu, Wenxi Gu, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Jiuhong Yi, Xu Liu, Peng Tan, Chon In Haydn Cheong, Qingwen Guan, Dan Fang, Bingpu Zhou, Zi Liang Wu, Ji Liu, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Iek Man Lei   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caracterización de dos experiencias exitosas de negocios inclusivos en Colombia

Civilizar, 2015
The case report presented here reviews two experiences of successful inclusive business, which allow to highlight new trends in corporate social responsibility and its forms of hybridizing with other scientific fields such as the common good economy and ...
Edimer Leonardo Latorre Iglesias, Cindy Caterine Díaz Areiza, Angela Maria Plata Rangel, Susana Paola Marín   +3 more
doaj  

Multi axes vibration fixtures [PDF]

, 1973
A simplified technique and apparatus are described for testing the effects of vibration on various material specimen. Particular attention was given to tests along the orthogonal vibrational planes in order to prove the strength of the item under ...
Sims, C. R., Taylor, R. C.
core   +1 more source

DesnowNet: Context-Aware Deep Network for Snow Removal

, 2017
Existing learning-based atmospheric particle-removal approaches such as those used for rainy and hazy images are designed with strong assumptions regarding spatial frequency, trajectory, and translucency.
Huang, Shih-Chia, Hwang, Jenq-Neng, Jaw, Da-Wei, Liu, Yun-Fu   +3 more
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Self‐Assembled Monolayers in p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells: Molecular Design, Interfacial Engineering, and Machine Learning–Accelerated Material Discovery

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights the role of self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) in perovskite solar cells, covering molecular engineering, multifunctional interface regulation, machine learning (ML) accelerated discovery, advanced device architectures, and pathways toward scalable fabrication and commercialization for high‐efficiency and stable single‐junction and
Asmat Ullah, Ying Luo, Stefaan De Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

HEDONISMO E MORALISMO: CONSUMO NA BASE DA PIRÂMIDE [PDF]

RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2013
Economic stability in Brazil has allowed items that were formerly only accessible to the better-off social classes, to be consumed at ¨the bottom of the pyramid¨.
Marcus Wilcox Hemais, Letícia Moreira Casotti, Everardo Pereira Guimarães Rocha   +2 more
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3D‐Printed Arch‐Structured Tribolayer with Conducting Polymer Coating for Enhanced Triboelectric Energy Harvesting

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
PEDOT:PSS‐coated 3DP microstructures are introduced to realize TENGs with enhanced mechanical compliance and high electrical performance. Among the investigated geometries, arch‐shaped microstructures exhibit superior fatigue resistance due to their spring‐like behavior, enabling efficient stress distribution, stable contact evolution, and sustained ...
Mariam E. Alhosani, Bushara Fatma, Reem B. Irshaid, Kyriaki Katsikari, Maryam Aljaberi, Israr Ud Din, Seoyoung Kang, Young Pyo Jeon, Kamran A. Khan, Charalampos Pitsalidis   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prakti Design: the challenge of clean combustion for the poor

Field Actions Science Reports, 2014
Three billion people rely on open fire or polluting and non-efficient biomass stoves for cooking and heating. These households, mostly women and young children, are exposed to harmful indoor air pollution. This is the fourth mortality cause in the world,
Jérôme Bossuet, Mouhsine Serrar
doaj  

Quantifying the upper levels of Hydén's traffic safety pyramid using global data

Traffic Safety Research
Hydén's pyramid qualitatively displays the number of conflicts and road user crashes in different severities. Fatal crashes are on the top of the pyramid, undisturbed passages mark the base of it.
Marek Junghans, Andreas Leich, Ronald Nippold, Peter Wagner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source