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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal(De)Centralization, and Welfare [PDF]

We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays ...
Jens Suedekum, Calin Arcalean, Ioana Schiopu, Gerhard Glomm   +3 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enlargement versus deepening: the trade-off facing economic unions. [PDF]

This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain over the degree of centralization within the union.
Lorz, Oliver, Willmann, Gerald
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Nonreciprocal Swarmalators With Reconfigurable and Controllable Formations for Robot Collectives

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Nonreciprocal swarmalator interactions are enabled through control barrier functions to transform self‐organizing robot collectives into reconfigurable, constraint‐aware systems. Complex two‐ and three‐dimensional shapes, continuous morphing, obstacle‐aware navigation, collective splitting, and object transport emerge from modulating agent‐level ...
Kush Patel, Xinyue Xu, Wei Xiao, Steven Ceron   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Mechanical Intelligence in Robotics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robots can use their physical bodies to perform functions usually assigned to electronic sensors and controllers. This perspective defines mechanical intelligence through three core operations: filtering inputs, routing mechanical signals, and switching between states.
Xinyi Yang, Xinyi Ding, Tianyu Wang, Daniel I. Goldman, Shucong Li, Bolei Deng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized colorectal cancer care in Germany over the last decade is associated with high in-hospital morbidity and mortality

Cancer Management and Research, 2019
Tarik Ghadban,* Matthias Reeh,* Maximilian Bockhorn, Rainer Grotelueschen, Kai Bachmann, Katharina Grupp, Faik G Uzunoglu, Jakob R Izbicki, Daniel R Perez Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf ...
Ghadban T, Reeh M, Bockhorn M, Grotelueschen R, Bachmann K, Grupp K, Uzunoglu FG, Izbicki JR, Perez DR   +8 more
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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

, 2021
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in spite of – or perhaps precisely because of – this, they hold a very classical vision of the nation-state, rejecting the abolition of ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Central Bank Independence, Centralization of Wage Bargaining, Inflation and Unemployment - Theory and Some Evidence [PDF]

This paper proposes a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of central bank independence, of the degree of centralization of wage bargaining and of the interaction between those institutional variables, on real wages, unemployment and inflation,
Cukierman, A., Lippi, F.
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Robotics in Ionizing Radiation Environments: Vulnerabilities, Hardening, and Future Directions

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Radiation exposure causes cumulative degradation in robotic sensors, actuators, and electronic logic, often leading to undetected failures. This study maps component vulnerabilities, evaluates hardening and shielding strategies, and identifies testing gaps that must be addressed to enable next‐generation radiation‐tolerant robotic systems.
Francis A. K. Djirackor, Josephine T. Djirackor, Amanuel Abrdo Tereda, Sun Yi, Younho Seong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Convexity of News Vendor Games [PDF]

This study considers a simple newsvendor situation that consists of n retailers, all selling the same item with common purchasing costs and common selling prices.Groups of retailers might increase their expected joint profit by inventory centralization ...
Ozen, U., Slikker, M., Norde, H.W.
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