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Souvenirs rétrospectifs de l’Anthropocène : la ville dans la cli‑fi italienne

ReS Futurae, 2023
By bringing the "unthinkable" into our daily lives, global climate change blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. Since the beginning of the century, the urgency of environmental awareness has marked a turning point in the Western philosophical
Lucia Della Fontana
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
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Artery‐on‐Chip Demonstrates Mechanical and Functional Features of Healthy and Diseased Living Smooth Muscle Tissue

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This article details the development of an artery‐on‐chip platform for in vitro arterial disease modeling and therapeutic discovery. It describes the fabrication of a fibrin biomaterial scaffold seeded with iPSC‐derived smooth muscle and endothelial cells, mimicking native artery properties. Two genetic disease models showcase the platform's ability to
Danielle Yarbrough, Roy Chen, Katerina Katsouleas, Jaron Shoemaker, Travis Brady, Tianfang Yu, Jennifer Arthur Ataam, Connor Amelung, Lakshmi Santhanam, Ioannis Karakikes, Sharon Gerecht   +10 more
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Climate change and ecological literacy in Ghassān Shibārū’s climate fiction novel "2022"

, 2023
Climate change has been attracting increasing attention as one of the most significant consequences of the anthropogenic global warming and fictional narratives have increasingly been involved in engaging human imagination on the topic of climate change.
Barbara Bakker, Al-Rubaye, Nejood, Bakker, Barbara, Bakker, Barbara,, Al-Rubaye, Nejood,, Nejood Al-Rubaey   +5 more
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Planting Seeds of Imagination in the EFL Classroom, or the Challenges of Greening the Canon and the Curriculum

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
While voices in language pedagogy agree on the potential of literary fiction to help children and young adults grapple with complex and global issues such as climate change, too little is being said about the tools and knowledge that teachers need to ...
Natalie Dederichs
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Smog and the Psyche: Chen Qiufan’s Reading of the Urban Anthropocene

Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature, 2022
The growing concern for environmental issues has fuelled the rise of climate fiction [cli-fi], a subgenre of science fiction dealing with climate change that has become increasingly popular in the last few decades.
Martina Codeluppi
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced 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, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Reading Climate Fiction (and Nonfiction) through First Nations Cultural Genre Theory

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
For Indigenous peoples, all stories begin with Country. And as climate change reveals, all stories will end with Country too. This paper re-examines popular framings of the climate fiction (cli-fi) genre, and the ways ancient and contemporary First ...
Mykaela Saunders
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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
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The importance of ‘goodness of fit’ between organizational culture and climate in the management of change: a case study in the development of online learning [PDF]

, 2001
This paper explores the nexus between organizational culture and organizational climate in the management of change by presenting a case study wherein an Australian regional university is currently undertaking the development of online courses. Important
McMurray, Donald W., Donald W. McMurray
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